【中国传统节日之——春节】
时间：农历正月初一 Time: the first day of the lunar calendar
英文：Spring Festival 释义：春节是农历的一岁之首，俗称“大年”。 The Spring Festival is the first day of the new year.
起源：春节的来历，在我国大约有四千多年的历史了。它是我国民间最热闹、最隆重的一个传统节日。古代的春节，是指农历二十四个节气中的“立春”时节，南北朝以后才将春节改在一年岁末，并泛指整个春季，这时大地回春，万象更新，人们便把它作为新的一年的开始。到了辛亥革命后的民国初年，改农历为公历[阳历]后，便将正月初一定为春节。直到1949年9月27日，中国人民政治协商会议上才正式把正月初一的新年定为“春节”，因而至今仍有许多人将过春节叫过年。
Origin: The origin of the Spring festival, it is a festival with 4000 years history. It is one of the liveliest festivals. Ancient Spring festival is the time when the spring begins, people changed it to the end of the year since Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it meant the whole spring, at this time with the advent of spring all is fresh again, so people regard it as the begin of a year. After the 1911 Revolution, changed the lunar calendar into solar calendar, and make the new year’s day as the Spring Festival. Until September 27th,1949,on the CPPCC changed the new year’s day as Spring Festival formally, so people called the Spring Festival the New Year.
相关传说
年： 人们常把过春节说成“过年”，而“年”的最初含义与今天根本不同。据说，在很古的时候，世界上有一种最凶恶的野兽叫“年”。它生长得比骆驼还大。跑起来比风还快，吼起来比雷还响。它一出来，见人吃人，见畜伤畜，人们的生命安全受到严重威胁。天神为了惩罚“年”，把它锁进深山，只许它一年出山一次。人们在长期的实践中，发现了“年”有“三怕”——怕红颜色、怕响声、怕火光。于是，有一年腊月三十晚，大伙在门口贴上红纸，不断地敲锣打鼓、放鞭炮，晚上屋子里彻夜点上灯。“年”晚上来了一看，家家灯光通明；一听，处处放炮声，吓得它不敢进村。白天它又偷偷下山来，见还是户户门上红，遍地咚咚响，吓得它胆颤心惊，调头又跑回去了。从此后，“年”一直没敢再来，据说饿死在深山老林里了。后来，人们才把防“年”、“驱年”，变成安安稳稳地过年了。“年”没有了，但是过年的习俗仍保持着。鲜红的春联，辉煌的灯火，清脆的爆竹，响亮的锣鼓，年年如此
The Legend
People often said “The Spring Festival” , the”yaer” the origional meaing is fundamentally different from today.It’s said that in a very ancient time,there was a kind of the most ferocious animals called”year”.It was larger than camel.It ran faster than wind,it roared louder than thunder.When it came out,eat people and hunt cattle,people’s lives and safety are seriously menaced.The god in order to punish the”year”,locked it into a mountain,and it could go out once a year.People found there were three weakness about the “year”:it was afraid of red color,noise and fire.So,people sticked red paper on the windows,keep beating drums and gongs,squib firecrackers,light a candle at the house all night. The “year” saw all lights were brightly lighted there; and heard people put guns everywhere, it was so frightened that it couldn’t go to the village. During the day it came down the hill secretly, but saw there was a red paper on each house, people played fireworks everywhere, so it came to the hill in hurry. Since then, the ”year” was afraid of coming back, it is said that it was starved in the hill. Afterwards, people turned preventing the “year” into chasing the “year” out. The “year” has gone, but the tradition is still reminds. Red couplets, brilliant light, crispfirecrackers, loud gongs and drums, year after year.
What would you do in Spring Festival
The Spring Festival like Christmas Day in the western countries, is the most important festival in China. Children like it very much because they can have delicious things to eat, pretty clothes to wear and many nice things to play with. When Spring Festival comes, people away from their hometowns usually come back and spend it with their families. People mainly do two things during the festival. One is eating, and the other is playing. They usually buy different kinds of food and make different kinds of delicious dishes, and play in different ways.
In the spirit of setting things straight, all account books should be balanced, debts paid off, and houses cleaned before New Year’s Day. Then houses, businesses, and streets are decked and draped with banners, flowers, and scrolls of vivid red, a traditionally lucky and demon-dispelling hue. People exchange red-wrapped gifts, most commonly the hong bao-cash enclosed in a compact red paper packet-and offer their friends propitious edibles such as red dates (whose Chinese name, hong zao, sounds like the words for “prosperity comes soon”) and tangerines ( whose Cantonese pronunciation, kat, sounds like that of the word for “lucky”).
春节习俗
春节如西方的圣诞节，是中国盛大的节日。孩子们非常喜欢春节的到来，因为每逢春节，孩子们就会有美味的佳肴，漂亮的衣服，和心仪的玩具。春节期间，无论身在何方的人们都会回到“老家”同家人度过。在这种喜庆的日子里，人们往往做两件事，一是吃好，二是玩好。人们采购各种各样的食物，做着各式各样的美味，用不同方式尽情娱乐。
人们清理房子，结清上年的债务，为了让所有的事情步入正轨，来迎接新的一年。房屋、商店、街道挂上了横幅、种上了鲜花、飘摆着生气勃勃的红色彩带，（红色在中国代表一种喜运与除魔的颜色。人们互送红色包裹的礼物，最普通的是“红包”（将钱装在红色纸袋里），也有人送朋友特殊的食物，如红枣（中文名字“红枣”，意为“红到”）和橘子（它在粤语的发音“kat”音似“福运”）。
Chinese New Year customs
Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, but also one of the most important annual festival, how to live to celebrate this festival in the history of the development of thousands of years to form some of the more fixed customs, there are many still legend still.
1. Couplets
Spring Festival couplets also Mengen right, spring stickers, couplets, pair, Tao Fu and so on, it is arranged in pairs of dual, simple, compact text depicting historical background, to express the good wishes, is China's unique literary form.
2. Dumplings
. Civil Chinese New Year custom of eating dumplings are already quite popular in the Ming and Qing. Dumplings generally before 0:00 in the New Year's Eve package is good, until the time of the night to eat at midnight, when it is the beginning of the first lunar month, who started to eat dumplings to take "more-year-old to pay child" meaning, "son" to "neutrons "handed over" dumpling "homophonic, the" festive reunion "and" auspicious "means.
3. Fireworks
Chinese people have "opened the door of firecrackers," one said. That in the new year approaching, every family opened the first thing off firecrackers to beep beep sound of firecrackers Baba addition to the old and welcoming.
4. Happy New Year
New Year's started this, people are up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, neatly dressed, go out to attempt to visit each other New Year and wish good luck for the coming year. Happy New Year a variety of ways, some colleagues from the nearby a few people go to New Year's; also have everyone together to congratulate each other, known as the "gathering." As the door New Year's time and effort, and later a number of elites and literati have to use the paste to vote each other He, thus developed in the later "New Year's card."
春节的习俗
春节是我国一个古老的节日，也是全年最重要的一个节日，如何过庆贺这个节日，在千百年的历史发展中，形成了一些较为固定的风俗习惯，有许多还相传至今。
1.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。
2.吃饺子
.民间春节吃饺子的习俗在明清时已有相当盛行。饺子一般要在年三十晚上12点以前包好，待到半夜子时吃，这时正是农历正月初一的伊始，吃饺子取“更岁交子”之意，“子”为“子时”，交与“饺”谐音，有“喜庆团圆”和“吉祥如意”的意思。
3.放爆竹
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。
4.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”。
时间：农历正月初一 Time: the first day of the lunar calendar
英文：Spring Festival 释义：春节是农历的一岁之首，俗称“大年”。 The Spring Festival is the first day of the new year.
起源：春节的来历，在我国大约有四千多年的历史了。它是我国民间最热闹、最隆重的一个传统节日。古代的春节，是指农历二十四个节气中的“立春”时节，南北朝以后才将春节改在一年岁末，并泛指整个春季，这时大地回春，万象更新，人们便把它作为新的一年的开始。到了辛亥革命后的民国初年，改农历为公历[阳历]后，便将正月初一定为春节。直到1949年9月27日，中国人民政治协商会议上才正式把正月初一的新年定为“春节”，因而至今仍有许多人将过春节叫过年。
Origin: The origin of the Spring festival, it is a festival with 4000 years history. It is one of the liveliest festivals. Ancient Spring festival is the time when the spring begins, people changed it to the end of the year since Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it meant the whole spring, at this time with the advent of spring all is fresh again, so people regard it as the begin of a year. After the 1911 Revolution, changed the lunar calendar into solar calendar, and make the new year’s day as the Spring Festival. Until September 27th,1949,on the CPPCC changed the new year’s day as Spring Festival formally, so people called the Spring Festival the New Year.
相关传说
年： 人们常把过春节说成“过年”，而“年”的最初含义与今天根本不同。据说，在很古的时候，世界上有一种最凶恶的野兽叫“年”。它生长得比骆驼还大。跑起来比风还快，吼起来比雷还响。它一出来，见人吃人，见畜伤畜，人们的生命安全受到严重威胁。天神为了惩罚“年”，把它锁进深山，只许它一年出山一次。人们在长期的实践中，发现了“年”有“三怕”——怕红颜色、怕响声、怕火光。于是，有一年腊月三十晚，大伙在门口贴上红纸，不断地敲锣打鼓、放鞭炮，晚上屋子里彻夜点上灯。“年”晚上来了一看，家家灯光通明；一听，处处放炮声，吓得它不敢进村。白天它又偷偷下山来，见还是户户门上红，遍地咚咚响，吓得它胆颤心惊，调头又跑回去了。从此后，“年”一直没敢再来，据说饿死在深山老林里了。后来，人们才把防“年”、“驱年”，变成安安稳稳地过年了。“年”没有了，但是过年的习俗仍保持着。鲜红的春联，辉煌的灯火，清脆的爆竹，响亮的锣鼓，年年如此
The Legend
People often said “The Spring Festival” , the”yaer” the origional meaing is fundamentally different from today.It’s said that in a very ancient time,there was a kind of the most ferocious animals called”year”.It was larger than camel.It ran faster than wind,it roared louder than thunder.When it came out,eat people and hunt cattle,people’s lives and safety are seriously menaced.The god in order to punish the”year”,locked it into a mountain,and it could go out once a year.People found there were three weakness about the “year”:it was afraid of red color,noise and fire.So,people sticked red paper on the windows,keep beating drums and gongs,squib firecrackers,light a candle at the house all night. The “year” saw all lights were brightly lighted there; and heard people put guns everywhere, it was so frightened that it couldn’t go to the village. During the day it came down the hill secretly, but saw there was a red paper on each house, people played fireworks everywhere, so it came to the hill in hurry. Since then, the ”year” was afraid of coming back, it is said that it was starved in the hill. Afterwards, people turned preventing the “year” into chasing the “year” out. The “year” has gone, but the tradition is still reminds. Red couplets, brilliant light, crispfirecrackers, loud gongs and drums, year after year.
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歌曲：Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I
Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway
Happy new year 新年快乐新年快乐可能我们都有一个视力不时的一个世界，每个邻居都是朋友的地方新年快乐新年快乐可能我们所有有我们的希望，我们全心去尝试如果我们唐't我们最好假装躺下然后死去你和我有时候我彷佛看见美丽新世界的来临看着它蓬勃壮大在我们死灰般的人生中哦，人傻瓜总认为自己安然无恙将，拖上来脚拉出来从不知道他的误入歧途但无论如何无论如何新年快乐新年快乐
词：Good luck, good health, hood cheer. I wish you a happy New Year.
祝好运、健康、佳肴伴你度过一个快乐新年。
With best wishes for a happy New Year!
祝新年快乐，并致以良好的祝福。
I hope you have a most happy and prosperous New Year.
谨祝新年快乐幸福，大吉大利。
With the compliments of the season.
祝贺佳节。
May the season's joy fill you all the year round.
愿节日的愉快伴你一生。
Season's greetings and best wishes for the New Year.
祝福您，新年快乐。
Please accept my season's greetings.
请接受我节日的祝贺。
To wish you joy at this holy season. Wishing every happiness will always be
with you.
恭祝新年吉祥，幸福和欢乐与你同在。
Good health, good luck and much happiness throughout the year.
恭祝健康、幸运，新年快乐。
May the joy and happiness around you today and always.
愿快乐幸福永伴你左右。
Please accept my sincere wishes for the New Year. I hope you will continue
to enjoy good health.
请接受我诚挚的新年祝福，顺祝身体健康。
Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to
you all my best wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
恭贺新禧，祝身体健康、事业发达。
Best wishes for the holidays and happiness throughout the New Year.
恭贺新禧，万事如意。
诗词：Hope you will join with me in bringing in the new spring.
愿和你一起迎春接福。
The coming of spring means the coming of new hopes.
春天的来临，象征新希望的到来。
May you have many dreams fulfilled.
祝你许多美梦都能成真。
We wish you a renewed hope in life.
我们祝福你再度燃起生命的希望。
Please join us to light off firecrackers.
让我们一起来燃放爆竹除旧岁。
We hope your family and my family can get together for a celebration like last year.
我们希望你们全家与我们家能像去年一样，聚在一起共同庆祝新年。
Wishing you and your family peace and prosperity for the coming year.
祝福你与家人吉祥平安。
May the people of the nation live happily and wealthily this upcoming year.
愿新的一年里国富民安。
设计好版面，认真誊写上去即可。