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Origin of the Spring Festival（春节的来历）:
1、The Spring Festival is the first year of the lunar calendar. Another name of the Spring Festival is the Spring Festival. It is the biggest, busiest and most important ancient traditional festival in China. It is also a unique festival for Chinese people.
（春节是农历的第一年。春节的另一个名称是春节。它是中国最大、最繁忙、最重要的古代传统节日。它也是中国人独特的节日。）
2、It is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival has continued to this day. Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month.
（它是中华文明最集中的表现形式。自西汉以来，春节的习俗一直延续到今天。春节一般指除夕和正月初一。）
3、But in the folk sense, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial sacrifice on the eighth day of the eighth month or the sacrificial stove on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twentieth month until the fifteenth day of the first month, with the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax.
（但在民间意义上，传统的春节是指以除夕和正月初一为高潮，在八月八日的祭祀活动或在十二月二十三日、二十四日至正月十五日的祭祀炉灶活动。）
4、How to celebrate this festival has formed some relatively fixed customs and habits in the historical development of thousands of years, many of which are still handed down today. During the traditional festival of Spring Festival, the Han and most minority nationalities in China have to hold various celebrations.
（在几千年的历史发展过程中，如何庆祝这个节日已经形成了一些相对固定的风俗习惯，其中许多至今仍在流传。在e799bee5baa6e79fa5e98193e59b9ee7ad94336传统的春节期间，汉族和中国大多数少数民族都要举行各种各样的庆祝活动。）
5、Most of these activities mainly focus on sacrificing gods and Buddhas, sacrificing ancestors, removing old cloth and new cloth, celebrating the New Year, and praying for a good year.
（这些活动大多集中在祭祀神佛、祭祖、脱去旧布新布、庆祝新年、祈祷新年等方面。）
6、The forms of activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics. On May 20, 2006, "Spring Festival" folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
（活动形式丰富多彩，具有较强的民族特色。2006年5月20日，“春节”民俗被国务院批准列入第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录。）
The custom of Spring Festival（春节的习俗）:
Paste New Year's pictures（贴年画）, watch the New Year's Day（守岁）, eat dumplings（吃饺子）, set off firecrackers（放鞭炮）, send red envelopes（发红包）, sweep dust9（扫尘）, celebrate New Year's Day（拜年）。
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e799bee5baa6e78988e69d83364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。
1.春节的来历：
春节，是农历正月初一，又叫阴历年，俗称“过年”。这是我国民间最隆重、最热闹的一个传统节日。春节的历史很悠久，它起源于殷商时期年头岁尾的祭神祭祖活动。
The Spring Festival, is the first lunar month, also called the lunar year, commonly known as "Spring Festival". This is our country folk ceremonious, the most lively a traditional festival. The history of the Spring Festival is very long, it originated in the shells period year the sacrifices of the tail and head of the ancestor worship of god.
按照我国农历，正月初一古称元日、元辰、元正、元朔、元旦等e68a84e799bee5baa6365，俗称年初一，到了民国时期，改用公历，公历的一月一日称为元旦，把农历的一月一日叫春节。
According to the lunar calendar in China, the first day called ganjitsu, yuan Chen, yuan is, new moon, such as New Year's day, commonly known as day, in the period of the republic of China, to switch to the Gregorian calendar, calendar January 1st as New Year's day, the lunar calendar January 1st is called the Spring Festival.
2.春节的习俗：
春节是中国及一些亚洲民族一个古老的传统节日。因为相传年兽怕红色，怕火光和怕响声，所以人们便有贴春联、放鞭炮、敲锣打鼓等习俗。 不同时期、不同地区、不同民族的习俗都不相同。
Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China and some Asian nations. Because legend has it that the beast is afraid of red, afraid of fire and afraid of sound, so people will have couplets, firecrackers, gongs and drums and other customs. Different periods, different regions,different ethnic customs are not the same.
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e799bee5baa6e997aee7ad94e58685e5aeb9365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。