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春节习俗 Customs of the Spring FestivalThe Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. Through the evolvement of thousands of years, a series of customs are spreading far and wide.扫尘 Sweeping the Dust“Dust” is homophonic with “chen”（尘）in Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life. In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new.贴春联 Pasting Spring Couplets“The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical phrases”, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase, above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past, the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.贴窗花和“福”字 Pasting Paper-cuts and “Up-sided Fu”Paper-cuts, usually with auspicious patterns, give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life. In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu（福）”, big and small, on walls, doors and doorposts around the houses. “Fu（福）” shows people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character “fu（福）” to signify that blessing has arrived because “inverted” is a homonym for “arrive” in Chinese. Now many kinds of paper-cuts and “fu（福）” can be seen in the market before the Festival.守岁 Staying Up Late on New Year's EveThe tradition of staying up late to see New Year in originated from an interesting folk tale. In ancient China there lived a monster named Year, who was very ferocious. Year always went out from its burrow on New Year’s Eve to devour people. Therefore, on every New Year’s Eve, every household would have supper together. After dinner, no one dared go to sleep and all the family members would sit together, chatting and emboldening each other. Gradually the habit of staying up late on New Year’s Eve is formed. Thus in China, “celebrating the Spring Festival” is also called “passing over the year (guo nian)”. However, now there are less and less people in cities who will stay up late to see New Year in.贴年画 Pasting New Year PrintsThe custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With the creation of board carvings, New Year paintings cover a wide range of subjects. The most famous ones are Door Gods, Surplus Year after Year, Three Gods of Blessing, Salary and Longevity, An Abundant Harvest of Crops, Thriving Domestic Animals and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Year Print are Tɑohuɑwu of Suzhou, Yɑngliuqing of Tianjin, Wuqiɑng of Hebei and Weifang of Shangdong. Now the tradition of pasting New Year paintings is still kept in rural China, while it is seldom followed in cities.吃饺子 Having JiaoziOn New Year’s Eve, the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi and celebrate the Spring Festival. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. The tradition of having jiaozi is very important during the Spring Festival. You cannot have a complete Spring Festival without having jiaozi. (See page 82 for more information about “jiaozi”)看春节联欢晚会 The CCTV New Year's GalaThe New Year’s Gala is a variety show held by China Central Television (CCTV) since 1983. For every year since then at the turn of the Lunar New Year, the program begins at 8:00PM and lasts five or six hours. It brings laughter to billions of people, creates many popular words and produces lots of TV phenomena meriting attention. For over twenty years, its value has gone far beyond a variety show. It is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. Many Chinese would like to watch the gala while having the dinner on New Year’s Eve.放鞭炮 Setting off FirecrackersThe firecracker is a unique product in China. In ancient China, the sound of burning bamboo tubes was used to scare away wild animals and evil spirits. With the invention of the gunpowder, “firecracker” is also called “鞭炮biānpào” (“炮” in Chinese means gun) and used to foster a joyful atmosphere. The first thing every Chinese household does is to set off firecrackers and fireworks, which are meant to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new. In the past few years, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities including Beijing due to fire and personal casualty caused by burning firecrackers. However, some Chinese thought that a Spring Festival without firecrackers was not lively enough and they burned firecrackers by stealth. So in recent years, the ban was canceled again. This shows that burning firecrackers is a very important activity during the Spring Festival.拜年和压岁钱 New Year's Visit and Gift MoneyOn the first day of the Chinese lunar year, everybody puts on their best clothes and pays ceremonial calls on their relatives and friends, wishing them all the luck in the coming year. Juniors will greet seniors, wishing them health and longevity, while seniors will give juniors some gift money as a wish for their safety in the coming year. When friends meet, they will wish each other happiness and prosperity with a big smile. With the development of the new technology, there is a change on the way of giving New Years greetings. In recent year, it is common to send New Years greetings by such modern means of communication as telephones, emails and text messages.逛庙会 Temple FairTemple fair, usually held outside temples, is a kind of folk custom in China. During the Spring Festival, temple fair is one of the most important activities, in which there are such performances as acrobatics and Wushu, numerous kinds of local snacks and many kinds of things for everyday life. In recent years, the temple fair has become a place for people to appreciate the traditional art and experience the traditional life.

放烟花 light fireworks 贴春联 post Spring Festival couplets 春节晚会New Year's Party 附: 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 Customs: 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 Culture Note: In the old days, New Year‘s money was given in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on a red string and symbolized the hope that one would live to be a hundred years old. Today, money is placed inside red envelopes in denominations considered auspicious and given to represent luck and wealth 辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year 扫房spring cleaning; general house-cleaning Blessing: Treasures fill the home Business flourishes Peace all year round Wishing you prosperity Harmony brings wealth May all your wishes come true Everything goes well The country flourishes and people live in peace Money and treasures will be plentiful Wishing you every success Promoting to a higher position Safe trip wherever you go 祝你新的一年快乐幸福: Wish you happiness and prosperity in the coming year! 事业成功，家庭美满: Wish you success in your career and happiness of your family! Food names: 年糕Nian-gao; rise cake; New Year cake 团圆饭 family reunion dinner 年夜饭 the dinner on New Year‘s Eve 饺子Jiao-zi; Chinese meat ravioli 汤圆Tang-yuan; dumplings made of sweet rice, rolled into balls and stuffed with either sweet or spicy fillings 八宝饭 eight treasures rice pudding 糖果盘 candy tray: 什锦糖 assorted candies - sweet and fortune 蜜冬瓜 candied winter melon - growth and good health 西瓜子 red melon seed - joy, happiness, truth and sincerity 金桔cumquat - prosperity 糖莲子 candied lotus seed - many descendents to come 糖藕candied lotus root - fulfilling love relationship 红枣red dates - prosperity 花生糖 peanut candy - sweet 参考资料：

The Spring Festival, is the lunar New Year, commonly known as the Chinese New Year, generally refers to the New Year's eve and the first day of the first month. But the people, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival is refers to the twelfth of wax offering from the 8 or the twelfth of 23 or 24 people, until the fifteenth day, among them with New Year's eve and the first day of the first month for high tide. The Spring Festival has a long history, originated in the year of the shang periods (B.C. SuiWei ancestor worship god offering activities. During the Spring Festival, China's han ethnic minorities and many have held various activities to mark the occasion. These activities are designed for worship their ancestors, and hit the millennium bringers of good fortune, prayed for good harvests as the main content. Rich and colorful activities with strong ethnic characteristics

放烟花: shoot off fireworks贴对联：post couplets春节晚会：Spring Festival Gala Evening