Happy New Year
New Year stattin, people gets up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, mutual sincere New Year, good luck in the year. Happy New Year various forms, have a plenty of wayward long lead several others went door-to-door in New Year, Have a plenty of colleagues to invite a few people to pay, Also have together mutual congratulations, called "celebration, its all about". Due to ascend a happy New Year, later some upper time-consuming character and literary intelligentsia and use each stick greet each other, thus cast out later "bad movie."
When New Year Spring Festival, junior to give first elder New Year, I wish elder people longevity ankang, elders will be prepared to junior, it is said that the New Year's money money can be pressed down XieSui, because "age" and "was" homophonic, junior get lucky money can spend a year in peace. New Year's money has two, one is the color rope threading platted a dragon, on the foot of the bed, the records in the age of yanjing record ", Another kind is the most common, namely by the parents with red paper parcel to children's money. Money can be paid in junior after public shangji, yi ke on New Year's eve child fell asleep, by parent secretly in children under her pillow. Now for the younger generation distribution of elder custom still prevalent. "lucky money"
翻译:
拜年
新年的初一,人们都早早起来,穿上最漂亮的衣服,打扮得整整齐齐,出门去走亲访友,相互拜年,恭祝来年大吉大利。拜年的方式多种多样,有的是同族长带领若干人挨家挨户地拜年;有的是同事相邀几个人去拜年;也有大家聚在一起相互祝贺,称为“团拜”。由于登门拜年费时费力,后来一些上层人物和士大夫便使用各贴相互投贺,由此发展出来后来的“贺年片”。
春节拜年时,晚辈要先给长辈拜年,祝长辈人长寿安康,长辈可将事先准备好的压岁钱分给晚辈,据说压岁钱可以压住邪祟,因为“岁”与“祟”谐音,晚辈得到压岁钱就可以平平安安度过一岁。压岁钱有两种,一种是以彩绳穿线编作龙形,置于床脚,此记载见于《燕京岁时记》;另一种是最常见的,即由家长用红纸包裹分给孩子的钱。压岁钱可在晚辈拜年后当众赏给,亦可在除夕夜孩子睡着时,由家长偷偷地放在孩子的枕头底下。现在长辈为晚辈分送压岁钱的习俗仍然盛行。
Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar ‘s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune .
The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”. People enjoy the Spring Festival ,during this time they can have a good rest .
翻译:
春节是中国最重要的节日,它是为庆祝农历新年的那在春节之前的那个晚上,家庭聚在一起,会有一顿大餐,在很多地方人们喜欢放鞭炮.饺子是最传统的食物非常.小朋友们喜欢这个节日,因为他们可以有美味的食物,穿新衣服,他们也可以得到一些钱来自父母。这些钱给孩子,以求好运。人们把新年卷轴在长城上停留了好运。
春节大约持续15天看亲戚和朋友长评价用这句话,你的愿望”都”。人们喜欢春节,在这段时间里他们可以好好休息一下。
The origin of the Chinese New Year is itself centuries old - in fact, too old to actually be traced. It is popularly recognised as the Spring Festival and celebrations last 15 days.
Preparations tend to begin a month from the date of the Chinese New Year (similar to a Western Christmas), when people start buying presents, decoration materials, food and clothing.
A huge clean-up gets underway days before the New Year, when Chinese houses are cleaned from top to bottom, to sweep away any traces of bad luck, and doors and windowpanes are given a new coat of paint, usually red. The doors and windows are then decorated with paper cuts and couplets with themes such as happiness, wealth and longevity printed on them.
The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing.
Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings, signifying different good wishes. Delicacies include prawns, for liveliness and happiness, dried oysters (or ho xi), for all things good, raw fish salad or yu sheng to bring good luck and prosperity, Fai-hai (Angel Hair), an edible hair-like seaweed to bring prosperity, and dumplings boiled in water (Jiaozi) signifying a long-lost good wish for a family.
It's usual to wear something red as this colour is meant to ward off evil spirits - but black and white are out, as these are associated with mourning. After dinner, the family sit up for the night playing cards, board games or watching TV programmes dedicated to the occasion. At midnight, the sky is lit up by fireworks.
On the day itself, an ancient custom called Hong Bao, meaning Red Packet, takes place. This involves married couples giving children and unmarried adults money in red envelopes. Then the family begins to say greetings from door to door, first to their relatives and then their neighbours. Like the Western saying "let bygones be bygones," at Chinese New Year, grudges are very easily cast aside.
The end of the New Year is marked by the Festival of Lanterns, which is a celebration with singing, dancing and lantern shows.
Although celebrations of the Chinese New Year vary, the underlying message is one of peace and happiness for family members and friends.
我自己做的翻译
农历新年的起源是它几个世纪的历史岁月,事实上,这由于年代过于久远而无法被准确的追溯。人们通常称之为春节并庆祝长达15天的时间。
准备的工作通常在农历新年(类似于西方的圣诞节)之前的一个月就已经展开,也就是人们开始购买礼物,装饰品,材料,衣服和食物。
大扫除会在新年之前展开,华人的房屋会被彻底的打扫,扫去厄运,给门和窗子上新漆,通常都是红色的。在门和窗子上贴上剪纸和印有喜气,长寿,发财主体的对联。年三十夜或许是最激动人心的部分,如预期般的悄悄接近。这里,服装和食物上都体现着族传统礼仪的遵从。
晚餐,通常都是饺子和海鲜酒席。象征着不同的美好祝愿,微妙的东西包括有虾来祝愿幸福快乐,干贝祝愿完事顺利,生鱼来祝愿好运和繁荣。Fai-hai 一种像头发般的可食用海藻带来繁荣的祝愿,水饺意味着对家庭的美好祝愿。
通常穿上红色的衣服,认为这种颜色可以避邪。但是绝不穿黑色和白色的。那些颜色通常和悲痛相联系。饭后家人们不睡,玩棋牌,看电视节目都融入于这种气氛。深夜,天空被烟花所点亮。
在农历新年当天,有一个古老的传统叫做红包,意思就是红色的小包。就是已婚的夫妇给小孩和未婚的成年人装在红信封里的钱。而后一家人开始串门问候,先去他们的亲戚家,而后是邻居。就如西方所说的,让过去的就成为过去吧。在农历新年,过去的过劫非常容易就被抛开了。
新年的最后一天被称为灯笼节,以唱歌跳舞观灯笼的方式来庆祝。
虽然庆祝农历新年的方式很多,但其根本意义是,家庭和朋友的幸福快乐。
Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar ‘s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune .
The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”. People enjoy the Spring Festival ,during this time they can have a good rest .
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.
Spring is good!