关于春节的优秀英语美文

关于春节的优秀英语美文

春节

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是我 国最为盛大的一个传统节日

,

它来自民间

,

是最为特殊

和普遍的一种文化现象。

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贴春联的历史起 源和典故

the spring

festival

couplet

is

to

be

pasted

on

doorposts

or

hall

pillars,

hence

also

known

as

the

doorpost

scroll.

it

consists

of

two

vertical lines and one horizontal line, and all the lines convey

the idea of good luck or jubilation, constituting a unique form

in the chinese literature.

the

chinese

festival

couplet

was

born

of

the

peachwood

charm.

a

legendary

story

has

it

that

long

long

ago,

two

brothers named shen tu and yu lei lived in a stone house near

a big lush peach tree in the dushoumountains. they addicted

themselves

very

much

to

the

tree,

watering

it

in

dry

spells,

often pruning off its branches and eliminating insect pests for

it.

thanks

to

the

brothers’

painstaking

work,

the

tree

was

in

full

blossom

in

spring

and

laden

with

big

peach

in

peach,

sweet

and

succulent,

was

reputed

as

the

immortality peach and its eaters, some say, would be free from

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disasters and diseases, live to a ripe old age or even become

immortals. a prince,

known as

wild

prince,

lived at the

same

time

on

the

wild

ox

ridge

of

the

same

mountains.

he

was

insatiably

avaricious

and

rode

roughshod

over

the

common

locals

by

dint

of

his

power.

having

learned

of

the

magical

peach, he commanded several hundred soldiers to fight for it

from shen tu and yu lei. just through a couple of rounds, the

prince and his gang were defeated and fled helter-skelter to

the

wild

ox

ridge.

covetous

of

the

peach, he

devised

an

evil

scheme. one night he led to the house of the brothers several

hundred soldiers disguised as ghosts and monsters, intending

to scare the brothers into presenting the magical fruit. utterly

undaunted, the brothers charged at the enemy, with shen tu

ahead holding a peach tree branch and yu lei behind grasping

a coil of coir rope. it was so strange that the masked soldiers

collapsed,

helplessly

allowing

themselves

to

be

caught,

the

moment they touched the branch. shen tu did catching ahead

while

yu

lei

trussed

the

caught

behind.

before

long,

they

subdued all the soldiers. the incident made people think that

peachwood

was

immortal

and

able

to

exorcise

spirits

and

ward

off

evils.

hence

later

on

new

year’s

eve,

every

household hung on two doorposts two peachwood strips, one

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on each side, respectively bearing the pictures of shen tu and

yu lei.

such

strips

were

anciently

referred

to

as

peachwood

charms. on the next new year’s eve, the old strips were

to be replaced with new ones. hence the verses by the winter

wang anshi ( 1021-1086 ) of the northern song dynasty:

“

to

every home the sun imparts its brighter rays. old peachwood

charms, renewed, against evil shall insure.

”

in the five-dynasty

period

(

907-960

),

people began

to

inscribe

on

peachwood

strips

some

auspicious

verses

conveying

their

good

wishes.

meng

chang,

the

king

of

the

kingdom

of

later

shu

of

the

five- dynasty

period,

inscribed

on

two

peachwood

strips

the

vcrses,

“

new

year

sees

lingering

jubilation,

joyous

festival

ushers

in

a

long

spring.

”

historical

records

show

that

the

inscription is the first of its kind as well as the first recorded

spring

festival

couplet.

in

the

song

dynasty

(

960-

1279

),

pasting

spring

festival

couplets

grew

into

a

popular

folk

custom.

the

ming

dynasty

(

1384-1644)

saw

a

greater

popularity

of

the

custom.

this

was

partly

owed

to

zhu

yuanzhang

(

1328-1398

),

the

ming

dynasty

emperor

taizu

who

attached

importance

to

the

couplet.

born

in

a

peasant’s

family

and

almost,

zhu

loved

the

spring

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festival

couplet

very

much.

one

year

one

on

an

incognito

inspection tour, he was puzzled about the absence of spring

festival couplets on the doorposts of a butcher’s house

since

the

new

year

was

drawing

near.

it

turned

out

that

the

butcher could not read and write. so the emperor immediately

wrote for him a couplet, which read,

“

open up a way out with

two

hands, cut

off the roots of

trouble with a

single

blow.

”

also

in

the

ming

dynasty,

the

spring

festival

couplet

got

its

present

name

and

began

to

be

written

on

red

paper

to

heighten the joyous festive air. some couples of the kind give

expression to the writer’s aspirations, and others point

out ills of times and offer salutary advice.

all,

whatever

contents,

are

marked

by

jubilation,

auspiciousness,

exquisiteness,

succinctness

and

instructiveness. take for instance. often seen on the doorposts

of a peasant’s house is the couplet,

“

joyful to seeone

thousand bushes of spring flowers, beaming to drink one cup

of

wine

of

a

good

year,

”

which

describes

well

the

countryside’s prosperity and the peasant’s joy;

usually pasted on the doorposts of a barber’s shop is

usually

the

couplet,

“

a

hair

renders

one

younger

looks,

a

shave makes one radiant with happiness,

”

which reads very

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