春节的英文介绍
Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year generally refers first day. But in public, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival is from the La Layuechuba Layue festival or 23 or 24 Jizao until the New Year 15, with New Year's Eve and New Year for the first day climax. During the Spring Festival, China's Han ethnic minorities and many have held various activities in celebration. These activities are in worship deities and ancestors Festivals, Chujiubuxin, Fu Ying Hei then, to pray for a good harvest as the main content. Rich and varied activities, with strong ethnic characteristics.
SPRING FESTIVAL
描写春节的英文小短文
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. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees. During Spring Festival, the most improtant days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days.Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. During Spring Festival time, you can see kinds of decorations.you can go to temple fairs and enjoy superb performances of the dances, stilt-walking and amazing acrobatic shows. so I like it .
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新年的历史
The New Year's celebration comes from more than 4000 years ago, from the time of the Babylonians. But in Babylon they celebrated the New Year in spring, not in January. It was in 153 B.C. when the Roman Senate declared the New Year's celebration in January,
新年新愿望(巴比伦)BABYLON
One of the most famous New Year's traditions is to make resolutions for the year coming: many people promise to quit smoking, or find a better job. The Babylonians often promised to return borrowed farm utensils.
新年的游行(帕萨迪娜和加利福尼亚)PASADENA CALIFORNIA
In different places, the New Year is celebrated by parades. In Pasadena, California, the Rose parade is a magnificent event, with a continuous flow of carriages made or decorated with flowers. In Pasadena, as well, there is the famous football game, the Rose Bowl, a remained of the roman games that celebrated every important event.
波斯PERSIA
At New Year's Day all families sit around a table and may read a prayer for health and happiness.
Armeria
In Armeria it was a custom that on New Year's Eve, children gathered in-groups and went around their village, singing songs and greeting the New Year by singing to their neighbors. They usually received lots of fruit as present. Decorating a New Year's tree was not one of the customs in the past.
GERMANY
In Germany people would drop molten lead into cold water and try to tell the future from the shape it made. A heart or ring shape meant a wedding, a ship a journey, and a pig plenty of food in the year ahead.
DENMARK
In Denmark it is a good sign to find your door heaped with a pile of broken dishes at New Years. Old dishes are saved year around to throw them at the homes where their friends live on New Years Eve. Many broken dishes were a symbol that you have many friends.
中国
Many families clean their houses to rid them of lasts year's bad luck before the celebrations begin. Chinese people believe that evil spirits dislike loud noises so they decorate their houses with plastic firecrackers. The loud noises are intended to frighten away evil spirits and bad luck that the spirits might bring.
Lucky money is given out in red envelopes. They are given on New Year by relatives, but, only to the unmarried as well as the children of the family.
The first thing people do on Chinese New Year is offering ritual homage to one's ancestors. It is then paid to the gods, followed by younger family members paying their respects to their living relatives.
New clothes are worn, and visits are made to friends, neighbors, and relatives to exchange good wishes of kung-hsi fa-tsai, which means "congratulations and prosperity."
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