春节的由来（英文）
第一篇：春节的由来(英文)道德经第三十四章
中国创业板
The Origin of Chine New Year
如何鉴定蜜蜡The Chine New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival becau 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 Chine 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.One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite.people were very scared.One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian.To Nian he said, I hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents? So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrasd people and their domestic animals from time to
诺基亚6230time.After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian.He turned out to be an immortal god.Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life.Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each years end to scare away Nian in ca it sneaked back again, becau red is the color the beast feared the most.From then on, the tradition of obrving the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation.The term Guo Nian, which may mean Survive the Nian becomes today Celebrate the(New)Year as the word guo in Chine having both the meaning of pass-over and obrve.The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loo is still around.However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.
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第二篇：春节由来英文
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Chunjie is the first day of the lunar calendar.It is the day when the earth has circled the su
天为什么会下雨n for one round and is beginning another circling.It reprents a new beginning when people nd off the old days and welcome the new ones.As the first day of the year, Yuandan has been considered to be the most important festival since the ancient times.Customs
1.Kaisui(beginning of the year): According to the Chine traditional custom, starting from )of the last evening of the twelfth lunar month, each family must prepare offering s to deities at the altar.At the same time, they too prepare food for the New Year day: The whole family will then stay awake together to attend to the year(called shou sui).After haishi, 1a.m.)will come, and this is the arrival of New Year(Yuandan).At this moment, people begin the celebration with fireworks.Vegetarian and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings, and incen be burned to welcome the deities.In the ancient times, it was believed that haishi connected the two years and thus was called kaisui.At the same night, some families will follow the instruction in Tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the “fortune deity” during the “fortune time” to receive the deity.If the direction of the “fortune deity” is at the “
ill position”, people will choo to receive “happy deity” or “noble deity” instead.2.There is an apparent difference in the custom of food taking on Yuandan between the Chine in the northern and southern regions.The northern Chine has the habit of taking jiao zi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped inside).Some people may put a sweet or a coin inside jiao zi, hoping to have a sweet year after tasting the sweet and a wealthy year after tasting the other hand, the southern Chine have the taboo for killing on Yuandan.Therefore, they do not take meat in tee morning of Yuandan, so as to avoid bloodshed or mutual slaughter.In order to evade misfortune, they have the first meal of this day without meat.Instead, they take vegetarian food for the sake of virtue.3.What is special during the New Year is that parents or elders will distribute red packets(ang pao or ya sui qian)to the children.People in the ancient times were more particular in giving away the red packets: the distribution took place on the eve of New Year so that the kids could suppress the past year and enter the New Year.Ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the unpredictable future.Reprenting the wishes for the healthy psychological growth of the children, ya sui qian symbolis the elders' hope t
o e their children overcome all the unpredictable elements brought by the “year”.4.There is an extraordinary number of taboos on Yuandan.Each place has its own customs of taboo.Here, we will mention only a few common taboos in Fujian Province, Guangdong Province and Southeast Asia:
In the past, people commonly believed that fortune was hidden in the hou.So, wsweeping of floor must be done in the direction moving inwards, and there was no clearance of rubbish at night.Particularly on the New Tear day, in order to keep fortune from flowing out, there was no sweeping.Some families kept this taboo until the fifth or even the fifteenth day.If anything was broken, the pieces were wrapped up in order not to let the fortune slip away and were dispod only the fifth day.Yuandan(in more rious families, the period extends from the 1st to the 15th day)marks the new beginning.In the hope that New Year brings good beginning, people should utter neither unkind words nor vulgar language.Making nois, fighting, quarreling and especially weeping are avoided to deter misfortune.There are even taboos of taking medicine and having sneeze, for it is believed that they can lead to sickness throughout the year.Taboos of the past also conce铁锅除锈
rned the u of knife and the breaking of things.If a thing was broken, the word “break” or any other word importing similar meaning was not ud.Instead, words like “failing to the floor and blossoming like flowers” which delivered pleasant ns were ud to suggest good connections.On Yuandan, neither lending and nor giving of money to others is done so that there will be no out-flowing of money during the year.There is also the saying that if a male sleeps in the afternoon, his career will breakdown, and if a female has an afternoon nap, the kitchen will collap.5.Ancient rite: In the past, there was a rite called he zheng(proper greeting)during New Year.When a person paid a New Year visit to friends or relatives, he took along a piece of paper or card on which the name of the host was written wit Chine brush.The receiver of this greeting card would normally paste it on the wall of his main hall to show his respect to and appreciation for the visitor.The quantity of greeting card received reflected the person's public relationship with others, while the names and status of the people who gave the greeting cards indicated the host's boundary of social network and standard of living.Nowadays, becau of easy communication, convenient transportation system and wider social network, when people
nd their greetings they tend to follow the Western style.The greeting is now done by mail and even by email.Today, he zheng is done by simply bringing along red packets and food prents when making a visit.To be in line with the custom of to giving away money on the first day, families in some places do not pay New Year call to others.Instead, the whole family simply goes out to enjoy themlves or stayed at home for family happiness.6.In the past, there was a superstition that when a person left his hou in the New Year, he must take the correct first step.A particular person would look for the fortunate direction in accordance with the day, month and year of this birth basing on the explanation of Chine calendar.On Yuan Dan, when a person stepped out of his hou, he must go in the fortunate direction and avoid the unfortunate direction.Even people of less particularity also consulted Chine calendar to find out where the fortunate directions and fierce deities were before the first step out of their hous.Meaning
