元旦的习俗英语版

元旦的习俗英语版

元旦是庆贺新年的开始，欢度元旦是世界各国各地区的普遍习

俗。下面是的关于元旦的习俗的英语介绍，一起来看一下吧!

1. Kaisui(beginning of the year): Aording 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,

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

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 mon taboos in Fujian Province,

Guangdong Province and Southeast Asia:

In the past, people monly 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

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

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