春节故事英语

The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. It is just as the Christmas in the West. In the eve of Spring Festival, people perform a series of steps.First, people sweep away all the dirty dust clean their homes so that they can through away the ill-fortune make the way for good incoming luck. A family would work together about the housework. They can clear up and collect their things from the whole year. Moreover, it is a good way to enhance the relationships between family members. During the cleaning, there are several traditional customs. For example, discard the old shoes is one of the Beijing tradition. Because the pronunciation of the old shoes is same as the unlucky pronounce, people avoid the misfortune by throwing away the old shoes.Second, people would decorate their houses. They always put the paper-cut on the window and hang the couplets on the sides of door. It is noting that red is the main color of all the decorations in thousands of years. Chinese people believe that red is a lucky vivid color which represents a fantastic life. Consequently, red is in everywhere such as red lanterns, red clothes and red firecrackers. People really enjoy the process of decorating their houses. Some families even write the couplets by themselves instead of buying a pair of couplets that others write. Third, preparing the feast is a huge work. The traditional feast involves chicken, ducks, fish, and pork or beef. People from the west area of China prefer mutton than pork or beef. On the other hand, the ways to cook dishes include fry, boil, stew, and steam. South people like a lot kinds of soup and small cakes. However, north people like that vegetable stew with meat, and they also steam the sweet glutinous rice cake.The last but not least, families will end the day with firecrackers. It also means welcoming the Lunar New Year. Nowadays, firework has become more and more popular. However, people still insist the firecrackers as the tradition.Spring Festival has a long history and includes a lot of customs. Chinese people have followed almost all the traditions for thousand years and enjoy it.

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The Spring Festival, one of the most important ancient traditional festivals, as well as Chinese unique festival at the lunar calendar, is also called Chinese New Year. Since the western han dynasty, the Spring Festival custom has been extended till now. The Spring Festival generally refers to the New Year's eve and the first month of the new year. 作为作为重要的一个传统节日，也是中国独一无二的农历新年，春节也就是中国的新年。从西汉至今，春节的习俗便延续至今。一般而言，春节不仅包括新年除夕也包括新年农历第一个月

The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means "year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year. One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said, "I hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?" So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time. After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most. From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term "Guo Nian", which may mean "Survive the Nian" becomes today "Celebrate the (New) Year" as the word "guo" in Chinese having both the meaning of "pass-over" and "observe". The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.