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Spring Festival

关于春节的单词：

春节 The Spring Festival

农历 lunar calendar

正月 lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar

除夕 New Year's Eve; eve of lunar New Year

初一 the beginning of New Year

元宵节 The Lantern Festival

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

烟花 fireworks

爆竹 firecrackers (People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.)

红包 red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and

wealth in the coming year.)

舞狮 lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good

luck.)

舞龙 dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests)

戏曲 traditional opera

杂耍 variety show; vaudeville

灯谜 riddles written on lanterns

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

The Spring Festival is known as the most important Festival in China.

During the holiday, people go back to hometown from everywhere no matter

how far the distance is. They prepare various delicious food and presents for

the Spring Festival Eve. Chinese will have a happy family union in the Spring

Festival Eve, they believe that’s the end day of last year and they will stay up

for good luck until the first day of next year.

In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is

dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it.

The Chinese name of dumpling is “JIAO ZI”, ”JIAO” means ”cross”, ”ZI” is

Chinese traditional time represents “24:00”, so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI”

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means “cross 24:00”, just the dividing point of last year and next year. So

when it comes to 24:00, every family begins eating dumplings. Firecracker is

also necessary for Spring Festival, the story of Firecracker is: Long ago, in a

small village, there appeared a savage animal called “NIAN”, this animal

always came out to eat people in the Eve. One day, villagers found three things

can make “NIAN” scared: Red color, Fire and noise. So when “NIAN” came

again, villagers put up red paper on the door and set firecracker everywhere.

After that, “NIAN” disappeared from that village. Now putting up red paper

on the door and setting firecracker becomes Spring Festival customs and

people believe doing these will bring their family safety.

Spring Festival is also the happiest time for children, because they can get

red envelope containing money as a gift from the elder. During the Spring

Festival, any unfortunate word cannot be heard because it will make people

upset and unhappy. People also make use of this holiday to visit their relatives

and bring them some presents and well-wishing.

1. The Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is January 15 on the lunar calendar. The lunar January

is the first month of a year and 15

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is the first day of full moon. Therefore,

Lantern Festival is an important Festival right after Spring Festival.

During Lantern Festival, people go along the street to watch lanterns and

children light their own small lanterns for some fun. The biggest and most

beautiful lantern is the dragon lantern, which looks like a flying dragon, held

by several young guys. One with a ball in hand leads the dragon to move.

Some lanterns have puzzles on them, called lantern puzzle, the one who

gets the answer could receive small presents and be happy for his intelligence.

The traditional food for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball. Rice glue ball is a

flavor ball with filling in it, for example, peanut filling, sesame filling and jam

filling…,the rice glue ball’s shape is just like the full moon appears in the sky.

This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by children.

元宵节词汇

Words about Lantern Festival

[ 2010-02-26 14:15 ]

中国的传统佳节——元宵节就要到了。正月是农历的元月，古人称夜为“宵”，

所以称正月十五为元宵节。正月十五日是一年中第一个月圆之夜，也是一元复始，

大地回春的夜晚，人们对此加以庆祝，也是庆贺新春的延续。

元宵节又称为“上元节”。按中国民间的传统，在这天上皓月高悬的夜晚，人们

要点起彩灯万盏，以示庆贺。出门赏月、燃灯放焰、喜猜灯谜、共吃元宵，合家团

聚、同庆佳节，其乐融融。下面就向大家介绍一些元宵节常用词语的英文说法。

the Lantern Festival 元宵节

rice glue ball 元宵

glutinous rice 糯米

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