无敌花花Nancy
We call the Chinese New Year the Spring Festival. It is the first day of the lunar calendar. Before New Year’s Day, people are busy shopping and cleaning their houses. On New Year’s Eve, every family has a delicious feast. All the family stays up late to welcome the Festival and people burn firecrackers to greet it. On the first day of the Spring Festival, people put on their new clothes and visit their relatives and friends. When meeting, they say “Good luck” and other greetings to each other. And children are very happy because they can get the lucky money from their parents and relatives. On the Festival, there are lion dances and some other activities, which last at least three days. People usually have a very good time during the festival.
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This New Year's day, I had a really happy.
这个元旦节，我过得真快乐。
Shops close only on Christmas Day and New Year's Day
商店只在圣诞日和元旦停业。
New Year's Day is a public holiday throughout Britain
元旦是全英国的公众假日。
On New Year's Day in 1974, I started keeping a journal.
1974年元旦我开始记日记。
I like the cheerful atmosphere of New Year's Day.
我喜欢元旦的欢乐气氛。
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中国元旦习俗主要有燃放炮竹，敬鬼神，拜祭先人。一般机关，企业会举行年终集体庆祝活动，但民间活动很少。
Chinese New Year customs are mainly set off firecrackers, ghosts, the worship of ancestors. The general authorities, enterprises will be held at the end of the collective celebration, but few folk activities.
庆祝元旦的三大方式
1.全中国甚至是全世界都把元旦定为法定节日，在元旦这天放假。新中国成立后，也规定元旦为法定节日，放假一天。
2.现在比较普遍的就是由团体组织的活动，如元旦联欢会、挂庆祝元旦的标语、或举行集体活动等。以前有组织敲锣打鼓、集体跳民族舞的，到科技发展的今天，就演变为联欢晚会了，近年更是有旅游、聚会等节目。
3.保留着中国传统的庆祝方式就在于民间了，尤其是在农村。每到元旦，家家户户都会燃放炮竹，杀鸡宰鹅的，拜祭过各方神灵后，就是一家人团圆，聚一餐。
Three new year celebration way
1. Chinese even all over the world to new year's day as a statutory holiday, the holiday on New Year's day. After the founding of new Chinese, also set new year's day as a statutory holiday, a day off.
2. now more general is organized by the group activities, such as new year's Gala, hanging banners, held to celebrate New Year's day or collective activities. Before the drums, organized collective ethnic dance, to the development of science and technology today, the evolution of Gala, in recent years there is more travel, party and other programs.
3. retains the traditional way to celebrate Chinese is folk, especially in rural areas. Every day, every family will set off firecrackers, kill chickens and geese, the worship of gods is all over, one family reunion meal together.
