2021年春节的来历与习俗的英语介绍

1、春节的来历与习俗的英语介绍 除夕之夜，各家通宵不眠，俗称“鏖岁”。鸡鸣之时，开始焚香、燃灯、摆供品、放花炮、接神、祀祖，然后合家互相拜年。接下来为你带来新春的来历与习俗的英语介绍，希望对你有帮助。 Spring Festival is the most important holiday for Chinese people. Excitement and happiness are palpable this time of the year， and they reach the peak on lunar new years eve. 新春对于中国人来说是最重要的。在每年的新春都让人兴高

2、采烈，尤其是大年三十那晚，更是达到了 _。 Though the 15-day period， which starts with the first day of the lunar new year and ends on the 15th day （known as Lantern Festival）， is relatively long， it is the busiest time of the year for Chinese people. The arrangements they have to _ke for family reunions， buying ne _ssi

3、ties and preparing food keeps them busy throughout the holiday. Many of them travel back home and meet friends over dinner and drinks. The _lebrations include decorating the house and setting off fireworks. 新春历时15天，也就从大年初一开始，到元月十五元宵节结束。这段比较长的时间是中国人最忙的时候。他们为家庭聚会作安排，采购年货，准备丰盛的食物，以至于整个新春假期都忙忙碌碌的。许多人在春季

4、期间都要回老家过年，跟朋友碰碰头，聚个餐。庆祝新春也包括大扫除和放烟火。 But we are talking about a tradition that seems to be fading. 但是我们现在要谈的是越来越淡的年味。 Spring Festival， as it is _lebrated today， has undergone _ny changes， thanks to the countrys economic development and globalization. 现在的新春已经因为我国经济的发展和全球化的影响而改变了很多。 Yet no Spring Fest

5、ival is plete without food. People could not get good food whenever they desired in earlier times， something that does not apply to society today. More often than not， people fa _d the risk of famine. The best time for people to _lebrate was when food was available in plenty， and that was possible i

6、n spring， or the beginning of the lunar new year. That was the _in reason why Spring Festival acquired such great importan _ among Chinese people. 但是没有哪个新春是完全离得开“吃”的。从前，不论人们提前多久想要买年货，总是不能如愿，而现在早已今非昔比。过去常常还要闹饥荒。人们最好的庆祝时间就是他们能得到食物丰盛的时候，也就是春天或是元月初的那段时间。那也是 _新春对于中国人如此重要的主要原因。 But three decades of econom

7、ic growth has ensured that people in China， ex _pt for those who are still poor， can enjoy a good meal whenever they want. Such has been the change in peoples fortune that some have to be treated for obesity and other health problems associated with ex _ssive eating. 但是 _来的经济发展已经让中国人，除了那些仍然穷苦的人以外，随时

8、都能享受美食。这得益于人民财富的增长，但是后者也导致一些人吃得太多而受到肥胖威胁和健康问题。 In the past， _lebrations were limited to events like song-and-dan _ duets in North China， dragon/lion dan _s in South China and fireworks， which required the joint efforts of the entire munity. But economic development and urbanization seems to have wea

9、kened the social links among people. Many， especially those living in cities， are not interested in _lebrating the festival with people they hardly know. 在过去，庆祝新春还只停留在北方的二人转和南方的舞龙舞狮等形式。那些庆祝活动往往需要许多人合力才能办得起来。但是经济的发展和国际化程度的提升似乎已经将这种社会 _弱化了。许多人，特别是城市居民，不太愿意与不相识的人一起共度新春。 Many customs associated with Spr

10、ing Festival have changed， too. In the past， people used to visit relatives and friends with gifts and lots of good wishes. Today， _ny people， especially the youth， use their _ll phones or the Inter to send their good wishes and even gifts to their relatives and friends. Some _y say this a sign that

11、 people have bee less caring about their near and dear ones， but we should see this development as a time- and energy-saving exercise granted by the infor _tion age. 与新春相关的许多习俗也被改变了。在过去，人们常常会带着礼物走亲访友，互道祝福。今天许多人，特别是年轻人，用 _或是网络向亲朋好友发去“礼物”和祝福。有些人或许会说，这说明人们已经没有那么关心至爱亲朋了，但是我们应该把这种变化看作信息化时代省钱省力的好办法。 In re

12、 _nt times， _ny people have started praying for a career promotion or more money instead of invoking God or the Buddha for a healthy and long life and the welfare of their family. But the number of such people is decreasing now， which shows that people are being more reasonable. 最近几年，许多人开始祈祷事业高升，财源滚

13、滚，而不是求神拜佛，他们身体健康，长命百岁，家庭美满。但是这样的人数现在正在减少，说明人们开始变得更加理性。 新春习俗英文简介Customs of the Spring Festival The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. Through the evolvement of thousands of years， a series of customs are spreading far and wide. “Dust”

14、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 to wele a new life. In a word， just before

15、 the Spring Festival es， every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new. “The Spring Couplet”， also called couplet” and a pair of antithetical phrases”， is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is posed of two antithetical sente

16、n _s on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription， usually an auspicious phrase， above the gate. The senten _ pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival， every ho

17、usehold 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 for them， while nowadays， it is mon for people to buy the printed spring cou

18、plet in the _rket. Paper-cuts， usually with auspicious patterns， give a happy and prosperous atmosphere 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 mon for Chinese to paste the character fu（福）”， big

19、 and s _ll， 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 blessing has arrived because inverted” is a homonym for arrive” in Chinese. Now _ny kinds of paper-cuts and fu（福）” can be seen i

20、n the _rket 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 China there lived a monster named Year， who was very ferocious. Year always went out from its burrow on New Years Eve to devou

21、r 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， chatting and emboldening each other. Gradually the habit of staying up late on New Years Eve is formed. Thus in China， _lebra

22、ting 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. The custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With t

23、he 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 Gods of Blessing， Salary and Longevity， An Abundant Harvest of Crops， Thriving Domestic Ani _ls and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Yea

24、r Print are Tohuwu of Suzhou， Yngliuqing of Tian _， Wuqing of Hebei and Weifang of Shangdong. Now the tradition of pasting New Year paintings is still kept in rural China， while it is seldom followed in cities. On New Years Eve， the whole family will sit together to _ke jiaozi and _lebrate the Spring Festival. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from ancient Ch