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你好The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one. Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year. Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened. On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko. The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves. After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year. This is called "Seeing the New Year in". Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing. Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the满意请采纳

1、春节(农历一月一日） Spring Festival；Chinese New Year's Day

由来：

Primitive beliefs and sacrificial culture are important factors in the formation of New Year's Day.

原始信仰和祭祀文化是春节形成的重要因素。

习俗：

such as Lunar New Year's dinner, keeping the age, New Year's money, temple fairs, flower lanterns and other customs.

如团年饭、守岁、压岁钱、庙会、赏花灯等习俗。

2、元宵节（农历一月十五日） Lantern Festival（龙灯节直译）

由来：

The custom of burning lamps on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is related to the spread of Buddhism to the east.

正月十五燃灯的习俗与佛教东传有关。

习俗：

Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities，

such as watching lanterns, eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles and setting off fireworks.

元宵节主要有赏花灯、吃汤圆、猜灯谜、放烟花等一系列传统民俗活动。

3、清明节（公历4月5日前后，农历二月后半月至三月上半月间） Tomb-Sweeping Day

由来：

The Qingming Festival originated from the Spring Festival and the Spring and Autumn Festival in ancient times.

清明节源于上古时代的春祭，春秋二祭，古已有之。

习俗：

Tomb-sweeping, ancestor-sacrificing and outing are common basic etiquette and custom themes.

扫墓祭祖、踏青郊游是共同基本礼俗主题。

4、端午节（农历五月初五） Dragon Boat Festival（龙舟节直译）

由来：

Dragon Boat Festival, with a long history, evolved from the dragon totem worship held in Baiyue in ancient times.

端午节，历史悠久，由上古时代百越举行龙图腾祭祀演变而来。

习俗：

The Dragon Boat picking and rice dumplings are the two main themes of the Dragon Boat Festival.

扒龙舟与食粽子是端午节的两大礼俗主题。

5、中秋节（农历八月十五） Mid-Autumn (Moon)Festival

由来：

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena，

and evolved from the worship of the moon on the autumn evening in ancient times.

中秋节源自天象崇拜，由上古时代秋夕祭月演变而来。

习俗：

offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes,

playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine.

中秋节自古便有祭月、赏月、吃月饼、玩花灯、赏桂花、饮桂花酒等民俗

6、重阳节（农历九月九日） Double-ninth Day（重九节直译）

由来：

The origin of Chongyang Festival can be traced back to ancient times. In ancient times,

there were activities of harvest sacrifice and Mars sacrifice in autumn and autumn.

重阳节的源头，可追溯到上古时代。古时季秋有丰收祭天、祭祀大火星活动。

习俗：

There are customs such as climbing high to pray for blessings, visiting chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood,

offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and feasting for longevity.

有登高祈福、秋游赏菊、佩插茱萸、祭神祭祖及饮宴求寿等习俗。

参考资料来源：百度百科——中国传统节日

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All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one. Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year. Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened. On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko. The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves. After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year. This is called "Seeing the New Year in". Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing. Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils. Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance. The Chinese character "fu" (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. The character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chinese the "reversed fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as "fudaole." What's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall. People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in. Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher, one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely. Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. People thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. However, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities once the government took security, noise and pollution factors into consideration. As a replacement, some buy tapes with firecracker sounds to listen to, some break little balloons to get the sound too, while others buy firecracker handicrafts to hang in the living room. The lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished. China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 春节的介绍（英文） 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 Years 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. Preparations for the New Year begin the last few days of the last moon, when houses are thoroughly cleaned, debts repaid, hair cut and new clothes purchased. Houses are festooned with paper scrolls bearing auspicious antithetical couplet (as show on both side of the page) and in many homes, people burn incense at home and in the temples to pay respects to ancestors and ask the gods for good health in the coming months. \"Guo Nian,\" meaning \"passing the year,\" is the common term among the Chinese people for celebrating the Spring Festival. It actually means greeting the new year. At midnight at the turn of the old and new year, people used to let off fire-crackers which serve to drive away the evil spirits and to greet the arrival of the new year. In an instant the whole city would be engulfed in the deafening noise of the firecrackers. On New Years Eve, all the members of families come together to feast. Jiaozi, a steamed dumpling as pictured below, is popular in the north, while southerners favor a sticky sweet glutinous rice pudding called nian gao -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 除夕 New Year's Eve 元宵节 the Lantern Festival 或the festival of lanterns 春节 the Spring Festival

作文思路：作文从春节的别称开始介绍，接着介绍了春节的由来，演变，最后介绍春节在国际上的影响。

春节（Spring Festival），即中国农历新年，俗称新春、新岁、岁旦等，口头上又称过年、过大年。

Spring Festival, the Chinese Lunar New Year, is commonly known as new year, new year, new year's day and so on. It is also known as Chinese New Year and Chinese New Year.

春节历史悠久，由上古时代岁首祈岁祭祀演变而来。百节年为首，春节是中华民族最隆重的传统佳节。

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the worship of the first year in ancient times. The Spring Festival is the most grand traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

受到中华文化的影响，世界上一些国家和地区也有庆贺新春的习俗。

Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the new year.

据不完全统计，已有近20个国家和地区把中国春节定为整体或者所辖部分城市的法定节假日。

According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated Chinese Spring Festival as a legal holiday for the whole or some cities under their jurisdiction.

春节与清明节、端午节、中秋节并称为中国四大传统节日。

Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid Autumn Festival are known as China's four traditional festivals.

The Spring Festival, the Chinese Lunar New Year, is commonly known as the new year, the new year, the new year's day and so on.

春节，即中国农历新年，俗称新春、新岁、岁旦等，口头上又称过年、过大年。

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the worship of the first year in ancient times.

春节历史悠久，由上古时代岁首祈岁祭祀演变而来。

春节习俗：

1、拜岁

拜岁，年俗活动之一。在岁首早上迎新岁，拜祭“岁神”。“岁”又名为“摄提”、“太岁”，上古纪元星名。太岁也是民间信仰的神灵。岁以六十甲子的干支纪年法为运转周期，共六十位，每年有一位岁神当值，在当年当值的太岁谓之“值年太岁”，是一岁之主宰，掌管当年人间的吉凶祸福。

2、庙会

逛庙会是春节期间的民俗活动之一。广府庙会与北京地坛庙会并称中国两大庙会。涵盖木偶荟萃、中华绝活、武林大会、元宵灯会等主题活动，包含了祈福文化、民俗文化、美食文化、商贸休闲文化等丰富的内容。

写作思路：可以将春节的起源介绍一下，接着再详细介绍一下全国各地春节的习俗以及相应的活动等等。

正文：

The Spring Festival, the Chinese Lunar New Year, is commonly known as the new year, the new year, the new year's day and so on. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the worship of the first year in ancient times. All things are based on heaven and people are based on ancestors. Praying for new year's sacrifice and worshiping heaven and ancestors is also a way to repay the original.

春节，即中国农历新年，俗称新春、新岁、岁旦等，口头上又称过年、过大年。春节历史悠久，由上古时代岁首祈岁祭祀演变而来。万物本乎天、人本乎祖，祈岁祭祀、敬天法祖，报本反始也。

The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotation, which carries rich historical and cultural heritage in the process of inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, all kinds of celebrations are held all over the country, with strong regional characteristics.

春节的起源蕴含着深邃的文化内涵，在传承发展中承载了丰厚的历史文化底蕴。在春节期间，全国各地均有举行各种庆贺新春活动，带有浓郁的各地域特色。

These activities are mainly about the old and new cloth, the exorcism, the worship of gods, the blessing of the year, and the rich and colorful forms, which are the essence of Chinese traditional culture.

这些活动以除旧布新、驱邪攘灾、拜神祭祖、纳福祈年为主要内容，形式丰富多彩，凝聚着中华传统文化精华。

During the Spring Festival, all kinds of New Year celebrations are held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs or details, which have strong regional characteristics.

在春节期间，全国各地均有举行各种贺岁活动，各地因地域文化不同而又存在着习俗内容或细节上的差异，带有浓郁的各地域特色。

During the Spring Festival, there are many kinds of celebrations, such as lion dance, floatation, dragon dance, God outing, temple fair, flower street, lantern watching, gongs and drums, vernier flag, fireworks burning, blessing, spring dancing, stilt walking, dry boat running, Yangko dancing, etc.

春节期间的庆祝活动极为丰富多样，有舞狮、飘色、舞龙、游神、庙会、逛花街、赏花灯、游锣鼓、游标旗、烧烟花、祈福、掼春，也有踩高跷、跑旱船、扭秧歌等等。

During the Spring Festival, there are such things as sticking New Year's red, keeping the new year's Eve, having reunion dinner, and paying New Year's greetings. However, due to the different customs, the details have their own characteristics. The Spring Festival folk custom has various forms and rich contents, which is a concentrated display of the essence of the Chinese nation's life culture.

春节期间贴年红、守岁、吃团年饭、拜年等各地皆有之，但因风土人情的不同，细微处又各有其特色。春节民俗形式多样、内容丰富，是中华民族的生活文化精粹的集中展示。