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　　關(guān)于春節(jié)英語(yǔ)資料

　　春節(jié)(the spring festival)英文介紹

　　the spring festival is the most important festival for the chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like christmas in the west. all people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the spring festival. airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.

　　strictly speaking, the spring festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. of them, the most important days are spring festival eve and the first three days. the chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the chinese lunar new year.

　　many customs accompany the spring festival. some are still followed today, but others have weakened.

　　on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko.

　　the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called preliminary eve. at this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves.

　　after the preliminary eve, people begin preparing for the coming new year. this is called “seeing the new year in”.

　　store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the new year. materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. what's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.

　　before the new year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils.

　　then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. all the door panels will be pasted with spring festival couplets, highlighting chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. the content varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the new year. also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.

　　the chinese character “fu” (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. the character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in chinese the “reversed fu” is homophonic with “fu comes”, both being pronounced as “fudaole.” what's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored new year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall.

　　people attach great importance to spring festival eve. at that time, all family members eat dinner together. the meal is more luxurious than usual. dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in chinese, their pronunciations, respectively “ji”, “yu” and “doufu,” mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. after the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching tv. in recent years, the spring festival party broadcast on china central television station (cctv) is essential entertainment for the chinese both at home and abroad. according to custom, each family will stay up to see the new year in.

　　關(guān)于春節(jié)的英語(yǔ)資料

　　春節(jié)即農(nóng)歷新俗稱般指除夕月初民間傳統(tǒng)意義春節(jié)指臘月初八臘祭或臘月二十三或二十四祭灶直月十五其除夕月初高潮春節(jié)歷史悠久起源于殷商期歲尾祭神祭祖春節(jié)期間漢族少數(shù)民族都要舉行各種示慶祝些均祭祀神佛、祭奠祖先、除舊布新、迎禧接福、祈求豐主要內(nèi)容豐富彩帶濃郁民族特色

　　The Spring Festival, namely the lunar New Year, commonly known as the Chinese New Year, generally refers to the New Year's eve and the first month. But in folk, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival from December 8th refers to the wax offering or month, 23 or 24 of people, until the fifteenth, among them with New Year's eve and the first day of the first climax. Spring Festival has a long history, originated in the sacrifices of SuiWei shells period years worshipping god activities. During the Spring Festival, China's han ethnic minorities and many have held various activities to mark the occasion. These activities are designed for worship is hit, the worship of ancestors, the millennium bringers of good fortune, and make prayer to harvest as the main content. Rich and colorful activities with strong ethnic characteristics.

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