英语短文:新年风俗春节习俗 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.
扫尘 Sweeping the Dust
“Dust” 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 welcome a new life. In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new.
贴春联 Pasting Spring Couplets
“The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical phrases”, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase, above the gate. The sentence 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 household 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 common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.
【文明过春节礼仪风俗活动 春节风俗礼仪英语演讲】贴窗花和“福”字 Pasting Paper-cuts and “Up-sided Fu”
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 common for Chinese to paste the character “fu(福)”, big and small, on walls, doors and doorposts around the houses. “Fu(福)” shows people’s 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 many kinds of paper-cuts and “fu(福)” can be seen in the market before the Festival.
守岁 Staying Up Late on New Year's 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 Year’s Eve to devour 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 each other. 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)”. However, now there are less and less people in cities who will stay up late to see New Year in.
贴年画 Pasting New Year Prints
The custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With the 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 Animals and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Year Print are Tɑohuɑwu of Suzhou, Yɑngliuqing of Tianjin, Wuqiɑng 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.
吃饺子 Having Jiaozi
On New Year’s Eve, the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi and celebrate the Spring Festival. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. The tradition of having jiaozi is very important during the Spring Festival. You cannot have a complete Spring Festival without having jiaozi. (See page 82 for more information about “jiaozi”)
看春节联欢晚会 The CCTV New Year's Gala
The New Year’s Gala is a variety show held by China Central Television (CCTV) since 1983. For every year since then at 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, creates many popular words and produces lots of TV phenomena meriting attention. For over twenty years, its value has gone far beyond a variety show. It is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. Many Chinese would like to watch the gala while having the dinner on New Year’s Eve.
放鞭炮 Setting off Firecrackers
The firecracker is a unique 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 gunpowder, “firecracker” is also called “鞭炮biānpào” (“炮” in Chinese means gun) and used to foster a joyful atmosphere. The first thing every Chinese household does is to set off firecrackers and fireworks, which are meant to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new. In the past few years, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities including Beijing due to fire and personal casualty caused by burning firecrackers. However, some Chinese thought that a Spring Festival without firecrackers was not lively enough and they burned firecrackers by stealth. So in recent years, the ban was canceled again. This shows that burning firecrackers is a very important activity during the Spring Festival.
拜年和压岁钱 New Year's Visit and Gift Money
On the first day of the Chinese lunar year, everybody puts on their best clothes and pays ceremonial calls on their relatives and friends, wishing them all the luck in the coming year. Juniors will greet seniors, wishing them health and longevity, 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 technology, there is a change on the way of giving New Years greetings. In recent year, it is common to send New Years greetings by such modern means of communication as telephones, emails and text messages.
逛庙会 Temple Fair
Temple fair, usually held outside temples, is a kind of folk custom in China. During the Spring Festival, temple fair is one of the most important activities, in which there are such performances as acrobatics and Wushu, numerous kinds of local snacks and many kinds of things for everyday life. In recent years, the temple fair has become a place for people to appreciate the traditional art and experience the traditional life.
用英语介绍一下除夕夜的文化习俗的演讲稿Today is New Year's Eve morning, firecrackers sounding snap snap away. As
long as you take a look at the outside, red firecrackers everywhere, come
together to form a Red Sea. The family have their own homes going up in the
beautiful, it seems like in the match. My family is no exception, sweeping,
glass, cabinets, such as rubbing. Prepare the arrival of the New Year.
Afternoon, we posted in accordance with the custom of the Chinese New Year
couplets, father and a good paste, and then said to me: "I paste you posted, I
looked at the high level you say 'rich', said that if the lower 'rising' good
you ", I asked my father why? Dad said: "The plan is a lucky," "Oh, I
understand," We posted on the Alliance are: evil Hongfu family happy is: wang
gas people to come into everything.
End paste New Year, we began dumplings. Good luck to Tim, we are still a
dumpling in a bag of coins. Dinner, my folder, a Dumpling, one to eat, "cough,"
the voice of a coin吃出for my whole family applauded, and say that I am lucky this
year. After dumplings, we saw the Chinese New Year Festival, my favorite
essay
And "yellow soybeans." Liu Qian first a one-dollar coins into the cup, then
into the host egg rings. "Bean yellow" in a person to "take off clouds" that
they "Li Xiangyun" really funny. No wonder people say: "Spring Festival Evening
Show" is a cultural feast.
Against the sound of the bell, "speakers" sound guns up. People poured out
of their homes. Pat the sound of firecrackers greeted the arrival of Chinese New
Year.
今天是除夕,上午,鞭炮声劈啪劈啪的响个不停 。只要你向外面看一看,到处都是红红的鞭炮,汇成了一条红海 。各家人都把自己家打扮的漂漂亮亮的,好像在比美似的 。我家也不例外,扫地、擦玻璃、擦柜子等 。准备新年的到来 。
下午,我们就按过年的习俗贴春联,爸爸和好浆糊,然后对我说:“我贴你看着高低我贴高了你就说‘发财’,如果低了就说‘高升’好吗”,我问爸爸为什么呢?爸爸说:“就是图个吉祥”,“噢我懂了”我们贴的上联是:家有宏福千般喜,下联是:人来
旺气万事成 。
贴完春联,我们就开始包饺子 。为了添吉祥,我们还在一个饺子里包了一个硬币 。吃晚饭时,我夹了一个饺子,一吃
“咯”的一声,吃出一个硬币全家人都为我鼓掌,说我今年有福气 。吃完饺子,我们又看了春节联欢晚会,我最喜欢刘谦的魔术
和“黄豆黄” 。刘谦先把一个一元硬币放进了杯子里,又把主持人的戒指放进了鸡蛋里 。“黄豆黄”中一个人把“祥云腾飞”说成了“李祥云”真搞笑 。怪不得人们都说:“春晚”是一道文化大餐 。
零点 的钟声响了, “叭”炮声响起来了 。人们涌出家门 。劈劈啪啪的鞭炮声迎接新春的到来 。
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