關于新年的英語作文:中國新年除夕習俗
Before New Year's Eve
The celebration actually starts on New Year's Eve with the family reunion dinner. By New Year's Eve, you should have done the following
Clean the entire home to get rid of all the things that are associated with the old year.
Put away all brooms and brushes.
Pay all your debts.
Resolve differences with family members, friends, neighbors and business associates.
Buy the following
Red money envelopes,
Oranges and/or tangerines,
Fill a “Cheun hup(a circular red tray separated in eight compartments) with melon seedslotuschocolate coinsnuts etc.
Flowers (especially plum blossoms, peach blossoms, water lilies),
A new set of clothes and shoes for children, preferably something red or orange.
Get new dollar bills from the bank. Insert the new dollar bills into the red envelopes. Now the red envelope is called a lai see or lucky money envelope.
On New Year's Eve
Get together with close family members (not including married daughters and their families) for the “reunion ” dinner.
Pay respect to ancestors and household gods. Acknowledge the presence of ancestors because they are responsible for the fortunes of future generations.
Open every door and window in your home at midnight to let go of the old year.
On New Year's Day
Decorate your home with symbols of good fortune. Here are some suggestions
Colors： Bright red (happiness); gold/orange (wealth & happiness)。
Fruits： Oranges and tangerines (good health & long life); tangerines with leaves intact (long lasting relationships; being fruitful and multiply); persimmons (happiness and wealth
“Chuen Hup” circular candy tray (candy for sweet and circular for togetherness and continuity)。
Flowers： If flowers bloom on New Year's Day, it will be a prosperous year.
Red banners or couplets with New Year
關于春節(jié)的英文作文
Chinese Spring Festival celebrating the end of winter and the warmth of spring. It began in the last day of the lunar year, end in the 15th day of lunar New Year, also is the Lantern Festival. During the Spring Festival, people use red lantern and Spring Festival couplets decorate a house, put on all kinds of colored clothes, often visit friends and relatives or together eat dumplings, fish, meat and other delicious food. The children are looking forward to receiving red envelope money, and together they play each other the fireworks, with happy. Street with dragon and lion dance and some other carnival activities, CCTV will held the grand Spring Festival gala.
翻譯:中國的春節(jié)慶祝冬天的結束和溫暖春天的來臨。它開始于農歷年的最后一天，結束于農歷正月十五，也就是元宵節(jié)。在春節(jié)期間，人們用紅燈籠和春聯(lián)裝飾房子，穿上各式各樣的彩色衣服，經常拜訪親戚朋友或聚在一起吃餃子、魚、肉和其他美味的食物。孩子們盼望著收到紅包的壓歲錢，他們一起放煙花，相互玩的跟開心。大街上有舞龍、舞獅和其他一些狂歡活動，中央電視臺會舉行盛大的春節(jié)聯(lián)歡晚會。