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除夕英语介绍
【篇一：中国传统节日的英文介绍和讨论】
中国传统节日的英文介绍和讨论
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中国主要传统节日的英文翻译
元旦
(1
月
1
日
)new years
day
春节
(
农历一月一日
)the spring
festival
元宵节
(
农历一月十五日
)the lantern
festival
清明节
(4
月
5
日
)ching ming festival; tomb-sweeping festival
端午节
(
农历五月初五
)the dragon
boat festival
中秋
节
(
农历八月十五
)mid-
autumn (moon) festival
重阳节
(
农历九月九日
)double-ninth day
除夕
(
农历十二月三十日
)new
years eve
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新年习俗英译
过年
celebrate the spring
festival
春联
spring
festival couplets
剪纸
paper-cuts
年画
new year
paintings
买年货
do shopping for the
spring festival do spring festival
shopping
敬酒
propose a toast
灯笼
lantern
烟花
fireworks
爆竹
firecrackers (people
scare off evil spirits and ghosts with
the loud pop.)
红包
red packets
舞龙
dragon dance
(to expect
good weather and good
harvests)
舞狮
lion dance (the lion is
believed to be able to dispel evil
and
bring good luck.)
拜年
pay new years call; give
new years greetings; pay new
years
visit
去晦气
get rid of the ill-
fortune
祭祖宗
offer
sacrifices to ones
ancestors
压岁钱
gift money; money given
to children as a lunar new year
gift
旧岁
bid farewell to the old
year
扫房
spring cleaning; general
house-cleaning
年糕
nian-gao; rise cake; new
year cake
团圆饭
family reunion
dinner
年夜饭
the
dinner on new years eve
饺子
jiaozi -; chinese meat
ravioli ,dumplings
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xinhua news agaency report
2007-11-07
beijing, nov. 7
(xinhua) -- china may increase the number of
legal holidays and include some
traditional festivals, such as
the
tomb-sweeping day, the dragon boat festival and
the mid-
autumn festival, as part of the
countrys legal holidays, sources
said.
the
chinese government has formed a preliminary plan
on the
new legal holiday arrangement
and the plan will be released in
the
near future. after that public opinion will be
sought on the
internet.
as an ancient country with a civilized
history of more than
5,000 years, some
traditional festivals represent part of the
chinese nations cultural heritage.
however, current legal
holiday
arrangement only includes the spring ing,
professor with tsinghua university and
member of the chinese
peoples political
consultative conference (cppcc), said that
traditional festivals as legal holiday
would help reserve the folk
customs.
the
nations traditional culture will find its way to
develop, cai
said.
fengjicai, a renowned chinese writer
who upholds folk customs,
said the
cultural meaning of chinese traditional festivals
should be restored and emphasized,
especially with increasing
globalization.
chinese people currently have ten days of legal
holiday. nine
days are for may day, the
national day and the spring festival,
with three days for each, and one day
for new years day.
however,
the weekends on one side of the first three
holidays
are designated as two working
days, and people enjoy two
days off on
the working days, which makes the holiday a
consecutive seven days. millions of
chinese travel during the
holidays, so
earning them the name golden weeks.
regarded as one of the most important
days on the chinese
calendar, the tomb-
sweeping day, or qingming festival, which
usually occurs on april 4 or 5 each
year, was established by a
chinese
emperor in memory of a loyal official who
sacrificed
himself to save the emperors
life more than 2,500 years ago.
the day gradually became a traditional
occasion for paying
homage to ancestors
and departed family members.
the dragon boat festival has been
celebrated for thousands of
years to
commemorate qu yuan, a great chinese patriotic
poet,
who lived in the state of chu
during the warring states period
(475
b.c. to 221 b.c.). he drowned himself in the miluo
river in
todays hunan province in 278
b.c., on fifth day of the fifth
month
of the chinese lunar calendar, hoping his death
would
alert the king to revitalize the
kingdom.
the tradition
arose that on the day of his death dragon boat
races would be held and people should
eat zongzi, glutinous
rice dumplings
wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves.
the mid-autumn festival, which falls on
the 15th day of the
eighth month on the
lunar calendar, is considered an occasion
for reunion of family members and loved
ones. on the
occasion, they would eat
moon cakes, light lanterns while
enjoying the full moon - an auspicious
symbol of abundance,
harmony and
luck.
the festival was
flavored by the legend of change, a lonely
fairy on the moon. according to the
legend, she was the
beautiful wife of
hou yi, a hero who shot down nine suns
scorching the earth but was slain by
his apprentice fengmeng.
threatened by
the murderer, change drank an elixir and flew to
the moon.
china
introduced the golden week holidays in 1999, in a
bid to
boost domestic
consumption.
it was
reported that tourism revenue has increased from
14.1
billion yuan (1.76 billion u.s.
dollars) during the national day
holiday in 1999 to 64.2 billion yuan
during the golden week this
october.
statistics also showed that the year 2001 alone
saw tourist
numbers reach 780 million,
much higher than the figure of 240
million in 1989. while chinas outbound
tourists rose to 12.13
million in 2001,
a big jump from 3 million in the early
1990s.
but after several
years experience, complaints about
overcrowding, poor service, a scarcity
of hotel rooms, and
damage to scenic
spots, especially historic sites, during the
golden week holidays have spurred
debate over the merits of
the week-long
holiday concept.
last year,
caijiming proposed shortening the national day and
may day holidays from three days to one
day and distributing
the days to
celebrate four
traditional
festivals - the dragon boat festival, mid-autumn
day,
tomb-sweeping day, and new years
eve.