用英語介紹春節(jié)習俗

1、用英語 英語介紹 介紹春節(jié)習俗 春節(jié)習俗Preceding days 春節(jié)前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 on ninyabaat“ (年廿八，洗邋遢), but the pra

2、ctice is not usually restricted on nin'ya'baat (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 dus

3、t pans are put away on the first day so that luck cannot 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 p

4、hrases and couplets. Purchasing new clothing, shoes, and receiving a hair-cut also symbolize a fresh start.In many households where Buddhism or Taoism is prevalent, home altars and statues are cleaned thoroughly, and al

5、tars 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 “se

6、nd 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 household's t

7、ransgressions and good deeds. Families often offer sweet foods (such as candy) in order to “bribe“ the deities into reporting good things about the family.The biggest event of any Chinese New Year's Eve is the dinne

8、r every family will have. A dish consisting of fish will appear on the tables of Chinese families. It is for display for the New Year's Eve dinner. This meal is comparable to Christmas dinner in the West. In northe

9、rn China, it is customary to make dumplings (jiaozi 餃子) 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

10、 a new year cake (Niangao, 年糕) after dinner 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,

11、some families go to local temples, hours before the new year begins to pray for a prosperous new year by lighting the first incense of the year; however in modern practice, many households hold parties and even hold a

12、countdown to the new lunar year. Beginning in the 1980s, the CCTV New Year's Gala was broadcast four hours before the start of the New Year.春節(jié)習俗英語作文- 用英語介紹春節(jié)習俗：春節(jié)正月習俗的英文介紹The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked

13、 by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known as “new-year visits“ (Chinese: 拜年; pinyin: bài nián). New clothes are usually worn to signify a new year. The colour red is liberally used in all decor

14、ations. Red packets are given to juniors and children by the married and elders. See Symbolism below for more explanation.春節(jié)習俗英語作文- 用英語介紹春節(jié)習俗：First day 初一The first day is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens

15、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 fire

16、s and using knives to be bad luck on New Year's Day, 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 B

17、udai Luohan), the Buddha-to-be. People also abstain from killing animals.Most importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time when families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended family, usua

18、lly 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 the fam

19、ily 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 du

20、e to concerns over fire hazards, which have resulted in increased number of fires around New Years and challenged municipal fire departments' work capacity. For this reason, various city governments (e.g., Hong Kong

21、, 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 been launched by governments in cities like Hong Kong to of