春节风俗英文研究报告.pptVIP

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. Through the development of thousands of years, a series of customs are still the same as before. Sweeping the Dust( 扫尘 ) “Dust” is homophonic(同音) with “chen”（尘）in Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life. Pasting Spring Couplets(贴春联) “The Spring Couplet is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical(相对应的) sentences on both sides of the door and an inscription(题字), usually an fortunately phrase, above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous(繁荣的) atmosphere of the Festival. Pasting Paper-cuts and “Up-sided Fu”(贴窗花和“福”字 ) Paper-cuts, usually with lucky patterns, give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life. In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu（福）”, big and small, on walls, doors and doorposts around the houses. “Fu” shows people’s yearning(向往) toward a good life. Some people even invert the character “fu” to signify that blessing has arrived because “inverted(倒转的)” is a homonym(同音) for “arrive” in Chinese. Staying Up Late on New Years Eve(守岁) The tradition of staying up late to see New Year is originated from an interesting folk tale. In ancient China there lived a monster named Year, who was very terrible. Year always went out from its burrow(洞穴) on New Year’s Eve to eat people. There