(完整版)春节习俗英文PPT

Chinese dumplings are not only delicious but also easy to make.
First, make the filling. 首先做馅
Second, make the dough. 其次，做 Finally ,make the dumplings 最后 包饺子 Once the dumplings are finished ,boil them in boiling water until they are cooked . 包完饺 子放在沸水里煮。
▪ 守岁：watch night/stay up late on New Year's Eve
▪ 逛灯会：join the Lantern Festival ▪ 猜灯谜：guess Lantern riddles ▪ 吃汤圆：eat rice dumplings ▪ 放鞭炮：to set off firecrackers; to shoot
That's dinner
New Year paintings
年画
年画New year picture
祭灶：Honouring the Kichen God
Customs
▪ 祭财神The god of wealth; the god of fortune
谢谢
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Some kinds of dumplings
Dumplings are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, potatoes, bread or matzoh meal, and may include meat, fish, or sweets. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming, simmering, frying, or baking. Ingredients may be as a part of a filling, or mixed throughout the dumpling. Dumplings may be sweet, spicy or savoury. They may be eaten alone, in soup, with gravy, or in many other presentations

压岁钱，汉族年俗，寓意辟邪驱鬼，保佑平安。压岁钱最初的用意是镇恶驱邪。 人们认为小孩容易受鬼祟的侵害，所以用压岁钱压胜驱邪，帮助小孩平安过年， 祝愿小儿在新的一年健康吉利。春节拜年时，长辈要将事先准备好的压岁钱放进 红包分给晚辈，相传压岁钱可以压住邪祟，因为“岁”与“祟”谐音，晚辈得到 压岁钱就可以平平安安度过一岁。
。拜年一般从家里开始。初一早晨，晚辈起床后，要先向长辈拜年，祝福长辈健康长寿，万事如意。长辈受拜以后，要将事 先准备好的“压岁钱”分给晚辈。在给家中长辈拜完年以后，人们外出相遇时也要笑容满面地恭贺新年，互道“恭喜发财”、 “四季如意”、“新年快乐”等吉祥的话语，左右邻居或亲朋好友亦相互登门拜年或相邀饮酒娱乐。
拜年是中国民间的传统习俗，是人们辞旧迎新、相互表达美好祝愿的一种方式。
New Year is a traditional Chinese folk customs, people toot, a way to express good wishes to each other
古时“拜年”一词原有的含义是为长者拜贺新年，包括向长者叩头施礼、祝贺新年如意、问候生活安好等内容。遇有同辈亲 友，也要施礼道贺。
春节习俗 Spring Festival custom
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千百年来，中华民族形成了在一年开元之 际祭祖的传统，其本意就是以祭祀的形式， 表达对先人的尊敬、怀念、感恩、继承、 报答之意，就是要告诫今人。
For thousands of years, the Chinese nation on the occasion of the formation of the Kaiyuan year tradition of worship, its intention is in the form of worship, expression of respect for their ancestors, nostalgia, Thanksgiving, inheritance, repay meaning, is to warn people today .

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Sweeping the Dust( 扫尘 ) “Dust” is homophonic(同音) with “chen”（尘） in Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life.
give gifts
send New Year’s
ve New Year lucky money
Family Celebrations 家庭庆祝活动
What do families in your hometown do during the Spring
Festival ?
red-paper couplets
torches
firecrackers
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What do families in your hometown do during the Spring
Festival ?
put up New Year do spring
couplets
cleaning
3. 打牌
12.大扫除
play cards
do spring cleaning
4. 打麻将
play majiang
5. 送礼物
give gifts

On New Year’s Eve, the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi and celebrate the Spring Festival. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot（金元宝）from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. You cannot have a complete Spring Festival without having jiaozi.
The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical phrases”. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past, the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.
“Dust” is homophonic with “chen”（尘） in Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life. In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new.