春节的英文怎么写？春节的英文如何写？(1)

　　春节的英文怎么写？春节的英文如何写？

　　Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the “Lunar New Year” by English speakers. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month （Chinese： 正月; pinyin： zhēng yuè） in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year‘s Eve is known as chú xī。 It literally means “Year-pass Eve”。

　　Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Lunar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the most.

　　Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese， Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors， as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans （Seollal）， Tibetans and Bhutanese （Losar）， Mongolians （Tsagaan Sar）， Vietnamese （Tết）， and formerly the Japanese before 1873 （Oshogatsu）。 Outside of Mainland China， Hong Kong， Macau， and Taiwan， Chinese New Year is also celebrated in countries with significant Han Chinese populations， such as Singapore， Indonesia， Laos， Malaysia， the Philippines， and Thailand. In countries such as Australia， Canada and the United States， although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday， many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Australia Post， Canada Post， and the US Postal Service issues New Year’s themed stamps.

　　Within China， regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy presents， decoration， material， food， and clothing. It is also the tradition that every family thoroughly cleans the house to sweep away any ill-fortune in hopes to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “happiness”， “wealth”， and “longevity”。 On the Eve of Chinese New Year， supper is a feast with families. Food will include such items as pigs， ducks， chicken and sweet delicacies. The family will end the night with firecrackers. Early the next morning， children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year， and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New Year tradition is a great way to reconcile forgetting all grudges， and sincerely wish peace and happiness for everyone.

　　Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years， outside China its years are often numbered from the reign of Huangdi. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars， making the year 2009 “Chinese Year” 4707， 4706， or 4646.

　　春节正月习俗的英文介绍

　　The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked by visits to kin， relatives and friends， a practice known as “new-year visits” （Chinese： 拜年; pinyin： bài nián）。 New clothes are usually worn to signify a new year. The colour red is liberally used in all decorations. Red packets are given to juniors and children by the married and elders. See Symbolism below for more explanation.

　　Preceding days 春节前

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　　On the days before the New Year celebration Chinese families give their home a thorough cleaning. There is a Cantonese saying “Wash away the dirt on ninyabaat” （年廿八，洗邋遢）， but the practice is not usually restricted on nin‘ya’baat （年廿八， the 28th day of month 12）。 It is believed the cleaning sweeps away the bad luck of the preceding year and makes their homes ready for good luck. Brooms and dust pans are put away on the first day so that luck cannot be swept away. Some people give their homes， doors and window-frames a new coat of red paint. Homes are often decorated with paper cutouts of Chinese auspicious phrases and couplets. Purchasing new clothing， shoes， and receiving a hair-cut also symbolize a fresh start.

In many households where Buddhism or Taoism is prevalent， home altars and statues are cleaned thoroughly， and altars that were adorned with decorations from the previous year are also taken down and bur