春节英语手抄报资料:春节英文介绍(2)

　　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.

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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 festi（转载自第一范文网http://www.网址未加载，请保留此标记。）val. 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.

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