SpringFestival春节的英文介绍

S p ri n g Fe sti val is th e m o st i m por tan t f e sti val i n Ch i n a . 春节是中国最重要的I t’s t o c e l e b r a t e t h e l u n a r c a l e n d a r‘s n e w y e a r. 它是为了庆祝In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a b i g m e a l. 在春节,聚享用丰盛的一餐I n m a n y p l a c e s p e o p l e l i k e t o s e t o f f f i r e c r a c k e r s. 在许多地方人们还放D u m p l i n g s a r e t h e m o s t t r a d i t i o n a l f o o d. 饺子是最传统的食物Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious f o o d a n d w e a r n e w c l o t h e s. 孩子们非常喜欢春节,因为他们可以吃好吃的东西和T h e y c a n a l s o g e t s o m e m o n e y f r o m t h e i r p a r e n t s. 他们也可以领到T h i s m o n e y i s g i v e n t o c h i l d r e n f o r g o o d l u c k. 给孩子的这些钱是为了(的) People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune . 人们也用贴的方式来乞求好运T h e S p r i n g F e s t i v a l l a s t s a b o u t15d a y s l o n g. 春节持续近15天People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”. 人们拜访时会送上一句"万事如意" People enjoy the Spring Festival ,during this time they can have a good r e s t. 人们享受春节,在这段时间他们可以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 c r o w d e d w i t h h o m e r e t u r n e e s.The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people’s sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one.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 thefirst three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have s e v e n d a y s o f f f o r t h e C h i n e s e L u n a r N e w Y e a r.Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed t o d a y,b u t o t h e r s h a v e w e a k e n e d.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 g i n g k o.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 f a m i l i e s m a k e d e l i c i o u s f o o d t o e n j o y t h e m s e l v e s.After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Y e a r.T h i s i s c a l l e d"S e e i n g t h e N e w Y e a r i n".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 thechildren as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the l i s t o f p u r c h a s i n g.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 u t e n s i l s.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 s p i r i t s a n d w e l c o m e p e a c e a n d a b u n d a n c e.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 m e a n i n g s m a y b e p u t o n t h e w a l l.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.Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and w i s h f o r m o n e y a n d t r e a s u r e. Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher, one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates aswell as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely.Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. People thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. However, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities once the government took security, noise and pollution factors into consideration. As a replacement, some buy tapes with firecracker sounds to listen to, some break little balloons to get the sound too, while others buy firecracker handicrafts to hang in the living room.The lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is f i n i s h e d.China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs。