春節習俗的英文介紹

　　春節有很多習俗，你知道嗎?下面小編就告訴你，一起看看吧!

　　掃塵 Sweeping the Dust

　　“Dust” is homophonic with "chen”***塵***in Chinese， which means old and past. In this way， "sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life. In a word， just before the Spring Festival comes， every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new.

　　貼春聯 Pasting Spring Couplets

　　“The Spring Couplet”， also called "couplet” and "a pair of antithetical phrases”， is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription， usually an auspicious phrase， above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival， every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past， the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them， while nowadays， it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.

　　貼窗花和“福”字 Pasting Paper-cuts and "Up-sided Fu”

　　Paper-cuts， usually with auspicious patterns， give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life. In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows， it is common for Chinese to paste the character "fu***福***”， big and small， on walls， doors and doorposts around the houses. "Fu***福***” shows people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character "fu***福***” to signify that blessing has arrived because "inverted” is a homonym for "arrive” in Chinese. Now many kinds of paper-cuts and "fu***福***” can be seen in the market before the Festival.

　　守歲 Staying Up Late on New Year‘s Eve

　　The tradition of staying up late to see New Year in originated from an interesting folk tale. In ancient China there lived a monster named Year， who was very ferocious. Year always went out from its burrow on New Year’s Eve to devour people. Therefore， on every New Year’s Eve， every household would have supper together. After dinner， no one dared go to sleep and all the family members would sit together， chatting and emboldening each other. Gradually the habit of staying up late on New Year’s Eve is formed. Thus in China， "celebrating the Spring Festival” is also called "passing over the year ***guo nian***”。 However， now there are less and less people in cities who will stay up late to see New Year in.

　　春節簡介英文版

　　春節是中國及一些亞洲民族一個古老的傳統節日。因為相傳年獸怕紅色，怕火光和怕響聲，所以人們便有貼春聯、放鞭炮、敲鑼打鼓等習俗。不同時期、不同地區、不同民族的習俗都不相同。

　　Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China and some Asian nations. Because legend has it that the beast is afraid of red, afraid of fire and afraid of sound, so people will have couplets, firecrackers, gongs and drums and other customs. Different periods, different regions, different ethnic customs are not the same.

　　在中國，春節也是少數民族人民的風俗節日。各族人民按照自已的習俗，舉行各種各樣的慶祝活動，具有各自濃厚的民族獨特風采。春節是中國一個古老的節日，也是全年最重要的一個節日，如何過慶賀這個節日，在千百年的歷史發展中，形成了一些較為固定的風俗習慣，有許多還相傳至今。

　　In China, the Spring Festival is also a minority national people's customs and festivals. People of all ethnic groups in accordance with their own customs, held a variety of celebration, with their strong national unique style. Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China. It is also one of the most important festival in the whole year. How to celebrate this festival, in the history of thousands of years, has formed some relatively fixed customs, there are still many people who have been handed down.