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春节的起源英文介绍
春节又称元日、元旦、无正、元辰、元朔、岁旦、岁首、岁朝、新正、首祚、三元或年、过年，为夏历新年的第一天。以下是我整理的春节的起源英文介绍，欢迎阅读！
Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.
The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one.
Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened.
On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko.
The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves.
After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year. This is called "Seeing the New Year in".
Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.
Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils.
Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.
The Chinese character "fu" (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. The character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chinese the "reversed fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as "fudaole." What's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall.
People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in.
Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.
Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher, one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely.
Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. People thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. However, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities once the government took security, noise and pollution factors into consideration. As a replacement, some buy tapes with firecracker sounds to listen to, some break little balloons to get the sound too, while others buy firecracker handicrafts to hang in the living room.
The lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished.
China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.
扩展阅读：春节习俗
扫尘
“腊月二十四，掸尘扫房子” ，据《吕氏春秋》记载，我国在尧舜时代就有春节扫尘的风俗。按民间的说法：因“尘”与“陈”谐音，新春扫尘有“除陈布新”的涵义，其用意是要把一切穷运、晦气统统扫出门。这一习俗寄托着人们破旧立新的愿望和辞旧迎新的祈求。 每逢春节来临，家家户户都要打扫环境，清洗各种器具，拆洗被褥窗帘，洒扫六闾庭院，掸拂尘垢蛛网，疏浚明渠暗沟。到处洋溢着欢欢喜喜搞卫生、干干净净迎新春的欢乐气氛。
贴春联
春联也叫门对、春贴、对联、对子、桃符等，它以工整、对偶、简洁、精巧的文字描绘时代背景，抒发美好愿望，是我国特有的文学形式。每逢春节，无论城市还是农村，家家户户都要精选一幅大红春联贴于门上，为节日增加喜庆气氛。这一习俗起于宋代，在明代开始盛行，到了清代，春联的思想性和艺术性都有了很大的提高，梁章矩编写的春联专著《槛联丛话》对楹联的起源及各类作品的特色都作了论述。
春联的种类比较多，依其使用场所，可分为门心、框对、横披、春条、斗方等。“门心”贴于门板上端中心部位；“框对”贴于左右两个门框上；“横披”贴于门媚的横木上；“春条”根据不同的内容，贴于相应的地方；“斗斤”也叫“门叶”，为正方菱形，多贴在家俱、影壁中。
贴窗花和倒贴“福”字
在民间人们还喜欢在窗户上贴上各种剪纸——窗花，窗花不仅烘托了喜庆的节日气氛，也集装饰性、欣赏性和实用性于一体。剪纸在我国是一种很普及的民间艺术，千百年来深受人们的喜爱，因它大多是贴在窗户上的，所以也被称其为“窗花”。窗花以其特有的概括和夸张手法将吉事祥物、美好愿望表现得淋漓尽致，将节日装点得红火富丽。
在贴春联的同时，一些人家要在屋门上、墙壁上、门楣上贴上大大小小的“福”字。春节贴“福”字，是我国民间由来已久的.风俗。“福”字指福气、福运，寄托了人们对幸福生活的向往，对美好未来的祝愿，为了更充分地体现这种向往和祝愿，有的人干脆将“福”字倒过来贴，表示“幸福已到”“福气已到”。民间还有将“福”字精描细做成各种图案的，图案有寿星、寿桃、鲤鱼跳龙门、五谷丰登、龙凤呈祥等。
年画
春节挂贴年画在城乡也很普遍，浓黑重彩的年画给千家万户平添了许多兴旺欢乐的喜庆气氛。年画是我国的一种古老的民间艺术，反映了人民朴素的风俗和信仰，寄托着他们对未来的希望，年画，也和春联一样，起源于“门神”。 随着木板印刷术的兴起，年画的内容已不仅限于门神之类单调的主题，变得丰富多彩，在一些年画作坊中产生了《福禄寿三星图》、《天官赐福》、《五谷丰登》、《六畜兴旺》、《迎春接福》等精典的彩色年画、以满足人们喜庆祈年的美好愿望。 我国出现了年画三个重要产地：苏州桃花坞，天津杨柳青和山东潍坊；形成了中国年画的三大流派，各具特色。
我国现今我国收藏最早的年画是南宋《随朝窈窕呈倾国之芳容》的木刻年画，画的是王昭君、赵飞燕、班姬和绿珠四位古代美人。民间流传最广的是一幅《老鼠娶亲》的年画，描绘了老鼠依照人间的风俗迎娶新娘的有趣场面。民国初年，上海郑曼陀将月历和年画二者结合起来。这是年画的一种新形式。这种合二而一的年画，以后发展成挂历，至今风靡全国。
守岁
除夕守岁是最重要的年俗活动之一，守岁之俗由来已久，最早记载见于西晋周处的《风土志》：除夕之夜，各相与赠送，称为“馈岁”；酒食相邀，称为“别岁”；长幼聚饮，祝颂完备，称为“分岁”；大家终夜不眠，以待天明，称曰“守岁”。
“一夜连双岁，五更分二天”，除夕之夜，全家团聚在一起，吃过年夜饭，点起蜡烛或油灯，围坐炉旁闲聊，等着辞旧迎新的时刻，通宵守夜，象征着把一切邪瘟病疫照跑驱走，期待着新的一年吉祥如意。这种习俗后来逐渐盛行，到唐朝初期，唐太宗李世民写有“守岁”诗：“寒辞去冬雪，暖带入春风”，直到今天，人们还习惯在除夕之夜守岁迎新。
古时守岁有两种含义：年长者守岁为“辞旧岁”，有珍爱光阴的意思；年轻人守岁，是为延长父母寿命。自汉代以来，新旧年交替的时刻一般为夜半时分。
爆竹
中国民间有“开门爆竹”一说。即在新的一年到来之际，家家户户开门的第一件事就是燃放爆竹，以哔哔叭叭的爆竹声除旧迎新。爆竹是中国特产，亦称“爆仗”、“炮仗”、“鞭炮”。其起源很早，至今已有两千多年的历史。放爆竹可以创造出喜庆热闹的气氛，是节日的一种娱乐活动，可以给人们带来欢愉和吉利，随着时间的推移，爆竹的应用越来越广泛，品种花色也日见繁多，每逢重大节日及喜事庆典，及婚嫁、建房、开业等，都要燃放爆竹以示庆贺，图个吉利。现在，湖南浏阳，广东佛山和东尧，江西的宜春和萍乡、浙江温州等地区是我国著名的花炮之乡，生产的爆竹花色多，品质高，不仅畅销全国，而且还远销世界。
拜年
新年的初一，人们都早早起来，穿上最漂亮的衣服，打扮得整整齐齐，出门去走亲访友，相互拜年，恭祝来年大吉大利。拜年的方式多种多样，有的是同族长带领若干人挨家挨户地拜年；有的是同事相邀几个人去拜年；也有大家聚在一起相互祝贺，称为“团拜”。由于登门拜年费时费力，后来一些上层人物和士大夫便使用各贴相互投贺，由此发展出来后来的“贺年片”。
春节拜年时，晚辈要先给长辈拜年，祝长辈人长寿安康，长辈可将事先准备好的压岁钱分给晚辈，据说压岁钱可以压住邪祟，因为“岁”与“祟”谐音，晚辈得到压岁钱就可以平平安安度过一岁，压岁钱有两种，一种是以彩绳穿线编作龙形，置于床脚，此记载见于《燕京岁时记》；另一种是最常见的，即由家长用红纸包裹分给孩子的钱，压岁钱可在晚辈拜年后当众赏给，亦可在除夕夜孩子睡着时，由家长偷偷地放在孩子的枕头底下。现在长辈为晚辈分送压岁钱的习俗仍然盛行。
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Spring Festival（春节） In western countries the most important holiday is Christmas, but in China it is the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, people have a lot of interesting things（有趣的事情） to do and nice food （食物）to eat.As China is a big country ,people in different places celebrate （庆祝）this holiday in different ways .let me talk about the Spring Festival . Every year we Chinese people often have family parties on a special （特殊的）day. It is called the Spring Festival. Spring Festival usually comes in February（二月）. When I was a little boy, I knew Spring Festival was very important for us. This is the time of eating drinking and parties. On Spring Festival Eve（前夕）, there are special television programs（特殊的电视节目） for young men， women，children and old people. Every child always wears his best clothes. People like to visit each other on Spring Festival morning with their presents（礼物） by bus， car or bike. During the Spring Festival friends get together and go from house to house（串门咔灼荩? Each child can play freely（自由地玩） with their friends. We talk and laugh happily(欢声笑语) all the time. We expect（期待） to have our Spring Festival.
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春节背景知识(英文介绍)☆The oldest and most important festival in China is the Spring Festival, more commonly known in the West as Chinese New Year. Like all Chinese festivals, the date of the new year is determined by the lunar/solar calendar rather than the Western (Gregorian) calendar, so the date of the holiday varies from late January to mid February.The Spring festival celebrates the earth coming back to life, and the start of ploughing and sowing. In the past, feudal rulers of dynasties placed great importance on this occasion, and ceremonies to usher in the season were performed.Preparations for the New Year festival start during the last few days of the last moon. Houses are thoroughly cleaned, debts repaid, hair cut and new clothes bought. Doors are decorated with vertical scrolls of characters on red paper whose texts seek good luck and praise nature, this practice stemming from the hanging of peach-wood charms to keep away ghosts and evil spirits. In many homes incense is burned, and also in the temples as a mark of respect to ancestors.On New Year’s Eve houses are brightly lit and a large family dinner is served. In the south of China sticky-sweet glutinous rice pudding called nian gao is served, while in the north the steamed dumpling jiaozi is popular. Most celebrating the festival stay up till midnight, when fireworks are lit, to drive away evil spirits. New Years day is often spent visiting neighbours, family and friends.The public holiday for New Year lasts 3 days in China, but the festival traditionally lasts till the 15th day of the lunar month and ends with the ‘Lantern Festival’. Here, houses are decorated with colourful lanterns, and yuanxioa, a sweet or savoury fried or boiled dumpling made of glutinous rice flour is eaten.
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春节起源于殷商时期年末的大型祭祀活动。是当时中国最为热闹，也是最盛大的一个古代传统节日，也有的说法是春节在尧舜时期就有类似的活动，只是没有形成规模。
The Spring Festival originated from the large sacrifice activities at the end of the shang dynasty. It was the most lively and the grandest traditional festival in ancient China at that time. Some people say that the Spring Festival had similar activities in the period of yao and shun, but it did not form a scale.
魏晋时期有了爆竹，当然这个跟现代的鞭炮完全是两回事。只是一种燃烧竹子发出噼啪声响的祝贺形式。当然关于燃烧爆竹也有一个神话故事。
In the wei and jin dynasties, there were firecrackers, which were totally different from modern firecrackers. It's just a crackling sound of burning bamboo. Of course there is a myth about burning firecrackers.
很久很久以前,在大海中,生活着一种十分可怕的怪兽,叫年。年在每年的除夕夜,都会出来,吃人或家禽家畜,弄得民不聊生。人们都十分害怕他。除夕夜的前一天,一位老乞丐来到了一位老太太家,向老太太乞讨。
Long, long ago, in the sea, there lived a very terrible monster, called nian. Every year on New Year's eve, people would come out to eat people or poultry and livestock, leaving people in dire need. People were terrified of him. The day before New Year's eve, an old beggar came to an old lady's house and asked her for money.
老太太好心的给了他一碗饭,一边悲伤地说：“唉!明天年就要来了,我们一定活不成了!”老乞丐摇了摇头,看着老太太的红色衣服说：“年害怕红色和爆竹声,明天你穿上红衣,在家门口贴上红色春联,年一来,就放鞭炮,可避免灾祸。”
The old lady kindly gave him a bowl of rice and said sadly, "alas! Tomorrow year will come, we certainly can't live!" The old beggar shook his head and looked at the old lady's red clothes and said, "nian is afraid of red and the sound of firecrackers. Tomorrow you will wear red clothes and put red couplets on your front door.
第二天,年来了,大家便把鞭炮一起点燃,鞭炮的声音吓跑了年。以后,人们年年的除夕都放鞭炮,年再也不敢来了。现在,人们放鞭炮,有辟邪,吉祥,保平安,喜庆,招财之意。
The next day, came, we will set off firecrackers together, firecrackers sound scared off nian. After that, people would set off firecrackers every New Year's eve. Now, people set off firecrackers to ward off evil, auspicious, safe, festive, fortune.
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ws are then decorated with paper cuts and couplets with themes such as happiness, wealth and longevity printed on them.The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing.Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings, signifying different good wishes. Delicacies include prawns, for liveliness and happiness, dried oysters (or ho xi), for all things good, raw fish salad or yu sheng to bring good luck and prosperity, Fai-hai (Angel Hair), an edible hair-like seaweed to bring prosperity, and dumplings boiled in water (Jiaozi) signifying a long-lost good wish for a family.Its usual to wear something red as this colour is meant to ward off evil spirits - but black and white are out, as these are associated with mourning. After dinner, the family sit up for the night playing cards, board games or watching TV programmes dedicated to the occasion. At midnight, the sky is lit up by fireworks.On the day itself, an ancient custom called Hong Bao, meaning Red Packet, takes place. This involves married couples giving children and unmarried adults money in red envelopes. Then the family begins to say greetings from door to door, first to their relatives and then their neighbours. Like the Western saying let bygones be bygones, at Chinese New Year, grudges are very easily cast aside.The end of the New Year is marked by the Festival of Lanterns, which is a celebration with singing, dancing and lantern shows.Although celebrations of the Chinese New Year vary, the underlying message is one of peace and happiness for family members and friends.回答Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring talking animals. Published versions of the story date back to the late 18th century, but the story is thought to be much older. The story was assured its place in worlds folklore thanks to an immensely popular 1933 Walt Disney animated cartoon.(这一段是基本介绍,可作背景资料用)Mother Pig sends her three little piglets out into the world to live on their own.The first little pig builds a house of straw, but a wolf blows it down and eats the pig. The encounter between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases:One day the big bad wolf came and knocked on the first little pigs door and said, Little pig, little pig, let me come in. And the little pig answered, No, no, I wont let you come in, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin.Well, said the wolf, then Ill huff and Ill puff and Ill blow your house in. So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house down and ate the little pig.The second pig builds a house of sticks, has the same conversation with the wolf, and meets the same fate.The third pig builds a house of brick. The wolf cannot huff and puff hard enough to blow the house down. He attempts to trick the third little pig out of his house, but the pig outsmarts him at every turn. Finally, the wolf threatens to come down the chimney, whereupon the third little pig boils a pot of water into which the wolf plunges. The little pig cooks the wolf and eats him.追问
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Origin of the Spring Festival（春节的来历）:1、The Spring Festival is the first year of the lunar calendar. Another name of the Spring Festival is the Spring Festival. It is the biggest, busiest and most important ancient traditional festival in China. It is also a unique festival for Chinese people.（春节是农历的第一年。春节的另一个名称是春节。它是中国最大、最繁忙、最重要的古代传统节日。它也是中国人独特的节日。）2、It is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival has continued to this day. Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month.（它是中华文明最集中的表现形式。自西汉以来，春节的习俗一直延续到今天。春节一般指除夕和正月初一。）3、But in the folk sense, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial sacrifice on the eighth day of the eighth month or the sacrificial stove on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twentieth month until the fifteenth day of the first month, with the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax.（但在民间意义上，传统的春节是指以除夕和正月初一为高潮，在八月八日的祭祀活动或在十二月二十三日、二十四日至正月十五日的祭祀炉灶活动。）4、How to celebrate this festival has formed some relatively fixed customs and habits in the historical development of thousands of years, many of which are still handed down today. During the traditional festival of Spring Festival, the Han and most minority nationalities in China have to hold various celebrations.（在几千年的历史发展过程中，如何庆祝这个节日已经形成了一些相对固定的风俗习惯，其中许多至今仍在流传。在传统的春节期间，汉族和中国大多数少数民族都要举行各种各样的庆祝活动。）5、Most of these activities mainly focus on sacrificing gods and Buddhas, sacrificing ancestors, removing old cloth and new cloth, celebrating the New Year, and praying for a good year.（这些活动大多集中在祭祀神佛、祭祖、脱去旧布新布、庆祝新年、祈祷新年等方面。）6、The forms of activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics. On May 20, 2006, "Spring Festival" folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.（活动形式丰富多彩，具有较强的民族特色。2006年5月20日，“春节”民俗被国务院批准列入第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录。）
