元旦英语介绍ppt

The earliest New Year's Day came about 50,000 BC. The ancient Egyptians had changed from nomadism to farming and settled on both sides of the Nile River. Their agricultural harvest was closely related to whether the Nile River flooded or not.

From long-term observation, the ancient Egyptians found that the Nile flooded regularly. They recorded the time on bamboo poles every time, and learned that the two floods were about 365 days apart.

They also found that when the rising tide of the Nile came near Cairo today, the sun and Sirius rose from the horizon at the same time. So the ancient Egyptians set this day as the beginning of the year. This is the earliest origin of New Year's Day.

节日 日期 英文名称 元旦 1月1日 NEW YEAR'S DAY 春节 阴历一月一日 SPRING FESTIVAL (CHINESE NEW YEAR) 情人节 2月14日 ST.VALENTINE'S DAY (VALENTINE'S DAY) 元宵节 阴历1月15日 LANTERN FESTIVAL 狂欢节 巴西，二月中、下旬 CARNIVAL 国际妇女节 3月8日 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 圣帕特里克节 爱尔兰，3月17日 ST. PATRICK'S DAY 枫糖节 加拿大，3-4月 MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL 植树节 3月12日 愚人节 4月1日 FOOL'S DAY 复活节 春分月圆后第一个星期日 EASTER 宋干节 泰国新年4月13日 SONGKRAN FESTIVAL DAY 食品节 新加坡，4月17日 FOOD FESTIVAL 国际劳动节 5月1日 INTERNATIONAL LABOUR DAY 母亲节 5月的第二个星期日 MOTHER'S DAY 把斋节 BAMADAN 开斋节 4月或5月，回历十月一日 LESSER BAIRAM 银行休假日 英国, 5月31日 BANK HOLIDAY 国际儿童节 6月1日 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DAY 父亲节 6月的第三个星期日 FATHER'S DAY 端午节 阴历5月5日 DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL 仲夏节 北欧6月 MID-SUMMER DAY 古尔邦节 伊斯兰节，7月下旬 CORBAN 七夕 中国，阴历7月初七 中秋节 阴历8月15日 MOON FESTIVAL 教师节 中国，9月10日 TEACHER'S DAY 重阳节 中国，阴历9月初九 国庆节 中国，10月1日 啤酒节 德国十月节，10月10日 OKTOBERFEST 南瓜节 北美10月31日 PUMPKIN DAY 鬼节 万圣节除夕，10月31日夜 HALLOWEEN 万圣节 11月1日 HALLOWMAS 感恩节 美国，11月最后一个星期4 THANKSGIVING 护士节 12月12日 NRUSE DAY 圣诞除夕 12月24日 CHRISTMAS EVE 圣诞节 12月25日 CHRISTMAS DAD节礼日 12月26日 BOXING DAY 新年除夕 12月31日 NEW YEAR'S EVE

元旦的由来英文版：Introduction Yuandan is the first day of the lunar calendar. It is the day when the earth has circled the sun for one round and is beginning another circling. It represents a new beginning when people send off the old days and welcome the new ones. As the first day of the year, Yuandan has been considered to be the most important festival since the ancient times. Customs 1. Kaisui(beginning of the year): According to the Chinese traditional custom, starting from haishi(9p.m. to 11p.m.)of the last evening of the twelfth lunar month, each family must prepare offering s to deities at the altar. At the same time, they too prepare food for the New Year day: The whole family will then stay awake together to attend to the year(called shou sui). After haishi, zishi(11p.m. to 1a.m.)will come, and this is the arrival of New Year(Yuandan). At this moment, people begin the celebration with fireworks. Vegetarian and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings, and incense be burned to welcome the deities. In the ancient times, it was believed that haishi connected the two years and thus was called kaisui. At the same night, some families will follow the instruction in Tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the "fortune deity" during the "fortune time" to receive the deity. If the direction of the "fortune deity" is at the "ill position", people will choose to receive "happy deity" or "noble deity" instead. 2. There is an apparent difference in the custom of food taking on Yuandan between the Chinese in the northern and southern regions. The northern Chinese has the habit of taking jiao zi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped inside). Some people may put a sweet or a coin inside jiao zi, hoping to have a sweet year after tasting the sweet and a wealthy year after tasting the coin. on the other hand, the southern Chinese have the taboo for killing on Yuandan. Therefore, they do not take meat in tee morning of Yuandan, so as to avoid bloodshed or mutual slaughter. In order to evade misfortune, they have the first meal of this day without meat. Instead, they take vegetarian food for the sake of virtue. 3. What is special during the New Year is that parents or elders will distribute red packets(ang pao or ya sui qian)to the children. People in the ancient times were more particular in giving away the red packets: the distribution took place on the eve of New Year so that the kids could suppress the past year and enter the New Year. Ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the unpredictable future. Representing the wishes for the healthy psychological growth of the children, ya sui qian symbolises the elders' hope to see their children overcome all the unpredictable elements brought by the "year". 4. There is an extraordinary number of taboos on Yuandan. Each place has its own customs of taboo. Here, we will mention only a few common taboos in Fujian Province, Guangdong Province and Southeast Asia: In the past, people commonly believed that fortune was hidden in the house. So, w\sweeping of floor must be done in the direction moving inwards, and there was no clearance of rubbish at night. Particularly on the New Tear day, in order to keep fortune from flowing out, there was no sweeping. Some families kept this taboo until the fifth or even the fifteenth day. If anything was broken, the pieces were wrapped up in order not to let the fortune slip away and were disposed only the fifth day. Yuandan(in more serious families, the period extends from the 1st to the 15th day) marks the new beginning. In the hope that New Year brings good beginning, people should utter neither unkind words nor vulgar language. Making noises, fighting, quarreling and especially weeping are avoided to deter misfortune. There are even taboos of taking medicine and having sneeze, for it is believed that they can lead to sickness throughout the year. Taboos of the past also concerned the use of knife and the breaking of things. If a thing was broken, the word "break" or any other word importing similar meaning was not used. Instead, words like "failing to the floor and blossoming like flowers" which delivered pleasant senses were used to suggest good connections. On Yuandan, neither lending and nor giving of money to others is done so that there will be no out-flowing of money during the year. There is also the saying that if a male sleeps in the afternoon, his career will breakdown, and if a female has an afternoon nap, the kitchen will collapse. 5. Ancient rite: In the past, there was a rite called he zheng(proper greeting)during New Year. When a person paid a New Year visit to friends or relatives, he took along a piece of paper or card on which the name of the host was written wit Chinese brush. The receiver of this greeting card would normally paste it on the wall of his main hall to show his respect to and appreciation for the visitor. The quantity of greeting card received reflected the person's public relationship with others, while the names and status of the people who gave the greeting cards indicated the host's boundary of social network and standard of living. Nowadays, because of easy communication, convenient transportation system and wider social network, when people send their greetings they tend to follow the Western style. The greeting is now done by mail and even by email. Today, he zheng is done by simply bringing along red packets and food presents when making a visit. To be in line with the custom of to giving away money on the first day, families in some places do not pay New Year call to others. Instead, the whole family simply goes out to enjoy themselves or stayed at home for family happiness. 6. In the past, there was a superstition that when a person left his house in the New Year, he must take the correct first step. A particular person would look for the fortunate direction in accordance with the day, month and year of this birth basing on the explanation of Chinese calendar. On Yuan Dan, when a person stepped out of his house, he must go in the fortunate direction and avoid the unfortunate direction. Even people of less particularity also consulted Chinese calendar to find out where the fortunate directions and fierce deities were before the first step out of their houses. Meaning From the above mentioned customs, we can see that there are especially many taboos during Chinese New Year. On Yuan Dan in particular, there are more taboos on speech and behaviour than those on other ordinary days. Similarly, there are more activities in pursuit of good cause than usual. On probing the activities and taboos, we have no difficulty to understand that the theme behind is always related to fortune, wealth and goodness, and that people usually concern themselves with a good beginning for the year. Some taboos may look superstitious on the surface, but they do produce efficacy. If we practise them circumspectively, they will yield practical results. For example, the prohibition of bad words, quarrel, weeping and crying, together with the emphasis on thinking positively even when things are broken, provide some normative rules for people to follow. This gives people the opportunity to mend their ways, to develop good attitudes, and to form a habit of thinking positively and looking at the good side of things. The prohibition of sweeping and disposing the rubbish in the first five days forces people to arrange their things and clear away the rubbish properly at the end of each year, so that no unwanted things will be carried forward to the new year. At the same time, the taboo also compels people to learn to be thrifty. This is because to prevent accumulated things from becoming rubbish, people must be careful in the use of any paper or other things, and thus avoid waste of things. The avoidance of medicine and sneeze on the first day looks like a joke and is absurd as far as the patient is concerned. However, because of the taboos, people will be conscious enough to take serious care of their health during the windy and snowing season. Thus, they will avoid falling sick in the New Year and wasting away the precious spring hours. Nowadays, people have abandoned the custom of bringing along greeting cards when they go for New Year house visits. However, Chinese Malaysians still maintain the habit of sending New Year greeting cards by post before the New Year. There are even non-Chinese sending New Year greeting cared in English or Malay languages to their Chinese friends. Moreover, the Chinese like to use colourful New Year cared to decorate their houses, so as to strengthen the New Year atmosphere. Like the ancient days' greeting cards for he zheng which were displayed in the main hall, these modern New Year cards also reflect the social position of the persons who receive the cards. Thus, in the way, the ancient rite of he zheng has developed in Malaysia with a Malaysian colour.

各种传统节日的中英文介绍1. 春节(农历一月一日) Spring Festival；Chinese New Year'sDay2. 元宵节(农历一月十五日) Lantern Festival3. 清明节(4月5日)Tomb-Sweeping Day4. 端午节(农历五月初五) Dragon Boat Festival5.中秋节(农历八月十五) Mid-Autumn (Moon)Festival6. 重阳节(农历九月九日) Double-ninth Day7.. 除夕(农历十二月三十日)New Year's Eve做对外汉语教师不仅是语言上的交流，更多的是文化上的分享，做对外汉语教师可以了解到很多异国文化，但是需要持有一定的教学资质才可以任职。我们提供的是国家汉办国际汉语教师资格证考试，中国人力资源和社会保障部国家职业对外汉语教师资格证书以及国际认证协会国际注册汉语教师资格证书三证唯一联考机构，两证承诺一站式就业，助您后顾 无忧！

The ancients regarded the day when Emperor Shun offered sacriflces to heaven and earth and Emperor Yao as the beginning of a year.

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