关于中国的英语演讲稿

Spring Festival(

春节英语

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The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is

when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All

people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for

transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports,

railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home

returnees.

The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month

later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600

BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of

an old year and the beginning of a new one.

Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the

12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of

them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days.

The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the

Chinese Lunar New Year.

Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today,

but others have weakened.

On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a

delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job's tears,

jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko.

The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time,

people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make

delicious food to enjoy themselves.

After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year.

This is called

Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for

the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck,

fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various

decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the

elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.

Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and

outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their

utensils.

Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of

rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival

couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper.

The content varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck

for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted

on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.

The Chinese character

character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chinese

the