元旦的习俗英文介绍

元旦的习俗英文介绍

元旦的习俗英文介绍

从古代殷朝汉朝一直到民国,然后到新中国成立,元旦节的演变是一

个很长的历史过程。下面店铺给大家整理的关于元旦节的'习俗英语介

绍，欢迎大家参考!

元旦的习俗英文介绍 1

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.

元旦的习俗英文介绍 2

1、元旦的英文介绍

New Years Day is the first day of the lunar is the

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

beginning another reprents a new beginning when

people nd off the old days and welcome the new the

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

important festival since the ancient times.

2、元旦习俗

kaisui(beginning of the year):according to the chine

traditional custom,starting from haishi( )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,zishi( 1a.m.)will

come,and this is the arrival of new year(yuandan).At this

moment,people begin the celebration with rian

and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings,and

incen be burned to welcome the the ancient times,it

was believed that haishi connected the two years and thus was

called kaisui.