用英文介绍春联

“The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical phrases”, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase, above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past, the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.“春联”也被称为和“对联”对立的一对短语，在中国是一种特殊的文学形式。春联是由贴在门口两侧两组对立的句子组成，在门上面的横批通常是一个吉祥的短语。贴在门右侧的句子被称作对联的上联，左侧的为下联。除夕那天，每家都会在门上贴上红纸写的春联，传递出节日喜庆和热闹的气氛。在过去，中国人通常用毛笔自己写春联或者请别人写春联，而现在，人们普遍在市场上买印刷好的春联。这篇你看看吧。

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.

贴春联 [词典] post new year's scrolls; [例句]他们在门上和墙上贴春联。They put up posters on their doors and walls.

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)。

The Chinese people love to stick couplets on the Spring Festival, which are also written on red paper.春节时，中国人喜欢贴春联，春联也是用红纸写的。Spring scrolls, also known as spring posts, are poems written on red rice paper to celebrate the New Year.春联，也叫“春贴”，是人为庆祝春节在红色纸上写下的诗句。During the Spring Festival,every family pastes the Spring Festival couplets on their doors to express sincere blessings and good wishes.（春节期间，每家每户都在门口张贴春联以表达真诚美好的祝愿。）