春节的英文介绍

春节的英文介绍

【篇一：介绍春节的英语演讲稿】

today , my partner and i will compare spring festival with

christmas in three aspects.

1 origin and legend

2 customs

3 decoration

as we know, spring festival is the grandest and the most

important annual event for chinese people, but nowadays a

few people concern the origin and story behind the holiday. so

first of all, i want to introduce the origin and legend of spring

festival to you.

(1)origin and legend

origin

the origin of the festival can be traced back to the worshiping

activitiesin the shang dynasty (17th century bc - 1046

bc).people attributed their food, clothes and harvest to the god

and ancestor’s will, so they held s

acrifice ceremonies to pray

for blessing and peace at the end of each year.

the date for the ceremony wasn’t fixed till the han dynasty

(202 bc - 220 ad), when emperor wudi commanded to use the

lunar calendar. there was a big festival fair launched by the

government, and civil people also gathered for celebration.

new custom activities also arose, such as burning the bamboo

(setting off fireworks nowadays), hanging peach boards

(pasting spring couplets nowadays) and staying up at night.

chinese new year story - legend of monster nian

many existing customs and activities of the festival actually

can be traced back to a popular story of the monster nian,

which helps to explain why and how the festival is celebrated.

in ancient time, there was a ferocious m

onster named “nian”

with sharp teeth and horns. secluding itself in the dark sea for

a long time, the beast would go onshore by the end of the

lunar year and hunt people and r, the monster

was afraid of red color and loud sound, hence, on every new

years eve, people would paste red spring couplets, light

candles and burn bamboos (set off firework) to ward off all the

evil spirits. the entire village and town were ablaze with lights,

and people would stay up to welcome the new year.

(2)customs

1 new year’s eve dinner

having reunion dinners is one of the most important customs

of spring festival.

chinese dumplings: the chinese dumpling now enjoys

worldwide popularity. its history can be traced back to south

and north dynasty (420

–

589). this kind of tradition has a

meaning of changing of years, because “jiao” has the meaning

of changing. in some places, people even put a clean coin into

the dumplings, because they think the one who eats the coin

will become wealthier.

fish:in china, there i

s a blessing speech as ‘niannian you yu’,

which means ‘may you have surpluses and bountiful harvests

every year.’in southern china, some people just eat the middle

part of the fish on the new year eve, leaving the head and tail

to the next day to symbolize completeness.

rice dumplings: since the song dynasty (960

–

1279), people

have had the custom of eating yuanxiao during the lantern

south part of the country, the rice dumplings are

called tangyuan in chinese. the making process is similar with

that of the traditional in north part of the

country, the rice dumplings are called yuanxiao, and are made

by wrapping glutinous rice flour onto stuffing.

2 firecrackers and fireworks

people will set off firecrackers in the early morning of new

year’s day. once they wake up, it is the first thing they do.

people wish to welcome the good luck inside when they open

their doors in the rks are also set off in the

evening of lantern festival.

3 cctv new years gala

this is a comprehensive art and performance event on the

festivals mances include basic elements such as

skits, cross talk (xiangsheng), songs and

performance always ends with the song “cannot

forget tonight”.

4 red envelope

red envelope, also known as lucky money, is prepared for

children by adults and the elderly and given after the reunion

dinner. in folk culture, the children will live safe and sound for

the whole year if they get lucky red envelope

has also become popular in recent years. during the spring

festival, young people are inclined to send wechat envelopes

to each other as a way of greeting. it is fast and convenient

way to contact with friends from afar.

5 visting friends and relatives

people drop in at relatives and friends houses, greeting one

another with happy new ancient times younger people

had to salute the elderly by kowtowing; today they salute them

by offering good wishes. 6 spring couplets

upper scroll: ring in the spring; landscape is splendid

lower scroll: ring out the past; everything is glorious

horizontal scroll: a refreshed spring

upper scroll: everything goes well as you expect

lower scroll: career rises steadily as you want

horizontal scroll: luck knocks on the door

upper scroll: may you have good luck in everything

lower scroll: may you feel content and your family healty

horizontal scroll: flourishing in four seasons

(3)decoration

1 pasting the “fu”

the character “fu”, meaning good fortune or happi

ness, is

used to express people’s good wishes and yearning for the

future, so people usually paste it gates or some furniture in the

house during the chinese new year. pasting the “fu” upside

down, meaning the arrival of happiness or good fortune, is a

widely accepted and popular custom among chinese people.

2 paper-cuts

auspicious words or pictures are cut on red paper and pasted

on windows to express good wishes for the future during the

happy event.

3 new year pictures

they originated in tang dynasty (618 - 907) with simple

patterns to drive away evil. now they are a kind of decoration

for the festival. new meanings and patterns such as

conventions, women and babies have been added to the old

pictures.

【篇二：春节英文简介】