春节英文短文
看春节联欢晚会 The CCTV New Year‘s Gala
The 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.
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the "Lunar New Year" by English speakers. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve is known as chú xī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve".
Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Lunar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the most.
Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans (Seollal), Tibetans and Bhutanese (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), Vietnamese (Tết), and formerly the Japanese before 1873 (Oshogatsu). Outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Chinese New Year is also celebrated in countries with significant Han Chinese populations, such as Singapore, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. In countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Australia Post, Canada Post, and the US Postal Service issues New Year's themed stamps.
Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy presents, decoration, material, food, and clothing. It is also the tradition that every family thoroughly cleans the house to sweep away any ill-fortune in hopes to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity”. On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper is a feast with families. Food will include such items as pigs, ducks, chicken and sweet delicacies. The family will end the night with firecrackers. Early the next morning, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New Year tradition is a great way to reconcile forgetting all grudges, and sincerely wish peace and happiness for everyone.
Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, outside China its years are often numbered from the reign of Huangdi. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year 2009 "Chinese Year"
国外的新年
坦桑尼亚——驱散妖魔祈求幸福
坦桑尼亚新年前夕，沿海的斯瓦希里族人家家户户要用木炭爆玉米花撒在物内的各个角落，以示驱散妖魔，祈求幸福;用玉米和菜豆煮饭盛于碗盘放在门前，供串亲的过路人随便食用。元旦那天，人们鸡鸣即起，姑娘们身着彩裙，走门串户唱民歌;早餐后，鼓乐齐鸣，男女老少成群结队到海滩洗澡，以示洗去污秽，健康欢乐地迎接新年。
喀麦隆——除垃圾吃美餐
喀麦隆除夕夜晚，人们通宵不眠。第二天一清早，各家把屋里垃圾清除掉，然后吃上一顿美餐，表示进入新的一年。
苏丹——老年跳舞青年唱歌
苏丹人在元旦尽情玩乐一天，举办各种文艺、游戏、跳舞等项庆祝活动，与平日不同的是老年人跳舞，青年人唱歌。
加纳——节日桌上烧公鸡
加纳在元旦时，人们用棕榈叶建成各式各样的房子，在房子里放着节日桌，桌上摆着诱人的新年菜肴——烧公鸡，全家老小都围坐在桌旁，那些在过去争吵过的人，借此机会和解。
马达加斯加——赠送鸡尾鸡腿
马达加斯加在新年前的一周里，男女老少都不准吃肉，直到除夕晚餐才准吃些禽类。元旦这天，夫妇要向双方的家长赠送鸡尾，表示尊敬。向兄弟姐妹和至亲好友赠送鸡腿，表示关心和友谊，祝贺新年。
埃及——“涨水新年”
埃及是文明古国，公元前40年，埃及人就能观察星相了，他们发现天狼星和太阳一同升起，尼罗河水立时上涨。埃及把尼罗河涨水的这一天作为新年的开始，称为“涨水新年”。埃及的克鲁特人迎接新年，在门口放一张桌子，七八只碟子供着大豆、扁豆、紫苜蓿和小麦的颗粒，还有好些绿色植物的小芽，这象征丰裕。献给神的东西越多，新年的收成就越多。埃及的新年在秋天，因埃及的农业生产是从秋季开始的。
yjbys为您推荐：
2.关于过新年手抄报
3.三年级新年手抄报
7.
9.元旦,新年搞笑短信给你点阳光你就灿烂,给你个笑容你就放电,给你
10.关于春节手抄报图画