关于春节的英语文章

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一片较长的文章，并需要附上中文翻译谢谢

关于春节

Answer 1

The Origin of Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means "year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.

One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said, "I hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?" So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.

After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most.

From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term "Guo Nian", which may mean "Survive the Nian" becomes today "Celebrate the (New) Year" as the word "guo" in Chinese having both the meaning of "pass-over" and "observe". The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.
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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.

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, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened.

On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko.

The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves.

After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year. This is called "Seeing the New Year in".

Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.

Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils.

Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.

The Chinese character "fu" (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. The character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chinese the "reversed fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as "fudaole." What's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall.

People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in.

Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.

Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher, one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely.

Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. People thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. However, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities once the government took security, noise and pollution factors into consideration. As a replacement, some buy tapes with firecracker sounds to listen to, some break little balloons to get the sound too, while others buy firecracker handicrafts to hang in the living room.

The lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished.

China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.

中国新年的起源

农历新年是现在通常被称为春节,因为它开始从最初的弹簧(第24术语的变化与大自然的共用。它的起源是太老了,不能被追踪。有几种解释闲荡。所有的同意,无论如何,这个词,而仅仅意味着现代汉语中“年”,最初的名字的怪物的兽,开始在人们的前一晚,新的一年的开始。

传说有一个叫“年”的怪兽,有一个大嘴巴,会吞下很多人用一口。人们都很害怕。有一天,一位老人来拯救他们,提供制服撵出来。他对年说:“我听到说你很能干,但你可以吞食猎物的地球上其他牲畜代替人绝不是你值得对手吗?”所以,它吞下很多的野兽,地球也harrassed捕食家畜,他们的确是的爱好艺术的确是的人。

之后,这位老人消失骑的怪兽。他原来是不朽的神。如今年过去了,其他野兽的猎物还害怕进入森林,人们开始享受宁静的生活。那位老人离开前,他曾告诉人们把红纸上装饰窗户,每年年末都来吓跑年的情况下溜回,因为红的颜色是兽害怕。

从那时起,传统的观察征服年进行,直到万代。术语“过年”,这也许意味着“存活”成为今天的“庆祝”(新)年度“郭”在中国拥有两"的意思pass-over”和“观察”。习惯的贴红纸,方鞭炮来吓跑年应该有机会还健在。松然而,今天的人们已经遗忘他们为什么要这么做的原因,只是觉得色彩和声音增添了刺激的庆祝活动。
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春节是中国最重要的节日,人们是所有家庭成员聚在一起的时候,就像西方的圣诞节。所有人离家回去,成为最繁忙的交通系统的时间大约半个月的春节。机场、火车站、长途汽车站挤满家返回者。

严格地说,春天节日开始每年在早期的第12个太阴月,最后将在第一个太阴月到明年。其中最重要的就是除夕和春节前三天。中国政府允许有7天为中国农历新年。

许多关税陪伴过春节。有些一直沿用到今天,有些已经失传了。

在农历12月的第八天,许多家庭会熬腊八粥、美味的粥由糯米、小米、种子,枣,莲子、豆类、龙眼、银杏。

23日的第12个太阴月叫做初步的前夕。就在这个时候,人们对厨房神献祭。然而,大多数家庭现在享受自己制造可口的食物。

在初步的前夕之后,人们开始准备即将到来的新年。这就是所谓的“见到新年进入”。

商店老板正忙着当每个人都出去买必需品的新年。材料不仅包括食用油、大米、面粉、鸡、鸭、鱼、肉,而且坚果的水果,糖果和类型。更重要的是,各种不同的装饰,新衣服和鞋给孩子们的礼物以及老年,朋友和亲戚,都是购买的目录上。

春节到来之前,人们室内和室外的家园,以及他们的衣服、床上用品、所有的器具。

那人开始装饰他们清理房间的气氛为特色的欢呼和盛宴。所有的门都会贴春联,中国书法与黑人在红纸。内容包括房主的祝福,愿你拥有一个光明的前途,祝新年快乐。同样,图片门的神和财富的将会出现在前门辟邪,受欢迎的和平和丰富。

汉字“赋”(意思是福还是幸福)是必须的。人物放在纸上可粘贴或颠倒了,通常在中国的“反富”与“赋”的谐音来,都是发成“fudaole。”更重要的是,两大灯笼都可以提高两边的大门。红色的剪纸窗户玻璃,色彩鲜艳的年画和贴在墙上。

人们重视春节前夕。那时,所有的家庭成员一起吃晚餐。这顿饭是比平常更多的奢侈。的菜肴,比如鸡肉、鱼肉和豆腐不能排除,因为在中国,他们的发音,分别是“吉”、“玉”和“香瓜子”,代表吉兆,丰富和丰富的内涵。晚饭后,全家人会坐在一起聊天,看电视。近年来,春节晚会上播出中国中央电视台(CCTV)是必不可少的娱乐为中国海内外。按照习俗,每个家庭将会熬夜,迎接新年的到来。

在新年醒来时,每个人都盛妆打扮。首先,他们将给他们的父母。然后每个孩子都会得到的钱作为新年礼物,在红色的纸包裹起来。在中国北方人会吃饺子,或者饺子,吃早餐,因为他们认为“饺子”,意思是“招标的声音在新”。同时,形状像金子一样的饺子是中国古代锭从。所以人们吃他们,希望为金钱和财富。

中国南方吃蛋糕做niangao(新年)——一种用糯米包在这种场合,因为作为引导、niangao意味着“高而又高,一年之后,另一个问题。”第5天之后,春节是一段美好的时光,亲戚,朋友、同学以及同事交换问候,礼品和聊天悠闲。

放烟花是最典型的习俗的春节。人们认为爆裂的声音能够驱走妖魔鬼怪。然而,如此的一个活动被完全或部分禁止大城市的政府出于安全,噪音和污染的考虑。作为替代,一些以爆竹声音买音带听,一些休息一点点猛涨到声音太,而另一些人买爆竹手工艺挂在屋子里。

活泼的气氛不只填充每个家庭,而且大街小巷也是如此。一系列的活动,如舞狮、舞龙、灯笼节日和寺庙展览会将于数天。春节然后结束在元宵节是完成。

中国有56个民族。少数几乎庆祝他们的春天节日那天,汉族有不同的习俗。

Answer 2

春节是中国的传统节日，大家都很喜欢春节，在大年三十这一天，一家人会聚在一起吃年夜饭，无论身处何处的游子们都会给家人送去祝福，小孩是最喜欢过年的，因为过年的时候，小孩可以得到红包。至于春节为什么要放鞭炮，收红包，还有一个故事：相传，中国古时候有一种叫“年”的怪兽，头长触角，凶猛异常。“年”长年深居海底，每到除夕才爬上岸，吞食牲畜伤害人命。因此，每到除夕这天，村村寨寨的人们扶老携幼逃往深山，以躲避“年”兽的伤害。这年除夕，桃花村的人们正扶老携幼上山避难，从村外来了个乞讨的老人，只见他手拄拐杖，臂搭袋囊，银须飘逸，目若朗星。乡亲们有的封窗锁门，有的收拾行装，有的牵牛赶羊，到处人喊马嘶，一片匆忙恐慌景象。这时，谁还有心关照这位乞讨的老人。只有村东头一位老婆婆给了老人些食物，并劝他快上山躲避“年”兽，那老人捋髯笑道：“婆婆若让我在家呆一夜，我一定把‘年’兽撵走”。老婆婆惊目细看，见他鹤发童颜、精神矍铄，气宇不凡。可她仍然继续劝说，乞讨老人笑而不语。婆婆无奈，只好撇下家，上山避难去了。半夜时分，“年”兽闯进村。它发现村里气氛与往年不同：村东头老婆婆家，门贴大红纸，屋内烛火通明。“年”兽浑身一抖，怪叫了一声。“年”朝婆婆家怒视片刻，随即狂叫着扑过去。将近门口时，院内突然传来“砰砰啪啪”的炸响声，“年”浑身战栗，再不敢往前凑了。原来，“年”最怕红色、火光和炸响。这时，婆婆的家门大开，只见院内一位身披红袍的老人在哈哈大笑。“年”大惊失色，狼狈逃蹿了。第二天是正月初一，避难回来的人们见村里安然无恙十分惊奇。这时，老婆婆才恍然大悟，赶忙向乡亲们述说了乞讨老人的许诺。乡亲们一齐拥向老婆婆家，只见婆婆家门上贴着红纸，院里一堆未燃尽的竹子仍在"啪啪"炸响，屋内几根红蜡烛还发着余光……欣喜若狂的乡亲们为庆贺吉祥的来临，纷纷换新衣戴新帽，到亲友家道喜问好。这件事很快在周围村里传开了，人们都知道了驱赶"年"兽的办法。从此每年除夕，家家贴红对联、燃放爆竹；户户烛火通明、守更待岁。初一一大早，还要走亲串友道喜问好。这风俗越传越广，成了中国民间最隆重的传统节日。

Spring Festival is China's traditional festivals, we like the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year's Eve in this day, the family ate dinner together, whether in the home where they will be sent best wishes to his family, children are the most like the Chinese New Year because the Chinese New Year, when a child can get a red envelope.As for why the Chinese New Year firecrackers, to close red, there is a story: According to legend, the Chinese in ancient times there is a "year" of the monster, the first long tentacles, unusually ferocious. "Year" for many years hiding the sea, only to climb up every New Year's Eve shore, devouring livestock harm human life. Therefore, every New Year's Eve that day, the village young people Walled villages fled to the mountains, to escape the "year" animal damage. This Year's Eve, Peach Blossom Village, young people are the mountain refuge, from a village outside begging the elderly,Saw him with a stick, arm ride capsule bag, silver to be graceful, head if Lang stars. Some villagers sealed windows locked, and some to pack up and get some Thunbergia sheep, everywhere people shouting, scene of a panic rush. At this time, who determined to take care of the elderly people begging. Village head only an old lady to the elderly more food, and urged him to speed up the mountain to escape the "Year" beast, that the elderly stroke beard smiled: "If the mother-in-law let me stay at home one night, I have to 'years' removed the beast" . ,Head scared the old lady look at, to see him healthy spirit, bearing out of the ordinary. She is still continuing to persuade, begging people laugh instead of the phrase. Mother-in-law no option but to leave home and go up the mountain refuge. The middle of the night, "years" to break into the village of animals. It found that the village atmosphere, unlike in previous years: the first lady Village home, the door paste big red, brightly lit candles inside the house. "Year" animal
trembling, strangeCalled out. "Year" towards mother-in-law home glower moment, then head over the pastforward. Almost at the entrance to the hospital from a sudden "bang flap" sound of bombing, "year" every tremble, and then move forward together a dare. In fact, "year" fear red flames and。 At this time, opening the door to let mother-in-law's house, wearing only a hospital Dahongpao elderly laughter. "Year" scaring the daylights out, embarrassed fled the spurt. The next day is the first day, people who sought refuge back safe and sound very surprised to see the village. At this time, the old lady came before, and hastened to the villagers described the promise of the elderly begging.Together villagers over to the old lady, and mother-in-law saw the door close to the red paper, yard pile of bamboo is still unburned "flap" ring, the house a few red candles also issued a Yu ... ... ecstatic villagers to celebrate the auspicious arrival of their new clothes to wear for a new hat, say hello to friends and relatives at home Daoxi. This matter quickly spread around the village, people are aware of the expulsion of "years" beast approach. Since then the annual New Year's Eve, families paste red couplets, set off firecrackers; household candles Tongming, Shou-more-year-old question. Early in the morning early to go pro-string Daoxi Friends say hello. This custom of the more mass the more widely and became the most solemn of Chinese folk traditional festivals.

Answer 3

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The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar ‘s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune .
The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”. People enjoy the Spring Festival ,during this time they can have a good rest .

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My Spring Festival was great. Before the Chinese New Year, my families were all going to my grandparents’. Many of my relatives there were playing all the night. At night, we set off firecrackers. The voice was very loud, cars parked far from us were sounding. Maybe they feared the voice too.
The first day of the Chinese New Year, we all got up early. We said “Happy New Year!” or “Good luck this year!” to each other and get money from them. We visited our relatives all day. That made me feel very tired but very happy because I also can get money.
The second day of the New Year, I slept during the morning. In the afternoon, I went to the beautiful countryside, and visited the Yi River, it is very wide, about 1 kilometer.
Next day, we left my grandparents’ home for Qingdao. The expressway had been frozen. It was terrible! So we could only run by at a slow speed. This festival was great, I love Spring Festival!本回答被提问者采纳

Answer 4

我在美国上大三，所以请你相信我的写作能力。
首先我保证这是现写的，其次我尽量写的像中学作文一些。
In
the
New
Year
Eve
of
2008,
my
family
went
to
my
granparents'
home
to
have
a
big
dinner.
We
had
very
tasty
dumplins,
which
are
made
by
me
and
grandmother.
After
the
dinner,
all
of
my
family
got
together
in
front
of
TV
to
watch
the
"New
Year
celebration"
that
is
sponsered
by
CCTV.
At
12am
in
the
first
day
of
2009,
we
went
out
to
have
fun
with
some
fireworks.
How
wonderful
is
this
experience
of
spring
festival!