英文版传统节日介绍

传统节日中英文介绍。

1、腊八节腊八节是指农历的腊月初八。

在这天，中国人有喝腊八粥的习俗。

一般腊八粥是甜味粥，里面有干果和干鲜果品，当然每家的腊八粥做法都不营养，在我们家的腊八粥里一般有红小豆，香米，核桃，花生，小米等等。

过了腊八节，各家就开始置办年货，打扫卫生，正式开始为春节的到来做准备了。

the laba Rice Porridge Festival“Laba Festival” falls on the eighth day of the twelfth month in lunar calendar. On that day, the majority Chinese have long followed the tradition of eating Laba rice porridge. Usually, the rice porridge tastes sweet, with nuts and dried fruit, but different families have different ingredients in the porridge. My family usually make porridge with small red beans，fragrant rice，walnut，peanut and millet.Laba Festival also marks the beginning of preparing for spring festival. Some families begin to do spring festival shopping and clean their houses after that day.2、小年小年又叫“祭灶节”，在农历的12月23或者24。

在中国传统中，祭灶节这天，是掌管全家命运的神仙灶神将向玉皇大帝汇报这一家人一年的情况，玉皇大帝根据灶神汇报的情况决定在下一年对这一家的奖励或者惩罚。

小年这天，是各家欢送灶王爷上天的日子。

老百姓在这一天做糖瓜，希望灶神可以吃了糖瓜，多为自己家美言几句，让来年更加吉祥幸福。

Kitchen God's DayKitchen God’s Day falls on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth month of the lunar year. According to tradition, Kitchen God who in charge of the fate of the whole family goes back to heaven during the spring festival to deliver what the family had done the last year to the Great God. According to Kitchen God’s words, the Great God makes decision to reward or punish the family in the next year. In other words, it is the day people honor the Kitchen God.People usually made sugared melons with malt sugar on that day. We hope Kitchen God will eat sugared melons and put a good word for our family to the Great God, so we’ll be lucky next year.3、春节对中国人来说，春节是最重要的节日。

除夕这天，全家人要一起吃年夜饭。

这是最好的一次家宴，不仅仅因为菜品丰富，更因为这是个全家人相聚的日子。

年夜饭后，我们会一起包饺子，通常会全家人一起看央视春晚。

过年的时候，各家都放鞭炮，贴春联。

还有一件事也很重要，那就是守岁，就是在旧年的最后一天夜里不睡觉，熬夜迎接新一年的到来的习俗。

大年初一，亲戚朋友相互拜年，祝愿新的一年能事事顺利。

通常大人们还会给小孩子发压岁钱。

大年初二回娘家，是指已婚妇女回娘家拜访。

初五这天全家再次团聚吃饺子。

这天是人们要迎接灶王爷下界的日子。

同时，人们打扫卫生，放鞭炮，来驱走“晦气”。

The Spring FestivalThe spring festival is the most important festival for Chinese. At Chinese New Year’s Eve, family members have reunion dinner together. This dinner would be the best dinner, not only because we have various di shes, but it’s the day we could meet all our family members.After family reunion dinner, we make Chinese dumplings together, and usually watch the Spring Festival Gala on CCTV. Each family would light firecrackers and paste up Spring Festival couplets. One more thing is important, that is people should stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve to welcome the new year.On New Year’s Day of the Chinese lunar calendar, relatives and friends would send New Year's greetings to each other to wish everything smooth in the New Year. Adult usually give lucky money to children during Spring Festival.The second day of the New Year is usually called the day of visiting parental home, which means that married daughters should return to their parents ' home.Family members reunite to eat dumplings on the fifth day of the first lunar month. On that day, people welcome the Kitchen God come back to mortal world. People clean house and light firecracker so that keep away all bad luck.4、正月十五元宵节标志着中国春节的结束，是农历正月十五。

通常这天家家都会吃元宵。

元宵节的传统活动是赏花灯和猜灯谜。

元宵节赏花灯正好是一个交谊的机会，未婚男女借着赏花灯也顺便可以为自己物色对象。

这天我们还会看到舞龙和舞狮的表演。

The Lantern FestivalThe Lantern Festival marks the end of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year, and it's on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, People usually eat rice glue balls on Lantern festival. Traditional activities are enjoying the display of various lanterns and riddle solving. Enjoyingbeautiful lanterns is also an opportunity for singles to make friends. Dragon and lion dances can also been seen on that day.5、清明节清明节是我国传统节日，也是最重要的祭祀节日，是祭祖和扫墓的日子。

清明节是24节气之一，预示着春耕的好时节已经到了。

清明节又叫踏青节，因为一般在四月5日左右，正是中国的春天，人们喜欢郊游踏青，还喜欢在清明节放风筝。

Qingming Festival/Tomb sweeping dayTomb Sweeping Day is traditional festival of China, is also the most important sacrifice festival, on that day, people worships ancestors and visits grave. People pay respects to somebody at his tomb.It is one of the 24 solar terms, means that it’s good time for spring ploughing. Tomb Sweeping Day falls around April fifth, and it’s during the spring of China, so it is also called “hiking day”. People go to the suburbs for an outing in spring. People love to fly kites during the Qingming Festival6、端午节端午节是为了纪念中国伟大的爱国诗人屈原，是农历五月初五。

端午节有吃粽子和赛龙舟的习俗。

粽子是一种用竹叶或芦苇叶包成棱形的状的饭团子。

我们将艾蒿放在门上辟邪，艾蒿还有驱除蚊虫的作用。

端午节给儿童缠七色线，一直要戴到节后第一次下雨才解下来扔在雨水里。

Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu FestivalThe festival is to commemorate a great patriotic poet of China—— Qu Yuan. It falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in lunar calendar.There is the customs of eating Zongzi and racing dragon-boat on Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi is a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves to give it a special flavor. We put mugwort on the door to ward off evil, and it has insect repellent function.Children wear bracelet made by seven colored strings until the first rain after the festival, they should throw the strings into puddle.7、中秋节每年的农历八月十五是中秋节。