节日总是让人振奋，不只是因为放假，更多的是一种文化的认同感。下面是小编给大家整理的一些英语范文，供大家参阅!
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New Year PartyOn New Years Eve, our class had a party. The atmosphere was good. It was out of the ordinary from the very begining. The boy student from one bedroom gave an unusualperformance. We saw a boy named Li Xinmin turn off all the lights in a sudden snap. Then with three resounding crow of a cock echoing in the hall, the hall was again brightly lit in asnap.Then, the representative of the bedroom Zhu Guozhang asked us to guess a line of a poem related to the above situation. He added that Li Xinmin alone was born in the year of the dog andthe other three were all born in the year of the chicken. They left us all in confusion. And it was our monitor who was quickwitted. He shouted our, The day breaks as the cock crows three timesat dawn. The hall After that, they had another item. This time Li Xinmin was placed in the middle of the circle. While he was standing there, the other three stood around him, each bowing downto him at an angle of 120 degrees. It was an idiom. This time I got itdog stands out among a group of chickens.
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It was Mother's Day. Sun Zheng thought he should do something for his mother. He decided to help his mother do some housework. After school he went to a shop to buy some food on his wayhome.When he got home, he did his best to cook some nice food, though he couldn't do the cooking well. Then he cleaned the room. He felt verGPS论坛[bbs.xc138]y tired, but he was veryhappy.When his father and his mother came back and saw the clean rooms and dishes which weren't so nice, they were very happy.They had their supper together. His mother said, Thank you, mychild!今天是母亲节。孙峥觉得应当为妈妈做点事，他决定帮妈妈做些家务。放学回家的路上，他往商店买了食品。到家后，他尽全力做些好吃的，固然他实在不善于烹任。做完饭，他又打扫了房间。他感觉有些累，但依然很兴奋。当父母回来后，看见干净的房间和实在不太美味的饭菜，他们依然很兴奋。他们一起吃了晚饭。妈妈说：谢谢你，孩子。
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Week-long Holidays,Good or Bad?What's Your Opinion? Our National Day is coming. We shall have days of rest,presumably weeklong holidays again just like the weeklong May Day holidays. Manypeople welcome weeklong holidays and are busy planning where and how to spend the seven days;whereas many other people do not applaud. As to me, weeklong holidays mean a span of dullness,boredom, melancholy and helplessness, and I think anyone who had experienced the holiday sufferings in May would share my feelings. I well remember that from May Day, to be more exact, a fewdays earlier than May Day, the shopping season started.Most shops extended their shopping hours to respond to their overwhelmingly enthusiastic customers. There were special sales with discountcoupons and instant lucky draws and various sales promotions in nearly every big store to lure po tential customers into spending more. Crowds of shoppers flocked towards department stores,enjoying their high purchasing power. There were traffic jams almost everywhere, people waited in long queues attaxi-stands? looking entirely exhausted.Tempers flared when peoplegotpushed or if someone else cut the queue.Impatient drivers honked at each other every now and then. The railway station was congested with travelers
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The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional
view holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan c. 340 BC-278 BC of the Warring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he wasdisgusted by the
corruption of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fish so they would not eat Qu's body. They also sat on long,narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, and tried to scare the fish away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking carved dragon head on the boat's prow船头.
In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu was also celebrated as "Poets' Day," due to Qu Yuan's status as China's first poet of personal renown名声名望.
Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous粘的 rice dumplings called zongzi the food originally intended to feed the fish and race dragon boats in memory of Qu's dramatic death.
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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 traditionallybegins 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 aschú 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 andtraditions. 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 itsgeographic 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 significantHan 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 isnot 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, andclothing. 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 suchitems 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 andhappy 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 yearsnumbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year 2009 "Chinese Year" 4707, 4706, or 4646.
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The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known as "new-year visits" Chinese: 拜年; pinyin: bài nián. New clothes are usually worn tosignify a new year. The colour red is liberally used in all decorations. Red packets are given to juniors and children by the married and elders. See Symbolism below for more explanation.
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On the days before the New Year celebration Chinese families give their home a thorough cleaning. There is a Cantonese saying "Wash away the dirt on ninyabaat" 年廿八，洗邋遢, but the practice isnot usually restricted on nin'ya'baat 年廿八, the 28th day of month 12. It is believed the cleaning sweeps away the bad luck of the preceding year and makes their homes ready for good luck.Brooms and dust pans are put away on the first day so that luck cannot be swept away. Some people give their homes, doors and window-frames a new coat of red paint. homes are often decoratedwith paper cutouts of Chinese auspicious phrases and couplets. Purchasing new clothing, shoes, and receiving a hair-cut also symbolize a fresh start.
In many households where Buddhism or Taoism is prevalent, home altars and statues are cleaned thoroughly, and altars that were adorned with decorations from the previous year are also takendown and burned a week before the new year starts, and replaced with new decorations. Taoists and Buddhists to a lesser extent will also "send gods" 送神, an example would be burning a papereffigy of Zao Jun the Kitchen God, the recorder of family functions. This is done so that the Kitchen God can report to the Jade Emperor of the family household's transgressions and good
deeds. Families often offer sweet foods such as candy in order to "bribe" the deities into reporting good things about the family.
The biggest event of any Chinese New Year's Eve is the dinner every family will have. A dish consisting of fish will appear on the tables of Chinese families. It is for display for the NewYear's Eve dinner. This meal is comparable to Christmas dinner in the West. In northern China, it is customary to make dumplings jiaozi 饺子 after dinner and have it around midnight. Dumplingssymbolize wealth because their shape is like a Chinese tael. By contrast, in the South, it is customary to make a new year cake Niangao, 年糕 after dinner and send pieces of it as gifts torelatives and friends in the coming days of the new year. Niangao literally means increasingly prosperous year in year out. After the dinner, some families go to local temples, hours before thenew year begins to pray for a prosperous new year by lighting the first incense of the year; however in modern practice, many households hold parties and even hold a countdown to the new lunaryear. Beginning in the 1980s, the CCTV New Year's Gala was broadcast four hours before the start of the New Year.
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The first day is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens and earth, officially beginning at midnight. Many people, especially Buddhists, abstain from meat consumption on the first daybecause it is believed that this will ensure longevity for them. Some consider lighting fires and using knives to be bad luck on New Year's Day, so all food to be consumed is cooked the daybefore. For Buddhists, the first day is also the birthday of Maitreya Bodhisattva better known as the more familiar Budai Luohan, the Buddha-to-be. People also abstain from killing animals.
Most importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time when families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended family, usually their parents, grandparents orgreat-grandparents.
Some families may invite a lion dance troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Lunar New Year as well as to evict bad spirits from the premises. Members of the family who are married alsogive red packets containing cash to junior members of the family, mostly children and teenagers.
While fireworks and firecrackers are traditionally very popular, some regions have banned them due to concerns over fire hazards, which have resulted in increased number of fires around NewYears and challenged municipal fire departments' work capacity. For this reason, various city governments e.g., Hong Kong, and Beijing, for a number of years issued bans over fireworks andfirecrackers in certain premises of the city. As a substitute, large-scale fireworks have been launched by governments in cities like Hong Kong to offer citizens the experience.
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The second day of the Chinese New Year is for married daughters to visit their birth parents. Traditionally, daughters who have been married may not have the opportunity to visit their birth
families frequently.
On the second day, the Chinese pray to their ancestors as well as to all the gods. They are extra kind to dogs and feed them well as it is believed that the second day is the birthday of alldogs.
Business people of the Cantonese dialect group will hold a 'Hoi Nin' prayer to start their business on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. The prayer is done to pray that they will be blessedwith good luck and prosperity in their business for the year.
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The third and fourth day of the Chinese New Year are generally accepted as inappropriate days to visit relatives and friends due to the following schools of thought. People may subscribe toone or both thoughts.
1 It is known as "chì kǒu" 赤口, meaning that it is easy to get into arguments. It is suggested that the cause could be the fried food and visiting during the first two days of the New Yearcelebration.[citation needed]
2 Families who had an immediate kin deceased in the past 3 years will not go house-visiting as a form of respect to the dead, but people may visit them on this day. Some people then concludethat it is inauspicious to do any house visiting at all. The third day of the New Year is allocated to grave-visiting instead.
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In northern China, people eat jiǎo zi simplified Chinese: 饺子; traditional Chinese: 餃子, or dumplings on the morning of Po Wu 破五. This is also the birthday of the Chinese god of wealth. InTaiwan, businesses traditionally re-open on this day, accompanied by firecrackers.
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The seventh day, traditionally known as renri 人日, the common man's birthday, the day when everyone grows one year older. It is the day when tossed raw fish salad, yusheng, is eaten. This is acustom primarily among the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Singapore. People get together to toss the colourful salad and make wishes for continued wealth andprosperity.
For many Chinese Buddhists, this is another day to avoid meat, the seventh day commemorating the birth of Sakra Devanam Indra.
