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1、春节的习俗 英语 春节的习俗 英语 扫尘 Sweeping the Dust “Dust is homophonic with chen(尘)in Chinese， which means old and past. In this way， sweeping the dust before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things
2、 to welcome a new life. In a word， just before the Spring Festival comes， every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new. 贴春联 Pasting Spring Couplets “The Spring Couplet， also called couplet and a pair of antithetical phrases， is a special form of
3、literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription， usually an auspicious phrase， above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the
4、 one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival， every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past， the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do
5、 for them， while nowadays， it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market. 贴窗花和“福字 Pasting Paper-cuts and Up-sided Fu Paper-cuts， usually with auspicious patterns， give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking fo
6、rward to a good life. In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows， 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 peoples yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character fu(福) to signify that bles
7、sing has arrived because inverted is a homonym for arrive in Chinese. Now many kinds of paper-cuts and fu(福) can be seen in the market before the Festival. 守岁 Staying Up Late on New Years Eve The tradition of staying up late to see New Year in originated from an interesting folk tale. In ancient Chi
8、na there lived a monster named Year， who was very ferocious. Year always went out from its burrow on New Years Eve to devour people. Therefore， on every New Years Eve， every household would have supper together. After dinner， no one dared go to sleep and all the family members would sit together， ch
9、atting and emboldening each other. Gradually the habit of staying up late on New Years Eve is formed. Thus in China， celebrating the Spring Festival is also called passing over the year (guo nian)。 However， now there are less and less people in cities who will stay up late to see New Year in. 贴年画 Pa
10、sting New Year Prints The custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With the creation of board carvings， New Year paintings cover a wide range of subjects. The most famous ones are Door Gods， Surplus Year after Year， Three G
11、ods of Blessing， Salary and Longevity， An Abundant Harvest of Crops， Thriving Domestic Animals and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Year Print are Tohuwu of Suzhou， Yngliuqing of Tianjin， Wuqing of Hebei and Weifang of Shangdong. Now the tradition of pasting New Year paintings is stil
12、l kept in rural China， while it is seldom followed in cities. 吃饺子 Having Jiaozi On New Years Eve， the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi and celebrate the Spring Festival. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. The tr
13、adition of having jiaozi is very important during the Spring Festival. You cannot have a complete Spring Festival without having jiaozi. (See page 82 for more information about jiaozi) 看春节联欢晚会 The CCTV New Years Gala The New Years Gala is a variety show held by China Central Television (CCTV) since
14、1983. For every year since then at the turn of the Lunar New Year， the program begins at 8:00PM and lasts five or six hours. It brings laughter to billions of people， creates many popular words and produces lots of TV phenomena meriting attention. For over twenty years， its value has gone far beyond
15、 a variety show. It is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. Many Chinese would like to watch the gala while having the dinner on New Years Eve. 春节的习俗 英语 春节的习俗英语作文 春节的习俗英语作文 在平日的学习、工作和生活里，大家都尝试过写作文吧，作文是由文字组成，经过人的思想合计，通过语言组织来表达一个主题意义的文体。相信很多朋友都对写作文感到非常苦恼吧，以下是为大家整理的春节的习俗英语作文
16、，供大家参照借鉴，希望可以帮助到有必需要的朋友。 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 the Spring Festival， people use red lantern and Spring Festival couplets decorate a house， put on all kinds of colored clothes， often visit friends and relatives or t
