英语作文thespringfestival
【篇一：英语作文春节 the spring festival celebration】
the spring festival celebration
the spring festival is the biggest and most important traditional festival in china. not only for people to get together with their families, their friends, but also offers the time and space for people to relax themselves.
traditionally, the chinese celebrate the spring festival in the following ways:
spring purchasing: people begin preparing for the new year’s purchases. this is called seeing the new year in.  everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the new year. materials not only include different kinds of goods and foods, but also various decorations装饰装潢, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.
扫尘 sweeping the dust。“dust” is homophonic同音的，谐音 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. 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.
spring decorating装饰(大红灯笼和倒福字): some people will hang two big red lanterns outside both sides of the front door of their houses. red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored  new year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall.  red couplets are posted on the doors of people’s houses. they symbolize happiness,prosperity and good luck in the new year. the chinese character fu (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. the character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in chinese the reversed fu is homophonic with fu comes, both being pronounced as fudaole.
the laba rice porridge festival腊八粥on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of jobs tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko.
preliminary eve ,,the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called preliminary eve. at this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves. after the preliminary eve, people begin preparing for the coming new year. this is called seeing the new year in.
springfestive怎么读英语发音 吃饺子 having jiaozi  ,,,on new year’s eve, the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi and celebrate the spring festival. the shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from ancient china. so people eat them and wish for money and treasure. the tradition of having jiaozi is very important during the spring festival. you cannot have a complete spring festival without having jiaozi.
new years feast: spring festival is a time for family reunion. people attach great importance to spring festival eve. at that time, all family members eat dinner together.
people from north and south have different sayings about the food they eat on this special day. the meal is more luxurious than usual. dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd can be excluded, for in chinese, their pronunciations, respectively ji, yu and doufu mean auspiciousness,  abundance and richness. southern chinese eat “niangao (new year  cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means higher and higher every year. in northern china, a traditionaldish for the feast is jiaozi or dumplings shaped like a crescent moon.
the spring festival gala: after the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting, playing cards, computer games and watching tv. in recent years, the spring festival gala broadcast on china central television station (cctv) is essential entertainment for the chinese both at home and abroad. it has developed into an occasion that most chinese find it hard to ignore at the new year’s eve. according to custom, each family will stay up to see the new year in.
lighting firecrackers爆竹，鞭炮: lighting firecrackers is to be one of the most importa
nt customs in the spring festival celebration. people thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. right as the clock strike 12 oclock midnight of new years eve, cities and towns are lit up with the glitter from fireworks, and the sound can be deafening and lively.
lucky money: it is the money given to kids from their parents and grandparents as new year gift. the money is believed to bring good luck, ward off避开挡住monsters怪物or unfortunate; hence因此 the name// lucky money. parents and grandparents first put money in small, especially made red envelope and give to their kids after the new years feast. it is one of the kids’favorite things in spring festival.
  on new year’s day, for breakfast, people in northern china will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, southern chinese eat niangao on this occasion. in addition, people exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely.

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