新年习俗

                 新年习俗：

中国春节习俗

The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China.People usually decorate the doors windows with red papercuts.becouse red means good luck.People usually clean house too.becouse they want to sweep away bad luck.Children can get some new clothes or presents from their parents grandparents.

On New Year's Eve,family always have a big dinner.Everybody are watch TV talk.In the midnight,there usually fairworks.

On New Year's Day,people usually put on their new clothes visit their femily friends.They usually say:"Happy New Year's Day."

The Spring Festival finishes at the Lantern Festival after two weeks.People usually eat a kind of rice dumpling called yuanxiao.It can take people good luck all the year round.

春节常用英文

过年 Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival  

对联 poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry  

春联 Spring Festival couplets  

剪纸 paper-cuts  

年画 New Year paintings  

买年货 special purchases for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping  

敬酒 propose a toast  

灯笼 lantern: a portable light  

灯会 exhibit of lanterns  

守岁 staying-up  

拜年 pay New Year\\'s call; give New Year\\'s greetings; New Year\\'s visit  

禁忌 taboo  

去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune  

祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one\\'s ancestors  

压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift  

辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year  

扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning

八宝饭 eight treasures rice pudding  

糖果盘 candy tray  

什锦糖 assorted candies - sweet fortune  

蜜冬瓜 candied winter melon - growth good health  

西瓜子 red melon seed - joy, happiness, truth sincerity  

金桔 cumquat - prosperity  

糖莲子 candied lotus seed - many descendents to come  

糖藕 candied lotus root - fulfilling love relationship  

红枣 red dates - prosperity  

花生糖 peanut candy - sweet

春节起源和习俗

      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。由于历法不同，各代岁首之日不尽一致：夏代为正月初一，商代为十二月初一，周代为十一月初一，秦代为十月初一，汉武帝时又恢复到正月初一，并延续至今。

      “春节”，各代所指也有区别。汉代指立春这一天，南北朝指整个春季，到了近代才指正月初一。它是我国历史最悠久、活动内容最丰富、礼仪最隆重、场景最壮观、食品最精致的一个传统节日，全国56个民族中的53个（除去藏、白、傣族）都要举行盛大的家宴或族宴庆贺，故又称“元日大庆宴”。

春节的起源

      据史籍记载，春节在唐虞时叫“载”．夏代叫“岁”，商代叫“祀”，周代才叫“年”。“年”的本义指谷物生长周期，谷子一年一热，所以春节一年一次，含有庆丰的寓意。又传，春节起源于原始社会末期的“腊祭”，当时每逢腊尽春来，先民便杀猪宰羊，祭祀神鬼与祖灵，祈求新的一年风调雨顺，免去灾祸。他们用朱砂涂脸，身披鸟羽，唱跳吃喝，热闹非凡。至于