中外节日手抄报英语
时间：农历正月初一 Time: the first day of the lunar calendar
英文：Spring Festival 释义：春节是农历的一岁之首，俗称“大年”。 The Spring Festival is the first day of the new year.
起源：春节的来历，在我国大约有四千多年的历史了。它是我国民间最热闹、最隆重的一个传统节日。古代的春节，是指农历二十四个节气中的“立春”时节，南北朝以后才将春节改在一年岁末，并泛指整个春季，这时大地回春，万象更新，人们便把它作为新的一年的开始。到了辛亥革命后的民国初年，改农历为公历[阳历]后，便将正月初一定为春节。直到1949年9月27日，中国人民政治协商会议上才正式把正月初一的新年定为“春节”，因而至今仍有许多人将过春节叫过年。
Origin: The origin of the Spring festival, it is a festival with 4000 years history. It is one of the liveliest festivals. Ancient Spring festival is the time when the spring begins, people changed it to the end of the year since Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it meant the whole spring, at this time with the advent of spring all is fresh again, so people regard it as the begin of a year. After the 1911 Revolution, changed the lunar calendar into solar calendar, and make the new year’s day as the Spring Festival. Until September 27th,1949,on the CPPCC changed the new year’s day as Spring Festival formally, so people called the Spring Festival the New Year.
The Legend
People often said “The Spring Festival” , the”yaer” the origional meaing is fundamentally different from today.It’s said that in a very ancient time,there was a kind of the most ferocious animals called”year”.It was larger than camel.It ran faster than wind,it roared louder than thunder.When it came out,eat people and hunt cattle,people’s lives and safety are seriously menaced.The god in order to punish the”year”,locked it into a mountain,and it could go out once a year.People found there were three weakness about the “year”:it was afraid of red color,noise and fire.So,people sticked red paper on the windows,keep beating drums and gongs,squib firecrackers,light a candle at the house all night. The “year” saw all lights were brightly lighted there; and heard people put guns everywhere, it was so frightened that it couldn’t go to the village. During the day it came down the hill secretly, but saw there was a red paper on each house, people played fireworks everywhere, so it came to the hill in hurry. Since then, the ”year” was afraid of coming back, it is said that it was starved in the hill. Afterwards, people turned preventing the “year” into chasing the “year” out. The “year” has gone, but the tradition is still reminds. Red couplets, brilliant light, crispfirecrackers, loud gongs and drums, year after year.
