The world27s weirdest festivals(世界上奇怪的節(jié)日英語介紹).ppt

1、The worlds weirdest festivals世界上奇特的節(jié)日,Place : Spain First staged in 1620, this strange event celebrating Corpus Christi sees grown men dressed as the Devil leaping over a row of babies lying in the street.,The Baby Jumping Festival,Cheese RollingTime : June 4Place : EnglandThis popular festival invo

2、lves hundreds of contestants chasing a roll of cheese down the steep, muddy Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire.,First staged in 1998, the Boryeong Mud Festival now attracts more than a million visitors to the South Korean city. Said to be rich in minerals, the mud for the festival is trucked in to Daec

3、heon Beach for tourists and locals to enjoy.,Time：July 14-24Place：Boryeong, South Korea(韓國(guó)保寧市）,Boryeong Mud Festival,Monkey Buffet（自助餐） Festival,Time：November 25 Place：Lopburi, Thailand（泰國(guó)華富里）,Over 600 monkeys are invited to feast on over two tonnes of grilled sausage, fresh fruit, icea cream and ot

4、her treats. The locals see it as a thank you to the monkeys which inhabit the village and bring thousands of tourists their each year.,La Tomatina番茄大戰(zhàn),Time：August 29 Place：Spain The industrial town of Brunol welcomes 20,000 visitors to throw tomatoes at one another in an oversized food fight. There

5、are differing theories as to how it began, one suggesting that it stems from anti-Franco protests in 1945.,Naked Festival裸體節(jié),Time：February 4 Place：Konomiya, Japan（日本國(guó)府宮 ) Participants will usually dress in a Japanese loincloth(腰帶）, and throw mud and water at one another to symbolise purification. Na

6、ked Festivals are held in a number of locations across Japan, usually in summer or winter. Though traditionally a spiritual event, many now join in just for fun.,World Gurning Championships,Time：September 15 Place：Egremont, Cumbria,Come and pull the ugliest face you can muster - those without teeth

7、have an unfair advantage. The event is the highlight of the annual Egremont Crab Fair. As if facial contortions were not enough, theres also a Pipe Smoking Contest and Cumberland Wrestling.,Ivrea(意大利的一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)） Orange Festival,Every year in the town of Ivrea, residents re-enact an ancient battle in medieval costume, armed only with oranges. Nine teams of