第一篇：春節由來英文

Chunjie is the first day of the lunar calendar.It is the day when the earth has circled the sun for one round and is beginning another circling.It represents a new beginning when people send off the old days and welcome the new ones.As the first day of the year, Yuandan has been considered to be the most important festival since the ancient times.Customs

1.Kaisui(beginning of the year): According to the Chinese traditional custom, starting from haishi(9p.m.to 11p.m.)of the last evening of the twelfth lunar month, each family must prepare offering s to deities at the altar.At the same time, they too prepare food for the New Year day: The whole family will then stay awake together to attend to the year(called shou sui).After haishi, zishi(11p.m.to 1a.m.)will come, and this is the arrival of New Year(Yuandan).At this moment, people begin the celebration with fireworks.Vegetarian and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings, and incense be burned to welcome the deities.In the ancient times, it was believed that haishi connected the two years and thus was called kaisui.At the same night, some families will follow the instruction in Tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the “fortune deity” during the “fortune time” to receive the deity.If the direction of the “fortune deity” is at the “ill position”, people will choose to receive “happy deity” or “noble deity” instead.2.There is an apparent difference in the custom of food taking on Yuandan between the Chinese in the northern and southern regions.The northern Chinese has the habit of taking jiao zi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped inside).Some people may put a sweet or a coin inside jiao zi, hoping to have a sweet year after tasting the sweet and a wealthy year after tasting the coin.on the other hand, the southern Chinese have the taboo for killing on Yuandan.Therefore, they do not take meat in tee morning of Yuandan, so as to avoid bloodshed or mutual slaughter.In order to evade misfortune, they have the first meal of this day without meat.Instead, they take vegetarian food for the sake of virtue.3.What is special during the New Year is that parents or elders will distribute red packets(ang pao or ya sui qian)to the children.People in the ancient times were more particular in giving away the red packets: the distribution took place on the eve of New Year so that the kids could suppress the past year and enter the New Year.Ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the unpredictable future.Representing the wishes for the healthy psychological growth of the children, ya sui qian symbolises the elders' hope to see their children overcome all the unpredictable elements brought by the “year”.4.There is an extraordinary number of taboos on Yuandan.Each place has its own customs of taboo.Here, we will mention only a few common taboos in Fujian Province, Guangdong Province and Southeast Asia:

In the past, people commonly believed that fortune was hidden in the house.So, wsweeping of floor must be done in the direction moving inwards, and there was no clearance of rubbish at night.Particularly on the New Tear day, in order to keep fortune from flowing out, there was no sweeping.Some families kept this taboo until the fifth or even the fifteenth day.If anything was broken, the pieces were wrapped up in order not to let the fortune slip away and were disposed only the fifth day.Yuandan(in more serious families, the period extends from the 1st to the 15th day)marks the new beginning.In the hope that New Year brings good beginning, people should utter neither unkind words nor vulgar language.Making noises, fighting, quarreling and especially weeping are avoided to deter misfortune.There are even taboos of taking medicine and having sneeze, for it is believed that they can lead to sickness throughout the year.Taboos of the past also concerned the use of knife and the breaking of things.If a thing was broken, the word “break” or any other word importing similar meaning was not used.Instead, words like “failing to the floor and blossoming like flowers” which delivered pleasant senses were used to suggest good connections.On Yuandan, neither lending and nor giving of money to others is done so that there will be no out-flowing of money during the year.There is also the saying that if a male sleeps in the afternoon, his career will breakdown, and if a female has an afternoon nap, the kitchen will collapse.5.Ancient rite: In the past, there was a rite called he zheng(proper greeting)during New Year.When a person paid a New Year visit to friends or relatives, he took along a piece of paper or card on which the name of the host was written wit Chinese brush.The receiver of this greeting card would normally paste it on the wall of his main hall to show his respect to and appreciation for the visitor.The quantity of greeting card received reflected the person's public relationship with others, while the names and status of the people who gave the greeting cards indicated the host's boundary of social network and standard of living.Nowadays, because of easy communication, convenient transportation system and wider social network, when people send their greetings they tend to follow the Western style.The greeting is now done by mail and even by email.Today, he zheng is done by simply bringing along red packets and food presents when making a visit.To be in line with the custom of to giving away money on the first day, families in some places do not pay New Year call to others.Instead, the whole family simply goes out to enjoy themselves or stayed at home for family happiness.6.In the past, there was a superstition that when a person left his house in the New Year, he must take the correct first step.A particular person would look for the fortunate direction in accordance with the day, month and year of this birth basing on the explanation of Chinese calendar.On Yuan Dan, when a person stepped out of his house, he must go in the fortunate direction and avoid the unfortunate direction.Even people of less particularity also consulted Chinese calendar to find out where the fortunate directions and fierce deities were before the first step out of their houses.Meaning

From the above mentioned customs, we can see that there are especially many taboos during Chinese New Year.On Yuan Dan in particular, there are more taboos on speech and behaviour than

those on other ordinary days.Similarly, there are more activities in pursuit of good cause than usual.On probing the activities and taboos, we have no difficulty to understand that the theme behind is always related to fortune, wealth and goodness, and that people usually concern themselves with a good beginning for the year.Some taboos may look superstitious on the surface, but they do produce efficacy.If we practise them circumspectively, they will yield practical results.For example, the prohibition of bad words, quarrel, weeping and crying, together with the emphasis on thinking positively even when things are broken, provide some normative rules for people to follow.This gives people the opportunity to mend their ways, to develop good attitudes, and to form a habit of thinking positively and looking at the good side of things.The prohibition of sweeping and disposing the rubbish in the first five days forces people to arrange their things and clear away the rubbish properly at the end of each year, so that no unwanted things will be carried forward to the new year.At the same time, the taboo also compels people to learn to be thrifty.This is because to prevent accumulated things from becoming rubbish, people must be careful in the use of any paper or other things, and thus avoid waste of things.The avoidance of medicine and sneeze on the first day looks like a joke and is absurd as far as the patient is concerned.However, because of the taboos, people will be conscious enough to take serious care of their health during the windy and snowing season.Thus, they will avoid falling sick in the New Year and wasting away the precious spring hours.Nowadays, people have abandoned the custom of bringing along greeting cards when they go for New Year house visits.However, Chinese Malaysians still maintain the habit of sending New Year greeting cards by post before the New Year.There are even non-Chinese sending New Year greeting cared in English or Malay languages to their Chinese friends.Moreover, the Chinese like to use colourful New Year cared to decorate their houses, so as to strengthen the New Year atmosphere.Like the ancient days' greeting cards for he zheng which were displayed in the main hall, these modern New Year cards also reflect the social position of the persons who receive the cards.Thus, in the way, the ancient rite of he zheng has developed in Malaysia with a Malaysian colour.

第二篇：春節的由來(英文)

The Origin of Chinese New Year

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 coodination with the changes of Nature).Its origin is too old to be traced.Several explanations are hanging around.All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means year, was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite.people were very scared.One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian.To Nian he said, I hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents? So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian.He turned out to be an immortal god.Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life.Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each years end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most.From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation.The term Guo Nian, which may mean Survive the Nian becomes today Celebrate the(New)Year as the word guo in Chinese having both the meaning of pass-over and observe.The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around.However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.

第三篇：春節的由來

春節的由來、傳說和習俗

桂平市南木鎮桂塘中心小學

倫 麗

教學目標

1、了解春節的由來、有關傳說和習俗，知道我國是一個具有悠久歷史的文明禮儀之邦。

2、感受春節親人團聚的幸福，感受家庭和諧，培養學生“勤勞節儉、孝敬長輩”的優良品質。

3、談談自己的親身體會，感受節日的熱鬧氣氛，感受人們對美好生活的熱愛向往。教學重點

利用多方面的信息讓學生感受春節的隆重和熱鬧,領悟傳統節日文化的豐富內涵。教學難點

回憶豐富多彩的節日場景和各式各樣的慶祝活動，引導學生主動探索傳統節日的歷史淵源、傳說、習俗。教學準備

教師準備：了解各地有關春節的習俗。有關春節傳說的視頻、圖片，各種與春節慶祝活動有關的文字介紹、磁帶。

學生準備：查閱資料，收集春節的風俗圖片和文字資料。了解各地有關春節的習俗。教學過程

一、交流資料，激趣導入

1、引導學生回憶過春節的情景。

學生根據實際情況自由談一談剛剛過去的一個春節是怎么過的，都做了些什么。

交流收集的有關春節的資料。

2、導入。

過年時的熱鬧和快樂，過年時的親人相聚，過年時的爆竹聲聲??讓我們難忘，下面讓我們一起走進年，再一次感受濃濃的節日文化。（課件出示過年的紅火場面）板書：春節

二、暢談春節，感受氣氛

1、通過回憶春節時的歡樂情景及課前查閱、收集的資料，說說你對春節的了解。

（教學形式：學生介紹，教師用課件的形式同步呈現相關信息、場景、圖片、視頻等）

(1)春節簡介（見補充材料）

春節，是農歷正月初一，又叫陰歷年，俗稱“過年”??(2)過年的由來與傳說。（見補充材料）熬年守歲（觀看動畫 “年”的故事）(3)你了解的當地過年的習俗有哪些？

撣揚塵、備年貨、貼春聯、貼年畫、貼剪紙、貼窗花、倒貼福字、點蠟燭、點香火、置天地桌、放鞭炮、守歲、給壓歲錢、拜年、走親戚、上祖墳、逛花市等。

(4)你了解的當地過年的食俗有哪些？ 吃年夜飯、吃年糕、包餃子、湯圓、荷包蛋、大肉丸、全魚、生菜、美酒、福橘、蘋果、花生、瓜子、糖果等。（曲阜過年家家必備“生菜”）

(5)過年期間在衣著、言行舉止上對人們有什么要求？

2、小組交流：你家里是怎么過年的？如何慶祝的？向同學描述一下過年時的歡樂情景。

3、暢想：現在過年的習俗跟以前有什么不同？

（這些新年俗包括大年三十看“春晚”、電話拜年、短信拜年、網上拜年等等。）

三、拓展延伸，交流感受

過年，講究的就是熱鬧、火爆、祥和。這是中國最重要的節日有著濃郁的民族特色，是我們傳統文化的傳承與凝聚。除夕之夜，世界各地的炎黃子孫都會吃團圓飯、守歲、拜年，帶著美好的心愿辭舊迎新。但是不同的地方會以不同的方式來慶祝春節。你知道哪些地方的春節與我們這里的春節有不同的習俗？

學生結合收集的資料進行交流。可直接讓學生交流自己所在地過春節都有哪些習俗---這是學生最熟悉、最樂意交流的話題。

四、實踐活動

1.、開展“我與家長共做家務”的活動。

2、收集描寫春節的詩詞、春聯、童謠等。

第四篇：春節的由來

春節的由來

正月初一日，歷史上曾有元日、元旦、元辰、元朔、三元、三朝、三正、正旦、正朔等三十多種名稱。稱為春節，是近代才出現的事情。辛亥革命后，各省代表云集南京開會，議定我國采用公歷紀年，把公歷一月一日稱為元旦，將農歷正月初一日改稱春節。但是并沒有正式命名和執行。公元一九四九年九月二十七日，在中國人民政治協商會議第一次全體會議上，才正式決定我國采用公歷紀年；農歷正月初一日正式被命名為春節。

第五篇：春節的由來

春節的由來

中國農歷年的歲首稱為春節。是中國人民最隆重的傳統節日，也象征團結、興旺，對未來寄托新的希望的佳節。據記載，中國人民過春節已有4000多年的歷史。關于春節的起源有很多說法，但其中為公眾普遍接受的說法是，春節由虞舜興起。公元前2000多年的一天，舜即天子位，帶領著部下人員，祭拜天地。從此，人們就把這一天當作歲首。據說這就是農歷新年的由來，后來叫春節。春節過去也叫元旦。春節所在的這一月叫元月。

中國歷代元旦的日期并不一致：夏朝用孟春的元月為正月，商朝用臘月（十二月）為正月，秦始皇統一六國后以十月為正月，漢朝初期沿用秦歷。漢武帝劉徹感到歷紀太亂，就命令大臣公孫卿和司馬遷造太陽歷，規定以農歷正月為一歲之首，以正月初一為一年的第一天，就是元旦。此后中國一直沿用夏歷（陰歷，又稱農歷）紀年，直到清朝未年，長達2080年。春節不同時代有不同名稱。在先秦時叫上日、元日、改歲、獻歲等；到了兩漢時期，又被叫為三朝、歲旦、正旦、正日；魏晉南北朝時稱為元辰、元日、元首、歲朝等；到了唐宋元明，則稱為元旦、元、歲日、新正、新元等；而清代，一直叫元旦或元日。

1912年孫中山在南京就任中華民國臨時大總統時，宣布廢除舊歷改用陽歷（即公歷），用民國紀年。并決定以公元1912年1月1日為民國元年1月1日。一月一日叫新年，但不稱元旦。但民間仍按傳統沿用舊歷即夏歷，仍在當年2月18日（壬子年正月初一）過傳統新年，其他傳統節日也照舊。有鑒于此，1913年（民國二年）7月，由當時北京政府任內務總長向大總統袁世凱呈上一份四時節假的報告，稱：我國舊俗，每年四時令節，即應明文規定，擬請定陰歷元旦為春節，端午為夏節，中秋為秋節，冬至為冬節，凡我國民都得休息，在公人員，亦準假一日。但袁世凱只批準以正月初一為春節，同意春節例行放假，次年（1914年）起開始施行。自此夏歷歲首稱春節。

1949年9月27日，中國人民政治協商會議第一屆全體會議決定在建立中華人民共和國的同時，采用世界通用的公元紀年。為了區分陽歷和陰歷兩個年，又因一年24節氣的立春恰在農歷年的前后，故把陽歷一月一日稱為元旦，農歷正月初一正式改稱春節。

地球繞太陽一周，歷法上叫一年，循環往復，永無止境。但是，人們根據春、夏、秋、冬四季節氣的不同，就以夏歷正月初一為一年的歲首。每年農歷十二月三十日（小月二十九）半夜子時（十二點）過后，春節就算正式來到了。

臨近春節，人們采辦年貨，除夕時，全家團聚在一起吃年夜飯。貼年畫、春聯；迎接新的一年來臨。

隨著新中國的建立，春節慶祝活動更為豐富多彩。不僅保留了過去民間習俗，剔除了一些帶有封建迷信的活動，而且增加了不少新的內容。使春節具有新的時代氣息。1949年12月23日，中華人民共和國人民政府規定每年春節放假三天。

中國是個多民族的國家，各民族過新年的形式各有不同。漢族、滿族和朝鮮族過春節的風俗習慣差不多，全家團圓，人們吃年糕、水餃以及各種豐盛的飯菜、張燈結彩，燃放鞭炮，并互相祝福。春節期間的慶祝活動極為豐富多樣，有舞獅、耍龍的，也有踩高蹺、跑旱船的。在有些地區人們沿襲過去祭祖敬神活動，祈求新的一年風調雨順，平安、豐收。古代的蒙古族，把春節叫做白節，正月叫白月，是吉祥如意的意思。藏族是過藏歷年。回族、維吾爾族、哈薩克族等，是過古爾邦節。春節也是苗族、僮族、瑤族等的盛大節日。