元旦节英语介绍

元旦节英语介绍

元旦节英语介绍

元旦是农历的第一天。这是一天，当地球绕着太阳转一圈，正在

开始另一个循环。当人们送走旧的日子，并欢迎新的朋友的时候，它

代表了一个新的开始。下面是店铺给大家准备的'元旦节的英语介绍，

一起来看看吧!

【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.