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英语手抄报 Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade. The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year. New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors. The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family. The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove" or weilu. It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations. The Spring Festival, namely the lunar New Year, commonly known as the Chinese New Year, generally refers to the New Year's eve and the first month. But in folk, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival from December 8th refers to the wax offering or month, 23 or 24 of people, until the fifteenth, among them with New Year's eve and the first day of the first climax. Spring Festival has a long history, originated in the sacrifices of SuiWei shells period years worshipping god activities. During the Spring Festival, China's han ethnic minorities and many have held various activities to mark the occasion. These activities are designed for worship is hit, the worship of ancestors, the millennium bringers of good fortune, and make prayer to harvest as the main content. Rich and colorful activities with strong ethnic characteristics. Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the GREgorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February. To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country. 2 Spring Festival is the most importantand popular festival in China.Before Spring Festival ,the people usually clean and decorate their houses.And they go to the Flower Fairs to buy some flowers.During Spring Festival ,the adults usually give lucky money to children.People often get together and have a big meal.Some people eat dumpling for dinner Sweeping the dust扫尘的英语介绍中英对照: “Dust” is homophonic with “chen”(尘)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. “Dust”与“尘”是谐音(尘在汉语中的意思是旧的和过去的)。这样，“在 春节前扫尘”是指彻底清洁房屋扫除过去一年的厄运。此习俗表达了收拾旧事物， 欢迎新生活的美好愿望。总之，就在春节到来之前，为了告别旧年迎接新年，家 家户户都会彻底打扫一下房屋。 The Origin of Chinese New Year中国新年的来历 The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means "year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year. 中国新年现在俗称春节，因为它是在开春后开始的节日(二十四节气的第一 个节气)。春节的起源要追溯到很久很久以前，对于春节的起源有几种说法，但 是每一种说法都有“年”这个词，现代汉语里也意为年，据说是一个大怪物的名 字，是它的威胁迫使人们在开年的时候再夜里祈祷。(于是就有了过年这一说) Pasting paper cuts and "up sided fu" 贴窗花和倒着的“福”字 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。通常带有吉祥图案的窗花传递节日喜庆和热闹的气氛 和表达中国人期待幸福生活的美好愿望。除了贴窗花，在墙上，门上和房子周围 的门框上贴大小福字是中国人表达对美好生活渴望的普遍习俗。 Staying Up Late on New Year's Eve守岁 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. 守岁的传统源自于一个有趣的民间故 事。在中国古代有一个叫作‘年’的凶猛怪物，在除夕夜‘年’会从地洞里出来 吃人。因此在除夕夜，每家每户都会一起吃晚饭，晚饭以后没人敢睡觉，所有的 家庭成员会坐在一起聊天互相壮胆。