春節(jié)英文短文
看春節(jié)聯(lián)歡晚會(huì) 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"
國外的新年
坦桑尼亞——驅(qū)散妖魔祈求幸福
坦桑尼亞新年前夕，沿海的斯瓦希里族人家家戶戶要用木炭爆玉米花撒在物內(nèi)的各個(gè)角落，以示驅(qū)散妖魔，祈求幸福;用玉米和菜豆煮飯盛于碗盤放在門前，供串親的過路人隨便食用。元旦那天，人們雞鳴即起，姑娘們身著彩裙，走門串戶唱民歌;早餐后，鼓樂齊鳴，男女老少成群結(jié)隊(duì)到海灘洗澡，以示洗去污穢，健康歡樂地迎接新年。
喀麥隆——除垃圾吃美餐
喀麥隆除夕夜晚，人們通宵不眠。第二天一清早，各家把屋里垃圾清除掉，然后吃上一頓美餐，表示進(jìn)入新的一年。
蘇丹——老年跳舞青年唱歌
蘇丹人在元旦盡情玩樂一天，舉辦各種文藝、游戲、跳舞等項(xiàng)慶祝活動(dòng)，與平日不同的是老年人跳舞，青年人唱歌。
加納——節(jié)日桌上燒公雞
加納在元旦時(shí)，人們用棕櫚葉建成各式各樣的房子，在房子里放著節(jié)日桌，桌上擺著誘人的新年菜肴——燒公雞，全家老小都圍坐在桌旁，那些在過去爭吵過的人，借此機(jī)會(huì)和解。
馬達(dá)加斯加——贈(zèng)送雞尾雞腿
馬達(dá)加斯加在新年前的一周里，男女老少都不準(zhǔn)吃肉，直到除夕晚餐才準(zhǔn)吃些禽類。元旦這天，夫婦要向雙方的家長贈(zèng)送雞尾，表示尊敬。向兄弟姐妹和至親好友贈(zèng)送雞腿，表示關(guān)心和友誼，祝賀新年。
埃及——“漲水新年”
埃及是文明古國，公元前40年，埃及人就能觀察星相了，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)天狼星和太陽一同升起，尼羅河水立時(shí)上漲。埃及把尼羅河漲水的這一天作為新年的開始，稱為“漲水新年”。埃及的克魯特人迎接新年，在門口放一張桌子，七八只碟子供著大豆、扁豆、紫苜蓿和小麥的顆粒，還有好些綠色植物的小芽，這象征豐裕。獻(xiàn)給神的東西越多，新年的收成就越多。埃及的新年在秋天，因埃及的農(nóng)業(yè)生產(chǎn)是從秋季開始的。
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