春节习俗全知道
2020-03-03 11:00:19 来源：范文大全收藏下载本文
Similar to the importance of the Christmas Day for the westerners, the Spring Festival is the most important celebration for Chinese people.
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.（春节是中国最重要的节日。无论身在何处，人们都赶着回家过年。交通系统也迎来了春运高峰。）
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.（春节放七天长假，除夕到大年初三是整个节假日最为重要的几天。）
Many customs accompany the Spring Festival.Some are still followed today, but others have weakened.（春节有许多习俗，有些已逐步荒废，有些尚且流行。）
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.（腊月初八，许多家庭都会喝由糯米熬制，里面盛着栗子、薏仁、枣、莲子、豆子、桂圆和杏仁的腊八粥。）
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.（腊月二十三是小年。大多数家庭都会美餐一顿。）
After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year.This is called \"Seeing the New Year in\".（过完小年，人们开始准备迎接新年的到来。）
Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase neceities 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.（人们开始置办年货。除了米面粮油，鸡鸭鱼肉，人们也会购买水果、糖果和坚果。另外，过年的装饰品，孩子们的新衣新鞋，亲戚朋友的礼物都在人们的考虑之列。）
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.（年前，人们会彻底清洗衣物，打扫房间。）
The Chinese character \"fu\" (meaning bleing or happine) 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 gla and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall.（“福”字倒贴在门上，大红灯笼挂于大门两侧。大红的剪纸贴在窗户上，吉祥的年画被糊到墙上。）
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 auspiciousne, abundance and richne.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 eential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad.According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in.（除夕是非常重要的一天。这一天，全家人要凑在一起吃团圆饭。饭后，人们会一起欣赏春节联欢晚会。按照习俗，一家人还会一道熬夜守岁。）
Waking up on New Year, everybody drees 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.（大年初一，人们会向长辈拜年。孩子们会拿到压岁钱。北方人通过吃饺子来祈祷来年的好财运。）
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.\" （南方人则通过吃年糕来祈祷来年生活越来越好。）
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.（街道上也洋溢着浓浓的节日气氛。有的地方会舞狮，有的地方会办灯会，还有的地方会举办庙会。元霄节一过，就意味着春节结束了。）
China has 56 ethnic groups.Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.（中国有56个民族。少数民族也会以他们特有的习俗庆祝春节。）转自昆明韦博国际英语
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