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1、用英语介绍春节习俗 Preceding days 春节前On the days before the New Year celebration Chinese families give their home a thorough cleaning. There is a Cantonese saying Wash away the dirt on ninyabaat (年廿八，洗邋遢), but the practice is not usually restricted on ninyabaat (年廿八, the 28th day of month 12). It is believed

2、 the cleaning sweeps away the bad luck of the preceding year and makes their homes ready for good luck. Brooms and dust pans are put away on the first day so that luck cannot be swept away. Some people give their homes, doors and window-frames a new coat of red paint. homes are often decorated with

3、paper cutouts of Chinese auspicious phrases and couplets. Purchasing new clothing, shoes, and receiving a hair-cut also symbolize a fresh start.In many households where Buddhism or Taoism is prevalent, home altars and statues are cleaned thoroughly, and altars that were adorned with decorations from

4、 the previous year are also taken down and burned a week before the new year starts, and replaced with new decorations. Taoists (and Buddhists to a lesser extent) will also send gods (送神), an example would be burning a paper effigy of Zao Jun the Kitchen God, the recorder of family functions. This i

5、s done so that the Kitchen God can report to the Jade Emperor of the family households transgressions and good deeds. Families often offer sweet foods (such as candy) in order to bribe the deities into reporting good things about the family.The biggest event of any Chinese New Years Eve is the dinne

6、r every family will have. A dish consisting of fish will appear on the tables of Chinese families. It is for display for the New Years Eve dinner. This meal is comparable to Christmas dinner in the West. In northern China, it is customary to make dumplings (jiaozi 饺子) after dinner and have it around

7、 midnight. Dumplings symbolize wealth because their shape is like a Chinese tael. By contrast, in the South, it is customary to make a new year cake (Niangao, 年糕) after dinner and send pieces of it as gifts to relatives and friends in the coming days of the new year. Niangao literally means increasi

8、ngly prosperous year in year out. After the dinner, some families go to local temples, hours before the new year begins to pray for a prosperous new year by lighting the first incense of the year; however in modern practice, many households hold parties and even hold a countdown to the new lunar yea

9、r. Beginning in the 1980s, the CCTV New Years Gala was broadcast four hours before the start of the New Year.用英语介绍春节习俗Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the Lunar New Year by English speakers. The festival traditional

10、ly begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhng yu) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Years Eve is known as ch x. It literally means Year-pass Eve.Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the

11、 Lunar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the most.Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese,

12、Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans (Seollal), Tibetans and Bhutanese (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaa

13、n Sar), Vietnamese (Tt), and formerly the Japanese before 1873 (Oshogatsu). Outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Chinese New Year is also celebrated in countries with significant Han Chinese populations, such as Singapore, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.

14、 In countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Australia Post, Canada Post, and the US Postal Service issues New Years themed stamps.Within China, regional customs and traditions con

15、cerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy presents, decoration, material, food, and clothing. It is also the tradition that every family thoroughly cleans the house to sweep away any ill-fortune in hopes to make way for good incoming luck. W

16、indows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “happiness, “wealth, and “longevity. On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper is a feast with families. Food will include such items as pigs, ducks, chicken and sweet delicacies. The family will end the n

17、ight with firecrackers. Early the next morning, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New Year tradition is a great way to reconcile forgetting all grudges, and sincerely wish peace and happiness for ever

18、yone.Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, outside China its years are often numbered from the reign of Huangdi. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year 2021 Chinese Year 4707, 4706, or 4646.春节习俗英

19、语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：春节正月习俗的英文介绍The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known as new-year visits (Chinese: 拜年; pinyin: bi nin). New clothes are usually worn to signify a new year. The colour red is liberally used in all decorations. Red packets are

20、given to juniors and children by the married and elders. See Symbolism below for more explanation.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：First day 初一The first day is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens and earth, officially beginning at midnight. Many people, especially Buddhists, abstain from meat consump

21、tion on the first day because it is believed that this will ensure longevity for them. Some consider lighting fires and using knives to be bad luck on New Years Day, so all food to be consumed is cooked the day before. For Buddhists, the first day is also the birthday of Maitreya Bodhisattva (better

22、 known as the more familiar Budai Luohan), the Buddha-to-be. People also abstain from killing animals.Most importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time when families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended family, usually their parents, grandparents or great-grandparen

23、ts.Some families may invite a lion dance troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Lunar New Year as well as to evict bad spirits from the premises. Members of the family who are married also give red packets containing cash to junior members of the family, mostly children and teenagers.While fire

24、works and firecrackers are traditionally very popular, some regions have banned them due to concerns over fire hazards, which have resulted in increased number of fires around New Years and challenged municipal fire departments work capacity. For this reason, various city governments (e.g., Hong Kon

25、g, and Beijing, for a number of years) issued bans over fireworks and firecrackers in certain premises of the city. As a substitute, large-scale fireworks have been launched by governments in cities like Hong Kong to offer citizens the experience.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Second day 初二The second day of th

26、e Chinese New Year is for married daughters to visit their birth parents. Traditionally, daughters who have been married may not have the opportunity to visit their birth families frequently.On the second day, the Chinese pray to their ancestors as well as to all the gods. They are extra kind to dog

27、s and feed them well as it is believed that the second day is the birthday of all dogs.Business people of the Cantonese dialect group will hold a Hoi Nin prayer to start their business on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. The prayer is done to pray that they will be blessed with good luck and prosper

28、ity in their business for the year.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Third and fourth days 初三The third and fourth day of the Chinese New Year are generally accepted as inappropriate days to visit relatives and friends due to the following schools of thought. People may subscribe to one or both thoughts.1) It is k

29、nown as ch ku (赤口), meaning that it is easy to get into arguments. It is suggested that the cause could be the fried food and visiting during the first two days of the New Year celebration.citation needed2) Families who had an immediate kin deceased in the past 3 years will not go house-visiting as

30、a form of respect to the dead, but people may visit them on this day. Some people then conclude that it is inauspicious to do any house visiting at all. The third day of the New Year is allocated to grave-visiting instead.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Fifth day 初五In northern China, people eat jio zi (simplifi

31、ed Chinese: 饺子; traditional Chinese: 饺子), or dumplings on the morning of Po Wu (破五). This is also the birthday of the Chinese god of wealth. In Taiwan, businesses traditionally re-open on this day, accompanied by firecrackers.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Seventh day 初七The seventh day, traditionally known as

32、renri 人日, the common mans birthday, the day when everyone grows one year older. It is the day when tossed raw fish salad, yusheng, is eaten. This is a custom primarily among the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Singapore. People get together to toss the colourful salad and ma

33、ke wishes for continued wealth and prosperity.For many Chinese Buddhists, this is another day to avoid meat, the seventh day commemorating the birth of Sakra Devanam Indra.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Eighth day 初八Another family dinner to celebrate the eve of the birth of the Jade Emperor. However, everybody

34、 should be back to work by the 8th day. All of government agencies and business will stop celebrating by the eighth day.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Ninth day 初九The ninth day of the New Year is a day for Chinese to offer prayers to the Jade Emperor of Heaven (天宫) in the Taoist Pantheon. The ninth day is trad

35、itionally the birthday of the Jade Emperor. This day is especially important to Hokkiens. Come midnight of the eighth day of the new year, Hokkiens will offer thanks giving prayers to the Emperor of Heaven. Offerings will include sugarcane as it was the sugarcane that had protected the Hokkiens from

36、 certain extermination generations ago. Incense, tea, fruit, vegetarian food or roast pig, and paper gold is served as a customary protocol for paying respect to an honored person.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Tenth day 初十The other day when the Jade Emperors birthday is celebrated.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Thirteen

37、th day 正月十三On the 13th day people will eat pure vegetarian food to clean out their stomach due to consuming too much food over the last two weeks.This day is dedicated to the General Guan Yu, also known as the Chinese God of War. Guan Yu was born in the Han dynasty and is considered the greatest gen

38、eral in Chinese history. He represents loyalty, strength, truth, and justice. According to history, he was tricked by the enemy and was beheaded.Almost every organization and business in China will pray to Guan Yu on this day. Before his life ended, Guan Yu had won over one hundred battles and that

39、is a goal that all businesses in China want to accomplish. In a way, people look at him as the God of Wealth or the God of Success.春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：Fifteenth day 正月十五The fifteenth day of the new year is celebrated as yun xio ji (元宵节), otherwise known as Chap Goh Mei in Fujian dialect. Rice dumpli

40、ngs tangyuan (simplified Chinese: 汤圆; traditional Chinese: 汤圆; pinyin: tngyun), a sweet glutinous rice ball brewed in a soup, is eaten this day. Candles are lit outside houses as a way to guide wayward spirits home. This day is celebrated as the Lantern Festival, and families walk the street carrying lighted lanterns.This day often marks the end of the Chinese New Year festivities.