英语作文介绍春节习俗【篇一：春节风俗英文介绍及英文祝福语】the spring festival is a traditional chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. through the evolvement of thousands of years, a series of customs are spreading far and wide.扫尘 sweeping the dust“dust” is homophonic with “chen”（尘）in chinese, which means old and past. in this way, “sweeping the dust” before the spring festival means athorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. thiscustom 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 willgive a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in thenew.贴春联 pasting spring couplets“the spring couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antitheticalphrases”, is a special form of literature in china. the spring couplet iscomposed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and ahorizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase,above the gate. the sentence pasting on the right side of the door iscalled the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the secondline. on the eve of the spring festival, every household will paste ondoors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperousatmosphere of the festival. in the past, the chinese usually wrote theirown spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, whilenowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in themarket.贴窗花和“福”字 pasting paper-cuts and “up-sided fu”paper-cuts, usually with auspicious patterns, give a happy and prosperousatmosphere of the festival and express the good wishes of chinese peoplelooking forward to a good life. in addition to pasting paper-cuts onwindows, it is common for chinese to paste the character “fu （福）”, big and small, on walls, doors and doorposts around the houses. “fu（福）” shows people’s yearning toward a good life. some people even invert thecharacter “fu（福）” to signify that blessing has arrived because “inverted” is a homonym for “arrive” in chinese. now many kinds of paper-cuts and“fu（福）” can be seen in the market before the festival.守岁 staying up late on new years evethe tradition of staying up late to see new year in originated from aninteresting folk tale. in ancient china there lived a monster named year,who was very ferocious. year always went out from its burrow on new year’s eve to devour people. therefore, on every new ye ar’s eve, every householdwould have supper together. after dinner, no one dared go to sleep and allthe family members would sit together, chatting and emboldening eachother. gradually the habit of staying up late on new year’s eve is formed.thus in china, “celebrating the spring festival” is also called “passingover the year (guo nian)”. however, now there are less and less people incities who will stay up late to see new year in.贴年画 pasting new year printsthe custom of pasting new year prints originated from the tradition ofplacing door gods on the external doors of houses. with the creation ofboard carvings, new year paintings cover a wide range of subjects. themost famous ones are door gods, surplus year after year, three gods ofblessing, salary and longevity, an abundant harvest of crops, thrivingstill kept in rural china, while it is seldom followed in cities.吃饺子 having jiaozion new year’s eve, the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi andcelebrate the spring festival. the shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot fromancient china. so people eat them and wish for money and treasure. thetradition of having jiaozi is very important during the spring festival.you cannot have a complete spring festival without having jiaozi. (seepage 82 for more information about “jiaozi”)看春节联欢晚会 the cctv new years galathe new year’s gala is a variety show held by china central television(cctv) since 1983. for every year since then at the turn of the lunar newyear, the program begins at 8:00pm and lasts five or six hours. it bringslaughter to billions of people, creates many popular words and produceslots of tv phenomena meriting attention. for over twenty years, its valuehas gone far beyond a variety show. it is essential entertainment for thechinese both at home and abroad. many chinese would like to watch the gala while having the dinner on new year’s eve.放鞭炮 setting off firecrackersthe firecracker is a unique product in china. in ancient china, the soundof burning bamboo tubes was used to scare away wild animals and evilspirits. with the invention of the gunpowder, “firecracker” is also calledfirecrackers and fireworks, which are meant to bid farewell to the oldyear and usher in the new. in the past few years, such an activity wascompletely or partially forbidden in big cities including beijing due tofire and personal casualty caused by burning firecrackers. however, somechinese thought that a spring festival without firecrackers was not livelyheban was canceled again. this shows that burning firecrackers is a veryimportant activity during the spring festival.拜年和压岁钱 new years visit and gift moneyon the first day of the chinese lunar year, everybody puts on their bestclothes and pays ceremonial calls on their relatives and friends, wishingthem all the luck in the coming year. juniors will greet seniors, wishingthem health and longevity, while seniors will give juniorssome gift moneyas a wish for their safety in the coming year. when friends meet, theywill wish each other happiness and prosperity with a big smile. with thedevelopment of the new technology, there is a change on the way of givingnew years greetings. in recent year, it is common to send new yearsgreetings by such modern means of communication as telephones, emails and text messages.逛庙会 temple fairtemple fair, usually held outside temples, is a kind of folk custom inchina. during the spring festival, temple fair is one of the most important activities, in which there are such performances as acrobaticsand wushu, numerous kinds of local snacks and many kindsof things foreveryday life in recent years, the temple fair has become a place forpeople to appreciate the traditional art and experience the traditionallife .traditional festival greetings:恭贺新禧 | happy new year吉祥如意 | everything goes well恭喜发财 | wishing you prosperity年年有余 | surplus year after year岁岁平安 | peace all year round新春大吉 | good luck in the new yearin the past two years, it has become a vogue for relatives and friends tosend short messages to greet each other during the spring festival. withbest wishes, the warm greetings of text messages give a happy and joyfulatmosphere of the festival.festival greetings via text message①送你一件外套，前面是平安，后面是幸福，领子是吉祥，袖子是如意，扣子是快乐，口袋里满是温暖，穿上吧，让它伴你每一天！新春快乐！i will give you a coat as a present. the front is safety, the back happiness, the collar auspiciousness, the sleeves satisfaction, thebuttons enjoyment and the pockets warmness. wear every day. wish you ahappy new year.②到了，不打算送给你太多，只给你五千万：千万要快乐！千万要健康！千万要平安！千万要知足！千万不要忘记我！as the new year comes, i will only give you five “do’s” as a present. dobe merry! do be healthy! do be safe! do be satisfied! do remember me!【篇二：春节的来历,习俗的英文介绍】the spring festival the spring festival is known as the most famous and important festival in china. the lunar calendar new year origin, has the basis, also is rich and picks the variedfable to be possible to trace to several millenniums before; most is famous is the year beast fable. the year beast is a cruel terrible wild animal, ancient times the person believed year beast when lunar new years eve night can come out eats the person. the fable the year beast extremely fears red, the flame and quarrels the mixed sound, the people on paste the red paper in the gate, and selects the torch all night, is setting off the artillery candle, avoids the year beast. to second day early morning, has congratulated the sound to the ear, in the air does not fill the air is defeating the year beast the victory and the rebirth joy.the spring festival is the most important festival for the chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like christmas in the west. all people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the spring festival. airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.many customs accompany the spring festival. some are still followed today, but others have weakened. people attach great importance tospring festival eve. at that time, all family members eat dinner together.the meal is more luxurious than usual. dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in chinese, their pronunciations,respectively ji, yu and doufu, mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. after the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching tv. in recent years, thespring festival party broadcast on china central television station (cctv) is essential entertainment for the chinese both at home and abroad. according to custom, each family will stay up to see the new year in.waking up on new year, everybody dresses up. first they extend greetings to their parents. then each child will get money as a new year gift, wrapped up in red paper. people in northern china will eatjiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think jiaozi in sound means bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new. also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient china. so people eat them and wish for money and treasure. the first five days after the spring festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely.burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the spring festival. people thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. however, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities once the government took security, noise and pollution factors into consideration. as a replacement, some buy tapes with firecracker sounds to listen to, some break little balloons to get the sound too, while others buy firecracker handicrafts to hang in the living room. the lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. a series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. the spring festival then comes to an end when the lantern festival is finished.china has 56 ethnic groups. minorities celebrate their spring festival almost the same day as the han people, and they have different customs.【篇三：用英语介绍传统春节风俗】年初一到年十五：用英语介绍传统春节风俗说起圣诞节，估计大家都会滔滔不绝，但说起中国传统的春节，大家又知不知道怎么用英语来个简短介绍呢？赶紧来看看吧。