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The Spring Festival in My Eye
1. The different attitudes of the young and the old towards the spring festival.
2. Your way of celebrating the spring festival in the past, now and your anticipation in the future.
3. The regional differences in celebrating the spring festival.
4. The necessity of playing fireworks during the spring festival.
5. The growing indifference to the spring festival.
6. The conflict between Christmas and the spring festival.
我眼中的春节
1. 年轻人和老年人在对待春节上是否有代沟？
2. 你的春节过去是怎么过的？现在是怎么过的？将来想怎么过？
3. 各地区过春节的差异？
4. 在春节燃放炮竹是否有必要？
5. 春节意识的淡漠是好是坏？
6. 西方节日如圣诞节是否对春节有冲突？
Spring Festival
The Spring Festival,also known as the Lunar New Year, is the greatest
traditional festival. It is usually a time between late January or early February, which means rest and relaxation between winter and spring after a year's toil,and
means celebration as well. Before the Spring Festival, people clean their houses,
put red couplets on their gates,and set off firecrackers, according to fairy tale, for driving a demon ,named Nian ,away. On the eve of the Spring Festival, a get-
together banquet is a must, and the most popular food is Jiaozi, which is supposed to bring good fortune.On the first day of the new year, everybody wears new
clothes and greets relatives and friends with bows and congratulations wishing
each other the best during the new year.
New words:
Chinese Pronunciations English Part of speech
春节 Spring festival n.
农历 Lunar calendar n.
传统 Traditional adj.
节日 Festival n.
饺子 Dumpling n.
年糕 Rice cake n.
象征 Symbolize v.
放松 Relax v.
打扫 Sweep v.
对联 Couplet n.
鞭炮 Firecraker n.
传说 Story n.
驱赶 Drive v.
魔鬼 Devil n.
除夕 The New Year’s Eve n.
会餐 Dine together v.
主食 Staple food n.
好运 Good luck n.
吉祥 Auspicious adj.
走亲访友 Visit relatives and friends Phrase.
鞠躬 Take a bow v.
祝福 Bless v.
Expansion content：
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.
Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.
People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in.
The Story about Fireworks 爆竹的故事
In China firework is played to express joy and happiness during the Spring Festival and on other auspicious occasions. Fireworks playing is regarded as one of China's most important customs.
The history of firework can be dated back to over 2,000 years ago. The earliest firework was called Ting Liao made up of something like bamboo sticks and would make stuttering sound when burned.
Firework was first played to dispel ghosts and evil spirits and hanker for auspiciousness and happiness. It is said that a four-horned monster called Shan Sao and some other ghosts hiding in mountains came out to harm human beings and their livestock every 365 days. However, they were afraid of sound and light. People therefore played fireworks in order to drive away Shan Sao and evil spirits at the end of one year and the beginning of a year.
After gunpowder was invented in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), people began to make fireworks by cramming gunpowder into bamboo tubes to produce greater sound. In the Song Dynasty (960 - 1271), bamboo tubes was replaced with paper coverings. Later, a new kind of firecracker was invented which was made by linking many smaller firecrackers together with powder train. This new firecracker called Bao Zhu could sound continuously.
Well-made firecrackers are usually packed with red paper. When exploded, scraps of red paper will be scattered all over the floor, which forebodes auspiciousness. During the Spring Festival you can see people playing firecrackers in various kinds and with different colors. As Chinese become more aware of environment protection, playing fireworks has already been prohibited in many cities. Still, people celebrate their holidays in many other ways.
在中国，凡逢春节和其他的喜庆日子，人们总要燃放爆竹来表示庆贺。燃放爆竹可以说是中国民间一个十分重要的风俗习惯。
爆竹也叫"炮竹"、"爆仗"、"炮仗"，平常人们更习惯叫"鞭炮"，有大约2000多年的历史了。最早的爆竹叫"庭燎"。是用竹竿一类的东西做成火炬，燃烧时发出噼噼啪啪的爆裂声，也叫"爆竿。
燃放爆竹风俗最早起因于驱鬼除邪，祈求一年的吉祥顺利。传说，有个叫做"山臊"的四角怪兽和恶鬼平常藏在深山，每隔365天便出来伤害人畜。这些无恶不做的坏东西害怕爆炸的声音和亮光。于是，每到岁末年首，人们就争着燃放鞭炮，用来驱赶"山臊"和恶鬼。
中国的唐代发明火药以后，人们便把火药放进竹筒，点燃后发出巨大的声音，这种爆竹叫做"爆竹筒"。到了宋代，爆竹的制作方法改为把火药装进用纸卷成的筒里，名字也叫爆竹了。后来人们开始把许多小的炮仗用药线连接起来，成为"一发连百余响不绝"的鞭炮。讲究的鞭炮用红颜色的纸制作，鞭炮爆炸后，红屑满地，人称"满地红"，表示吉利。随着发展，鞭炮的品种和色彩也由原来的单调发展得丰富多彩，有小鞭炮、电光雷、母子雷、射天炮、百头、千头鞭，甚至还有几万头长的鞭炮。
现在，随着人们环保意识的加强，燃放鞭炮的习俗在中国很多大城市中受到禁止。但是，聪明的中国人依然想出了其他热闹的庆祝节日的办法。
Useful Words and Expression
1. The spring festival (春节)
2. generation gap （代沟）
3. stereotyped concept/opinion （传统观念）
4. commercialized versions （商业化版本）
5. shopping rush （购物热）
6. tourism-oriented trend （春节旅游化趋势）
7. spring outing （春游）
8. the spring festival eve dinner （年夜饭）
9. spring festival couplets(pasted on gatepost or door panels) （春联）
10. Variety Show on CCTV-1 （春节联欢晚会）
11. migrant workers （民工）
12. home-returning (返乡)
13. white-collar （白领）
14. petty bourgeoisie （小资）
15. over-loaded transportation during the spring festival （春运）
16. pay a New Year call （拜年）
17. Christmas prayer (religious aspect) （圣诞祷告）
18. the thorough house -cleaning (年前大扫除)
19. exchange gifts （互换礼物）
20. traditional entertainment (playing cards, mahjong) （传统娱乐节目，如打扑克，玩麻将）
The Spring Festival is a national holiday.
On that day, people often play firecrackers,hang lantern, affix Spring Festival couplets and New Year paintings,pay New Year‘s call and eat Jiao-zi.
For the children, the most exited thing is fetting their gift money.
It is really a happy day.
上面的生词是必须要的,是介绍春节的
春节是全国人民的假期.
那天,人们常常放鞭炮,挂灯笼,贴春联和年画,互相拜年,和吃饺子.
对于孩子们来说,最兴奋的是能得到压岁钱.
那真是一个让人愉快的日子
回答者：SF路人 - 助理三级 12-20 21:33
Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is very important to Chinese people.
In the past, people could not often have meat, rice or other delicious food. They could only eat these during the Spring festival. So every year they hoped that the Spring Festival would come soon. Now, although people’s life is much better, and we can eat the delicious foods everyday. People still like the festival. Because most people can have a long holiday, and we are free to go on a trip or visit our friends or have parties with our family. In the evenings, we can have a big meal in the restaurant or stay at home with family and watch the TV programmes.
I like the Spring Festival very much. How wonderful the Spring Festival is！
回答者：千寻1217 - 魔法师四级 12-20 22:22
1 spring festival is a traditional chinese holiday.
2 everyone will gather together with their families.
3 I love spring festival, it is the most important holiday in china
4 our parents will give us money and all kinds of presents.
5 we don't have to go to school then.we have a month off for the winter holiday.
6 we usually have a family get-together and eat a lot of things and play day and night!
7 it is my favorite time of the year.
8 besides,we can play fireworks with our cousins.
9 the fireworks are beautiful and everybody will enjoy themselves.
回答者：tistime - 同进士出身七级 12-20 22:22
(新年)the Lunar new year holidays
The Spring Festival is a different name for the Chinese New Year . It's celebrated according to the lunar calendar , It's actually celebrated in winter . The month prior to the New Year is called Lahyueh Every year ,
When Lahyueh arrives , families are getting busy making preparations for the New Year . Besides cleaning up your house inside and outside , you have to buy Nienhuo .
Food and other articles for use during the New Year season are called Nienhuo differs from family to family comforming to their own custom . However , almost every family prepares a special kind of New Year pudding made 0f glutinous rice flour .
People also get New Year couplets written and pasted on door panels and get ready their red packages to give money to children . People bustle about until the New Year's Eve .
The New Year's Eve is the most celebrated day during the Spring Festival .
The New Year's Eve is the day before the Chinese New Year . All family are getting together to have a plentiful dinner . During the Spring Festival season , people usually make ceremonial calls on New Year to wish good luck to friends .
还有补充的关于新年的：)
腊月 the twelfth moon of the lunar year.
年货 food and other articles for use during the New Year season（Nienhuo）.
除旧迎新to remove the old and introduce the new.
除夕 Lunar New Year's Eve.
年糕 New Year pudding made of glutinous rice flour
春联 couplets written on strips of red paper and pasted around door panels during the Lunar New Year （usually containing words of luck）.
年历 drawings or picture sold in lunar new year for good luck.
平安顺利 peace and smoothly, easy, having no trouble.
财神爷 the God of Wealth; Mammon.
财源滚滚 source of finance and no end.
祭祀 to honor by a service or rite; to offer sacrifices to .
祖先 ancestors; forebears; forefathers.
神灵 gods; spirits.
慎终思远 thoroughgoing about the funeral rites for parents and the worship of ancestors.
饮水思源 When one drinks water, one thinks of its source-grateful for favors received;not to forget one's origin.
团圆 to reunite; reunion （esp. of a family）.
年夜饭 New Year's Eve dinner.
红包 red package（also called压岁钱）.
拜年 to call on others and offer New Year's greetings.
恭喜 Congratulations!
国历 national calendar （of the Republic of China）（also called 阳历 solar calendar） .
农历 farmer's calendar（also called 阴历 lunar calendar）.
麻将 mahjong pieces.
冲天炮 to shoot up to the sky.
舞龙舞狮 dragon dance（a team of men dancing with a cloth-made dragon on Chinese festivals） and lion daance（a two-man team dancing inside a paper-made lion on Chinese festivals）.
吉利 be lucky; be propitious.
元宵节 The story of the Lantern Fesfival.
「门神」 The God of protection the Door
回答者：萍mm - 总监九级 12-20 22:25
The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China.It usually comes in January or February.Family members get together no matter how far away they live or work. On the Eve families have a big dinner. The most traditional food is dumplings. Then they go out to let off firecrackers. At midnight or early the next morning, older people give children money to wish them good luck. Children enyoy this holiday very much because they can get money from their grandparents, parents and other relatives.
关于春节过节民俗的一些英语
春节 The Spring Festival
农历 lunar calendar
正月 lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar
除夕 New Year's Eve; eve of lunar New Year
初一 the beginning of New Year
元宵节 The Lantern Festival
对联 poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry
春联 Spring Festival couplets
剪纸 paper-cuts
年画 New Year paintings
买年货 special purchases for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping
敬酒 propose a toast
灯笼 lantern: a portable light
烟花 fireworks
爆竹 firecrackers (People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.)
红包 red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.)
舞狮 lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.)
舞龙 dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests)
戏曲 traditional opera
杂耍 variety show; vaudeville
灯谜 riddles written on lanterns
灯会 exhibit of lanterns
守岁 staying-up
拜年 pay New Year's call; give New Year's greetings; New Year's visit
禁忌 taboo
去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune
祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift
辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year
扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning
年糕 Nian-gao; rise cake; New Year cake
团圆饭 family reunion dinner
年夜饭 the dinner on New Year's Eve
饺子 Jiao-zi; Chinese meat ravioli
汤圆 Tang-yuan; dumplings made of sweet rice, rolled into balls and stuffed with either sweet or spicy fillings
八宝饭 eight treasures rice pudding
糖果盘 candy tray:
什锦糖 assorted candies - sweet and fortune
蜜冬瓜 candied winter melon - growth and good health
西瓜子 red melon seed - joy, happiness, truth and sincerity
金桔 cumquat - prosperity
糖莲子 candied lotus seed - many descendents to come
糖藕 candied lotus root - fulfilling love relationship
红枣 red dates - prosperity
花生糖 peanut candy – sweet
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Spring Festival celebrations were given a distinctly high-tech update by millions of young Internet users in China this week.
"Compared to the traditional way, celebrating Spring Festival on the Internet is more exciting," said Wei Jianhui, 23, who spent New Year's Eve chatting with dozens of friends online.
Wei didn't watch the New Year's Day television gala, which attracted an estimated audience of more than 1 billion people last Sunday evening.
Instead, Wei, who lives in Nan Chang, spent New Year's Eve decorating his blog with red lanterns and firecrackers.
"When they visit my blog, my friends will see my New Year's greetings," said Wei.
Wei said more than 30 of his friends spent New Year's Eve chatting on the Internet.
Many young people in Nanchang celebrated Chinese New Year in the same way.
The manager of Jingying Internet Cafe said all of its 300 computers were occupied on New Year's Eve. Four other Internet cafes in the area were also full.
今年春节，我国数百万年轻人选择网上庆祝，这给过春节的方式增添了些不同寻常的“高科技”意味。
今年除夕，23岁的魏建辉是在网上和很多好友一起聊天度过的，他说：“与传统的方式相比，在网上过年更有意思。”
魏建辉没有观看上周六晚的春节联欢晚会。据估计，今年的春晚观众超过了1亿。
除夕之夜，家住南昌的魏建辉在自己的博客里装上了大红灯笼、挂上了鞭炮。
他说：“朋友们只要一进入我的博客，就能看到我的新年祝福。”
魏建辉说，他的30多个好友都是在网上过除夕的。
今年春节，南昌的很多年轻人都是在网上度过的。
南昌精英网吧的经理说，除夕那天，网吧的300台电脑全部满员。同一地区的其它四家网吧也是全部满座。
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In the past few years, more and more people like to watch the Spring-Fest Evening Party in the last day of one year. It seems that became the most important part in their lives. But nowadays some one suggests we should cancel it and get something instead of it because they feel it so boring. In my point of view, I think it should be not cancelled. My reason it has followed:
First, since we have it, more and more people think it's the important thing in their lives, if we cancel it, it seems we lost something we don't mentioned it. For example, we didn't put something in our heart in the ordinary life,but if we lost it, we found something really lost. Second, Spring-Fest Evening Party is familiar with the old people, they like to see the familiar faces in the end of the year. Third, the day for our Chinese people is so big and important, it means reunion.So in that day after supper we have the habit to watch it. In which means it became the part or even the blood in our lives.
Give the suggests is we should change the way or the content of the Spring-Fest Evening Party, and in that means we have give some new inmotions into it. So it not only interested to the most of the people ,but also keep the tradition in our lives.
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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 .
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cctv 春节晚会是否应该开办？
1.许多人喜欢看春晚
2.有人提出取消
3.我的看法
下面是网友们的几篇范文供大家参考!
In the past few years, more and more people like to watch the Spring-Fest Evening Party in the last day of one year. It seems that became the most important part in their lives. But nowadays some one suggests we should cancel it and get something instead of it because they feel it so boring. In my point of view, I think it should be not cancelled. My reason it has followed:
First, since we have it, more and more people think it's the important thing in their lives, if we cancel it, it seems we lost something we don't mentioned it. For example, we didn't put something in our heart in the ordinary life,but if we lost it, we found something really lost. Second, Spring-Fest Evening Party is familiar with the old people, they like to see the familiar faces in the end of the year. Third, the day for our Chinese people is so big and important, it means reunion.So in that day after supper we have the habit to watch it. In which means it became the part or even the blood in our lives.
Give the suggests is we should change the way or the content of the Spring-Fest Evening Party, and in that means we have give some new inmotions into it. So it not only interested to the most of the people ,but also keep the tradition in our lives.
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When asked about their opinin of Spring Festive Evening, people always resond differently. Some people deem that it could be cancel, while there always other people who argue that it should be continued.
Some people take it for granted that the Evening should not exist because it is too boring for eve night of new year. Besides, the form of the Evening seems the same every year, thus it could be cancel. In comparison, there are, however, a large number of people who hold a different view concerning this issue, they maintain that the Evening must be contiued. They argue that it is one of the most important coustom of celebration. And they think the Evening is worth expected.
As far as I am concerned, I am in tending to be one side of the latter group of people. Admittedly, the formor point of view seems exist, but the latter is more reasonable. Takeing above-mentiond factors into consideration, I may reasonably conclue that the the Evening just need a reform in the future but cancel. | 
