英语春联书法

春节（The Spring Festival）英文介绍 The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees. Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year. Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened. 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 Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko. 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". Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing. Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils. Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance. 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." What's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall. People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in. Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher, one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely. Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. People thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. However, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities once the government took security, noise and pollution factors into consideration. As a replacement, some buy tapes with firecracker sounds to listen to, some break little balloons to get the sound too, while others buy firecracker handicrafts to hang in the living room. The lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished. China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.

其实春联的上联和下联也是非常容易分辨的，最简单的方法是根据春联上面的字儿来分辨。春联最后的一个字，如果它是三声和四声的话，那么它就属于上联。如果最后一个字是属于一声和二声的话，它就属于下联英语对联：上联：The old year leaves amidst the falling snow. (瑞雪纷飞辞旧岁) 下联：The new spring comes with the shining glow. (旭日东升迎新春)

名词解释 :春联，又叫“春贴”、“门对”，它以对仗工整、简洁精巧的文字描绘美好形象，抒发美好愿望，是汉族特有的文学形式。 每逢春节，无论城市还是农村，家家户户都要精选大红春联贴于门上，辞旧迎新，增加喜庆的节日气氛。传统春联是用毛笔书写，但亦有印制的春联。春联的种类较多，有街门对、屋门对等。你知道怎么用英语表达吗?

On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste up on doors a spring coupletwritten on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival.

In the past, the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplets with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplets in the market.

They are usually posted in pairs because even numbers are connected with good luck and auspiciousness in Chinese culture.

在大年三十晚上，家家户户都会在门上贴上用红纸写的春联，传递出喜庆热闹的节日气氛。

在过去，中国人常常用毛笔自己写春联或者是请别人写春联，而现在，人们习惯购买市场上印刷好的春联。

春联通常是成对张贴。因为双数在中国文化中是好运和吉祥的象征。

【讲解】

文中的spring couplet就是“春联”的意思，其中couplet是名词，意为“对句;对联”，如：a congratulatory couplet(一幅贺联)，在我国很多农村地区，春节时还会贴年画(pasting New Year prints)，最出名的就是门神(Door Gods)。

最后一段中的even作形容词，意为“偶数的”，反义词是odd(奇数的)，也可以表示“平滑的，平坦的”，如：even surface(平滑的表面);它还可以作动词，意为“使平坦”，如：even the lawn(压平草地)。

1、上联：Great peace great wealth and great luckily.(大顺大财大吉利)下联：New year new joys and new century.(新春新喜新世纪)横批： Everything goes well.(万事如意)2、上联：The old year leaves amidst the falling snow. (瑞雪纷飞辞旧岁)下联：The new spring comes with the shining glow. (旭日东升迎新春)3、上联：Best wishes for the year to come!(恭贺新禧)下联：Good luck in the year ahead!(吉星高照)4、上联： Good year and view following the spring.(佳年好景随春到)下联： Happiness and health are with sense.(福乐安康顺意来)横批： Ring out the old,ring in the new.(辞旧迎新)5、上联：Eat well sleep well have fun day by day.(吃得不错、睡得不错、天天都开心)下联：Study hard work hard make money more and more.(努力学习、努力工作、钱越挣越多)横批：Gelivable(给力)6、上联：Happy New Year!(新年好)下联：Money Runs Here!(钱来到)

Decorations are an important feature of the celebrations for the Chinese New Year. One of the main forms of decoration are the 'Red Couplets', which are Chinese good luck sayings written on red paper, often with gold trimmings and usually made up of four Chinese characters which ask for luck in terms of long life, wealth etc. Red is not only a lucky colour for the Chinese, but also frightens off the monster 'Nian' who arrives at this time of year and destroys crops and homes. Some New Year couplets are intended to be pasted or pinned in special places such as the kitchen or doors, while some can be placed anywhere. The couplets are usually taken down after the New Year celebrations, though some people keep them up all year long in the hope of keeping good luck.