英语热词 | 如何用英文介绍中国春节 1

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新春佳节

传统中国节日:traditional Chinese festival
农历:lunar calendar
腊八节:Laba Festival
除夕:Lunar New Year"s Eve
春节:the Spring Festival
正月初一:Lunar New Year"s Day
元宵节:the Lantern Festival
正月:the first month of the lunar year
二月二:Dragon Heads-raising Day
过年: have the Spring Festival

传统习俗

喝腊八粥:eat Laba porridge
扫尘:sweep the dust
扫房:spring cleaning
祭灶:offer sacrifices to the God of Kitchen
守岁:stay up 守岁 staying-up
拜年: pay a New Year"s call
祭祖:offer sacrifices to one"s ancestors
祭财神:worship the God of Wealth
春联:Spring Festival couplets
对联: poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry
贴倒福:paste the Chinese character "Fu" upside down
去晦气:get rid of the ill-fortune
辞旧岁:bid farewell to the old year
兆头:omen
禁忌: taboo