春節英語知多少？(about the Spring Festival)

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Chinese New Year（中國新年）, also known as the Spring Festival（春節）, or the Lunar New Year（陰曆新年）.2018 is the Year of the Dog（狗年） according to Chinese zodiac（12生肖）.

春節問候| Popular Greetings

• Wish your family a happy new year! 祝您全家新春快樂！
• Happy new year! 新年快樂/過年好！
• May all your wishes be fulfilled! 萬事如意！
• Big luck and big profits.大吉大利
• Happiness and prosperity! 恭喜發財！
• Everlasting peace year after year！歲歲平安！

春節習俗| Holiday Customs：

臘月二十三：Worshiping the Kitchen God 祭拜灶王爺

臘月二十四：Clean up the house thoroughly 掃房子；

臘月二十六：Shopping for festival items 辦年貨；

除夕當天：

• Pasting Spring Festival couplets貼春聯
• Having family reunion dinner吃年夜飯；
• Watching TV gala看春晚；
• Setting off fireworks放鞭炮；
• Giving money in red envelopes發紅包;
• Eat dumplings吃餃子；
• Staying up late守歲；

大年初一：Visiting relatives 串親戚

大年初二：Worshiping the God of Wealth 祭拜財神；

大年初五：Welcoming the God of Wealth 迎接財神；

正月十五：Lantern Festival 元宵節；

• Visiting Lantern fair逛廟會
• Guessing lantern riddles猜燈謎；
• Eating Rice Dumpling吃元宵；

新年兒歌 | Nursery rhymes：

Happy New Year! Happy New Year!

新年好呀！新年好呀！

Happy New Year to you all!

祝賀大家新年好！

We are singing; we are dancing.

我們唱歌，我們跳舞

Happy New Year to you all!

祝賀大家新年好！

春節起源 | Holiday Origins

According to tales and legends(根據神話傳說), the beginning of the Chinese New Year started with a mythical beast（神獸） called the Nian（年）.

Nian would eat villagers, especially children. One year, all the villagers decided to go hide from the beast. An old man appeared before the villagers went into hiding and said that hes going to stay the night（守夜）,and decided to get revenge（復仇）on the Nian. All the villagers thought he was insane（神志不清）.

The old man put red papers up and set off fire crackers（放鞭炮）. The day after, the villagers came back to their town to see that nothing was destroyed.

They assumed（猜測） that the old man was a deity（神明）who came to save them. The villagers then understood that the Nian was afraid of the color red and loud noises.

When the New Year was about to come, the villagers would wear red clothes, hang red lanterns, and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used fire crackers to frighten away the Nian. From then on, Nian never came to the village again.

Nowadays, when the festival comes each year, windows and doors are decorated（裝飾）with red color paper-cuts（剪紙） and couplets（對聯）with popular themes of "good fortune（好運）" or "happiness（幸福）", "wealth（財富）", and "longevity（長壽）",

最後大牛爸送您和家人一副春聯！

上聯：迎新春事事如意；

下聯：接鴻福步步高升；

橫批：好事臨門；

英文春聯：

Upper Scroll: Everything goes well as you expect

Lower Scroll: Career rises steadily as you want

Horizontal Scroll: Luck Knocks on the Door

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