英语春节习俗

英语春节习俗【篇一：春节习俗(英文版)】春节习俗从农历正月初一开始的节庆活动可谓丰富多彩，多种多样。

a series of colorful celebration activities begin on the first day of the first lunar month.春节过了以后，就是在过去中国的农村里边，文艺的活动逐渐地展开了，有各种的文艺节目，像我们现在看到的北京花会一样，高跷、旱船，另外就是唱戏。

after the spring festival, all kinds of entertainmentprograms used to be given in the rural areas in china. just like the flower exhibition in beijing now, the不管是城里人，还是在农村，人们都要做的一件事就是拜年。

民间流行的拜年活动先是从家里开始的。

no matter in the city or in the countryside, all the people willdo one thing that is to extend spring festival greetings. this activity begins at first between family members.一般是我们晚辈要给长辈拜年，比如给父母和父母的兄弟姐妹，大爷、大妈等拜年。

normally we will extend our spring festival greetings toour elders, such as our parents, uncles and aunts.亲戚之间在春节期间走动，有互拜平安的意思。

relatives will drop each other a visit during the spring festivalto give their best wishes.给亲戚拜年，出门之后就作揖、问安，说点吉祥话，恭喜过年呐，恭喜发财呀，说点吉祥话，预示着第二年有个好的，这就是新一年来了以后有好运。

to drop a spring festival visit is to give your new yeargreetings when you are out. have a luck talk. happy new year! may you come into a good fortune! a luck talk can bring luck to people in the new year.身体非常重要，所以春节的问候往往加上身体健康。

health is very important. so new greetings normally have good health!万事如意，心想事成。

hope everything goes your way. may you succeed at/in whatever you try.事业有成！have a successful career!drop a spring festival visit 拜年 a luck talk 吉祥话除了以往的到家里拜年，或寄贺年卡，近年来，人们也开始通过电话、电子邮件和手机短信拜年。

the traditional way ofextending spring festival greetings includes to drop a visit or to send new year cards. in recent years, people began to use telephone, email and sms to extend their spring festival wishes.虽然拜年的方式变化了，但对孩子们来讲，有一件事是不变的，那就是拜年时长辈们会给压岁钱，因为压岁钱多是放在红纸袋里的，所以人们也称之为红包。

although people have different ways of extending the spring festival wishes now, for children, one thing stillremains unchanged. this is, when they pay a springfestival visit to their elders, elders will give them yasuiqian, i.e. gift money. since yasuiqian is money put into a small red paper envelope, people also call it redbag/envelope/packet.一般是这样，家里给压岁钱就是给小孩子。

磕头拜年，父母给压岁钱。

normally, our elders give us children new year money. we kowtow to them and give them our best wishes. they will give us new year money.【篇二：春节习俗英文表达】chinese new year celebration is the most important celebration of the year. chinese people may celebrate the chinese new year in slightly different ways but their wishes are almost the same; they want their family members and friends to be healthy and lucky during next year.春节庆祝活动是一年中最重要的庆祝活动。

中国人庆祝春节的方式可能略微不同，但其愿望几乎是相同的，他们希望其家人和朋友来年健康和幸运。

chinese new year celebration usually lasts for 15 days. celebratory activities include chinese new feast, firecrackers,giving lucky money to children, the new year bell ringing and chinese new year greetings. most of chinese people will stopthe celebrating in their home on the 7th day of new year because the national holiday usually ends around that day, however celebrations in public areas can last until the 15th day of new year.春节庆祝活动通常持续15天。

庆祝活动包括春节的年夜饭，放鞭炮，给儿童压岁钱，春节钟声和春节问候。

大多数中国人将在春节的第7天停止庆祝活动，因为全国性节假通常在这一天结束，但在公共场所的庆祝活动可能最终持续到正月十五。

house cleaning房屋打扫to clean houses on the new year eve is a very old custom dating back to thousands of years ago. the dust is traditionally associated with “old” socleaning their houses and sweeping the dust mean to bid farewell to the “old” and usher in the “new”. days before thenew year, chinese families clean their houses, sweeping the floor, washing daily things, cleaning the spider webs and dredging the ditches. people do all these things happily in the hope of a good coming year.春节打扫房屋这个非常古老的习俗甚至可以追溯到几千年前。

灰尘在传统上与“旧”联系在一起，所以打扫房屋和扫除灰尘意味着辞“旧”迎“新”。

春节的前几天，中国的各家各户都打扫房屋，扫地，清洗日用品，清除蛛网和疏浚沟渠。

人们兴高采烈做所有这些事情，希望来年好运。

house decoration房屋装饰one of the house decorations is to post couplets on doors. on the spring festival couplets, good wishes are expressed. new year couplets are usually posted inpairs as even numbers are associated with good luck and auspiciousness in chinese culture.房屋装饰之一就是在门上贴对联。

在春联上，抒发良好的祝愿。

春联通常是成对张贴，因为双数在中国文化中是好运气和吉祥的象征。

people in north china are used to posting paper-cut on their windows. when sticking the window decoration paper-cuts, people paste on the door large red chinese character “fu”a redfumeans good luck and fortune, so it is customary to post fuon doors or walls on auspicious occasions such as wedding, festivals. 在中国北方，人们习惯于在窗户上贴剪纸。

人们既在窗户上贴剪纸，又在大门上贴上大大的红色汉字“福”字，一个红色“福”字意味着好运和财富，因此习惯上在婚礼，节日之类的吉祥场合中，人们都会在门或墙上贴“福”字。