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中国习俗英语作文【篇一：英语作文dining customs in china中国饮食习俗】 dining customs in china as a country that pays great attention to courtesy, our cuisine culture is deep rooted in chinas history. before starting to eat dinner, the host may offer some words of greeting. guests should not start to eat until the host says, please enjoy yourself or something like that. seating arrangement is also one of the most important parts of chinese dining etiquette. chinese use chopsticks instead of forks and knives. china is the hometown of chopsticks. a pair of chopsticks, though they look simple, can nip, pick, rip and stir food. food play a crucial role in chinese life. at an everyday home meal, we often eat a bowl of steamed rice, or a large bowl of noodles, or several pieces of steamed bread as staple food, accompanied by several meat or vegetables dishes, and the dishes are place in the middle of the dinner table to be shared by all. a soup may also be served as one of the dishes. everyday meals are usually cooked by chinese themselves.【篇二：春节习俗英语作文10篇】 春节习俗英语作文10篇- 用英语介绍春节习俗 更新时间：2010-2-8 特别提示：本站新增在线翻译功能，双击英语单词可以显示汉语意思，马上试试？！ 24篇美文串记四级词汇 30小时速听速记四级词汇 38小时速听速记雅思词汇 21篇美文串记六级词汇 15小时速听速记六级词汇 48小时速记托福4800词汇 38篇美文串记考研词汇 38小时速记考研英语词汇 12小时速记日语1200词汇 春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗： chinese new year is the longest and most important festivity in the 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, 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 (tsagaan sar), vietnamese (t?t), 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. 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 concerning 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. windows and doors will be decoratedwith 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 night 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 everyone. 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 2009 chinese year 4707, 4706, or 4646. 春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：春节正月习俗的英文介绍 春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗：preceding days 春节前 this article does not cite any references or sources. please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (january 2010) 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 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 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 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 is done so that the kitchen god can report to the jade emperor of the family households transgressions and gooddeeds. 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 dinner 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 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 increasingly 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 year. beginning in the 1980s, the cctv new years gala was broadcast four hours before the start of the new year. 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 consumption 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 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-grandparents. 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 fireworks 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 kong, 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 the 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 birthfamilies frequently. on the second day, the chinese pray to their ancestors as well as to all the gods. they are extra kind to dogs 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 prosperity 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. 2) families who had an immediate kin deceased in the past 3 years will not go house-visiting as 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 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 rei 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 make 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, everybodyshould 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 (天宮) in the taoist pantheon. the ninth day is traditionally 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 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：thirteenth 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 general 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 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 this day often marks the end of the chinese new year festivities. (点击数：0 )【篇三：中国传统风俗习惯介绍英语】 元宵节the festival of lanterns takes place at the end of the chinese new year celebration, on the fifteenth day of the first moon. lanterns have been part of chinese life for centuries so its not surprising to see a festival of lanterns. the special food for the lantern festival is yuen sin or tong yuen. these are round dumplings made with sticky rice flour. they can be filled and served as a sweet snack or made plain and cooked in a soup with vegetables, meat and dried shrimp. the round shape of the dumpling is a symbol of wholeness, completeness and unity. the lantern festival is an occasion for families to get together and for everyone-young, old, rich and poor to have fun. 翻译如下： 年底举行的中国新年庆祝活动,在正月15月的这一天.灯笼一直是几个世纪以来中国人的节日,所以没什么吃惊. 人们通常灯笼挂在花园外面的房子、船上.这些指示标志灯的客人,是祖先的新年庆祝活动.15点后两天大餐,这些灯照亮了回神后的世界. 丝绸、造纸、塑料灯笼形状和大小各不相同,通常多彩. 有蝴蝶形的、鸟、花、船.其他都像龙、水果和动物的象征,一年.最受欢迎的是一种花灯 赛马 一、人物、动物,轮流在各地纵轴的花灯. 特别是粮食的元宵圆善或汤圆.这些都是用与糯米粉圆、甜零食熟了汤,蔬菜、肉、虾米来填补。圆圆的形状,是象征团圆的整体性、完整性和团结. 元宵是和家人团聚的机会,使每一个人-青年人、老年人,不论贫富,都好好享受这个节日。 另有一篇元宵节介绍： the lantern festival the lantern festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in february or march in the gregorian calendar. as early as the western han dynasty (206 bc-ad 25), it had become a festival with great significance. this days important activity is watching lanterns. throughout the han dynasty (206 bc-ad 220), buddhism flourished in china. one emperor heard that buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of buddhas body, and light lanterns to worship buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to buddha on this day. later, the buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people and its influence expanded from the central plains to the whole of china. guessing lantern riddlesis an essential part of the festival. lantern owners write riddles on apiece of paper and post them on the lanterns. if visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. if they are right, they will get a little gift. the activity emerged during peoples enjoyment of lanterns in the song dynasty (960-1279). as riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all social strata people will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the yuanxiao festival.yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. it is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. it tastes sweet and delicious. whats more, tangyuan in chinese has a similar pronunciation with tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. so people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family. in the daytime of the festival, performances such as a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged. on the night, except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a beautiful scene. most families spare some fireworks from the spring festival and let them off in the lantern festival. some local governments will even organize a fireworks party. on the night when the first full moon enters the new year, people become really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky. 继续给大家一篇元宵佳节英语作文范文： the festival of lanterns takes place at the end of the chinese new year celebration, on the fifteenth day of the first moon. lanterns have been part of chinese life for centuries so its not surprising to see a festival of lanterns. people usually hang lanterns in the gardens, outside the houses, and on the boats. these lanterns are signposts to guide guests and spirits of ancestors to the lunar celebration. after a sumptuous fifteen-day feast, these lanterns light the way for the spirits back to the world beyond. silk, paper and plastic lanterns vary in shape and size and are usually multi-colored. some are in the shapes of butterflies, birds, flowers, and boats. other are shaped like dragon, fruit and animal symbols of that year. the most popular type of lantern is the horse-racing one, in which figures or animals rotate around the vertical axis of the lantern. the special food for the lantern festival is yuen sin or tong yuen. these are round dumplings made with sticky rice flour. they can be filled and served as a sweet snack or made plain and cooked in a soup with vegetables, meat and dried shrimp. the round shape of the dumpling is a symbol of wholeness, completeness and unity. the lantern festival is an occasion for families to get together and for everyone-young, old, rich and poor to have fun. 春节the spring festival is very important to chinese people. in the past，people could not often have meat，rice or other delicious food. they could only eat these during the spring festival. so every year they hoped that the spring festival would come soon. now， although peoples life is much better，and we can eat the delicious foods everyday. people still like the festival. because most people can have a long holiday，and we are free to go on a trip or visit our friends or have parties with our family. in the evenings，wecan have a big meal in the restaurant or stay at home with family and watch the tv programmes. i like the spring festival very much. how wonderful the spring festival is！ the chinese spring festival comes on the first day of the chinese lunar year, which is usually in february. there is a name for each year, such as the dog, the monkey, the tiger or one of the twelve animals, and this year is the year of the pig. before the new years day, the chinese people usually give their houses a good cleaning and on the last evening of the old year, all the members of a f