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According to the home of old rules, the Spring Festival is almost started from the twelfth month.

Laba day, people will drink laba rice porridge. Laba rice porridge to drink, it has a longan, pearl barley, wheat, glutinous rice, mung beans, red beans, kidney beans, peanuts.

In the New Years eve is a real buzz. Do only every catch, the fragrance of wine meat long echoed in the sky, the adults stick couplets, outside home beautiful pictures, which are all night lights, firecrackers all night. People go to work or work outside, we must come back, eat family reunion dinner. The night people have shou sui.

On the first day of sight is not the same. People will go out to happy New Year, is generally less to elder happy New Year, the children will get much more special New Years money, some children will buy toys, also some will save money, buy school things in the future.

The Lantern Festival, the supermarket was particularly busy, people buy yuanxiao home cooked, so the family reunion, sweet.

By December 16, the hometown of the Spring Festival will be over, people began to busy life.

按照家乡的老规矩，过春节差不多从腊月就开始了。

腊八这天，人们要喝腊八粥。腊八粥可好喝了，它里面有桂圆、苡米、麦片、糯米、绿豆、红豆、芸豆、花生。

到了除夕可真热闹。家家赶做年菜，酒肉的香味在天空中久久地回荡着，大人们在门外贴对联，家中贴漂亮的年画，哪一家都通宵灯火，鞭炮声彻夜不绝。在外上班或打工的人，一定得赶回来，吃团圆饭。这一夜人们还得守岁。

大年初一的景象可不一样。人们都会出去拜年，一般是年少的给长辈拜年，孩子们会得到特别多的压岁钱，有的孩子会买玩具，也有的会把钱存起来，将来再买学习用品。

到了元宵节，超市就特别热闹，人们买元宵回家煮着吃，为的是一家人团团圆圆、甜甜蜜蜜。

到了腊月十六，家乡的春节也就结束了，人们又开始了忙碌的生活。

Spring Festival is our Chinese traditional festival, is the most important festival, of course, in many of the festivals, my favorite is the Spring Festival. Because the Spring Festival family can be together to reunion, the old welcome new, but also can sit together to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

In the evening our family had a reunion dinner together, and the family was happy. After dinner, mother washed. When it came to the live time of the Spring Festival party, the family sat around the TV and listened to Song Zuyings sound of Louis Lius two coins. This magic made me puzzled. I knew that magic had to play tricks, but I wanted to know what Louis Liu was using to make two coins penetrate the glass. And then the magic begins.

First let a person check, is a common coin, no doubt. I know the other side of the glass assistant reached. Press the coin on the glass. (in the assistant sleeve, there is a magnet coin.)

Louis Liu put the coins in his hand on the glass, and then hid the coins in his hand in his sleeve. 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.

The family is happy to see the Spring Festival Gala together. We believe that our family will be happier and happier in the new year.

The Spring Festival is the st iprtant festival in China. It is celebrated all ver the cuntr. The celebratins usuall last fifteen das.

Mst failies prepare duplings n the New ear’s Eve as supper. Firewrs are lighted everwhere as a signal f saing gd-be t the ld ear and welcing the New ear. Mst peple watch the CCTV Spring Festival prgras. Man peple even en theselves in an ther was until the next rning.

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[关于春节的英语作文:The Spring Festival

Prepare for the Chinese New Year

Its about one and a half month away from the Chinese New Year, It is a festival celebrated by the Chinese people at the beginning of the lunar calendar year.

As of the Chinese traditional customs, our parents and grandparents will sweep every corner of the house and clean the windows until they gleam, and washing clothes, buying foods and goods for the new years future use and presents.

Children will be the most benefited group during this feast period. One month before that, they are expecting the new clothes, delicious foods. The firecrackers and the years allowance for their increased ages.

In recent years, with the rising of the standard of life, Chinese tend to make various holiday plans to spend a different and meaningful new year. Such as traveling abroad, or be absorbed in their hobbies, and even work.

Why today we try to spend our Chinese new year in such a different way? I think thats because this is a era of free life and personality high-ranking. Though there are still something traditional, our young generation is attempting to make something new and suitable for ourselves. And we would like to take something really worth to be cherished in our memorable treasures. Thats amazing and wonderful!

Ill always keep in mind that the Chinese new year is a great feast inherited from our ancestors, but if necessary, I would like to enjoy it by some ways personal.

the lunar new year

the lunar new year is a great occasion to the chinese people. it lasts  about the first four days of the year， during which people do not work except  for the workers on duty. students do not go to school， and shops are closed.

several days before the new year， people begin to prepare. farmers kill  pigs， sheep， cocks and hens. city dwellers buy meat fish and vegetables. houses  are cleaned； coupletsare posted on the doors. colourful lanterns are hung at the  gate.

on the eve of the new year， each family has its members gatherd together  and eats a family reunion dinner. after the meal they watch tv until the clock  strickes twelve. then every family sets off long strings of small firecrackers  and other fire works to welcome the new year. on the first day of the new year，  almost everyone is dressed in his or her best. when people meet on the way， they  say to each other “happy new year”。 friends and relatives pay new year calls and  gives presents to each other. children indulge themselves in games.

关于春节的英语作文带翻译一：

农历新年

农历新年是一个伟大的时刻对中华民族来说。它大约持续了四天的第一年，在这期间不工作，除了值班的工人。学生不上学，和商店都已关闭。

前几天在新的一年，人们就开始准备。农民杀了猪，羊，公鸡和母鸡。城市居民买肉鱼和蔬菜。房子干净;  coupletsare门上张贴。色彩缤纷的灯笼挂在门口。

在新的一年的前夕，每个家庭都有自己的成员一起吃gatherd家人吃团圆饭。吃饭后，他们看电视，直到时钟strickes十二。然后，每个家庭衬托小爆竹等消防工程，长字符串迎接新年。在新的一年的第一天，几乎每个人都穿着他或她最好的。当人们在路上相遇，他们互相说“新年快乐“。亲戚朋友拜年，并给出礼物给对方。孩子沉迷于游戏本身。

Each place is different, the Spring Festival has a lot of customs, the Spring Festival in my hometown has a characteristic, let me tell you something about it!

Hometown Spring Festival atmosphere is very thick, everywhere permeated with festive holiday. From the twelfth to the fifteenth day, every day there are a lot of good.

Twelfth month is off year, that day "the kitchen god" to leave the room, leave the family to the jade emperor god this year are doing day, also known as "CiZao", so every family to send "kitchen god", we also can eat people "sugar is sweet and delicious. At the same time, the families began to buy necessities.

December 28 families all want to put everyone, paper-cut, couplet, door gods, such as colored New Year paintings, to meet people festivals dream of praying, will decorate a new house inside and out. Since that day, every family will evaporate peculiar to our hometown high bun and all kinds of cakes, pomegranate flowers, have a little fish, and butterfly shape. And steam for a big, round cakes to memorial ancestors, the flower cake but have to wait until after the Spring Festival to eat! While everyone is busy in busy outside, but if compare busy and happy, I feel or more joy.

New Years eve is the most worth celebrating. In this evening everyone will return home with the family reunion, eat rich family reunion dinner together, watching a wonderful Spring Festival gala, enjoy the joy of reunion. By twelve o clock, every family can fireworks, to meet the arrival of the New Year.

Starting on the first day, we all want to relatives and friends home at New Year. Our children can get lucky money elders, not to mention how happy.

The fifteenth day of the first is an important date in the Spring Festival, every family hangs red lanterns and eat dumplings, the significance of all of us, life HeHeMeiMei. Through the day, year has finished, people began to normal work and study.

This is the Spring Festival, my hometown is colorful? Is your hometown? Is so rich and colorful?

每个地方的春节都不一样，都有很多的风俗，我家乡的春节别有一番特色，让我来给你们讲讲吧!

家乡的春节气氛很浓，到处洋溢着过节的喜庆。从腊月二十三到正月十五，每天都会有很多的精彩。

腊月二十三是小年，这一天“灶王爷”要离开人间，上天向玉皇大帝禀报一家人这一年来所做所为的日子，又称"辞灶"，所以家家户户都要送“灶神”，我们还可以吃香甜可口的“祭灶糖”。同时，家家户户开始置办年货。

腊月二十八家家户户都要贴福字、窗花、对联、门神等彩色年画，以满足人们喜庆祈年的美好愿望，将宅子里里外外装点一新。从这一天开始，家家要蒸我们家乡特有的高馍馍和各式各样的花糕，有石榴花的，有小鱼的，还有蝴蝶状的。还要蒸一个又大又圆的花糕用来祭奠先祖，这个花糕可是要等到过完春节才能吃得哦!虽然大家忙里忙外，但是如果把忙碌和欢乐相比，我感觉还是欢乐更多。

除夕是最值得我们庆贺的时刻。在这个晚上大家都会回到家里与家人团圆，一起吃丰富的年夜饭，一起看精彩的春节联欢晚会，享受着团圆的乐趣。到了十二点，家家户户都会燃放烟花爆竹，迎接新的一年的到来。

从大年初一开始，大家都要到亲戚朋友家里去做客拜年。我们小孩子还能收到长辈们的压岁钱，别提有多高兴了。

正月十五又是春节里一个重要的日子，家家户户都会挂火红的灯笼、吃汤圆，寓意着我们大家团团圆圆，生活和和美美。过完了这一天，年也就过完了，人们开始正常的工作和学习。

这就是我家乡的春节，是不是多姿多彩呀?你的家乡呢?是不是也如此丰富多彩呢?

People all know, the Spring Festival to set off firecrackers and stick couplets. How do you know this custom? Let me tell you the truth. Legend there is a monster -- years, often in the big start harassing people celebrate the Spring Festival, so the people in the village is to the mountains to get away from the monster - years.

The second in the Spring Festival, people ran to the mountains to escape. Just at that time, a white-haired old man stopped people ran to the mountains, said: "we dont panic! I know how to hold off years." People dont believe, more quickly jump into the mountains.

In the evening, the years. Grandpa took out a string of firecrackers, out of the room in the body wearing a piece of red cloth, ran out of the room.

To the door, rattled off firecrackers bang ring, red cloth fluttering in the wind, was afraid to go forward, turned and ran. People cheering ran down the hill, praised the old man is very clever.

Oh! Afraid of sound and red. So, people new to set off firecrackers, stick couplets.

人们都知道，春节要放鞭炮，贴对联。你知道这个习俗是怎么来的吗?让我来告诉你吧。传说中有一个怪兽——年，常常在大年初一来骚扰人们过春节，于是，村里的人们就会到深山去躲避那个怪兽——年。

第二个春节到了，人们都跑往深山去躲避年。正在这个时候，一位白发苍苍的老爷爷挡住了跑往深山的人们，说道：“大家不要慌!我知道怎么挡住年。”人们不相信，更加快速地跳往深山。

到了晚上，年来了。老爷爷从房间里拿出一串鞭炮，在身上披了一块红布，就跑出了房间。

到了房门口，鞭炮霹雳啪啦地响，红布在风中飘动，年顿时不敢往前走了，转头就跑。人们欢呼着跑下山，称赞老爷爷很聪明。

哦!原来年怕声音和红色。所以，人们过年都要放鞭炮，贴对联。

Because the Spring Festival is the most popular traditional festival in China. In the lunar calendar is at the beginning of the month, also known as the lunar new year, known as "new year" new year "". Every year, the streets are full of red red lanterns and flags fluttering. The mall is the huge crowds of people, buy special purchases for the Spring Festival can be lively. Grandma preparing food, there are a lot of "bang, bang, bang" outside the  whip. Each child was dressed in a beautiful new dress, and the big people showed a satisfactory smile. My father bought me a lot to the Spring Festival fireworks and firecrackers, in the evening, I took out the fireworks down the stairs and children together, we play very happy, to the beginning of the evening, I was unable to part with his family home, eating fruit while watching the evening, wonderful performances makes us laugh I thought: if every day new year, the good ah! I also like the "Chongyang Festival".

An unforgettable 200 word composition for the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is our traditional festival, the common saying is that it is a new year.

One day before the new year, people would go to the shops in the sea of people to buy things. Some people buy chickens, ducks, goose, some people buy fish and meat, and others buy Biscuits, chocolate and other snacks...

One day at noon, my father took the broom and sweep around the house. Mother wiped the table and the window with a rag. And what about me? It is to put the ornaments of the new year on the wall. The whole house became clean and beautiful. We are very happy.

The new year, for our children, is the most addictive, I look forward to that day early.

高中英语高分作文：春节

I like The Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together， just like Christmas in the West. All people living aw

ay from home go back， becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports， railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.

During Spring Festival， the most improtant days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days.Many customs accompany the Spring Festival.During Spring Festival time， you can see kinds of decorations.you can go to temple fairs and enjoy superb performances of the dances， stilt-walking and amazing acrobatic shows.

so i like it .

The Spring Festival make me happy, why? Let me tell you!

I got up early in the morning, because today is the Spring Festival, after breakfast we went to worship, but I go to the store to buy, buy the gun went to worship, I havent idea to worship the sight of the gun, just want to play. A few people to I lost a few matches, scared me dead. Some adults take "red" heaven and earth to put, when it finished, Im a brainwave, buried the gun in red below the "red" heaven and earth, they just came up and gun blast, they like me, very embarrassed.

At noon, I was still in play, they put out the gun, I have a box also quickly put out, I put a gun in the box and dropped to the ground, they thought I must have dropped, rushed over to pick up, the result didnt pick up to blast, they shocked.

I just down for a while, suddenly left off, because they buy a gun back to play again, I ran out of the gun, they keep a man in the doorway, others throw the gun to me. I dodged their attack, and want to buy a gun, but also want to eat lunch, so I didnt go home.

Next time, I want to be with their game 1

The innocent and happy Spring Festival, hope I also like the Spring Festival happiness, hope you also like me happy, also very happy, and happy.

春节让我快乐，为什么呢?让我来告诉你吧!

一大早我就起床了，因为今天是春节，吃完早饭我们就去拜神了，可是我却去小店买炮，买完炮就去拜神，一看到炮我就没心思拜神了，只想着玩。有几个人向我丢了几颗火柴炮，把我吓死了。有些大人拿“天地红”来放，放完的时候，我灵机一动，把炮埋在红红的“天地红”的下面，他们刚走过来，炮就炸开了，他们和我一样，很狼狈。

中午的时候，我还在玩，他们的炮放完了，我有一盒也快放完了，我顺手把一颗炮放进盒子里，丢到地上，他们以为是我掉的，冲过去捡，结果没捡到就炸开了，他们吓了一大跳。

我刚威风了一阵子，一下子就败阵下来，因为他们买完炮回来又来打，我的炮用完了，他们有一个人守在门口，其他人向我丢炮。我躲开了他们的攻击，又想买炮，但是又要吃午饭了，所以我才回家。

下一次，我要和他们比赛呢1

春节那一天真快乐，希望以后也和春节一样快乐，也希望你和我一样快乐，还有很高兴，和愉快。

new year party

on new year‘s eve，our class had a party. the atmosphere was good. it was  out of the ordinary from the very begining. the boy student from one bedroom  gave an unusual performance. we saw a boy named li xinmin turn off all the  lights in a sudden snap. then with three resounding（响亮的） crow of a cock echoing  in the hall，the hall was again brightly lit in a snap.

then，the representative of the bedroom zhu guozhang asked us to guess a  line of a poem related to the above situation. he added that li xinmin alone was  born in the year of the dog and the other three were all born in the year of the  chicken. they left us all in confusion. and it was our monitor who was  quickwitted（机智的）。 he shouted our， “the day breaks as the cock crows three times  at dawn.” the hall after that，they had another item. this time li xinmin was  placed in the middle of the circle. while he was standing there，the other three  stood around him，each bowing down to him at an angle of 120 degrees. it was an  idiom. this time i got it right：“the dog stands out among a group of  chickens.”

译文二：

在除夕，我们班有一个聚会。气氛好。它是寻常从一开始。从一间卧室男生给一个不寻常的表现。我们看到名为李新民在突然关闭所有的灯单元一个男孩。然后用三个响亮的（响亮的）的回荡在大厅里鸡叫，大厅明亮又在瞬间点燃。

然后，卧室的朱国章代表要求我们猜测了有关上述情况的诗。他补充说，李新民单是出生在狗年，其他三个都在鸡年出生的。他们给我们留下了所有的混乱。它是我们的班长谁是quickwitted（机智的）。他喊我们，“天休息的鸡叫三在黎明倍。“大厅之后，他们还有另外一个项目。这一次李新民被放置在圆的中间。当他站在那里，其他三个人围着他站着，低头在每一个120度的角度下去见他。这是一个成语。这一次我得到了它的权利：“。狗中脱颖而出的鸡群！“

Spring festival is the most important festival in China.During Spring festival,people visit their relatives,sending their best wishes for a new year.Children are the happiest in spring festival.They will receive red envelopes that contain money as new year presents.They can also play crackers and fireworks.Whats more,they are given a lot of freedom,which they have dreammed of for a whole year.During Spring festival,there will be plenty of foods.Thats why many people put on "holiday weight" after Spring festival.When it comes to food,there are many festival specialties.The world famous Jiaozi and Chunjuan(spring roll) have even been accepted by foreigners as fast foods.Spring festival usually comes in Feburary,sometimes earlier.Its a festival full of hope and good wishes.Its a symbol of Chinese culture.

[关于春节的初中优秀英语作文

in the spring festival ，Iam so happy，because Ican eat delicious food and wear new clothes， they are beautiful，I can play games with my sister， my family are very busy。

I love spring festival。

在春节我特别高兴，因为我可以吃好吃的食物穿着新衣服，很漂亮，我和我妹妹可以玩游戏 我家人很忙碌

我特别喜欢春节.

Slap, slap.... "the new year, everybody wears new clothes, rush to their hometown, firecrackers, eat family reunion dinner.

In the evening, when we had a reunion dinner and went outside to play the whip, my cousin came over and said, "when we play cards, we sneak up to the roof to explore. I hesitated for a moment, because I had one time in the daytime on the roof to see what it was, and I was scared to sleep in the pants, and even more at night. Then the cousin said to me quietly, "we go up to scare the new moon, we go to the end, and then we call the ghost and run down."

Crescent is my sister, only 7 years old is especially timid. Since she answers, I cant be worse than her.

In a dark and stormy night, we hold the torch, walking slowly, I do not know how to engage the cloth heart has been thinking about some demons and ghosts and horrible things do not forget. Suddenly, a flashlight is my cousin off the moon, shouting: "ghosts, ghosts," my heart has blown up again, my cousin opened the torch to look, the original is a clothes hanger, I say: "dont be surprised a fried is good, I almost had a heart attack," we laughed, forget the terrible thing, fast in the end, next to the things is a terrorist, I prepared to flee. "The ghost" run down quickly and I heard the password after the new moon cry, a sound to her mother cried, I do not know what to do, he must enter "Military".

It was an interesting thing that made me unforgettable.

[我的春节小学生英语作文

my plan of next year

a new year ，a new start，when i stand on the edge of a new year，i can’t help thinking about my plan of next year.

but ，what i really decide to do is that i must make good of anytime i can spare though it seems impossible. while，i will do my best to live up with what i have planned，and the result will prove it！

我明年的计划

新的一年，新的开始，当我在新的一年的边缘立场，我不禁在想我明年的计划。

正如古人云：“。好开始是成功的一半“，所以我决定，我应该是在工作，而另一些性传播疾病就会放松，然后，在开始时，我比其他人更快，我当然会得到比别人更好的结果。

但是，我真正决定做的是，我必须利用好，我可以随时备用，虽然它似乎是不可能的。虽然，我会尽我所能，用我生活已计划了，结果将证明这一点。

The Spring Festival with cheerful pace is approached step by step, my mother and I went back to their hometown.

Their hometown and shenzhen, shenzhen is different, a Chinese New Year atmosphere all have no, are empty, and home, my aunts house full of bacon preserved fish and dry goods, and I most like to eat the rabbit!

Aunt and mother in cleaning: first to every room with a vacuum cleaner to suck it again, with a feather duster dispatch some small corner of the spider web volume, use broom to sweep again, finally dragging it again. And mother and my aunt in the preparation of New Years day that day reception guests snacks, with fruit bowl filled with a plate of fruit, and make a plate with a plate of sweets.

And my sister and I, the likelihood is ready to play that night New Year firecrackers. Uncle took my sister and I go to the wholesale market to buy firecrackers, wow! Wide variety of firecrackers, looks very fun! I picked a few seem fun, go home to help my aunt and mother "work".

In one night before New Year, I "browse" I buy firecrackers, look to buy fun, I will buy firecrackers all put a, the rest of the time on New Years day,, wow! I was to buy fireworks? I was very surprised. Also looked at the firecrackers bag, originally I also bought some small fireworks.

That evening after dinner, we began to sort out tomorrow at noon meal, first in the fridge, on the pot to fry in tomorrow.

I didnt sleep that night, as long as in the evening 12 o clock firecrackers can ring, "snapped" at that time, I cant sleep, will be thinking about went downstairs to set off firecrackers.

春节迈着欢快的步伐一步一步的逼近了，我和妈妈也回到了老家。

老家和深圳就是不一样，深圳一点过年的气氛都没有，冷冷清清的，而老家，姨妈家里挂满了腊肉腊鱼和干货，还有我最喜欢吃的兔子呢!

姨妈和妈妈在打扫卫生：先将每一个房间用吸尘器吸一遍，用鸡毛掸子将有些小墙角的蜘蛛网卷调，再用扫把地扫一遍，最后拖一遍。姨妈和妈妈又在准备过年那天接待客人的小吃，用果盘装了一盘水果，又用令一个盘子装了一盘糖果。

而我和姐姐呢，那然就准备过年那天晚上玩的鞭炮了。姨爹带我和姐姐一起去批发市场买鞭炮，哇!琳琅满目的鞭炮，看起来都很好玩!我挑了几个看似很好玩的，就回家帮姨妈和妈妈“干活”了。

在过年的前一个晚上，我“浏览”一下我买的鞭炮，看看买的都好不好玩，我将买的鞭炮全部都放了一个，剩下的就过年时玩，哇!我竟然买爆竹?我非常惊奇。还看了看装鞭炮的袋子，原来我还买了一些小烟花。

那天晚上吃完饭，我们就开始把明天中午的饭菜理出来了，先放在冰箱，明天下锅炒一下就行了。

那天晚上我没睡着觉，因为只要到了晚上12点鞭炮声就会“啪啪啪啪”地响起来，那时，我就睡不着觉了，一心就会想着下楼去放鞭炮了。

Today is New Years Day, the outside decorated, celebrate, extremely busy!

The streets are: firecrackers, the drums and gongs of. The most fun but also a few dance the dragon, the first one uncle Wu Zhao a "dragon pearl", the other uncle, Wu Zhao 2 "Dragon", each a "dragon" are trying to "Dragon Ball" became his treasured.

Very happy today!

今天是大年初一，外面张灯结彩、普天同庆，热闹极了！

大街上有：放鞭炮的、敲锣打鼓的。最好玩的还要数舞龙灯，第一个叔叔舞着一颗“龙珠”，其他的叔叔舞着两条“龙”，每一条“龙”都想把“龙珠”变成自己的宝贝。

今天开心极了！

An important activity during the Spring Festival is bainian (to pay a New Year call). People start to pay New Year calls from the lunar New Years Day, that is, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Ever since the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century, ordinary people have begun to exchange greeting cards on this day.

春节期间的重要活动是拜年。人们从农历新年，也就是，农历的第一个月的第一天就开始拜年了。自从十四世纪明朝开始普通人在这一天也开始交换贺卡。

On the morning of the lunar New Years Day, people get up very early and call on others. The earlier one does so, the more sincere he is. Moreover, people wear new clothes and a new cap, symbolizing that a new year has begun.

在农历新年的早上，人们起得很早拜访别人。越早越有诚意。此外，人们还会穿上新衣服，戴新帽，这象征着新的一年开始了。

The younger generation should call on their elders first, such as the grandfather, grandmother, father and mother, wishing them "Good health" and "Long life". Then the elders give children some money in a red envelope as a New Year gift. After that, people call on their relatives, friends and neighbors. As "big tangerine" is a homonym for "very lucky" in Chinese, so people often present red big tangerines as a gift while paying a New Year call.

年轻的一代去拜访他们的长辈，如爷爷，奶奶，爸爸，妈妈，祝他们“健康”、“长寿”。然后，长辈会给孩子们红包作为新年礼物。在那之后，人们给亲戚，朋友和邻居拜年。由于“大橘子”是“很幸运”的中文谐音，所以人们常常把红色大橘子作为拜年礼物。

Nowadays, besides greeting cards, people also use telephones and e-mails to pay New Year calls.

如今，除了贺卡，人们还用电话和电子邮件进行拜年。

New Year Party

On New Years Eve，our class had a party。 The atmosphere was good。 It was out of the ordinary from the very begining。 The boy student from one bedroom gave an unusual performance。 We saw a boy named Li Xinmin turn off all the lights in a sudden snap。 Then with three resounding（响亮的） crow of a cock echoing in the hall，the hall was again brightly lit in a snap。

Then，the representative of the bedroom Zhu Guozhang asked us to guess a line of a poem related to the above situation。 He added that Li Xinmin alone was born in the year of the dog and the other three were all born in the year of the chicken。 They left us all in confusion。 And it was our monitor who was quickwitted（机智的）。 He shouted our， "The day breaks as the cock crows three times at dawn。" The hall After that，they had another item。 This time Li Xinmin was placed in the middle of the circle。 While he was standing there，the other three stood around him，each bowing down to him at an angle of 120 degrees。 It was an idiom。 This time I got it right："The dog stands out among a group of chickens。"

The Lunar New Year

The Lunar New Year is a great occasion to the Chinese people. It lasts about the first four days of the year， during which people do not work except for the workers on duty. Students do not go to school， and shops are closed.

Several days before the new year， people begin to prepare. Farmers kill pigs， sheep， cocks and hens. City dwellers buy meat fish and vegetables. Houses are cleaned; coupletsare posted on the doors. Colourful lanterns are hung at the gate.

On the eve of the new year， each family has its members gatherd together and eats a family reunion dinner. After the meal they watch TV until the clock strickes twelve. Then every family sets off long strings of small firecrackers and other fire works to welcome the new year. On the first day of the new year， almost everyone is dressed in his or her best. When people meet on the way， they say to each other "Happy New Year". Friends and relatives pay new year calls and gives presents to each other. Children indulge themselves in games.