中西方主要节日中英文介绍

中秋节

每年的农历八月十五是中秋节。

对中国人来说圆月代表着幸福圆满，所以中秋节时中国人全家团聚，一同赏月、吃月饼、吃石榴。

月饼是圆形或矩形的糕点，大多数月饼皮薄酥软，馅足香甜

Mid-Autumn Day

Mid-autumn day falls on the fifteenth day of eighth lunar month.

For Chinese, the full moon means blessedness and unity.

Traditionally, on that day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn moon,and eat moon cakes and pomegranate together.Typical moon cakes are round or rectangular pastries.Most moon cakes consist of a thin tender skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling

端午节有吃粽子和赛龙舟的习俗。

粽子是一种用竹叶或芦苇叶包成棱形的状的饭团子。

我们将艾蒿放在门上辟邪，艾蒿还有驱除蚊虫的作用。

端午节给儿童缠七色线，一直要戴到节后第一次下雨才解下来扔在雨水里。

Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu Festival

The festival is to commemorate a great patriotic poet of China—— Qu Yuan. It falls on the fif th day of the fifth month in lunar calendar.There is the customs of eating Zongzi and racing d ragon-boat on Dragon Boat Festival.

Zongzi is a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo or ree d leaves to give it a special flavor.

We put mugwort on the door to ward off evil, and it has insect repellent function. Children wear bracelet made by seven colored strings until the first rain after the festival, they should throw the strings into puddle.

对中国人来说，春节是最重要的节日。除夕这天，全家人要一起吃年夜饭。这是最好的一次家宴，不仅仅因为菜品丰富，更因为这是个全家人相聚的日子。年夜饭后，我们会一起包饺子，通常会全家人一起看央视春晚。

过年的时候，各家都放鞭炮，贴春联。

还有一件事也很重要，那就是守岁，就是在旧年的最后一天夜里不睡觉，熬夜迎接新一年的到来的习俗

大年初一，亲戚朋友相互拜年，祝愿新的一年能事事顺利。通常大人们还会给小孩子发压岁钱。

大年初二回娘家，是指已婚妇女回娘家拜访。

初五这天全家再次团聚吃饺子。这天是人们要迎接灶王爷下界的日子。

同时，人们打扫卫生，放鞭炮，来驱走“晦气”

The Spring Festival

The spring festival is the most important festival for Chinese.

At Chinese New Year’s Eve, family members have reunion dinner together.

This dinner would be the best dinner, not only because we have various dishes,

but it’s the day we could meet all our family members.

After family reunion dinner, we make Chinese dumplings together, and usually watch the Spring Festival Gala on CCTV.

Each family would light firecrackers and paste up Spring Festival couplets.

One more thing is important, that is people should stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve to welcome the new year.

On New Year’s Day of the Chinese lunar calendar, relatives and friends would send New Year's greetings to each other to wish everything smooth in the New Year.

Adult usually give lucky money to children during Spring Festival.

The second day of the New Year is usually called the day of visiting parental home,

which means that married daughters should return to their parents ' home.

Family members reunite to eat dumplings on the fifth day of the first lunar month.

On that day, people welcome the Kitchen God come back to mortal world.

People clean house and light firecracker so that keep away all bad luck.

圣诞节（Christmas）

圣诞节是欧美国家一年中最重要的节日。它原本是耶稣基督（Jesus christ）诞辰纪念日，如今已成为西方国家全民性的节日，颇似中国的春节。圣诞节定于每年12月25日，而圣诞节节期（Christmas Season）往往持续二周。这段时期里，雪片般的贺卡飞往世界各地，电话线、通讯网频繁地传递人们的祝福和问候；大街小巷粉饰一新，商店橱窗前大减价、大拍卖的广告格外醒目；到处可见人们拎着大包小包的节日用品匆匆而过，到处可听见欢快的歌声和笑声。车站、机场里此时挤满了盼望回家的人群，因为圣诞节也是家人团聚的日子。无论外出多远，人们都会想方设法赶回家与亲人团聚。圣诞节Christmas

An Ancient Holiday

The middle of winter has long been a time of celebration around the world. Centuries before the arrival of the man called Jesus, early Europeans celebrated light and birth in the darkest days of winter. Many peoples rejoiced during the winter solstice, when