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1、-作者xxxx-日期xxxx春节习俗英语作文10篇【精品文档】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 or Spring Festival is the most important

2、of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the Lunar New Year by English speakers. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhng yu) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year

3、s Eve is known as ch x. It literally means Year-pass Eve.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

4、 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

5、 Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans (Seollal), Tibetans and Bhutanese (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), Vietnamese (Tt), and formerly the Japanese before 1873 (Oshogatsu). Outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Chinese New Year is also celebrated in coun

6、tries 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 P

7、ost, 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 traditio

8、n 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 decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity”. On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper

9、 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

10、 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

11、 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The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known as new-year visits (Chinese: 拜年; pinyin: bi

12、 nin). New clothes are usually worn to signify a new year. The colour red is liberally used in all decorations. Red packets are given to juniors and children by the married and elders. See Symbolism below for more explanation.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 refer

13、ences 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

14、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 canno

15、t 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 Budd

16、hism 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

17、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 good deeds. Families often offer sweet foods (such as candy) in ord

18、er 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

19、 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 dinn

20、er 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 fir

21、st 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 welcomi

22、ng 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 D

23、ay, 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 tim

24、e 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

25、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

26、 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 be

27、en 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 the

28、ir birth families 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 t

29、o 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 inapprop

30、riate days to visit relatives and friends due to the following schools of thought. People may subscribe to one or both thoughts.1) It is known as ch ku (赤口), meaning that it is easy to get into arguments. It is suggested that the cause could be the fried food and visiting during the first two days o

31、f the New Year celebration.citation needed2) 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

32、 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In northern China, people eat jio zi (simplified Chinese: 饺子; traditional Chinese: 餃子), or dumplings on the morning of Po Wu (破五). This is also the birthday of the Chinese god of wealth. In Taiwan, businesses

33、 traditionally re-open on this day, accompanied by firecrackers.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 renri 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 prim

34、arily 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 Deva

35、nam 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, everybody should 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

36、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 tha

37、nks 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 pur