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个中华传统文化的英文表达
一、传统节日
1.
传统中国节日:
traditional Chinese
festival
2.
农历:
lunar calendar
3.
腊八节:
Laba Festival
4.
小年:
Little New Year
5.
除夕:
Lunar New Year’s
Eve
6.
春节:
the Spring Festival
7.
正月初一:
the lunar New Year’s
Day
8.
元宵节:
the Lantern Festival
9.
正月:
the first month of the
lunar year
10.
二月二:
Dragon Heads-raising Day
二、传统习俗
1.
喝腊八粥:
eat Laba
porridge
2.
扫尘:
sweep the dust
3.
扫房:
spring
cleaning
4.
祭灶:
offer sacrifices to the
God of Kitchen
5.
守岁:
staying up
6.
拜年:
pay a New Year’s
call
7.
祭祖:
offer sacrifices to one’s
ancestors
8.
祭财神:
worship the God of
Wealth
9.
春联:
Spring Festival couplets
10.
贴倒福:
paste the
Chinese character “Fu” upside down
11.
去晦气:
get rid of
the ill-fortune
12.
辞旧岁:
bid
farewell to the old year
13.
兆头:
omen
14.
禁忌:
taboo
15.
烧香:
burn
incense
三、阖家团圆
1.
吃团圆饭:
have a
family reunion dinner
2.
年夜饭:
New Year’s Eve
dinner
3.
全家团圆:
family reunion
4.
办年货:
do Spring
Festival shopping
5.
敬酒:
propose a toast
6.
穿新衣:
wear new
clothes
7.
红包:
red
envelops
8.
压岁钱:
gift money; money given
to children as a Lunar New Year gift
四、美食小吃
1.
年糕:
rice cake; New Year cake
2.
饺子:
dumpling;
Chinese meat ravioli
3.
汤圆:
dumplings made of sweet
rice
4.
八宝饭:
eight-treasure rice
pudding (steamed glutinous rice with bean paste,
lotus
seeds, preserved fruit, etc.)
5.
什锦糖:
assorted
candies
6.
花生糖:
peanut candy
7.
蜜冬瓜:
candied
winter melon
8.
糖莲子:
candied lotus seed
9.
瓜子:
red melon
seeds
10.
金桔:
cumquat
11.
红枣:
red dates
12.
春卷:
spring roll
13.
冰糖葫芦:
candied
haws on a stick
14.
驴肉火烧:
donkey
burger
15.
腊肠:
Chinese
sausage
16.
米酒:
rice wine
17.
腊肉:
preserved
meat
18.
糖板栗:
sugar
chestnut