元旦的英语资料

元旦的英语资料

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1949年中华人民共和国以公历1月1日为元旦，因此元旦在中国

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【元旦介绍】

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.

【元旦习俗】

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.

【元旦的由来传说】

In a legend about the prosperous era of Yao and Shun some

4000 years ago, when Yao was the king, he created many benefits

for the people and was loved by them. However, since his son

was not as capable as him, Yao did not pass on his throne to his

son but to Shun, a wi and saintly man.

Yao said to Shun: "You must pass the throne to a right person.

Then I will feel at peace when I die." Shun pasd his throne to

Yu, who was a hero becau he could control flooding. Just like

Shun, Yu also did a lot of good deeds for the people and was

revered by them.

After Yao died, Shun t the day he made sacrifices to the

heavens and gods, as well as to the late Yao, as the first day of

the year, and the first day of the 1st lunar month became known

as Yuan Dan or Yuan Zheng. This was Yuan Dan in ancient times.

Previous dynasties would organize celebrations and

sacrifices on Yuan Dan, for example sacrificing to the immortals

and their forefathers, writing Spring Festival scrolls, writing

character fortunes and dragon dancing.

People also celebrated the day by making sacrifices to

immortals and ancestors, pasting spring festival scrolls onto their

hous, tting off firecrackers, staying up all night, eating

dinners at reunions as well as putting on a "society fire".

The scenes are of such impact that the poet Xin Lan in the

Jin Dynasty immortalid the scenes of Yuan Dan in his poem

Yuan Zheng.