春节风俗英文

1、Spring Festival,folk-custom,Part A Name,名称,What do we usually call,春节,Chinese New Year,Lunar New Year,the Spring Festival,Warm-up,过年,春联,年画,灯笼,烟花,爆竹,拜年,准备工作,Vocabulary,相关词汇,1.celebrate the spring festival,2.spring festival couplets,3.new year paintings,4.lantern,5.fireworks,6.firecrackers,7.pay new y

2、ear,s call,give new year,s greetings,大扫除,团圆饭,年夜饭,守岁,去晦气,祭祖宗,压岁钱,舞狮,杂耍,1.spring cleaning,2.family,reunion,dinner,3.the dinner on new year,s eve,4.staying-up,5. get rid of the,ill-fortune,6.offer sacrifices to one,s,ancestors,7.pocket money; red envelope,8.lion dance,9.variety show,vaudeville,Blessing

3、s,金玉满堂,生意兴隆,岁岁平安,恭喜发财,和气生财,心想事成,吉祥如意,Treasures Fill The Home,Business Flourishes,Peace All Year Round,Wishing You Prosperity,Harmony Brings Wealth,May All Your Wishes Come True,Everything,Goes well,国泰平安,The Country Flourishes And People,Live In Peace,招财进宝,Money And Treasures Will He,Plentiful,一帆风顺,W

4、ishing You Every Success,步步高升,Promoting To A Higher Position,出入平安,Safe Trip Wherever You Go,祝,你新的一年快乐幸福,Wish you happiness,and prosperity in the coming year,事业成功，家庭美满,Wish you success in your,career and happiness of your family,Part B(1) Group Celebrations,集体庆祝活动,How does group usually celebrate it

5、,dancing, singing, playing, lion dance,variety shows,vaudeville,stilt-walking,踩高跷,Part B (2) Family Celebrations,家庭庆祝活动,How does family celebrate the Spring Festival ,getting together, family reunion, feasts,watching CCTV New Year,s show,playing cards/majiang ,giving gifts to,making New Year,s visit

6、s,sending New Year,s greetings,giving pocket money to,worshipping ancestors and deceased,已去世的,family,members,putting up New Year couplets,对联,Part B (3) Children Celebrations,getting red envelope/ pocket money / gifts,from parents / relatives,setting off fireworks/ firecrackers,playing games,Part C F

7、ood,What do we usually eat during the,Spring Festival ,various dishes: chicken ; fish; pork,dumplings,steamed bread,niangao,Some kinds of dumplings,Dumplings are cooked balls of dough. They,are based on flour, and may include meat, fish,or,sweets. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming,frying, or b

8、aking,Dumplings may be sweet, spicy or savoury,They may be eaten alone, in soup, with gravy, or in,manyother presentations,Chinese dumplings are not only delicious,but also easy to make,First, make the filling,首先做馅,Second, make the dough,其次，做,Finally ,make the dumplings,最后,包饺子,Once the dumplings are

9、 finished ,boil,them in boiling water until they are,cooked,包完饺子放在沸水里煮,The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival,and also the most important one of the whole year,Through the development of thousands of years,a series of customs are still the same as before,Sweeping the Dust,扫尘,Dust,is h

10、omophonic,同音,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 to,welcome a new life,Pasting/putting up Sprin

11、g Couplets,贴春联,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,繁荣的,atmosphere of the Festival,Pasting Paper-cuts and,Up-sided Fu,贴窗花和“福,Paper-cuts, usually with lucky patterns, give a happy,and prosperous atm

12、osphere of the Festival and express,the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life,In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for,Chinese to paste the character,fu,福,big or small, on,walls or doors,Fu,shows people,s yearning,向往,toward a,good life. Some people even,i

13、nvert,倒置,the character,fu,to,mean that blessing has arrived because,inverted,倒转的,is a,homonym,同音,for,arrive,in Chinese,Staying Up Late on New Years Eve,守岁,The tradition of staying up late to see New Year is originated,from an interesting folk tale. In ancient China there lived a,monster named Year,

14、who was very terrible. Year always went out,from its burrow,洞穴,on New Year,s Eve to eat people,Therefore, on every New Year,s Eve, every household would,have supper together. After dinner, no one dared go to sleep and,all the family members would sit together, chatting and,emboldening,壮胆,each other.

15、 Gradually the habit of staying up,late on New Year,s Eve is formed. Thus in China,celebrating,the Spring Festival,is also called,passing over the year (guo,nian,看春节联欢晚会,The CCTV New Years Gala,The New Year,s Gala is a variety show held by,China Central Television (CCTV) since 1983. For,every year a

16、t 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 and creates many popular words. For,over twenty years, its value has gone far beyond a,variety show. It is essential entertainment for the,Chinese both at home and abro

17、ad. Many Chinese would,like to watch the gala while having the dinner on New,Year,s Eve,Burning Firecrackers,放鞭炮,The firecracker is a unique,特有的,product in China,In ancient China, the sound of burning bamboo,tubes was used to,scare away,wild animals and,evil spirits. With the invention of the gunpow

18、der,firecracker,is also called,鞭炮,binpo,and,used to create a joyful atmosphere. The first thing,every Chinese household does is to burn,firecrackers and fireworks, which means,saying,farewell/goodby to,the old year and,usher,迎接,in,the new,New Years Visit and Gift Money,拜年和压岁钱,On the first day of the

19、 Chinese lunar year,everybody puts on their best clothes and pays formal,calls on their relatives and friends, wishing them all the,luck in the coming year. Juniors will greet seniors,wishing them health and longevity,长寿, while seniors,will give juniors some gift money as a wish for their,safety in the coming year. When friends meet, they will,wish each other happiness and prosperity with a big,smile,With the development of the new techno