请帮我写一下,用英语介绍春节的各个方面

请帮我写一下,用英语介绍春节的各个方面
请帮我写一下,用英语介绍春节的各个方面

请帮我写一下,用英语介绍春节的各个方面
New Year season lasts for fifteen days.The first week is the most important and most often celebrated with visits to friends and family as well as greetings of good luck.The celebrations end on the important and colourful Lantern Festival on the evening of the 15th day of the month.However,Chinese believe that on the third day (骞村垵涓?of the Chinese New Year it is not appropriate to visit family and friends,and call the day "chec hao" (璧ゅ彛),meaning "easy to get into arguments".
The date of the Chinese New Year is determined by the Chinese calendar,a lunisolar calendar.The same calendar is used in countries that have adopted the Confucian and Buddhism tradition and in many cultures influenced by the Chinese,notably the Koreans,the Japanese,the Tibetan,the Vietnamese and the pagan Bulgars.Chinese New Year starts on the first day of the new year containing a new moon (some sources even include New Year's Eve) and ends on the Lantern Festival fourteen days later.This occurs around the time of the full moon as each lunation is about 29.53 days in duration.In the Gregorian calendar,the Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year,on a date between January 21 and February 20.In traditional Chinese Culture,Lichun is a solar term marking the start of spring,which usually falls on either February 4 or 5.
Days before the new year
On the days before the New Year celebration,Chinese families give their home a thorough cleaning.It is believed the cleaning sweeps away bad luck and makes their homes ready for good luck to arrive.All brooms and dust pans are put away on New Year's Eve so that good luck cannot be swept away.Some people give their homes,doors and windowpanes a new coat of red paint.Homes are decorated with paper cutouts of Chinese auspicious phrases and couplets (short phrases) that speak of "happiness," "wealth," "longevity."
Reunion dinner
A reunion dinner is held on New Year's Eve where members of the family,near and far,get together for celebration.The New Year's Eve dinner is very large and traditionally includes chicken.Fish (楸?y煤) is included,but not eaten up completely (and the remainder is stored overnight),as the Chinese phrase 骞村勾鏈変綑 (ni谩n ni谩n y菕u y煤),which means "may there be surpluses every year",sounds the same as "may there be fish every year",since "y煤" is also the pronunciation for 浣 ("leftover" or "surplus").A type of black hair-like algae,pronounced "fat choy" in Cantonese,is also featured in many dishes since its name sounds similar to "prosperity".Hakka will serve kiu nyuk (鎵ｈ倝) and ngiong tiu fu.Because certain things and/or food sound alike to certain Chinese well-wishes,the belief is that having one will lead to the other.
An illustration of what a Chinese Ancient Gold Nugget might look like.Most Northerners serve dumplings as the main dish in this festive season,although most Chinese around the world would do the same because it is believed that dumplings (楗哄瓙,ji菐o zi) are wrapped in the semblance of Chinese gold nuggets (illustrated) used in ancient China.This gold nugget is called 閲戝厓瀹 (jin yu谩n b菐o).However,mandarin oranges are the most popular and most abundant fruit during Chinese New Year amongst Chinese simply because of,inter alia,how the name of the fruit is phonetically similar to gold -- jin ju (閲戞?or kam (閲?in Cantonese.
Clothing
Red clothing is worn throughout the Chinese New Year,as red will scare away evil spirits and bad fortune.Also,people typically wear new clothes from head to toe to symbolize starting anew in the new year.
Money Given to Children
On the night of Chuxi,or the night before the first day of new years,parents or grandparents usually put "y膩 su矛 qi谩n" (鍘嬪瞾閽?or "end of year money" under children's pillows.The most common story of the origin of this tradition is below:
There once was a monster called Sui(绁?that would come on the night of Chuxi and touch the forehead of sleeping children.Once touched,normal children turned insane and smart children were then mentally retarded.To avoid this,parents usually stayed up the whole to watch out for Sui (瀹堢?,or 瀹堝瞾).One couple loved their bright son very much,and decided one year to keep the son awake by having him playing with coins wrapped in red paper.However,both the parents and the boy eventually fell asleep,with the paper wrapped coins fallen beside the boy's pillow.At night,Sui came in looking for the boy.The parents woke up,but it was too late for them to stop Sui.As Sui got close to the boy,a light flashed from the paper wrapped coins,scarying Sui away.
The next day,the story was known through out the village,and people believed that having coins wrapped in red paper would keep Sui away on Chuxi.Therefore it became a tradition to put money by the pillows of children on the night of Chuxi,and the money is then called Ya Sui Qian 鍘嬬?or Sui Suppressing Money.And since Sui(绁?sounds similar to the word 宀 which means year,it is then called 鍘嬪瞾閽?for people believed this money would keep their children safe for the rest of the year.

The Spring Festival
Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the...

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The Spring Festival
Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February.
To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.
关于春节的单词：
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
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
辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year
扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning
Spring Festival is a traditional day for the Chinese people to get together besides The Mid-Autumn Day.For this reason many people rush home wherever they are.However far they are and however busy they are, they try to go home.I am one of those who hate it because after one festival, I become one year older.Another reason is that there are many more ceremonies before or after the festival.
However, this spring festive is a bit special for me. I had a wonderful time.We didn't stay at home but had a travel and order a rich feast /dinner in a restaurant.Though it was very much expensive,We could spare much effort preparing the dinner which we couldn't have eaten and also we could have a lot of time to enjoy ourselves.You see, nowadays, the living standard has been greatly improved,eating is not so much a problem as before,so we have to find other kind of ways to enjoy ourselves.Traveling is a good way of spending the traditional festivals.We went to Xishuangbaina,Dali,the Stone Forest...my family,especial my child are all excited, learning a lot about the Minorities' tradition.I wish one day I could go abroad to spend the festival if we could make enough money!

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