春节

• 作者: 王玉峰
• 来源期刊: 新高考（英语基础，高一）
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: 文化访
• 页码范围: 22-25
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 中文

摘要

The first day of the first lunar month is regarded as the New Year of the Chinese— the Spring Festival. It is the most important and ceremonious traditional festival in China, just as Christmas Day to the Westerners. During the Spring Festival, every family is busy cleaning house in the hope of getting rid of defilements and preventing diseases. Also, they need to paste door-god painting, spring festival couplets, and the reversed Chinese character " 福 " (means blessing), and hang flags in the hope of praying for auspiciousness in the New Year. On the New Year's Eve, every family enjoys a grand dinner, shoots off firecrackers, plays dragon dance and lion dance, and stays up late or all night. People will pay a New Year call to one another from the first day, and it is not until the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, namely, the Lantern Festival, that the Spring Festival is ended.