【高中英语应用文】,传统文化节日话题阅读与作文.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 PAGE PAGE 1 【高中英语应用文】,传统文化节日话题阅读与作文 　 中国传统文化专题 春节 A legend About Spring Festival 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 coordination with the changes of Nature）. 　Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. According to one of the most famous legends, in ancient China there lived a monster named Nian who was extremely ferocious. Nian lived deep at the bottom of the sea all the year round and climbed up to the shore only on New Year”s Eve to devour the cattle and kill people. 　On one New Year”s Eve, the people of village were getting ready to hide when there came an old beggar. Seized with panic, the villagers were in a great hurry to run away. Only a grandmother gave the old man some food and advised him to flee to the mountains to avoid the monster. But the old man said, quot;If you allow me to stay at your home for the night, I”m sure to drive away the monster Nian.quot; And the grandmother left him in her home. 　what the old man do during the night ? Sticking red paper on the door 　Burning bamboo to make sounds like explosions Lighting many candles in the room 　After seeing the red paper on the door, fumes and heard the explosions, Nian was scared away. The next day was the 1st day of the first lunar month. People came back from their hideouts and found everything safe and sound, they were quite surprised. The old woman suddenly realized what had happened and told the villagers about the old beggar”s promise. Since then,when Nian came, every family were door-closing, pasted red couplets and burnt fireworks to drive Nian away. Then quot; Nianquot; never came again. From then on, people began to celebrate their triumph on the first day of the year. As time went by, Guo Nian evolved to the Spring Festival today General Customs of the Spring Festival 1. Purchase necessities for th