On September 27, 1949, new China was founded. at the first plenary session of the Chinese people's political consultative conference, it adopted the Gregorian calendar era in common use in the world and designated January 1 of the Gregorian calendar as new year's day, commonly known as the Gregorian calendar year. The first day of the first lunar month is usually around beginning of spring, so the first day of the first lunar month is designated as " Spring Festival", commonly known as the Lunar Year.
In the traditional sense, the Spring Festival refers to the festival from the eighth day of the twelfth month to the fifteenth day of the first month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax.
春节来历翻译：
1949年9月27日，新中国成立，在中国人民政治协商会议第一届全体会议上，通过了使用世界上通用的公历纪元，把公历的元月一日定为元旦，俗称阳历年；农历正月初一通常都在立春前后，因而把农历正月初一定为“春节”，俗称阴历年。
传统意义上的春节是指从腊月初八的腊祭或腊月二十三的祭灶，一直到正月十五，其中以除夕和正月初一为高潮。
范文一：Spring Festival is the lunar Suishou, is also our ancient traditional festivals. Ancient-off "year" is not in the twelfth lunar month on the 29th or on the 30th, but in the "wax on", that later, "Laba." Southern and Northern Dynasties later, the "wax Festival" to the end of the year. To the Republican era, the switch to Gregorian calendar was only then that the lunar year is called "Spring Festival", because the Spring Festival is generally in the "Spring," both before and after.
翻译：春节，是农历的岁首，也是我国古老的传统节日。古代过“年”不是在腊月二十九日或三十日，而是在“蜡日”，即后来的“腊八”。南北朝以后，把“蜡祭”移至岁末。到了民国时 ，改用阳历，才把阴历年叫“春节”，因为春节一般都在“立春”前后。
范文二： The another name is called the Spring Festival Chinese New Year. "Year" what is it? Is a kind of bad luck for people's imagination in animals. "Year" the one. Trees pride had Baicao no life; "year" one "off" and, all things grow, flowers everywhere. "Year" How can the past? You need to use whip shelled, so have the custom of burning firecrackers. In 1993, the Beijing Municipal People's Government promulgated a law to ban fireworks, so that this continuity throughout the ages for centuries the custom of the past.
翻译：春节的另一名称叫过年。“年”是什么呢?是一种为人们带来坏运气的想象中的动物。“年”一来。树木凋蔽，百草不生;“年”一“过”，万物生长，鲜花遍地。 “年”如何才能过去呢?需用鞭炮轰 ，于是有了燃鞭炮的习俗。1993年，北京市人民政府颁布了禁放烟花爆竹的法律，使这一沿续了几百年的习俗成为历史。
翻译:
关于“春节”的起源，有一种传说是：中国古时候有一种叫“年”的兽。“年”，头长触角，凶猛异常。“年”长年深居海底，每到特定的一天（就是现在的除夕）才爬上岸，吞食牲畜伤害人命。因此，每到除夕这天，村村寨寨的人们扶老携幼逃往深山，以躲避“年”的伤害。有一年除夕，从村外来了个乞讨的老人。乡里一片匆忙恐慌景象，没有人理会他，只有村东头一位老婆婆给了老人些食物，并劝他快上山躲避“年”，那老人把胡子撩起来笑道：“婆婆若让我在家呆一夜，我一定把‘年’赶走。”老婆婆继续劝说，乞讨老人笑而不语。 半夜时分，“年”闯进村。它发现村里气氛与往年不同：村东头老婆婆家，门贴大红纸，屋内烛火通明。“年”浑身一抖，怪叫了一声。将近门口时，院内突然传来“噼里啪啦”的炸响声，“年”浑身战栗，再不敢往前凑了。原来，“年”最怕红色、火光和炸响。这时，婆婆的家门打开，只见院内一位身披红袍的老人在哈哈大笑。“年”大惊失色，狼狈逃蹿了。 第二天是正月初一，避难回来的人们见村里安然无恙，十分惊奇。这时，老婆婆才恍然大悟，赶忙向乡亲们述说了乞讨老人的许诺。这件事很快在周围村里传开了，人们都知道了驱赶“年”的办法。从此每年除夕，家家贴红对联、燃放爆竹；户户烛火通明、守更待岁。初一一大早，还要走亲串友道喜问好。这风俗广泛流传，成了中国民间最隆重的传统节日。
The origin of the Spring Festival:
As for the origin of the Spring Festival, in the old days, due to the absence of ancient documents (qin shihuang burned books), it was impossible to directly verify its origin. In the historical development and evolution, most of the traditional festivals after qin and han dynasties were attached with some legends to replace their original origin. The Spring Festival is no exception, has also been attached to the "evil beast to avoid the year" and other stories as its origin.
1、Story ONE: shun succeeded the tribal leader
Legend has it that one day in 2000 BC, shun (leader of the ancient tribal alliance) followed the leader of the tribal alliance, leading his men to worship heaven and earth. From then on, people take this day as the first day of the first lunar month. It is said that this is the origin of the lunar New Year, later called the Spring Festival.
2、Story TWO: the legend of nian beast
In ancient China, there was a kind of strange beast called "nian", which was very cruel in nature. Every year at the turn of winter and spring, it often came out to hurt people and animals and destroy the countryside.
At that time, some clever and brave people came up with a clever plan: to build a woodpile in the yard, and put a table outside the gate with pig's head, cow's head, sheep's head, dog's head, realgar wine and so on. That is called "year" after the monster saw pig head, sheep and so on, immediately comes, opens the mouth, wants to eat. People saw the monster came, immediately lit the woodpile, beat drums and gongs, set off firecrackers, immediately the firelight sky, drums and gongs, firecrackers sound incessant, the monster scared to flee.
Since then every New Year's eve, every family paste red couplets, set off firecrackers; Every candle is burning brightly and every watchman is waiting for the New Year. < / p > < p > early in the morning, but also go to kiss friends daoxi say hello. This custom spread more and more widely, has become the Chinese folk most solemn traditional festival.
3、Story THREE: blessing good wishes
The Chinese New Year, the word "year", is a good year, grain harvest means.
For thousands of years, people have been the lunar harvest is called "good year", the first day of the first month as the "year", every day on this day, everywhere gongs and drums hubbub, jubilant, later, people on this day as the first year, a year began to become the Chinese nation and the world's Chinese people a most grand traditional festival.
Most of the ancient traditional festivals were formed when the ancients chose auspicious days for sacrifice to thank the gods of heaven and earth and ancestors for their kindness.
Extension：Chinese culture has a long history, broad and profound, the Spring Festival culture as an important part of the long history of Chinese culture, its formation contains deep and rich cultural connotation. Traditional festivals attach importance to faith and sacrificial activities, and spiritual faith is the core of traditional festivals.
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.
The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.
The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.
The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove" or weilu. It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations.
