介绍节日的英语作文
篇一：中国传统节日的英文介绍和讨论
中国传统节日的英文介绍和讨论
I 中国主要传统节日的英文翻译
元旦(1月1日)New Year's Day
春节(农历一月一日)the Spring Festival
元宵节(农历一月十五日)the Lantern Festival
清明节(4月5日)Ching Ming Festival; Tomb-sweeping Festival
端午节(农历五月初五)the Dragon Boat Festival
中秋节(农历八月十五)Mid-autumn (Moon) Festival
重阳节(农历九月九日)Double-ninth Day
除夕(农历十二月三十日)New Year's Eve
II 新年习俗英译 过年 celebrate the spring festival春联 spring festival couplets 剪纸 paper-cuts 年画 new year paintings
买年货 do shopping for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping 敬酒 propose a toast 灯笼 lantern烟花 fireworks
爆竹 firecrackers (people scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.) 红包 red packets 舞龙 dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests)
舞狮 lion dance (the lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.)
戏曲 traditional opera 杂耍 variety show 灯谜 riddles written on lanterns 灯会 exhibit of lanterns 守岁 staying-up 禁忌 taboo
拜年 pay new year's call; give new year's greetings; pay new year's visit
去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune 祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar new year gift 旧岁 bid farewell to the old year
扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning
年糕nian-gao; rise cake; new year cake团圆饭 family reunion dinner 年夜饭 the dinner on new year's eve
饺子jiaozi -; chinese meat ravioli ,dumplings
III XINHUA NEWS AGAENCY REPORT
2007-11-07
BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- China may increase the number of legal holidays and include some traditional festivals, such as the Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, as part of the country's legal holidays, sources said.
The Chinese government has formed a preliminary plan on the new legal holiday arrangement and the plan will be released "in the near future". After that public opinion will be sought on the Internet.
As an ancient country with a civilized history of more than 5,000 years, some traditional festivals represent part of the Chinese nati
"The nation's traditional culture will find its way to develop," Cai said.
FengJicai, a renowned Chinese writer who upholds folk customs, said the cultural meaning of Chinese traditional festivals should be restored and emphasized, especially with increasing globalization.
Chinese people currently have ten days of legal holiday. Nine days are for May Day, the National Day and the Spring Festival, with three days for each, and one day for New Year's Day.
However, the weekends on one side of the first three holidays are designated as two working days, and people enjoy two days off on the working days, which makes the holiday a consecutive seven days. Millions of Chinese travel during the holidays, so earning them the name "golden weeks".
Regarded as one of the most important days on the Chinese calendar, the Tomb-Sweeping Day, or Qingming festival, which usually occurs on April 4 or 5 each year, was established by a Chinese emperor in memory of a loyal official who sacrificed himself to save the emperor's life more than 2,500 years ago.
The day gradually became a traditional occasion for paying homage to ancestors and departed family members.
The Dragon Boat Festival has been celebrated for thousands of years to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great Chinese patriotic poet, who lived in the state of Chu during the Warring States period (475 B.C. to 221 B.C.). He drowned himself in the Miluo River in today's Hunan Province in 278 B.C., on fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, hoping his death would alert the king to revitalize the kingdom.
The tradition arose that on the day of his death dragon boat races would be held and people should eat "zongzi", glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves.
The Mid-Autumn festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar, is considered an occasion for reunion of family members and loved ones. On the occasion, they would eat moon cakes, light lanterns while enjoying the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck.
The festival was flavored by the legend of Chang'e, a lonely fairy on the moon. According to the legend, she was the beautiful wife of Hou Yi, a hero who shot down nine suns scorching the earth but was slain by his apprentice FengMeng. Threatened by the murderer, Chang'e drank an elixir and flew to the moon.
China introduced the "Golden week" holidays in 1999, in a bid to boost domestic consumption.
It was reported that tourism revenue has increased from 14.1 billion yuan (1.76 billion U.S. dollars) during the National Day holiday in 1999 to 64.2 billion yuan during the "Golden week" this October.
Statistics also showed that the year 2001 alone saw tourist numbers reach 780 million, much higher than the figure of 240 million in 1989. While China's outbound tourists rose to 12.13 million in 2001, a big jump from 3 million in the early 1990s.
But after several years' experience, complaints about overcrowding, poor service, a scarcity of hotel rooms, and damage to scenic spots, especially historic sites, during the "Golden Week" holidays have spurred debate over the merits of the week-long holiday concept.
Last year, CaiJiming proposed shortening the National Day and May Day holidays from three days to one day and distributing the days to celebrate four
traditional festivals - the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, and New Year's Eve.
Other Chinese scholars have also reiterated their belief that the important traditional Chinese festivals should be made public holidays.
"The current holiday system does not accord with the long-standing customs of Chinese people," said Liu Quili, President of the Chinese Folklore Society.
Huang Tao, an associate professor of the People's University of China, said the most effective measures to protect cultural festivals were to make the traditional festivals legal holidays to enable more people to understand the importance of tradition.
IV 中国传统节日的整体介绍
Traditional Chinese Festivals
Boasting rich cultural meaning and a long history, traditional Chinese festivals compose an important and brilliant part of Chinese culture.
The formation of traditional festivals is a long process of historical and cultural accumulation in a nation or a state. Festival customs passed down to today still show signs of ethnic group struggles. Festival activities always reflect primitive sacrifice, superstitious taboo and earthly life, people's spirit and religious influence. Sometimes historical figures become the focus of a festival, showing people's commemoration for them and endowing some historical sense to it.
Moreover, traditional Chinese festivals were often connected with ancient astronomy, calendars and mathematics. Jieqi, or the 24 seasonal division points, is a key factor in forming traditional festivals. According to the traditional Chinese
篇二：初三 关于节日的英语作文
节日 作文 关于春节的英语作文带翻译一：
The Lunar New Year
The Lunar New Year is a great occasion to the Chinese people. It lasts about the first four days of the year， during which people do not work except for the workers on duty. Students do not go to school， and shops are closed.
Several days before the new year， people begin to prepare. Farmers kill pigs， sheep， cocks and hens. City dwellers buy meat fish and vegetables. Houses are cleaned； coupletsare posted on the doors. Colourful lanterns are hung at the gate. On the eve of the new year， each family has its members gatherd together and eats a family reunion dinner. After the meal they watch TV until the clock strickes twelve. Then every family sets off long strings of small firecrackers and other fire works to welcome the new year. On the first day of the new year， almost everyone is dressed in his or her best. When people meet on the way， they say to each other "Happy New Year".
Friends and relatives pay new year calls and gives presents to each other. Children indulge themselves in games.
关于春节的英语作文带翻译一：
农历新年
农历新年是一个伟大的时刻对中华民族来说。它大约持续了四天的第一年，在这期间不工作，除了值班的工人。学生不上学，和商店都已关闭。
前几天在新的一年，人们就开始准备。农民杀了猪，羊，公鸡和母鸡。城市居民买肉鱼和蔬菜。房子干净; coupletsare门上张贴。色彩缤纷的灯笼挂在门口。
在新的一年的前夕，每个家庭都有自己的成员一起吃gatherd家人吃团圆饭。吃饭后，他们看电视，直到时钟strickes十二。然后，每个家庭衬托小爆竹等消防工程，长字符串迎接新年。在新的一年的第一天，几乎每个人都穿着他或她最好的。当人们在路上相遇，他们互相说“新年快乐“。亲戚朋友拜年，并给出礼物给对方。孩子沉迷于游戏本身。
The Mid-Autumn is a very important Chinese festival. It falls on the 15th day of August. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family will help to make the house clean and beautiful. Lanterns will be hung in front of the house. On the
evening there will be a big family dinner. People who work far away from their homes will try to come back for the union. After dinner, people will light the lanterns which are usually red and round. Children will play with their own toy lanterns happily. At night the moon is usually round and bright. People can enjoy the moon while eating moon-cakes which are the special food for this festival. They can look back on the past and look forward to the future together. It is said that there was a dragon in the sky. The dragon wanted to swallow up the moon. To protect the frighten the dragon away.
What a great festival!
中秋节是中国一个很重要的节日，在八月十五号。在节日来临的前几天，家庭中的每一个人都帮着打扫房子，把房子装扮得漂漂亮亮的，灯笼挂在屋前。 晚上有一顿美餐，离家在外工作的人也要回来团圆。晚饭后，人们点亮灯笼，一般是红色的圆灯笼。孩子们会高高兴兴地玩他们的玩具灯笼。 晚上月亮又圆又大，人们在赏月的同时吃着中秋节特别的食品——月饼。人们在一起回顾过去，展望未来。据说天上有一条龙，它要把月亮吞下去。为了保护月亮，孩子们要弄出很大的响动把龙吓跑。
中秋是个美好的节日啊!
Spring Festival
My best festival is Spring Festival. It is in Janurary or February. It is the most important festival for the Chinese people. On that day 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, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. I like spring festival very much. It's my favourite holiday.
我最喜爱的节日是春节，它在一月或者二月。对于中国人来说这是最重要的节日。在那天，每个人都认真打扮，他们会像父母问好，然后每个孩子会得到红包作为新年礼物。
北方人喜欢早上吃饺子或者汤圆。饺子的形状像中国的元宝，他们吃饺子来期盼财源广进。燃放烟花也曾一度是春节的传统习俗。我非常喜欢春节，它是我最喜欢的节日。
Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival is a China's traditional festival. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year.
I,antern Festival is one of the biggest holidays in China. Several days before Lantern Festival, people begin to make lanterns. Lanterns are made in the shape of different animals, vegetables, fruits and many, other things. While making
lanterns people usually write riddles on lanterns. On the eve of Lantern Festival, all the lanterns are hung up.
On Lantern Festival people go outside to have a look at the lanterns and guess the riddles on the lanterns. Perhaps you call see some wonderful folk performances,Dragon Dance and Yangko. Everything is very interesting and everyone is very happy. Our life is rich and varied.
元宵节
元宵节是中国的一个传统节日。通常在阴历年的第一个月的第十五天庆祝。
篇三：英文版传统节日介绍
传统节日中英文介绍。
1、 腊八节
腊八节是指农历的腊月初八。在这天，中国人有喝腊八粥的习俗。一般腊八粥是甜味粥，里面有干果和干鲜果品，当然每家的腊八粥做法都不营养，在我们家的腊八粥里一般有红小豆，香米，核桃，花生，小米等等。
过了腊八节，各家就开始置办年货，打扫卫生，正式开始为春节的到来做准备了。 the laba Rice Porridge Festival
“Laba Festival” falls on the eighth day of the twelfth month in lunar calendar. On that day, the majority Chinese have long followed the tradition of eating Laba rice porridge. Usually, the rice porridge tastes sweet, with nuts and dried fruit, but different families have different ingredients in the porridge. My family usually make porridge with small red beans，fragrant rice，walnut，peanut and millet.
Laba Festival also marks the beginning of preparing for spring festival. Some families begin to do spring festival shopping and clean their houses after that day.
2、小年
小年又叫“祭灶节”，在农历的12月23或者24。在中国传统中，祭灶节这天，是掌管全家命运的神仙灶神将向玉皇大帝汇报这一家人一年的情况，玉皇大帝根据灶神汇报的情况决定在下一年对这一家的奖励或者惩罚。小年这天，是各家欢送灶王爷上天的日子。
老百姓在这一天做糖瓜，希望灶神可以吃了糖瓜，多为自己家美言几句，让来年更加吉祥幸福。
Kitchen God's Day
Kitchen God’s Day falls on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth month of the lunar year. According to tradition, Kitchen God who in charge of the fate of the whole family goes back to heaven during the spring festival to deliver what the family had done the last year to the Great God. According to Kitchen God’s words, the Great God makes decision to reward or punish the family in the next year. In other words, it is the day people honor the Kitchen God.
People usually made sugared melons with malt sugar on that day. We hope Kitchen God will eat sugared melons and put a good word for our family to the Great God, so we’ll be lucky next year.
3、 春节
对中国人来说，春节是最重要的节日。除夕这天，全家人要一起吃年夜饭。这是最好的一次家宴，不仅仅因为菜品丰富，更因为这是个全家人相聚的日子。
年夜饭后，我们会一起包饺子，通常会全家人一起看央视春晚。过年的时候，各家都放鞭炮，贴春联。还有一件事也很重要，那就是守岁，就是在旧年的最后一天夜里不睡觉，熬夜迎接新一年的到来的习俗。
大年初一， 亲戚朋友相互拜年，祝愿新的一年能事事顺利。通常大人们还会给小孩子发压岁钱。
大年初二回娘家，是指已婚妇女回娘家拜访。
初五这天全家再次团聚吃饺子。这天是人们要迎接灶王爷下界的日子。同时，人们打扫卫生，放鞭炮，来驱走“晦气”。
The Spring Festival
The spring festival is the most important festival for Chinese. At Chinese New Year’s Eve, family members have reunion dinner together. This dinner would be the best dinner, not only because we have various dishes, but it’s the day we could meet all our family members.
After family reunion dinner, we make Chinese dumplings together, and usually watch the Spring Festival Gala on CCTV. Each family would light firecrackers and paste up Spring Festival couplets. One more thing is important, that is people should stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve to welcome the new year.
On New Year’s Day of the Chinese lunar calendar, relatives and friends would send New Year's greetings to each other to wish everything smooth in the New Year. Adult usually give lucky money to children during Spring Festival.
The second day of the New Year is usually called the day of visiting parental home, which means that married daughters should return to their parents ' home.
Family members reunite to eat dumplings on the fifth day of the first lunar month. On that day, people welcome the Kitchen God come back to mortal world. People clean house and light firecracker so that keep away all bad luck.
4、正月十五
元宵节标志着中国春节的结束，是农历正月十五。通常这天家家都会吃元宵。元宵节的传统活动是赏花灯和猜灯谜。元宵节赏花灯正好是一个交谊的机会，未婚男女借着赏花灯也顺便可以为自己物色对象。这天我们还会看到舞龙和舞狮的表演。
The Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival marks the end of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year, and it's on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, People usually eat rice glue balls on Lantern festival. Traditional activities are enjoying the display of various lanterns and riddle solving. Enjoying
beautiful lanterns is also an opportunity for singles to make friends. Dragon and lion dances can also been seen on that day.
5、清明节
清明节是我国传统节日，也是最重要的祭祀节日，是祭祖和扫墓的日子。
清明节是24节气之一，预示着春耕的好时节已经到了。清明节又叫踏青节，因为一般在四月5日左右，正是中国的春天，人们喜欢郊游踏青，还喜欢在清明节放风筝。
Qingming Festival/Tomb sweeping day
Tomb Sweeping Day is traditional festival of China, is also the most important sacrifice festival, on that day, people worships ancestors and visits grave. People pay respects to somebody at his tomb.
It is one of the 24 solar terms, means that it’s good time for spring ploughing. Tomb Sweeping Day falls around April fifth, and it’s during the spring of China, so it is also called “hiking day”. People go to the suburbs for an outing in spring. People love to fly kites during the Qingming Festival
6、端午节
端午节是为了纪念中国伟大的爱国诗人屈原，是农历五月初五。
端午节有吃粽子和赛龙舟的习俗。粽子是一种用竹叶或芦苇叶包成棱形的状的饭团子。我们将艾蒿放在门上辟邪，艾蒿还有驱除蚊虫的作用。
端午节给儿童缠七色线，一直要戴到节后第一次下雨才解下来扔在雨水里。
Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu Festival
The festival is to commemorate a great patriotic poet of China—— Qu Yuan. It falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in lunar calendar.
There is the customs of eating Zongzi and racing dragon-boat on Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi is a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves to give it a special flavor. We put mugwort on the door to ward off evil, and it has insect repellent function.
Children wear bracelet made by seven colored strings until the first rain after the festival, they should throw the strings into puddle.
7、中秋节
每年的农历八月十五是中秋节。对中国人来说圆月代表着幸福圆满，所以中秋节时中国人全家团聚，一同赏月、吃月饼、吃石榴。月饼是圆形或矩形的糕点，大多数月饼皮薄酥软，馅足香甜。
Mid-Autumn Day
Mid-autumn day falls on the fifteenth day of eighth lunar month. For Chinese, the full moon means blessedness and unity. Traditionally, on that day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn moon, and eat moon cakes and pomegranate together. Typical mooncakes are round or rectangular pastries. Most mooncakes consist of a thin tender skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling
My explanations of interesting questions：
1、Why do Chinese have Spring Festival? Where did it come from?
In Chinese mythology, the monster Nian is a beast that lives in the mountains. Every 365 days, it comes out of hiding to attack people, especially children. That day is the critical day for people. But Nian is sensitive to loud noises and is afraid of the color red. People came up with a plan to drive the monster away. On the day Nian came out, people shut doors and stay at home. They made loud noises and light firecrackers to scare away Nian.
为什么中国人要过年？"年"是什么？
传说有一种凶猛的怪兽叫“年”住在山里，它每隔三百六十五天就出现一次，它咬伤百姓，尤其是小孩。百姓们便把每年的这可怕的一夜视为这一年的关口，但是年兽对噪音很敏感，而且害怕红色，于是百姓们想出了办法来赶走年兽。在年兽出没的那天，百姓们大门紧闭待在家里用，并用鞭炮的噪音来驱赶年兽。
2. Why should Chinese do house cleaning before Spring Festival?
The 24th day on the last lunar month is the day for cleanup. Everyone should have a
spring-cleaning, do home cleaning, sweep their home, clean windows, wash clothes and
clean dishes, so that keep dust away. In Chinese, the word “dust” has the same pronunciation with “old”. So to sweep dust is a metaphor of sweeping away the old and starting afresh.
为什么要大清扫？
农历腊月二十四传统扫房日。迎新首先要除旧。扫尘之日，全家上下齐动手，用心打扫房屋、庭院，擦洗锅碗、拆洗被褥，干干净净迎接新年。其实，人们借助“尘”与“陈”的谐音表达除陈、除旧的意愿。
3. Why do people wear new clothes on Spring Festival?
People wear new clothes in spring festival to make a good impression on others. New cloth is also the symbol of welcoming the New Year, hoping that everything is new and auspicious. 为什么要穿新衣？
人们穿上新衣服在新年时给别人留下好印象。新衣服也是迎接新年的标志，人们希望来年每件事是都是崭新而吉祥的。
4. Why do Chinese set off firecracker on Spring Festival?
In legend, people set off firecracker to scare the monster “Nian” away. Nowadays, we set off firecrackers to bid a farewell to old days and celebrate the start of the New Year.
为什么要放鞭炮？
传说以前人们放鞭炮以驱赶年兽，而如今，我们以劈劈啪啪的爆竹声辞旧迎新。
5. Why do Chinese Paste Spring Couplets?
Spring couplet is a kind of typical Chinese literature, expressing best wishes with brief, periodic and heroic couplets.
为什么要贴对联？
对联是以工整、对偶、简洁、精巧的文字描绘时代背景，抒发美好愿望，是我国特有的文学形式。
6. Why do Chinese hang red lanterns?
Red, in China always is to represent the good luck and auspiciousness. Red lantern is the symbol of happiness, peace and warmth,
为什么要挂红灯笼？
红色在中国一直有好运和吉祥之意。过春节挂红灯笼是因为灯笼是幸福、祥和和温馨的象征。
7. Why do Chinese make and eat Chinese dumpling?
In Chinese, the word of Chinese dumplings has the same pronunciation with the word which means the moment between the old and New Year. Chinese dumplings/Jiaozi means replacement of the old year by the New Year. Moreover, the shape of Chinese dumpling is like shoe-shaped gold ingot, which symbolizes the life rich and good luck.