1．(教材P1)Most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
2．(教材P2)Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.
3．(教材P2)For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.
4．(教材P2)It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets.
