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中秋节
每年的农历八月十五是中秋节。
对中
国人来说圆月代表着幸福圆满,所以中秋节时中国人全家团聚,一同赏月、吃月
饼、吃石
榴。
月饼是圆形或矩形的糕点,大多数月饼皮薄酥软,馅足香甜
Mid-Autumn Day
Mid-autumn day falls on the fifteenth
day of eighth lunar month.
For Chinese, the full moon means
blessedness and unity.
Traditionally,
on
that
day,
Chinese
family
members
and
friends
will
gather
to
admire
the
bright
mid-
autumn
moon,and
eat
moon
cakes
and
pomegranate
l
moon
cakes
are
round
or
rectangular
moon
cakes
consist
of
a
thin
tender
skin
enveloping a sweet,
dense filling
端午节有吃粽子和赛龙舟的习俗。
粽子是一种用竹叶或芦苇叶包成棱形的状的饭团子。
我们将艾蒿放在门上辟邪,艾蒿还有驱除蚊虫的作用。
端午节给儿童缠七色线,一直要戴到节后第一次下雨才解下
来扔在雨水里。
Dragon Boat
Festival/Duanwu Festival
The festival
is to commemorate a great patriotic poet of
China
——
Qu Yuan. It falls on
the fif
th day of the fifth month in
lunar is the customs of eating Zongzi and racing
d
ragon-boat on Dragon Boat Festival.
Zongzi is a pyramid-shaped dumpling
made of glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo or
ree
d leaves to give it a special
flavor.
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We put mugwort on the door to ward off
evil, and it has insect repellent function.
Children wear bracelet made by seven
colored strings until the first rain after the
festival,
they should throw the strings
into puddle.
对中国人来说,春节是最重要的
节日。除夕这天,全家人要一起吃年夜饭。这是最好
的一次家宴,不仅仅因为菜品丰富,
更因为这是个全家人相聚的日子。
年夜饭后,我
们会一起包饺子,通常会全家人一起看央视春晚。
过年的时候,各家都放鞭炮,贴春联。
还有一件事也很重要,那就是守岁,就是在旧年的最后一天夜里不睡觉,熬夜迎接新
一
年的到来的习俗
大年初一,
亲戚朋友相互拜年,祝愿新的一年能事事顺利。通常大人们还会给小孩子
发压岁钱。
大年初二回娘家,是指已婚妇女回娘家拜访。
初五这天全家再次团聚吃饺子。这
天是人们要迎接灶王爷下界的日子。
同时,人们打扫卫生,放鞭炮,来驱走“晦气”
The Spring Festival
The spring
festival is the most important festival for
Chinese.
At Chinese New
Year’s Eve, family members have reunion dinner
together.
This dinner would
be the best dinner, not only because we have
various dishes,
but
it’s the day we could meet all our
family members.
After family reunion
dinner, we make Chinese dumplings together, and
usually watch the
Spring Festival Gala
on CCTV.
Each family would
light firecrackers and paste up Spring Festival
couplets.
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One more thing
is important, that is people should stay up late
or all night on New Year's
Eve to
welcome the new year.
On New Year’s Day of the Chinese lunar
calendar, relatives and friends would send New
Year's greetings to each other to wish
everything smooth in the New Year.
Adult usually give lucky money to
children during Spring Festival.
The
second day of the New Year is usually called the
day of visiting parental home,
which means that married daughters
should return to their parents ' home.
Family members
reunite to eat dumplings on the fifth day of the
first lunar month.
On that
day, people welcome the Kitchen God come back to
mortal world.
People clean
house and light firecracker so that keep away all
bad luck.
圣诞节(
Christmas
)
圣诞节是欧美国家一年中最重要的节日。它原
本是耶稣基督(
Jesus christ
)诞辰纪念
日,
如今已成为西方国家全民性的节日,
颇似中
国的春节。
圣诞节定于每年
12
月
p>
25
日,
而圣诞节节期(
< br>Christmas
Season
)往往持续二周。这
段时期里,雪片般的贺卡飞往
世界各地,电话线、通讯网频繁地传递人们的祝福和问候;
大街小巷粉饰一新,商店
橱窗前大减价、大拍卖的广告格外醒目;到处可见人们拎着大包
小包的节日用品匆匆
而过,到处可听见欢快的歌声和笑声。车站、机场里此时挤满了盼望
回家的人群,因
为圣诞节也是家人团聚的日子。
无论外出多远,
人们都会想方设法赶回家与亲人团聚。
圣诞节
Christmas
An
Ancient Holiday
The middle of winter
has long been a time of celebration around the
world. Centuries
before the arrival of
the man called Jesus, early Europeans celebrated
light and birth
in the darkest days of
winter. Many peoples rejoiced during the winter
solstice, when
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