春節的習俗英文版

春節的習俗英文版

　　春節是中國民間最隆重盛大的傳統節日，是集祈福攘災、歡慶娛樂和飲食為一體的民俗大節，以下是小編收集整理的春節的習俗英文版，歡迎閱讀與收藏。

　　春節的習俗英文版 1

　　Traditionally Xiaonian is an important time for people to give sacrifices to the Kitchen God. He looks after the familys fortunes.

　　Besides, dont forget to clean your home. Sweeping the dust means wiping away the old days and welcoming a new start. Now, the last thing for you to do is to wait for the coming Spring Festival!

　　1.Paste up/stick spring couplets/scrolls

　　Chinese characters that are auspicious for the coming year are generally written on two pieces of red paper with ink and a brush, and glued by the sides of the doors.

　　2.Paste up/stick the character of fu

　　The character fu, or “happiness” is usually written on red diamond-shaped posters. They are usually stuck upside down on the doors. This is because the Chinese character dao (upside down) has the same sound as another dao, which means “arrive”. Placing fu upside down symbolizes the arrival of happiness.

　　3.Set off fireworks/ firecrackers

　　Chinese people traditionally set off fireworks during Spring Festival, in the belief that this helps scare off the Nian and brings good fortune at the beginning of the year and good luck throughout the year.

　　4.Pay lunar New Years calls/visits; give Spring Festival greetings

　　Its important that you pay relatives and friends a new years call during the holiday. This is done at peoples homes from New Years Day to the 15th day, or the Lantern Festival. People give each other best wishes and gifts. This is also a time for the younger generation to bow or kowtow to the elders for health, good fortune, work, and so on and to get a red package in return.

　　5.Lucky money/ red envelop

　　For many young people, Chinese new year is just as much about yasuiqian — money in red envelopes traditionally given to children. On the Chinese mainland, kids get red envelopes at home from their parents and relatives. In Hong Kong, it is also customary to give Lai See (利是), a gift of money, to anyone in your personal service, such as nannies and cleaners.

　　6.New Year taboos

　　Words can reflect New Year taboos. People tend to, for example, avoid negative words, such as “failing”, “dying”, and “illness” during New Years celebrations. Breaking a dish is another taboo in some places, because it implies that you will not have a thing to eat.

　　People do not carry the garbage out or clean the house on New Years Day or for the rest of the Spring Festival holiday, for fear of sweeping away good luck.

　　People usually get a haircut before the lunar new years eve because it is said that getting ones hair cut in the first lunar month puts a curse on ones maternal uncles.

　　春節的習俗英文版 2

　　The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known as "new-year visits" . New clothes are usually worn to signify a new year. The colour red is liberally used in all decorations. Red packets are given to juniors and children by the married and elders. See Symbolism below for more explanation.

　　1.Preceding days

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　　On the days before the New Year celebration Chinese families give their home a thorough cleaning. There is a Cantonese saying "Wash away the dirt on ninyabaat" , but the practice is not usually restricted on ninyabaat . It is believed the cleaning sweeps away the bad luck of the preceding year and makes their homes ready for good luck. Brooms and dust pans are put away on the first day so that luck cannot be swept away. Some people give their homes, doors and window-frames a new coat of red paint. Homes are often decorated with paper cutouts of Chinese auspicious phrases and couplets. Purchasing new clothing, shoes, and receiving a hair-cut also symbolize a fresh start.

　　In many households where Buddhism or Taoism is prevalent, home altars and statues are cleaned thoroughly, and altars that were adorned with decorations from the previous year are also taken down and burned a week before the new year starts, and replaced with new decorations. Taoists (and Buddhists to a lesser extent) will also "send gods" , an example would be burning a paper effigy of Zao Jun the Kitchen God, the recorder of family functions. This is done so that the Kitchen God can report to the Jade Emperor of the family households transgressions and good deeds. Families often offer sweet foods (such as candy) in order to "bribe" the deities into reporting good things about the family.

　　The biggest event of any Chinese New Years Eve is the dinner every family will have. A dish consisting of fish will appear on the tables of Chinese families. It is for display for the New Years Eve dinner. This meal is comparable to Christmas dinner in the West. In northern China, it is customary to make dumplings (jiaozi 餃子) after dinner and have it around midnight. Dumplings symbolize wealth because their shape is like a Chinese tael. By contrast, in the South, it is customary to make a new year cake after dinner and send pieces of it as gifts to relatives and friends in the coming days of the new year. Niangao literally means increasingly prosperous year in year out. After the dinner, some families go to local temples, hours before the new year begins to pray for a prosperous new year by lighting the first incense of the year; however in modern practice, many households hold parties and even hold a countdown to the new lunar year. Beginning in the 1980s, the CCTV New Years Gala was broadcast four hours before the start of the New Year.

　　2.First day

　　The first day is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens and earth, officially beginning at midnight. Many people, especially Buddhists, abstain from meat consumption on the first day because it is believed that this will ensure longevity for them. Some consider lighting fires and using knives to be bad luck on New Years Day, so all food to be consumed is cooked the day before. For Buddhists, the first day is also the birthday of Maitreya Bodhisattva (better known as the more familiar Budai Luohan), the Buddha-to-be. People also abstain from killing animals.

　　Most importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time when families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended family, usually their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents.

　　Some families may invite a lion dance troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Lunar New Year as well as to evict bad spirits from the premises. Members of the family who are married also give red packets containing cash to junior members of the family, mostly children and teenagers.

　　While fireworks and firecrackers are traditionally very popular, some regions have banned them due to concerns over fire hazards, which have resulted in increased number of fires around New Years and challenged municipal fire departments work capacity. For this reason, various city governments issued bans over fireworks and firecrackers in certain premises of the city. As a substitute, large-scale fireworks have been launched by governments in cities like Hong Kong to offer citizens the experience.

　　3.Second day

　　The second day of the Chinese New Year is for married daughters to visit their birth parents. Traditionally, daughters who have been married may not have the opportunity to visit their birth families frequently.

　　On the second day, the Chinese pray to their ancestors as well as to all the gods. They are extra kind to dogs and feed them well as it is believed that the second day is the birthday of all dogs.

　　Business people of the Cantonese dialect group will hold a Hoi/jr/Nin prayer to start their business on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. The prayer is done to pray that they will be blessed with good luck and prosperity in their business for the year.

　　4.Third and fourth days

　　The third and fourth day of the Chinese New Year are generally accepted as inappropriate days to visit relatives and friends due to the following schools of thought. People may subscribe to one or both thoughts.

　　1) It is known as "chì kǒu" , meaning that it is easy to get into arguments. It is suggested that the cause could be the fried food and visiting during the first two days of the New Year celebration.[citation needed]

　　2) Families who had an immediate kin deceased in the past 3 years will not go house-visiting as a form of respect to the dead, but people may visit them on this day. Some people then conclude that it is inauspicious to do any house visiting at all. The third day of the New Year is allocated to grave-visiting instead.

　　5.Fifth day

　　In northern China, people eat jiǎo zi , or dumplings on the morning of Po Wu.This is also the birthday of the Chinese god of wealth. In Taiwan, businesses traditionally re-open on this day, accompanied by firecrackers.

　　6.Seventh day

　　The seventh day, traditionally known as renri, the common mans birthday, the day when everyone grows one year older. It is the day when tossed raw fish salad, yusheng, is eaten. This is a custom primarily among the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Singapore. People get together to toss the colourful salad and make wishes for continued wealth and prosperity.

　　For many Chinese Buddhists, this is another day to avoid meat, the seventh day commemorating the birth of Sakra Devanam Indra.

　　7.Eighth day

　　Another family dinner to celebrate the eve of the birth of the Jade Emperor. However, everybody should be back to work by the 8th day. All of government agencies and business will stop celebrating by the eighth day.

　　8.Ninth day

　　The ninth day of the New Year is a day for Chinese to offer prayers to the Jade Emperor of Heaven in the Taoist Pantheon. The ninth day is traditionally the birthday of the Jade Emperor. This day is especially important to Hokkiens. Come midnight of the eighth day of the new year, Hokkiens will offer thanks giving prayers to the Emperor of Heaven. Offerings will include sugarcane as it was the sugarcane that had protected the Hokkiens from certain extermination generations ago. Incense, tea, fruit, vegetarian food or roast pig, and paper gold is served as a customary protocol for paying respect to an honored person.

　　9.Tenth day

　　The other day when the Jade Emperors birthday is celebrated.

　　10.Thirteenth day

　　On the 13th day people will eat pure vegetarian food to clean out their stomach due to consuming too much food over the last two weeks.

　　This day is dedicated to the General Guan Yu, also known as the Chinese God of War. Guan Yu was born in the Han dynasty and is considered the greatest general in Chinese history. He/jr/represents loyalty, strength, truth, and justice. According to history, he was tricked by the enemy and was beheaded.

　　Almost every organization and business in China will pray to Guan Yu on this day. Before his life ended, Guan Yu had won over one hundred battles and that is a goal that all businesses in China want to accomplish. In a way, people look at him as the God of Wealth or the God of Success.

　　11.Fifteenth day

　　The fifteenth day of the new year is celebrated as yuán xiāo jié , otherwise known as Chap Goh Mei in Fujian dialect. Rice dumplings tangyuan , a sweet glutinous rice ball brewed in a soup, is eaten this day. Candles are lit outside houses as a way to guide wayward spirits home. This day is celebrated as the Lantern Festival, and families walk the street carrying lighted lanterns.

　　This day often marks the end of the Chinese New Year festivities.

　　春節的習俗英文版 3

　　1.Sweeping dust

　　Sweeping the dust is the year-end cleaning, known as "sweeping the house" in the north and "sweeping the house" in the south. Every time the Spring Festival approaches, every household has to clean the environment, clean various utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, and sweep the courtyard of the house. Everywhere is filled with a joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Chinese New Year with cleanliness.

　　2.Tienian Hua

　　Tie Nian Hong refers to the collective term for pasting Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year paintings, auspicious characters, horizontal banners, window decorations, etc. These are red festive elements posted during the Chinese New Year, so they are collectively referred to as "Tie Nian Hong". Tie Nian Hong is a traditional Chinese New Year custom, which reflects the customs and beliefs of the people, adds a festive atmosphere, and sends peoples beautiful expectations for the new year and new life.

　　3.Worshiping gods and ancestors

　　The Chinese nation has a tradition of being cautious and pursuing the future since ancient times. During festivals, we will never forget to worship our ancestors and repay their kindness. On New Years Eve, people will prepare dishes, pour fine wine, and hold a grand sacrificial ceremony to express their remembrance of their ancestors and pray for their blessings. This traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation.

　　4.New Years Eve dinner

　　New Years Eve dinner, also known as New Years dinner, reunion dinner, reunion dinner, etc., especially refers to the family dinner at the end of the year. The New Years Eve dinner originated from the ancient year-end sacrificial ceremony, where gods and ancestors were worshipped and reunited for a meal. The reunion dinner is the highlight of the New Year, not only rich and colorful, but also very thoughtful.

　　5.Shousui

　　Shou Sui, also known as Shou Sui Huo, Zhao Sui, etc., has a long history. Chinese Han people have the habit of observing the New Years Eve, commonly known as "enduring the New Year". The folk custom of staying up for the new year is mainly manifested in all houses lighting up the fire, families gathering together, and guarding the fire from going out, waiting for the moment of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new year.

　　6.New Years money

　　New Years money, also known as "pressure money", is usually given to younger generations by elders in red envelopes during the countdown to the new year. New Years money has a good meaning and is usually believed to ward off evil spirits and bless peace. It is said that New Years money can suppress evil spirits, and younger generations who receive New Years money can spend a year peacefully.

　　7.Setting off firecrackers

　　Sweeping the dust is the year-end cleaning, known as "sweeping the house" in the north and "sweeping the house" in the south. Every time the Spring Festival approaches, every household has to clean the environment, clean various utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, and sweep the courtyard of the house. Everywhere is filled with a joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Chinese New Year with cleanliness.

　　8. New Year greetings

　　New Years greetings are a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express good wishes to each other. The original meaning of the term "New Years greetings" in ancient times was to celebrate the New Year for the elderly, including kowtowing and bowing to the elderly, congratulating them on the success of the New Year, and other content. When encountering relatives and friends of the same generation, one should also bow and congratulate them. With the development of the times, the custom of paying New Years greetings has also continuously added new content and forms. In addition to following the traditional Chinese New Year greetings, there has also been a rise in phone calls, text messages, and online greetings.

　　9.Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival)

　　On the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival, people will light ten thousand colored lanterns to celebrate the bright moon on this night. It is an important custom of the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival to go shopping, guess riddles, and eat Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) (also called rice dumpling), which means reunion.

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