春节的来历英语有译文

春节的来历英语有译文

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.

Preparations for the New Year begin the last few days of the last moon, when houses are thoroughly cleaned, debts repaid, hair cut and new clothes purchased. Houses are festooned with paper scrolls bearing auspicious antithetical couplet (as show on both side of the page) and in many homes, people burn incense at home and in the temples to pay respects to ancestors and ask the gods for good health in the coming months.

"Guo Nian," meaning "passing the year," is the common term among the Chinese people for celebrating the Spring Festival. It actually means greeting the new year. At midnight at the turn of the old and new year, people used to let off fire-crackers which serve to drive away the evil spirits and to greet the arrival of the new year. In an instant the whole city would be engulfed in the deafening noise of the firecrackers.

On New Year's Eve, all the members of families come together to feast. Jiaozi, a steamed dumpling as pictured below, is popular in the north, while southerners favor a sticky sweet glutinous rice pudding called nian gao.

翻译(目前，中国最重要的节日是春节，也被称为中国的新年。对中华民族来说是一样重要的人圣诞节在西方。这个一年一度的庆祝活动的日期是由农历而不是阳历，因此假日的'时间变化从一月下旬到二月上旬。

对普通的中国人，节日事实上开始于农历新年的一天，结束了第五天的农历的第一个月。但在第一个月的第十五，通常被称为元宵节，意味着正式结束的春节在该国许多地区。

准备新年开始的最后几天过去月球时，房屋被彻底清洗，债务偿清，理发和买了新衣裳。房屋被贴满了吉祥的春联对联轴承(如显示在页的双方)和在许多家，烧香的人在家里和在寺庙拜祭祖先，求神的身体健康在未来几个月。

“过年”，“意义为“度过这一年，”是常见的术语，在中国人民庆祝春节。它事实上意味着欢迎新的一年。午夜，在新旧年交替的，人们用燃放鞭炮，用来驱赶恶魔，迎接新年的到来。在那一瞬间，整个城市都响彻在震耳欲聋的鞭炮声。

在除夕夜，所有家庭成员共同的节日。