春节（初中英语特色课）课件

春节 The Spring Festival Reunion Dinner 年夜饭 Reunion Dinner 年夜饭 The most important tradition on New Year's Eve is having the reunion dinner. Chinese people usually attach great importance to the family. The dinner at the last day of a year is very important for them to express their love. No matter where Chinese people are, they try their best to come back home for the reunion dinner. It’s the happiest time for family members to get together to prepare and eat the dinner. Sticking New Year's Red 贴年红 Sticking New Year's Red 贴年红 Sticking New Year's Red is the general name of sticking Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures, blessings, horizontal banners, window decorations, etc. Because these are red festive elements pasted during the New Year, they are collectively called "sticking New Year's Red". Watching Spring Festival Gala 看春晚 Watching Spring Festival Gala 看春晚 At 20:00 on New Year’s Eve, New Year's Evening Party Broadcast (CCTV New Year's Gala) begins on TV. Most people in China sit together to watch the broadcast. The program lasts for 4 to 5 hours accompanying the families to welcome the New Year. Guarding The Age (Or Year) 守岁 Guarding The Age (Or Year) 守岁 It is a tradition that after the rich reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, all the family members gather to stay awake all night. Staying together during the time between the years is called Shou Sui in Chinese, which means guarding the age or the year. By doing this, people think their age can be delayed to grow. Setting Off Firecrackers And Fireworks Setting Off Firecrackers And Fireworks The tradition of setting off firecrackers and fireworks comes from the legend of Nian. Nian is a monster appearing during the Spring Festival and it fears noises. By setting off fireworks, it can be scared away. So Chinese people set off firecrackers and fireworks throughout New Year's Eve. Worshipping Ancestors 祭祖 Worshipping Ancestors 祭祖 On New Year's Eve, people put the ancestors' photos (or paintings) and tablets in the center of the tribute table. Delicious food and wine are usually offered to the ancestors before the tablets. Family members burn sticks of incense and kowtow to them. 春节的英文常用词语 过年 have the Spring Festival 对联 poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry 春联 Spring Festival couplets 剪纸 paper-cuts 年画 New Year paintings 买年货 special purchases for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping 春节的英文常用词语 敬酒 propose a toast 灯笼 lantern: a portable light 灯会 exhibition of lanterns 守岁 staying-up 拜年 pay New Year's call; give New Year's greetings; New Year's visit 禁忌 taboo 去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune 祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one's ancestors 春节的英文常用词语 压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift 辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year 扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning 八宝饭 eight treasures rice pudding 糖果盘 candy tray 什锦糖 assorted candies - sweet and fortune 蜜冬瓜 candied winter melon - growth and good health 春节的英文常用词语 西瓜子 red melon seed - joy, happiness, truth and sincerity 金桔 cumquat - prosperity 糖莲子 candied lotus seed - many descendents to come 糖藕 candied lotus root - fulfilling love relationship 红枣 red dates - prosperity 花生糖 peanut candy - sweet 春节的英文祝福语 Mom and Dad: Thank you for everything on this holiday season! 爸爸妈妈：值此佳节，感谢您们所给予的一切。 Warmest thoughts and best wishes from your daughter. 寄上无限的思念和最美好的祝愿，你们的女儿。 May you have the best season. 愿你过个最愉快的节日。 春节的英文祝福语 A New year greeting to cheer you from your daughter. 愿女儿的祝福带给您欢乐。 Happy New year to the world's best parents! 祝最亲爱的父母节日快乐! Season's greetings to my dearest parents! 祝我最亲爱的父母节日愉快! 春节的英文祝福语 Much joy to you in the upcoming year. 愿您在新的一年充满快乐。 Thank you for your hard work and patience on this holiday season. 值此佳节，谨对您的辛勤栽培表示感谢。 May happiness follow you everywhere …just like we do. 愿快乐随时与您同在——如同我们与您寸步不离。 春节的英文祝福语 A New Year greeting to cheer you, my good friend. 希望新年祝福给你带来欢乐，我的好朋友。 Take your passion and make it come true. 发挥你的热情，让理想变为现实。 Best of luck in the year to come. 愿你在未来的一年里，吉星高照。 THANK YOU 除夕夜 Chinese New Year's Eve About Chuxi 除夕简介 Chuxi，or the Chinese New Year's Eve, is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the last day of the 12th month of the the Chinese lunar calendar. Homes are spotless in and out, doors and windows are decorated with brand new Spring Festival couplets, New Year's pictures, hangings, and images of the Door God, and everyone dresses up in new holiday clothes that are decorated with lucky patterns and auspicious colors. Traditions and Customs 传统与习俗 Chinese New Year's Eve’s practice is the cluster of this festival’s history and tradition for thousands of years. There are many practices in China which are varied as people in different regions have different customs. Most of the practices exists for thousands years and still being used nowadays. Gathering 家人团聚 Gathering 家人团聚 In China, people are used to having grand family banquets to celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve which is known as “Happy gathering”. Since it is the last meal of the year, all the family members must sit together to enjoy the delicious family traditional dishes. To Chinese, New Year's Eve dinner is more than just enjoying a grand feast. The elaborate dinner is laden with auspicious food. The names of the dishes express the wish for good luck in the coming year. On this day, all Chinese all over the world, no matter how far away from home they are or how busy at work, will be home for dinner. Watching the Spring Festival Gala Watching the Spring Festival Gala The Spring Festival Gala is a TV show which broadcasts live by China's Central Television on Lunar New Year’s Eve with singing, dancing, sketch comedy and cross-talk. It has been institutionalized as a crucial practice of Chinese New Year’s Eve, every family member sits in front of the TV, watching the Spring Festival gala together. Letting off Firecrackers 放鞭炮 Letting off Firecrackers 放鞭炮 Legend has it that long ago during the age of great floods, there was a vicious monster named Nian. Whenever the last day of the 12th lunar month arrived, this monster would appear, and killed many people. Later, people accidentally discovered that the monster was afraid of the sound of burning bamboo. So Chinese will burn bamboo to make the sound to keep the devil out of their house on Chinese New Year's Eve. Nowadays, Chinese people still like to light firecrackers instead of bamboo on the Chinese New Year's Eve. Inviting the Door God 请门神 Inviting the Door God 请门神 Every year on New Year's Eve, people paste up images of the Door God on their doors. The Door God, or guardian of the threshold, is a very old deity. In addition to door gods, images of the gods of Blessings, Prosperity, and Longevity, as well as the Ten Thousand Deities and the Three-Treasures Buddha, are often hung in living rooms and bedrooms. These guardian deities were thought to protect the household from evil influences and repel demons. Hanging Spring Festival Couplets Hanging Spring Festival Couplets Hanging Spring Festival Couplets, or Chunlian in Chinese, is a common and important custom when celebrating the Chinese New Year. As a tradition, Chinese people write couplets, a two-sentence, auspicious poem written on red couplets in anticipation of a prosperous Lunar New Year. The tradition is widely kept in modern cities and rural areas of China, and overseas Chinese communities. Spring rolls 春卷 Spring rolls 春卷 Spring rolls are a traditional dish in Eastern China. People make the thin dough wrappers in the cylindrical-shaped rolls and fill them with vegetables, meat, or something sweet, then fried the spring rolls to give them a golden-yellow color. Dumplings 饺子 Dumplings 饺子 Dumplings，or jiaozi in Chinese, are a traditional food to eat in northern China on Chinese New Year’s Eve. Minced meat and vegetables are wrapped in the elastic dough skin. Boiling, steaming and frying are the most common ways to cook dumplings in China. Glutinous rice cakes 糯米糕 Glutinous rice cakes 糯米糕 Glutinous rice cakes are called "niangao" in Chinese. The sound of niangao has a good meaning: getting higher year by year. Niangao is made of sticky rice, sugar and chestnuts. It is a common dish which appears in the Chinese families' Lunar New Year Eve reunion dinner. 相关词汇 the Chinese New Year's Eve 除夕 auspicious 吉利的，吉祥的 the Spring Festival Gala 春节晚会 firecracker 鞭炮 Door God 门神 Spring Festival Couplets 春联 spring roll 春卷 dumpling 饺子 glutinous rice cake 糯米糕，年糕 关于除夕美好祝愿的英文表达 岁岁平安 Everlasting peace year after year 恭喜发财 Wishing you prosperity 吉祥如意 Everything goes well 一帆风顺 Wishing you every success 步步高升 Promoting to a higher position 和气生财 Harmony brings wealth 心想事成 May all your wishes come true 常见拜年祝福语 Treasures fill the home 金玉满堂 Business flourishes 生意兴隆 Peace all year round岁岁平安 Wishing you prosperity恭喜发财 常见拜年祝福语 May all your wishes come true 心想事成 Everything goes well 吉祥如意 Wishing you every success一帆风顺 Promoting to a higher position 步步高升 Safe trip wherever you go 出入平安 THANK YOU null 90672.055 $$