元旦节的由来英语

元旦节的由来英语

元旦节的由来英语

元旦节的由来英语 (1)

Introduction

Yuandan is the first day of the lunar calendar. It is the day

when the earth has circled the sun for one round and is

beginning another circling. It reprents a new beginning when

people nd off the old days and welcome the new ones. As the

first day of the year, Yuandan has been considered to be the most

important festival since the ancient times.

Customs

1. Kaisui(beginning of the year): According to the Chine

traditional custom, starting from to )of the

last evening of the twelfth lunar month, each family must prepare

offering s to deities at the altar. At the same time, they too

prepare food for the New Year day: The whole family will then

stay awake together to attend to the year(called shou sui). After

haishi, )will come, and this is the arrival of

New Year(Yuandan). At this moment, people begin the

celebration with fireworks. Vegetarian and sweet foods will then

be placed are the altar for offerings, and incen be burned to

welcome the deities. In the ancient times, it was believed that

haishi connected the two years and thus was called kaisui.

At the same night, some families will follow the instruction

in Tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the

"fortune deity" during the "fortune time" to receive the deity. If

the direction of the "fortune deity" is at the "ill position", people

will choo to receive "happy deity" or "noble deity" instead.

2. There is an apparent difference in the custom of food

taking on Yuandan between the Chine in the northern and

southern regions. The northern Chine has the habit of taking

jiao zi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped

inside). Some people may put a sweet or a coin inside jiao zi,

hoping to have a sweet year after tasting the sweet and a wealthy

year after tasting the coin. on the other hand, the southern

Chine have the taboo for killing on Yuandan. Therefore, they

do not take meat in tee morning of Yuandan, so as to avoid

bloodshed or mutual slaughter. In order to evade misfortune,

they have the first meal of this day without meat. Instead, they

take vegetarian food for the sake of virtue.

3. What is special during the New Year is that parents or

elders will distribute red packets(ang pao or ya sui qian)to the

children. People in the ancient times were more particular in

giving away the red packets: the distribution took place on the

eve of New Year so that the kids could suppress the past year and

enter the New Year. Ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the

unpredictable future. Reprenting the wishes for the healthy

psychological growth of the children, ya sui qian symbolis the

elders' hope to e their children overcome all the unpredictable

elements brought by the "year".

4. There is an extraordinary number of taboos on Yuandan.

Each place has its own customs of taboo. Here, we will mention

only a few common taboos in Fujian Province, Guangdong

Province and Southeast Asia:

In the past, people commonly believed that fortune was

hidden in the hou. So, wsweeping of floor must be done in the

direction moving inwards, and there was no clearance of rubbish

at night. Particularly on the New Tear day, in order to keep

fortune from flowing out, there was no sweeping. Some families

kept this taboo until the fifth or even the fifteenth day. If anything

was broken, the pieces were wrapped up in order not to let the

fortune slip away and were dispod only the fifth day.

Yuandan(in more rious families, the period extends from

the 1st to the 15th day) marks the new beginning. In the hope

that New Year brings good beginning, people should utter

neither unkind words nor vulgar language. Making nois,

fighting, quarreling and especially weeping are avoided to deter

misfortune. There are even taboos of taking medicine and having

sneeze, for it is believed that they can lead to sickness

throughout the year. Taboos of the past also concerned the u

of knife and the breaking of things. If a thing was broken, the

word "break" or any other word importing similar meaning was

not ud. Instead, words like "failing to the floor and blossoming

like flowers" which delivered pleasant ns were ud to

suggest good connections.

On Yuandan, neither lending and nor giving of money to

others is done so that there will be no out-flowing of money

during the year. There is also the saying that if a male sleeps in

the afternoon, his career will breakdown, and if a female has an

afternoon nap, the kitchen will collap.

5. Ancient rite: In the past, there was a rite called he

zheng(proper greeting)during New Year. When a person paid a

New Year visit to friends or relatives, he took along a piece of

paper or card on which the name of the host was written wit

Chine brush. The receiver of this greeting card would normally

paste it on the wall of his main hall to show his respect to and

appreciation for the visitor. The quantity of greeting card received

reflected the person's public relationship with others, while the

names and status of the people who gave the greeting cards

indicated the host's boundary of social network and standard of

living. Nowadays, becau of easy communication, convenient

transportation system and wider social network, when people

nd their greetings they tend to follow the Western style. The

greeting is now done by mail and even by email. Today, he zheng

is done by simply bringing along red packets and food prents

when making a visit.

To be in line with the custom of to giving away money on the

first day, families in some places do not pay New Year call to

others. Instead, the whole family simply goes out to enjoy

themlves or stayed at home for family happiness.

6. In the past, there was a superstition that when a person

left his hou in the New Year, he must take the correct first step.

A particular person would look for the fortunate direction in

accordance with the day, month and year of this birth basing on

the explanation of Chine calendar. On Yuan Dan, when a person

stepped out of his hou, he must go in the fortunate direction

and avoid the unfortunate direction. Even people of less

particularity also consulted Chine calendar to find out where

the fortunate directions and fierce deities were before the first

step out of their hous.

Meaning

From the above mentioned customs, we can e that there

are especially many taboos during Chine New Year. On Yuan

Dan in particular, there are more taboos on speech and behaviour

than tho on other ordinary days. Similarly, there are more

activities in pursuit of good cau than usual. On probing the

activities and taboos, we have no difficulty to understand that the

theme behind is always related to fortune, wealth and goodness,

and that people usually concern themlves with a good

beginning for the year.

Some taboos may look superstitious on the surface, but they

do produce efficacy. If we practi them circumspectively, they

will yield practical results. For example, the prohibition of bad

words, quarrel, weeping and crying, together with the emphasis

on thinking positively even when things are broken, provide

some normative rules for people to follow. This gives people the

opportunity to mend their ways, to develop good attitudes, and

to form a habit of thinking positively and looking at the good

side of things. The prohibition of sweeping and disposing the

rubbish in the first five days forces people to arrange their things

and clear away the rubbish properly at the end of each year, so

that no unwanted things will be carried forward to the new year.

At the same time, the taboo also compels people to learn to be

thrifty. This is becau to prevent accumulated things from

becoming rubbish, people must be careful in the u of any paper

or other things, and thus avoid waste of things.

The avoidance of medicine and sneeze on the first day looks

like a joke and is absurd as far as the patient is concerned.

However, becau of the taboos, people will be conscious

enough to take rious care of their health during the windy and

snowing ason. Thus, they will avoid falling sick in the New Year

and wasting away the precious spring hours.

Nowadays, people have abandoned the custom of bringing

along greeting cards when they go for New Year hou visits.

However, Chine Malaysians still maintain the habit of nding

New Year greeting cards by post before the New Year.

There are even non-Chine nding New Year greeting

cared in English or Malay languages to their Chine friends.

Moreover, the Chine like to u colourful New Year cared to

decorate their hous, so as to strengthen the New Year

atmosphere. Like the ancient days' greeting cards for he zheng

which were displayed in the main hall, the modern New Year

cards also reflect the social position of the persons who receive

the cards. Thus, in the way, the ancient rite of he zheng has

developed in Malaysia with a Malaysian colour.

元旦节英语150字(2)

It’s the New Year's Day today。

I got up very early! I heard the bird singing in the trees。

After breakfast， my mum， my father and I went to the local

park。

Everything was beautiful there，

We saw many boats in the lake。

Later on， we went to my grandfather’s home。

There are many trees and some flowers。

At ven o’clock， we went home。

It’s a happy day today。

关于元旦的英语作文(3)

New Year's Day is one of important days for many people in

the word during the people spend the New Year'sDay

in y 1st is considered as the New Year's

companies,shops,school,and government offices are clod

during that prepare for New Year's Dayfrom late

,people spend a few days to clean their hous

families then put up some new painting from

November to be nt in New Year's meal is also

prepared from the end of the New Year's

Day,people usually do not cook and relax at home. On New Year's

Eve,it is common to have a bag dinner with family members or

friends at home or in hotels and hear bells which informs us of

the coming New New Year's Day,people fiest greet each