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Spring Festival Words
Greeting Season:
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.)
舞狮
lion dance
(The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil
and bring good luck.)
舞龙
dragon dance (to expect good weather
and good harvests)
戏曲
traditional opera
杂耍
variety show;
vaudeville
灯谜
riddles written on lanterns
灯会
exhibit of
lanterns
守岁
staying-up
拜年
pay New Year's call; give New Year's
greetings; New Year's visit
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;
money given to children as a lunar New Year gift
Culture Note: In the old days, New
Year's money was given in the form of one
hundred copper coins strung together on
a red string and symbolized the hope that one
would live to be a hundred years old.
Today, money is placed inside red envelopes in
denominations considered auspicious and
given to represent luck and wealth
辞旧岁
bid farewell
to the old year
扫房
spring cleaning; general house-cleaning
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