图说春节 英汉对照.docVIP

图说春节 扫尘 扫尘 Sweeping the Dust ?????? “Dust” is homophonic 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. In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new. ???????? ?“Dust?与“尘”是谐音（尘在汉语中的意思是旧的和过去的）。这样，在春节前扫尘是彻底清洁房屋扫除过去一年的厄运。此习俗表达了收拾旧事物，欢迎新生活的美好愿望。总之，就在春节到来之前，为了告别旧年迎接新年，家家户户都会彻底打扫一下房屋。 2. 贴春联 贴春联 Pasting Spring Couplets “The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical phrases”, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical（相对的） sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll（横批） bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious（吉利的） phrase, above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet（上联） and the one on the left the second line（下联）. 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 atmosphere of the Festival. In the past, the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market. ???? ?春联也被称为对联对立的一对短语，在中国是一种特殊的文学形式。春联是由贴在门口两侧两组对立的句子组成，在门上面的横批通常是一个吉祥的短语。贴在门右侧的句子被称作对联的上联，左侧的为下联。除夕那天，每家都会在门上贴上红纸写的春联，传递出节日喜庆和热闹的气氛。在过去，中国人通常用毛笔自己写春联或者请别人写春联，而现在，人们普遍在市场上买印刷好的春联。 贴窗花和福字 Pasting Paper-cuts and Up-sided Fu ? ????????? Paper-cuts, usually with auspicious 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（汉字） “fu（福）”, big and small,