春节的传说英语

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1.A long time ago, there was a monster called "Nian". It often bullied the people living in the mountains in winter. Some people wanted to get rid of it, and some people wanted to drive it away. One day "Nian" came again, and many people's homes were attacked.

很久很久以前，有一个叫“年”的怪物，它经常在冬天欺负住在山里的人们，有一些人想把它除掉，也有一些人想把它赶走。有一天“年”又来了，许多人家里都遭到了袭击。

2.Only a few houses were hung with red curtains, and there were no injuries to those who had lit fires or knocked on the outside of their doors, so the people in the mountains knew that "Nian" was afraid of three things.                   只有几户挂着红布帘，门外生着火堆或敲敲打打闹翻天的人家没有受到伤害，因此山里的人们知道了“年”怕三样东西。

3.When "year" comes again, people use these three kinds of things to drive away this big monster, from then on dare not to hurt people. From one generation to the next, the custom of celebrating the Lunar New year has come into being.                                                                                                                                                                                         当“年”再来的时候，人们用这三样东西把这个大怪物给赶走了，从此都不敢来伤害人们了。以后代代相传，便形成了过年热闹的习俗。

convention:

大年三十守岁是春节最重要的活动之一。

2.On this day of the Spring Festival, you can't take out the garbage. You have to leave it until after the 2nd day of the Spring Festival.

春节这天家里不能倒垃圾要留到初二倒

3.When the Spring Festival, every family will paste couplets hung with bright red lanterns, very festive.

春节的时间家家户户会贴春联挂红灯笼，非常的喜庆。

Origin of the Spring Festival（春节的来历）:1、The Spring Festival is the first year of the lunar calendar. Another name of the Spring Festival is the Spring Festival. It is the biggest, busiest and most important ancient traditional festival in China. It is also a unique festival for Chinese people.（春节是农历的第一年。春节的另一个名称是春节。它是中国最大、最繁忙、最重要的古代传统节日。它也是中国人独特的节日。）2、It is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival has continued to this day. Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month.（它是中华文明最集中的表现形式。自西汉以来，春节的习俗一直延续到今天。春节一般指除夕和正月初一。）3、But in the folk sense, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial sacrifice on the eighth day of the eighth month or the sacrificial stove on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twentieth month until the fifteenth day of the first month, with the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax.（但在民间意义上，传统的春节是指以除夕和正月初一为高潮，在八月八日的祭祀活动或在十二月二十三日、二十四日至正月十五日的祭祀炉灶活动。）4、How to celebrate this festival has formed some relatively fixed customs and habits in the historical development of thousands of years, many of which are still handed down today. During the traditional festival of Spring Festival, the Han and most minority nationalities in China have to hold various celebrations.（在几千年的历史发展过程中，如何庆祝这个节日已经形成了一些相对固定的风俗习惯，其中许多至今仍在流传。在传统的春节期间，汉族和中国大多数少数民族都要举行各种各样的庆祝活动。）5、Most of these activities mainly focus on sacrificing gods and Buddhas, sacrificing ancestors, removing old cloth and new cloth, celebrating the New Year, and praying for a good year.（这些活动大多集中在祭祀神佛、祭祖、脱去旧布新布、庆祝新年、祈祷新年等方面。）6、The forms of activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics. On May 20, 2006, "Spring Festival" folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.（活动形式丰富多彩，具有较强的民族特色。2006年5月20日，“春节”民俗被国务院批准列入第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录。）

The Spring Festival, is the lunar New Year, commonly known as the Chinese New Year, generally refers to the New Year's eve and the first day of the first month. But the people, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival is refers to the twelfth of wax offering from the 8 or the twelfth of 23 or 24 people, until the fifteenth day, among them with New Year's eve and the first day of the first month for high tide. The Spring Festival has a long history, originated in the year of the shang periods (B.C. SuiWei ancestor worship god offering activities. During the Spring Festival, China's han ethnic minorities and many have held various activities to mark the occasion. These activities are designed for worship their ancestors, and hit the millennium bringers of good fortune, prayed for good harvests as the main content. Rich and colorful activities with strong ethnic characteristics