关于春节的英语单词

春节

The Spring Festival

农历

lunar calendar

正月

lunar January;

除夕

New Year's Eve;

初一

the beginning of New Year

元宵节

The Lantern Festival

过年

have the Spring Festival

春联

Spring Festival couplets

剪纸

paper-cuts

年画

New Year paintings

买年货

do Spring Festival shopping

敬酒

propose a toast

灯笼

lantern

烟花

fireworks

爆竹

firecrackers

红包

red packets

舞狮

lion dance

舞龙

dragon dance

戏曲

traditional opera

杂耍

variety show

灯谜

riddles written on lanterns

灯会

exhibit of lanterns

守岁

staying-up

拜年

pay New Year's call

春节

The Spring Festival

农历

lunar calendar

禁忌

taboo

去晦气

get rid of the ill- fortune

祭祖宗

offer sacrifices to one's ancestors

压岁钱

gift money

辞旧岁

bid farewell to the old year

扫房

spring cleaning

年糕

Nian- gao

团圆饭

family reunion dinner

年夜饭

the dinner on New Year's Eve

饺子

dumpling

汤圆

Tang-yuan

八宝饭

eight treasures rice pudding

糖果盘

candy tray

什锦糖

assorted candies

蜜冬瓜

candied winter melon

西瓜子

red melon seed

金桔

cumquat

糖莲子

candied lotus seed

糖藕

candied lotus root

红枣

red dates

花生糖

peanut candy

春节

The Spring Festival

农历

lunar calendar

正月

lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar

除夕

New Year's Eve; eve of lunar New Year

初一

the beginning of New Year

元宵节

The Lantern Festival

Customs:

过年

Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival

对联

poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry

春联

Spring Festival couplets

剪纸

paper-cuts

年画

New Year paintings

买年货

special purchases for the Spring Festival do Spring Festival

shopping

敬酒

propose a toast

灯笼

lantern: a portable light

烟花

fireworks

爆竹

firecrackers (People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud

pop.)

红包

red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and

wealth in the coming year.)