春节的英语作文怎么写(合集20篇)

As the spring festival  is coming, I decide to tell you something  about Spring Festival  .

Spring Festival ,known as the Chinese New Year,which counts from the first day in the lunar calendar ,and is the most important holiday in China.From late January to early February,Chinese people are busy preparing for the New Year.They clean their houses ,have their hair cut,and buy new clothes .Jiaozi or dumpling is most popular.To those who live far away from their home,this festival is also a framily reunion occasion.

And they often go back home to celebrate the festival with their family.At the time,the children will play the fireworks and firecracker。further more，once the children greet to olds，  for return,the olds will give the children lucky money.and last The first day of the new year is the time when people visit their friends and wish each other good luck in the new year,remember to be happy！

All the people want to stay in good health. Health is better than wealth.

It is true that health is the first step to success. Imagine this, if you’re

sick, all you can do is to stay in bed and do nothing at all, how can you chase

after your dreams?But if you’re in good health, you can overcome the adversities

you ever encounter and make your dreams come true. Since health is so important

for everybody, how can we maintain and enhance our health? There are some useful

suggestions:

First of all, we should lead to a regular life. Early to bed and early to

rise makes a healthy man. Do not stay up late. Some people love to play cell

phones games or reading electronic-books before sleep, this can be bad for the

health. We should remember to turn off the phones before sleep. Second, don’t be

too particular about food. Try to eat more fruit and vegetables and less sugars

and soft drinks. If you want to eat a bar of chocolate, eat an apple instead. If

you want to drink milk tea or coffee, drink water instead. Don’t eat too much

meat in one week. Last but not least, we should do exercise everyday. There are

many exercises for us to choose. Such as, swimming, jogging, square dancing,

playing badminton and so on. Doing exercise can increase the circulation of

blood and enhance our immune system. The one who in better immune system, the

less disease he will have.

In conclusion, if we pay close attention to our health, we can avoid

getting sick. Try to sleep earlier, eat more fruit and vegetable, drink more

water, and do exercise everyday. You will realize that it’s not that hard to

stay in good health.

英语念起来干枯无聊，我偶尔往前面望去，有一排同学没事可做，竟然搞起敢死队的工作——在英语老师的眼皮子底下看漫画书，晕。更为巧合的是――竟然都是坐在一排的人！怀疑是不是串通好了的呢。

敢死队员1号：小心翼翼型

这位队员一边看着书，一边虎视耽耽地望着老师。瞧，他刚翻一页，就抬头看看老师，接着又翻一页，然后有抬头望望老师，这样重复循环，真不知道他把内容看进去没有。看见老师的目光没有扫向他，他赶紧抓住机会连翻几页，然后突然抬头，盯着老师。

敢死队员2号：动作怪怪型

这位队员可有点怪了，看着书，一会儿掏掏鼻子，一会儿打打哈欠，一会儿摸摸耳朵，一副惟恐天下不乱的样子，好像不让老师发现他的举动就不甘心似的，真是个怪人。

敢死队员3、4号：谈天说地型

这两位同学有些不把老师放在眼里了，边看书边聊天。我隐隐约约听见他们说冒险岛OL，说漫画内容，说小说，说娱乐咨询，就连老师和同学的目光扫向他们，也无济于事。

敢死队员5号：边学边看型

这位同学好像有些明白学习的重要性，看了几分钟的书，马上立起来听老师的讲课。课上一半时，老师为了扫查班上的敢死队，把同学们一个叫起一个问问题。这下可让这群敢死队员们开始惶恐不安了，他们连书都顾不着看呢。而这位队员呢，看一会儿就学学，这一招算是对他的MISS了。

敢死队员6号：理直气壮型

这位同学可是班上的霸王级分子了（注：别乱想，不是我啊），他可是一人之下，几十人之上，谁敢对他不敬，他的落雷马上就落在你头上了，（注：我已经欠了他3顿打了，要不是我能帮他弄电脑作业，我早就魂飞天了）因此每人敢告发他。不知是她的好运还是老师放水，他这样看了一堂课，竟然都没半点被批评，真太不公平了！！

谁知道，老师从天而降，为了抓住敢死分子，居然来个背后突袭，到所有座位后边地毯式搜索。5名敢死队员唰地一声，在同一时间内放下书，装起乖乖。只有敢死队员6号稳如泰山，而老师的目光明明瞄准了他，可老师却好像在放水一样，竟纵容他在自己眼皮子底下活动，真气死人了！而其他5位的敢死队员便无机可乘，只好乖乖停课，唯独6号占了便宜。

Waking up on New Year， everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents.

Then each child will get money as a New Year gift， wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi， or dumplings， for breakfast， as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also， the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China.

So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.

Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion， because as a homophone， niangao means "higher and higher， one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives， friends， and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings， gifts and chat leisurely.

China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people， and they have different customs.

[描写春节英语作文赏析

请根据以下提示，并结合具体事例，用英语写一篇短文。

Small things make a big difference。 The small things we do can make us a responsible member of the society。

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②除诗歌外，文体不限;

③资料务必结合你生活中的具体事例;

④文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称;

⑤词数不少于120，如引用提示语则不计入总词数。

范文：

It isn’t hard to grow up into a responsible member of society。

I can well remember an incident that happened on a rainy Sunday afternoon。 I was on my way to the bookstore and was waiting for the green light at a crossing when a girl of about ten was knocked down by a passing car， which drove off quickly。 A man immediately rushed to the girl to give her first aid and I joined in without hesitation。 Luckily she was not badly injured and we sent her to the nearest hospital。 Compared with the escaped driver， I am proud of what I did。

As a member of the society， I am aware that being responsible is what it takes to make a better society。

Every Spring Festival I spent in Jianhu, why? This is because I was born in Jianhu, there is my grandpas grandmother, uncle aunt and brother, the Spring Festival is one family reunion, so my father and mother are in Jianhu new year.

On the thirty night of the Jianhu is very lively, Jianhu is a famous town of fireworks, so it was just black, the ear echoed the sound of fireworks from time to time, as one falls, another rises, continual. At this time, both grandmother and mother were happy to bring the rich rice to the table, and the family surrounded the big round table to eat and laugh. The meal is our children are the most happy moments, I always wait for my father took me to the fireworks, hiding in the father behind me watching a fireworks "poofing" from the ground up to fly the sky, and then snapped into bloom bright fall riotous with colour, I always jumped out and shouted: "ah! Its so beautiful! "

Thirty years later, on the first day of the lunar new year, my father told me that this is the first day of the new years beginning, and the smiling faces of the new people in the streets are full of happy smiles. Friends and family members are going to pay New Years greetings to their elders. Let me the most happy is that I give grandpa and grandma worship finished, grandma gave me a red envelope, it contained a lot of gift money, Study hard grandfather also wish Woxin year every day!

This is the Spring Festival in our hometown. I love the Spring Festival in my hometown.

每年的大年三十，也就是除夕夜，妈妈、爸爸带着我和哥哥一起去外婆家吃年夜饭。

外婆做了一桌丰富的饭菜，有美味可口的鱼，有香喷喷的烤鸭，有红彤彤的螃蟹，还有各种蔬菜和饮料……大家围坐在一起吃着津津有味的年夜饭，还不时的举杯祝贺新年快乐，万事如意，年年有余。吃过年夜饭后，我还拿到了好多压岁钱。就去催爸爸到门口放鞭炮和烟花，爸爸点燃了烟花，五颜六色的烟花映红了天空，美丽极了。我在旁边点燃了鞭炮，那噼噼啪啪的响成一片，我在鞭炮和美丽的烟花中完全陶醉了，希望我们的生活也像烟花、鞭炮一样，有声有色，多姿多彩！

Before the Chinese Spring Festival,everyone is very busy.They want the Spring Festival to be a new beginning,so everyone is busy cleaning the room.They keep the room tidy.This is the first thing to welcome the Spring Festival.

The elderly take children to buy snacks and fireworks.But parents just stay at home to make tasty meals for dinner.On the evening of New Year’s Eve,my parents and my sister have dinner with me.We have a good time.After dinner,Oh!Yeah!My father is ready to give us red pockets.Oh,how nice the red pockets are!My sister and I both all say,“Peace all year round to my parents!Now,give us red pockets.” My parents give us the red pockets at once with a smile on their faces.

What a wonderful time we have!

I think “Everything goes well” this year!

The long - awaited Spring Festival has come at last. In the evening our family had a reunion dinner together, and the family was happy. After dinner, mother washed. I was playing the "Torch" outside, dreaming that I was a torchbearer on the track.

At the time of the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala, the family sat around the TV and listened to Song Zuyings pleasant voice, watching Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyangs funny comedy, the magic of Louis Lius performance. The family laughed and laughed, with a happy smile on his face. The most surprising thing was the magic of Louis Lius two coins. This magic made me puzzled. There was no way to solve it. I had to search the Internet for information. Although I knew that the magic was going to play tricks, I wanted to know what Louis Liu was using to make two coins penetrate the glass.

After looking up the information, I knew that Louis Liu was the first to get a magnet ring (Louis Liu wore a ring when it was performed). And then the magic begins. First let a person check, is a common coin, no doubt. At this time. The assistant reached the other side of the glass. Press the coin on the glass, and there is a magnet coin in the assistant sleeve. ) Liu Qian pressed the coins in their hands on the glass and hid the coins in their hands in their sleeves. At this time he has a hand, hand beat desktop instant, there are four, two after the rebound, carefully look at the thickness of the two times different. I didnt expect the magic to hide so many mysteries.

Well, not to say, tomorrow I have to get up early bed to visit the year, goodbye!

October 1st is the national day of our country, which is a public holiday

for the whole country. It’s an important day that marks the beginning of PRC. On

that day, there are plenty of celebrations holding throughout the country, from

the central government to the general people. And public places, including big

squares, parks are decorated in festive theme. In recent years, the national

holiday means the golden week as well, which is a short holiday that all people

expect to. With the improvement of living standards, people have more money and

desire to travel and the golden week is a good chance for them. Besides, for

those people who would not go out, it’s a good time to have a good rest as well.

Therefore, the national day means a lot to the Chinese.

Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the

traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the "Lunar New Year" by

English speakers. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the

first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on

the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Years Eve is known

as chú xī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve".

Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Lunar

Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains

significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year

is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the

most.

Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New

Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the

new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors, as well as cultures with whom

the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans (Seollal),

Tibetans and Bhutanese (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), Vietnamese (Tt), and

formerly the Japanese before 1873 (Oshogatsu). Outside of Mainland China, Hong

Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Chinese New Year is also celebrated in countries with

significant Han Chinese populations, such as Singapore, Indonesia, Laos,

Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. In countries such as Australia, Canada

and the United States, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday,

many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Australia Post, Canada Post, and

the US Postal Service issues New Years themed stamps.

Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of

the Chinese new year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy

presents, decoration, material, food, and clothing. It is also the tradition

that every family thoroughly cleans the house to sweep away any ill-fortune in

hopes to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated

with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “happiness”,

“wealth”, and “longevity”. On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper is a feast

with families. Food will include such items as pigs, ducks, chicken and sweet

delicacies. The family will end the night with firecrackers. Early the next

morning, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy

new year, and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New Year

tradition is a great way to reconcile forgetting all grudges, and sincerely wish

peace and happiness for everyone.

Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously

numbered years, outside China its years are often numbered from the reign of

Huangdi. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various

scholars, making the year 2009 "Chinese Year" 4707, 4706, or 4646.

The Spring Festival in China is an ancient festival, is also the most important throughout the year a festival to celebrate this holiday, over one thousand years of history in the development, formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, and there are many also it today.

Happy New Year Spring Festival, the elders will prepared New Years money to the younger generation, it is said that the New Years money can be pinned XieSui, because "old" and "are" harmonics, junior get lucky money can be spent a year in peace.

As the most important festival in China since ancient times, the Spring Festival is always being excepted by we kids. Because we dont need to do any homework during this time very year.Its really a precious holiday for us. And our parents are free from their work too. We go to our grandparents to get together with them to enjoy the moment when the new year comes.

I will priciate if the holiday to be longer.

作为一直以来中国最重要的节日，春节总是带给我们这些小孩美好的期待。首先，在这春节期间我们不用写作业了。这对我们来说真是弥足珍贵的假日。我们的父母也放假，所以我们能一起去爷爷奶奶家欢度新年，一起享受新年钟声敲响时的快乐。

当然，如果这假期长一点的话我们会更开心的。

Home in accordance with the custom of the Chinese New Year Spring Festival home, the Spring Festival is in the first month late start, home of the spring festival. The saying goes: the wax is seven Laba, and the chin is frozen out. Its the coldest time of the year. A month to wax at the beginning of eight, the atmosphere of Chinese New Year day than a day. The day before the day of the Laba, the grandmother made the big Baiyun bean in the basin in advance; the white lotus seed was raised with hot water and then the green core was removed. In the second day, the beans become round and big. The white beans congee first under the boil for 20 minutes. Then, put some rice, glutinous rice, wheat kernels, Nostoc and jujube, beans and chestnuts. Its not porridge, its as if its showing a years harvest. Composition network

After that, there were vendors selling things on the street, all kinds of vegetables, all kinds of toys, different colors of clothes and all kinds of fireworks and fireworks. Its dazzling. In the eyes of the boys, the most attractive thing to attract them is the firecrackers and fireworks. Composition network

In the first month of the twenty-three year Spring Festival seems to be the prelude. On this day, the whole family is going to clean the house. Small is the folk people day. It is said that this day, the kitchen must report to the Jade Emperor God that one family of good and evil, let the emperor punished. People, but also the fire melted candy, painted the kitchen gods mouth, so that he would not be in the Jade Emperor said before.

After twenty-three, everyone gets busy. The blink of the new year comes. Before the new years Eve, the family must stick the Spring Festival couplets well and have to clean up the couplets once. The meat, the chicken, the fish, the green vegetable and the rice cake will be prepared enough, at least enough for a week. Red lanterns were also hung on the street. According to grandmothers words, the new years Eve all the cut out of the things to be cut out, save in a month is beginning to the fifth and the knife, knife cut is unlucky. It contains the meaning of superstition, but it also shows that we are really peace loving people who do not want to move a kitchen knife at the first year of the year.

The new years Eve is the last day of the year. This day is the day for people to eat, drink, play, and enjoy. This day, even in relatively small staying-up late on new years Eve, children, people are awake. The legend of ancient times, there is a fierce monster, scattered in the dense forests in the deep mountains, the people they called "years". Its appearance is fierce, ferocious, eats birds and animals, 62 worms, a day for a taste from kowtow to eat large insects has been living, people talk about "the" colors. Later, people gradually mastered the "year" activity, it is every three hundred and sixty-five days across the areas where people taste a fresh mouth, and the haunt of the time after dark, until dawn crowing, they will return to the mountains to go.

The first day, the first lunar month is the traditional festival "Spring Festival". In the morning, at first light, I was woken up "crackling" firecrackers. This suggests that the first day has arrived!

I quickly wear good clothes and ran out of the door. Ah, the college, a lively scene: adults are put all kinds of firecrackers, artillery, salute, and so on, in the courtyard become ocean cannon. Children also have a place, all together, put up a rotating cannon, of green, red, yellow, and accompanied by into "bursts" bursts of sound, some kids a little scared, put up a spray firecrackers. See here, my hand was itchy, hurried back to take off firecrackers...

At home, the family is in the package dumplings, the whole family harmony, happiness, what a warm family!

On this day, I had a happy, New Years eve, our family is a lot of joy!

On New Years eve, at 8 o clock came, also began in the Spring Festival gala. Watching the funny comedy, listening to beautiful songs, after our family of eight people, clap your hands, laughing. Ah! How I wish our family every day! Im looking forward to Chinese New Year, Im looking forward to the Spring Festival!

The Spring Festival, I grew up a year old, I think, after grow up one year old this year I should work harder, more filial to parents. I will do it, I will do it! I will not let parents disappointed.

Finally, I wish you all a happy every day, every day

正月初一，是我国的传统节日“春节”。早晨，天刚亮，我就被“噼噼啪啪”的鞭炮声吵醒了。这预示着，正月初一已经到了!

我急忙穿好了衣服，跑出了房门。呵，院里一片热闹的景象：大人们正在放各种各样的鞭炮、大炮、礼炮等等，院子里成了炮的海洋。小孩子们也有一席之地，大家聚在一起，放起了旋转炮，还伴有隐隐约约的绿色、红色、黄色和“哧哧”的响声，有些小孩子有点害怕，就放起了喷花炮。看到这里，我的手痒痒了，急忙回去拿鞭炮……

回到家，家里人都在包饺子，全家人和谐、幸福，多么温暖的一家人!

这一天，我过得很快乐，除夕之夜，我们家更是欢乐多多!

除夕之夜，8点来了，春节联欢晚会也开始了。看着一个个搞笑的小品，听着一首首动听的歌曲，我们全家八口人，一边拍手，一边笑。啊!我多么希望我们家天天都这样!我好期盼过年，我好期盼过春节呀!

过春节了，我长大一岁，我觉得今年长大一岁后，我应该更加努力学习，更加孝敬父母。我一定会做到的，我一定会做到的!我不会让父母失望。

最后，祝大家天天快乐，天天如意

今年我们回到老家过年，和南京比起来，老家的年味儿更浓：贴春联、包饺子、放鞭炮、挂灯笼、舞龙灯、赶庙会、走亲戚……个个令人回味无穷。

除夕夜，贴春联可是外公的专利，绝不让我和姐姐两个淘气包插手。一大早，外公就起床做准备工作了。先是打浆糊：把开水和进小麦粉里，用筷子快速搅拌，那种淡黄色的粘粘的浆糊就打好了。接下来，外公把自己写好的春联摊在桌上，按照大门、后门、房门分好，对联反面朝上摊开，用细毛刷子蘸上浆糊，均匀的刷在四边，用手捏着两边的角落，把它按在门上，把书卷成筒状，由上到下，由中间到两边抹平，用抹布把溢出来的浆糊抹干，春联就贴好了。浓浓的年味儿也出来了。外公笑得合不拢嘴。

包饺子就换外婆登场了。她把青菜择好了，洗干净切碎，再把肉绞烂拌在一起，加点香料。香味扑鼻的馅儿做好了。她把面皮铺在手心，用勺子挖一点馅儿放在中间，把饺皮对折，沿边捏紧。船形的饺子就这样捏好了。在开水中浮上来的饺子像一只只小耳朵，白嫩嫩水盈盈的，洋溢着喜气。

吃完团圆饭就是放鞭炮了。我们选择了一种名叫仙女拜年的烟花。爸爸点燃了引火线，我们远远的看着，只听见“嗖”的一声，烟花窜了上去，在空中绽放出一副美丽的图案，真的像一位迷人的仙女在给大家拜年呢!

“火树银花不夜天，爆竹声中年味显。”这火红的春联，热气腾腾的饺子，灿烂的烟花，让幸福充满我们心间，这浓浓的年味儿啊!

A suichu fireworks, energy-saving — —.

With the sound of familiar firecrackers in the ear, the taste of the year became thicker and thicker. The eyes see, the ears hear, the nose smells full of jubilation.

On New Years Eve, the whole family are busy making dumplings, mother chanweiwei picked up a dumpling skin, add the red and yellow and green stir together dumplings, tightly with the wrinkled hands wrapped up. We inadvertently, she put a coin in the jiaozi, (who eat this coin, who is the most favorable auspices!) Her mouth, eyes, full of happiness and that the radian.

While eating the boiled dumplings, watching the Spring Festival Gala with the familiar &ldquo, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ” the old year waved goodbye to us at that moment, and the new year came to us. At this time, the outside has the sky, deafening.

The little nephews of my little nephew ran out of the house and were blocked by the sound of the firecrackers that rushed to the sky. We covered our ears in a hurry, with a bright smile on our faces.

The fireworks in the sky diversiform dressed in brightly coloured fireworks, “ ” “ &rdquo into the sky, bang; a sound exploded, the sky suddenly become colorful, the faint powder is like colorful flower blooming. It cant be a long play, &ldquo, fireworks, &rdquo, slowly fade from the sky, fade away until it vanish, and there is a shock like silver light attracting my attention, which is sprayed up and sprayed up. Falling back then jumped out of the silver, like pearls falling from the sky to tens of thousands of people, very beautiful feeling; “ snapping, snapping, ” the deafening sound must be firecrackers! The noisy sound is enough to add a lot of joy to the 2013.

There is a warm fire, burning, and intensified, the orange flames rolling up and down, as if calling what, like dancing in joy. People, things, China, the Spring Festival is becoming more and more intense, bringing 2013 new weather!

The Spring Festival rich in the rich years, the rich people.

As we all known，food safety problems are more and more popular in our

country，because more cases about food safety problem have appeared.

Firstly，As the old saying goes，the food is what matters to the people。 Food

plays an important role in peoples life。So food safety influences peoples

health and life。Secondly，some producers only think about earning money without

thinking about ensuring food safty。they produce unqualified food.Thirdly， some

food supervisory departpents dont perform their duty pletely。This behavior make

some producer ignore the safety of production.

If we want to solve problems that is illustrated former，we must call on the

supervisory department to manage the food market.And the producers must paly

their roles。 Lastly， we hope that there is law that punish illegal acts.

Lights before the Spring Festival, every family, every family dressed house having a unique style, each have each personality. They bought them to put out all fit inside. Bought New Year paintings how stick method, then each have their own style and preferences. Some dish, some backwards, and the crooked stick, each has his strong point. People buy vegetables all fixed, such as the Spring Festival comes, only can be a festival. Families with firecrackers, people wear new clothes, preparing New Year, before the Spring Festival, people go out, if met good friends, always mouth dont forget to say: "the streets!"

The Spring Festival, the children will get up early, to mom and dads room, the traditional New Year ceremony. The children of parents said some lucky though, my parents brought out New Years money, let the children happily. Everybody hope this year to luck, a thriving business.

Some friends and family together, taste the wine, talked some happy message. And the most happy is, we can take off to save money, and then happy running up the street to buy a lot of fun things, such as cars, buggies, toy guns, football, etc., and as long as our mouth sweet a bit, say more blessed penis, that can make a lot of money!

In recent years, the volunteering spirit has spread among the Chinese

people, especially among youngsters. According to a survey, in 20__, there were

about 1,700,000 volunteers who offered service for Olympic Games. Actually, an

increasing number of people become volunteers in China every year.

Volunteering actions are of tremendous benefits to both those in need and

the society. Olympic Games are a good example. As is known to all, volunteers

played an active role in Beijing Olympic Games. Without them, it would be a

tough task to hold this un-precedent Olympic Games. Therefore, we can say that

it was those volunteers who ensured the success of these games.

As modern college students, we should get actively involved in volunteering

activities. By participating, we can learn how to work well in a team, how to

improve our interpersonal skills and organizational ability. Undoubtedly, all of

these are critical for our person growth. So, we should take this chance to

learn and to grow.

福建莆田是个神奇的地方，因为人多地少，近三分之一的莆田人到世界各地谋生意、求发展。中国工艺品市场、民营医院、建材工业有宏大的莆田人队伍，仅民营业医院莆田人开办的占全国70%。另外，莆田人自古过年都有独特的形式，这与莆田历史事件密切相关并一直沿袭至今，正如莆田地方方言具备古汉语一样，很值得我们研究和了解。

从农历十二月十六尾牙（也是中国春运第一天）到二月初二头牙，莆田风俗有着奇特的方式。

一、做尾牙

“做牙”，亦称“祭牙”。这一节俗，原本是莆仙生意人的祭祀方式，后才延伸成莆仙民间普遍的节俗。

相传在明代有个叫陈米牙的，是专门经营米业的商人。同是生意人，陈米牙的经营方式与众人不同，人家卖米唯利是图，一味赚钱；而他卖米是薄利多销，生意不成仁义在。陈米牙做生意老少无欺，在江南民间传为美谈。莆仙生意人为纪念和仿效他，便在每年农历二月初二出外做生意和十二月十六日赶回家过年时，举行祭祀陈米牙的仪式，后简称为“做牙”或“祭牙”，并把每年农历二月初二定为“头牙”，十二月十六定为“尾牙”，后来，一些生意人还把这一节俗延伸为每月初二和十六日都要“做牙”。

旧时，莆仙民间做“尾牙”那天，大、中商家必备酒席邀请同行和本店伙计们。一是联络商友之间的感情，二是决定所雇伙计的去留。按俗例，本店伙计吃“尾牙”后，即算结束雇约，至次年二月初二日，店的伙计若再被店主邀请“做头牙”，则是被继续受雇的信约，三是以“做牙”祀神、祀福，求生意兴旺。

受商家影响，莆仙民间即使没有经营生意的家庭在农历每月初二和十六日，也有“做牙”的风俗。在莆仙山区和沿海一带，民间还有为“婆姐做牙”的风俗。仙游一带称为“安婆妈”。“婆姐”即婴儿的保姆之神。凡家有婴儿的，每月初

二、十六日都要为“婆姐做牙”。黄昏备办干饭一小碗、青菜一小碟，俗称“菜瓯饭”（小花碗盛干饭），在卧房前祭祀“婆姐”，祈求其照顾婴儿睡眠平稳，饮食正常，无病无灾，快快长大。若婴儿睡眠中脸有微笑，就认为“弄婆姐”，意即“婆姐”在教婴儿微笑。

二、扫巡

莆田话把年前大扫除叫“扫巡”。“扫巡”的时间，各地都没有统一。有的地区群众从“尾牙”（农历12月16日）后开始，一般是在农历十二月二十六和二十八。也有提前，都选个“双日”中的大晴天(“双日”是莆仙群众的吉利数码)，俗语说：“千补万补，洗净见先祖”、“扫巡四面光，洗净见祖公”。把家里能搬动的东西，都搬到户外，先洗刷干净，再让太阳晒干。然后室内再用竹竿绑着树枝（带叶），作成一把大大的扫把，把每个房间打扫的干干净净，这就叫“扫巡”。有的地区不受限制，腊月初直至年关前进行。群众“扫巡”的日期一般都选择双休日和天气晴朗的日子，以示吉利。“扫巡”的工具农村用芦苇、甘蔗尾巴和稻草捆成一大把像扫把，并贴上一小块红纸，然后缚在竹竿上，用于打扫清理室内外墙壁、屋梁、楼梁、楼板和天花板上附着的灰尘、蜘蛛网等污物。室内打扫清理垃圾和废物；铺地板砖的进行洗擦、厨具、桌椅、眠床等家具、被铺、蚊帐全部进行洗涤。通过清洗、打扫把室内全面进行一次卫生大扫除。有的地区群众在“扫巡”之后全家人吃一餐“擦粉”（用线面为主料配些佐料煮成的大杂烩），期望来年阖家平安。“扫巡”意味着把旧一年里的灰尘秽气打扫出门，以崭新的气象喜迎春节，跨进大吉大利的新一年。这个有益于人身健康，有保持生活环境卫生的风俗习惯，千百年来莆田人民一直保留下来沿袭至今。

三、除夕辞年祭天地

莆田民间除夕子时要祭天地，方言叫“上供天地”或“辞年”。 天地崇拜在中国汉民族和少数民族中由来已久，原始社会人类面对难以征服的大自然，就认为自然界中有一个主宰者，从而产生了想象中的“天地神灵”，并因而产生了“玉璧以祭天，玉琮以祭地”，衍生出许多祭拜天地的仪式。而这些仪式，最主要的目的还是要祈福消灾，永葆安康。

道教造神中天廷的最高统治者是玉皇，民间就一直把玉皇大帝指认为天。宋代皇帝还封一位“后土皇地祗”的神为“地母”。这样天地就各有主神。只是老百姓不懂那么多，一般只认为“天地就是玉皇大帝”。据说每年除夕子时起，玉皇都要巡安人间，所以老百姓都在这个时候备办祭品上供，感谢他对自己的庇佑，期望来年他再给自己带来好运。

“辞年”的祭品十分丰富，花果茶酒齐备，“六斋”、“十味”、线面、“龟”、“团”、鸡、鸭、鱼鲜，还有“隔年饭”，摆满供桌，烛火高烧，香烟缭绕。还要摆上“五果”，这是一种小米糕，印成圆形

和方形两种，寓意天圆地方。更重要的是一定要烧“贡银”、“天金”。传说家家“辞年”，天地吃不下，只收走“贡银”，所以祭毕茶酒要“喷银”（倒在烧“贡银”的灰上）。

神比祖宗大，所以祭完“天地”，把供桌换个位置，这些祭品可以再用来祭祖宗。祭祖时不用茶酒，但必要增添“菜、饭”，还要烧“纸钱”或“银宝”、“银纸”。

“辞年”习俗延续至今，除夕子时起，家家灯火辉煌，鞭炮声此起彼伏，煞是热闹。

四、除夕

莆田除夕又称为过年、做岁、三十暝（夜）、围炉等，有的年份农历十二月二十九日过年，亦称三十暝。

莆田人过年之前要做大量的准备工作，为使年过得热闹、旺意，莆仙民间，尤其是农村，各家都要备办“红团”“番薯起”、薄糕、油炸豆腐、红柑、茶酒等，并要杀鸡（鸭）、杀猪（羊）、鱼等，称为三牲，以备祭天地、神、祖先等辞年之用。

莆仙人辞年大致在腊月二十到小年夜之间的某个晚上，一般以二十八或二十九日为多。这天中午，家家都吃“擦粉”，晚上，开始辞年时，要在院前摆一张系着金钱绣花桌裙的供桌，桌上摆着五果、六斋、三牲和贴着福、禄、寿红纸花的干线面，燃放爆竹后，全家人由年长的领头，

依次拈香跪拜天地、祖先，祈祝全家平安，来年幸福。然后在供桌前烧贡银、银纸，并再次燃放爆竹，表示辞年结束。

莆仙人看重亲情，除夕夜围炉时，大家一定要千方百计地赶回家里团聚。在围炉时，如果有人确实无法赶回家，那也要在餐桌上给他放上一副碗筷。莆仙民间围炉时餐桌上的菜大多都有吉利的寓意，如鲫鱼（俗名鲫母，谐音积宝）、蟹（要十脚全的，寓十全十美之意）、虾（谐音和，一家和和气气，和气生财）、甜丸子（莆仙方音称软粿，意即日子过得甜甜美美的），上述这四道菜是必不可少的。有些讲究古例的人家，还把木炭烧红放要烘炉里，置于餐桌下面，表示一家亲热团圆、兴旺发达。

围炉后，上辈人要给16岁以下的未婚男女分压岁钱；也有子女给爸爸、妈妈、爷爷、奶奶压岁钱的；还有丈夫给没职业的妻子压岁钱的。过年分压岁钱的意思对小孩子是已增一岁了，对上辈人是孝敬，对妻子则是夫妻恩爱。压岁，其谐意是压祟，即禳灾驱邪之意。

五、探亡日与白额春联

新年正月初一吃完饭后亲友登门互相拜望，叫做“拜年”，说些吉利话儿，这种习俗和全中国都一样。但以正月初二为“探亡日”，这一天互不登门，以表示对倭寇侵害中死难亲人的哀悼。至今莆田人每年这一天，都不互相串门拜年，或者走亲访友，害怕把霉头带给别人。