春節的習俗雙語

春節的習俗雙語

Festivities Schedule 春節活動

Preparing the New Year starts 7 days before the New Year’s Eve. According to Chinese lunar calendar, people start to clean the house on Dec. 24, butcher on Dec. 26th and so on. People have certain things to do on each day. These activities will end Jan. 15th of the lunar calendar。

新年的準備工作在除夕前的七天就開始了。根據中國農曆，人們從臘月二十四開始打掃屋子，二十六日殺豬宰羊等等。每一天都有不同的活動，所有這些活動將在正月十五結束。相關推薦：春節十五天個個數，每天過得不一樣>>

Customs and Practices 傳統習俗

Every family does a thorough house cleaning and purchases enough food, including fish, meat, roasted nuts and seeds, all kinds of candies and fruits, etc, for the festival period. Also, new clothes must be bought, especially for children. Red scrolls with complementary poetic couplets, one line on each side of the gate, are pasted at every gate. The Chinese character 'Fu' is pasted on the center of the door and paper-cut pictures adorn windows。

過年期間，每家每户都會做大掃除，購買豐富的食物，包括魚肉堅果，水果糖果等。另外，春節必須買新衣服，尤其是給小孩子購買。門上貼上新對聯和福字，窗户上還要貼上窗花。

Taboos 春節禁忌

The Spring Festival is a start for a new year, so it is regarded as the omen of a year. People have many taboos during this period. Many bad words related to “death”， “broken”， “killing”， “ghost” and “illness” or “sickness” are forbidden during conversations. In some places, there are more specific details. They consider it unlucky if the barrel of rice is empty, because they think they will have nothing to eat in the next year. Taking medicine is forbidden on this day, otherwise, people will have sick for the whole year and take medicine constantly。

春節是新的一年的開始，預示着一年的`運氣，所以過年期間有很多禁忌，比如“死”“破”“殺”“鬼”“病”這類字眼是談話中要避免的。在某些地方還有一些特殊的禁忌，比如新年米缸空了不是好兆頭，因為這預示着新的一年將沒東西吃，春節那天也不能吃藥，這會預示着新的一年疾病產生，醫藥不斷。

Festival Food 節日美食

Food during this happy event has its characteristics, which is the representative of Chinese festival food culture. Dumplings and the reunion dinner are indispensable at this time. Cold and hot dishes are all served. Fish is always an important dish then, which expresses people’s hope of having a wealthy year。

春節期間的食物也很有特色，代表着中國傳統飲食文化，餃子和團圓飯是不可或缺的，冷盤熱菜都得上，魚也是春節一道重要的菜餚，它代表了人們年年有餘的期望。

Best Places to Go 節日去去處

In China, different places have their own traditions and activities to celebrate the Spring Festival. Beijing, Guangzhou, Xian and Pingyao are some good places to go if one intends to come during the time period. If one does not want to travel so long, but still want to enjoy the atmosphere of Chinese New Year, the local Chinatown is the best place。

在中國，不同的地方慶祝春節的方式和傳統各不相同。北京、廣州、西安和平遙是不錯的春節去處。如果國外的朋友不想去這麼遠的地方，當地的中國城是感受春節氛圍的好地方。