Question

春节的来历（英文版）

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Answer 1

英文版：The lunar calendar new year origin, has the basis, also is rich and
picks the varied fable 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 Year's 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.
中文版：农历新年的来源，有根据，且丰富而多采多姿的传说可追溯到几千年前；其中最有名的就是「年兽」的传说。「年兽」是一个残忍凶猛的野兽，古代人相信「年兽」在除夕夜时会出来吃人。传说「年兽」极惧怕红色、火光及吵杂的声音，人们就在门上贴著红纸条，并整夜点著火炬、燃放炮烛，来避开「年兽」。到了第二天一大早，「恭喜」之声不绝於耳，空气中弥漫著打败「年兽」胜利与重生的喜悦。

Answer 2

Of all the traditional Chinese festivals, the new Year was perhaps the most elaborate, colorful, and important. 

This was a time for the Chinese to congratulate each other and themselves on having passed through another year, a time to finish out the old, and to welcome in the new year. 

Common expressions heard at this time are: GUONIAN to have made it through the old year, and BAINIAN to congratulate the new year.

众多中国传统节日中，春节或许是最隆重盛大，富有色彩，最重要的节日了。这是一个中国人共同欢度，庆祝过去的一年，辞旧迎新的节日。春节里常听到的话是：过年，意思是辞去过去的一年；拜年，意思是庆祝新的一年。

Like all Chinese festivals, the date of the New Year is determined by the lunar calendar rather than the Western calendar. Its origin is too old to be traced, but many believe the word Nian, which means "year", was the name of a beast that preyed on people on the eve of a new year.

像中国其他节日一样，新年的日期是是由农历而不是公历决定的。它历史久远，已经无法追溯。然而大家大都相信“年”这个词，是一种怪兽的名字，它在每年的除夕夜里出来捕食人。

Answer 3

CHINESE NEW YEAR

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.

Answer 4

The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means year, was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.

One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said, I hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents? So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.

After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most.

From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term Guo Nian, which may mean Survive the Nian becomes today Celebrate the (New) Year as the word guo in Chinese having both the meaning of pass-over and observe. The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the

Answer 5

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