Spring Festival (春节)
春节是什么
What is Spring Festival？
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. 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，春节英语版手抄报，the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. Most people will have a week off ，thus，this time is known as golden week.春节，又叫农历新年，是中国民间最隆重、最热闹的一个节日，是举家欢庆团团圆圆的大好时节，就像西方的圣诞节一样。春季是每年农历正月初一，通常比公历新年要晚一个月。它起源于殷商时期年头岁尾的民间祭祖活动。严格来讲，春节不只是一天的庆祝，而是从农历的12月底到新年的正月十五，不过最重要的几天当属除夕夜和新年头三天。春节是法定假日，大家一般都会放七天假，又叫做黄金周。
春节传统风俗
Spring Festival Traditions
春节的英语演讲稿1 January first. The beginning of a new year. As far back in history as we can tell, people have celebrated the start of a new year. The people of ancient Egypt began their new year in summer. 。
1 Spring Cleaning
Chinese Spring Festival celebrating the end of winter and the warmth of spring. It began in the last day of the lunar year, end in the 15th day of lunar New Year, also is the Lantern Festival. During 。
大扫除
2Paper Cut
春节英文演讲稿1 Spring Festival Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year Day. I enjoy it very much. On the Chinese New Year Day, some of our relatives come to visit us. They often give me some lucky。
贴窗花
1.有关春节的英语演讲稿 Dear teachers and fellow students, Everybody is good! My favorite time is Spring Festival. Remember New Year's Eve, the adults are watching the Spring Festival party, to welcome the arrival of。
After the thoroughly clean up，people will paste paper-cut decorations on the windows and doors. Paper-cuts，usually with auspicious patterns，give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life. It is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu（福）”，big and small，on walls，doors and doorposts around the houses. “Fu（福）” shows people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character “Fu（福）” to signify that blessing has arrived because “inverted” is a homonym for “arrive” in Chinese.在大扫除之后，大家会在家中门窗上贴上窗花。通常带有吉祥图案的窗花，传递节日喜庆和执闹的气氛和表达中国人期待幸福生活的美好愿望。除了贴窗花，在墙上，门上和房子周围的门框上巾大小福字是中国人表达对美好生活渴望的普遍习俗。一些人甚至倒贴福字来表示福到了，因为在汉语中“倒”是“到”的谐音。
3Spring Couplet
贴春联
4Family Reunion Dinner
年夜团圆饭
年糕，or the New Year’s Cake，is very common in Southern China，it Is made of sticky rice. In Chinese，niangao sounds like “getting higher year by year”. In Chinese people’s mind，the higher you are，the more prosperous your business is.年糕在中文的发音里意味着年年高升。因此中国人总认为，如果一个人地位较高，其财富就越多。
delicious meal. lt is very important for the Chinese to be with thein families on this occasion. Fish is always part of the dinner because it represents abundance.On New Year's Day all Chinese children wear。
饺子，or the stuffed Dumpling，is a very common Northern Chinese Dish，Chinese dumplings look like silver ingots. Legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during New Year celebration，the more money you can make in the New Year. Ehen making these dumplings，coins and pennies are usually put into selected few，those lucky family members that happen to eat those special dumplings are believed to have special good fortune in the upcoming year.饺子的开关酷似一个元宝，并且在传统观念里认为饺子吃得越多，那么来年钱就挣得越多。在做饺子的时候，人们喜欢在一些饺子里放上硬币，吃到硬币的幸运儿就意味着来年会有特殊的好运。
5Firecrackers
放鞭炮
Lighting Firecrackers used to be one of the most important customs in the Spring Festival celebration. However，concerning the danger and the negative noises that lighting firecrackers may bring，the government has banned this practice in many major cities. But people in small towns and rural areas still hold to this traditional celebration. Right as the clock strike 12 o’ clock midnight of New Year’s Eve，cities and towns are lit up with the glitter from fireworks，and the sound can be deafening.放鞭炮曾是春节庆祝活动中最重要的习俗之一。然而，担心燃放鞭炮可能会带来危险和烦人的噪音，政府已在许多大城市下令禁止燃放鞭炮。但在小城镇和地区的人们仍然坚持这种传统的庆祝活动。除夕夜一旦撞响午夜12点钟，城市和乡镇都被烟花的闪闪光芒映亮，鞭炮声震耳欲聋。
6Red Packet/ Lucky Money
红包/压岁钱
