春节英文介绍PPT课件 传统节日小学英语班会演讲

春节的来历：
The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year，which is also called as the Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year.In china, it is called Chun jie or Guo nian.
DO you know The origin o f the spring festival ?There are many legends about the origin of the Spring Festival.
One legend goes that there was an extremely cruel beast named “Nian”, which had a very big mouth that would hurt people once a year on the new year eve. People were very scared.
The villagers found that the beast was afraid of loud noises, red color and flames.
So that they lighted firecrackers, put on red couplets on their gates ,beat gongs and drive Nian away. Since then, the custom and tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival were born.
习俗：
1.Sweeping the Dust（扫尘）
Before the New Year comes, people will completely clean the inside and outside of their house.
“Dust” is homophonic with “chen”(尘)in Chinese , which means old and past. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life.
2.Pasting Spring Couplets and New Year pictures(贴春联和年画)
On the Spring Festival, every household will put on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous feeling of the Festival.
Also, pictures of the gods of doors will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits.
3.Pasting Paper-cuts and “Up-sided Fu”（贴窗花和福字）
Paper-cuts, usually with lucky patterns, give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Spring Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life.
In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu（福）”on walls or doors. “Fu” shows people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character “fu” means "fu" arrive in Chinese.
4.set off fireworks / firecrackers（放鞭炮）
Lighting firecrackers was once the most typical custom during the Spring Festival.
在过去，点爆竹是春节最典型的习俗。
People thought the banging and popping could help drive away evil spirits.
人们认为鞭炮齐鸣能驱赶邪气。
However, concerning the danger and the negative noises that lighting firecrackers may bring, the government has banned this practice in many major cities.然而，担心燃放鞭炮可能会带来危险和烦人的噪音，政府已在许多大城市下令禁止燃放鞭炮。
5. New Year Feast（年夜饭）
Spring Festival is a time for family reunion. The New Year's Feast is "a must" banquet with all the family members getting together. The food eaten on the New Year Eve banquet varies according to regions.
In south China, It is customary to eat “niangao” because as a homophone（同音字）, niangao means "higher and higher every year".
In the north, a traditional dish for the feast is "Jiaozi. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot（金元宝）from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.
6. Staying Up Late on New Year‘s Eve（守岁）
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 Year’s Eve, every household would have supper together. After dinner, no one dared go to sleep and all the family members would sit together, chatting and emboldening each other.
Gradually the habit of staying up late on New Year’s Eve is formed. Thus in China, “celebrating the Spring Festival” is also called “passing over the year (guo nian)”. However, now there are less and less people in cities who will stay up late to see New Year in.
7、 the Spring Festival Gala （春晚）
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 Year’s Eve, every household would have supper together. After dinner, no one dared go to sleep and all the family members would sit together, chatting and emboldening each other.
8、 New Year‘s Visit and Gift Money（拜年和压岁钱）
On the first day of the Chinese lunar year, people pay formal calls on their relatives and friends, wishing them all the luck in the coming year.
Juniors will greet seniors, wishing them health and longevity, while seniors will give juniors some gift money as a wish for their safety in the coming year.
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