春节习俗英语作文10篇.doc

春节习俗英语作文10篇- 用英语介绍春节习俗 更新时间：2010-2-8 特别提示：本站新增在线翻译功能，双击英语单词可以显示汉语意思，马上试试？！ ★24篇美文串记四级词汇★ ★30小时速听速记四级词汇★ ★38小时速听速记雅思词汇★ ★21篇美文串记六级词汇★ ★15小时速听速记六级词汇★ ★48小时速记托福4800词汇★ ★38篇美文串记考研词汇★ ★38小时速记考研英语词汇★ ★12小时速记日语1200词汇★ 春节习俗英语作文- 用英语介绍春节习俗： 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 Years 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 (T?t), 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 Years themed stamps. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary