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.
January first. The beginning of a new year. As far back in history as we can tell, people have celebrated the start of a new year.
The people of ancient Egypt began their new year in summer. That is when the Nile River flooded its banks, bringing water and fertility to the land. The people of ancient Babylonia and Persia began their new year on March twenty-first, the first day of spring. And, some Native American Indians began their new year when the nuts of the oak tree became ripe. That was usually in late summer.
Now, almost everyone celebrates New Years Day on January first. Today, as before, people observe the New Years holiday in many different ways.
The ancient Babylonians celebrated by forcing their king to give up his crown and royal clothing. They made him get down on his knees and admit all the mistakes he had made during the past year.
This idea of admitting wrongs and finishing the business of the old year is found in many societies at new years. So is the idea of making resolutions. A resolution is a promise to change your ways. To stop smoking, for example. Or to get more physical exercise.
Noise-making is another ancient custom at the new year. The noise is considered necessary to chase away the evil spirits of the old year. People around the world do different things to make a lot of noise. They may hit sticks together. Or beat on drums. Or blow horns. Or explode fireworks.
Americans celebrate the New Year in many ways.
Most do not have to go to work or school. So they visit family and friends. Attend church services. Share a holiday meal. Or watch new years parades on television. Two of the most famous parades are the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. Both have existed for many years.
Americans also watch football on television on New Years Day. Most years, university teams play in special holiday games.
For those who have been busy at work or school, New Years may be a day of rest. They spend the time thinking about, and preparing for, the demands of the new year.
The New Year Holiday Should be Longer
Im very glad to stand here again. As we can know, today is the last class of our English speech course, and the winter holiday is coming, we are going to have a 45-days-holiday at least.
However, the new year holiday is too short for the working people, according to the regulations of the state, there are only 7 days federal holidays for the working people. Several years later, all of us should participate in work, so this problem is closely related to each of us.
Firstly, do the words "spring festival" reminds you of something which happen every year, and it is too crowded and makes people exhausted? I think some of you can get the answer. It is the Spring Transportation. Going home for Spring Festival is a traditional custom of Chinese people, but millions of peoples travels bring a great pressure on traffic, especially in such a short time.
"7 days holiday, 4 days on the way. " But the resources of the tickets are very limited, so the people who can buy the tickets are well off, others who are not lucky enough to get the ticket quickly should spend the New Year in a strange land.
Secondly, in fact, short vacation of the spring festival has brought a lot of serious problems. When the official announced the plan of the new year holiday, Xinlang, a famous media did a survey on the satisfaction degree of it, more than 70 % of the people are dissatisfied with the plan. Most
of them wanted more time for relaxed, or they would have less passion for their work in the next year. A netizen called Teemo said he always felt angry when every year he said goodbye to his family and came back to work.
Nowadays, fewer people choose to leave home for work. Lots of companies in the eastern coastal area are facing bankruptcy, because no workers engaged in production activities. So do my parents company. This situation is not good for the eastern regions economic development.
So, we can expect, if the new year holiday can be longer for the working people, maybe it will make the reunion of families more convenient and let people celebrate the Spring festival with a good mood. Also, the problems we mentioned above could be solved. Thank you!
Good morning everyone!
My name is Jie Lidi. Today, my topic is: “Confidence”. As we all know, failure is the mother of success. But What I want to say is that success is the child of confidence. Without confidence, things can become negative and uncomfortable. I remember, during an English class, I wanted to make a sentence using the word "listen". I should have said: "I listen to the Voice of America" but I was too nervous and said "I listen to the Noise of America". Everybody in the class laughed. Since then I wanted to train myself to be confident. Now, confidence makes me brave and courageous. Take this speech for example. I wanted to enter this competition, but I would feel very embarrassed if I made mistakes. Just then, I thought about my dream. My dream is to become a scientist when I grow up. If I am not confident, how can I overcome difficulties I face? If I am not confident, how can I succeed in developing myself in the future? I will do it! Today, I am making a speech in public and I feel proud and confident!
I am sure, in the future, with confidence, I will go forward-always forward. Confidence will make my dreams come true!
Thank you!
The last day of the lunar year, called "New Years eve," hakka also called "night" this sum. The first day, the first lunar month on the first day of the lunar year, commonly known as for the day, with 2, 3 is called the Spring Festival. Hakka covers the Chinese New Year Spring Festival, from the lunar December 24th in years, until the 15th day of the lantern.
By December 25, we all call "into the years of world" which means that today is New Year, so families will be in his own home, cleaning, office necessities and stuffed tofu, cook heap (rice cake)...
The thirty on New Years eve, families will be in the house, then for the first point set off firecrackers: our local called "take the lead". By early in the morning, open the door, the first thing is to put a string of firecrackers, this is good start. Hakka people, we call junior "des day", that day, the accumulation of filth thoroughly clean sweep out, called "send off".
In the January 4. Woke up business is sweeping the floor, took a brush from the outside, to sweep goods into; Farmers said it was a day to eat garlic and pig, said ate chee, garlic, ACTS as "and" long in the New Year.
This is our hakka celebrate the Spring Festival customs.
Dear leaders, their staff, Hello, everyone!
January 1, which marks the Chinese Shenzhou added a ring, marking the era ship wind and waves, the great motherland ushered in a year full of vitality.
Blossom, winter to spring, in order to ease but have work, we spent an unusual year. In a unique effort of all employees, our full spirit, passionate work positions and solid work style, from safety, asset management, rural power conversion, power protection, improve effectiveness, increase savings and spiritual culture and other aspects of the efforts made to obtain a better achievement, especially through solid and strong power marketing, sales increased for the expansion, so to break the billion kWh of electricity supply throughout the year mark, and income has steadily increased; enhanced governance and implement responsibility, has finished the rural power project, "look, the" self-examination and rectification work, passed the provincial power companys review and acceptance; strict implementation of safety compulsory to achieve a peace in the safe production goals. It is worth of relief and pride. All employees sufficient to carry forward the spirit of struggle and hard work, and with a high sense of ownership for the successful completion of tasks throughout the year, I should have made a sacrifice. Here, on behalf of the team to the large office workers hard work and noble tribute show! We look forward to the new year in this spirit will continue to play Everbright.
Looking xx, we covered the triumphalism and Endeavour effort. Followed by the transformation of the electricity system has been profound, and our industry has entered a new stage of development. In this provocative and opportunities exist for years, learning, competition has become the theme of our struggle with survival. In the new year, we want to face full of pride in our future, "integrity, objectivity, professionalism, progressive" corporate energy for the leadership, by maintaining "a catch three hit" ideas, seriously implement the eight session time employee congress meeting obligations and indeed the purpose of breaking work, in an effort to the creation of "a strong three excellent" ancient power enterprises as the main theme, solid work, strong and hard work, carefully produced to achieve the insurance, asset management and large agricultural city wide network reconstruction work, so that we in the power industry this big stage, so the potential to be released, in order to be recognized, to be assertive personality, and then renovated in xxglorious years.
Along with great motherland pace of progress, the overall company wide staff bosom, the world, a total of bigger and stronger, seize the opportunity, work in another historic success. Following the "five good start, xxproduction company operating in the context of the rapid growth of the industry, but also enhance the momentum inherited showing strength, and car sales broke xxmillion, sales of more than xxbillion, operating efficiency double again over the previous year, market share progress xxpercentage points. group of representatives of the domestic level of the new advances have come out, the next step for xxparticipate in market competition increases the strength, the companys position in the market competition further strong. particularly far-reaching meaning is resolved with xxxx, xxxx, ...... signed long-term agreements with a view to strengthen and expand international cooperation to obtain significant progress, the cause of the situation of reform and development gratifying. a turnaround soon, the results are still strong reform xx, is starting to look for bigger and stronger, to achieve leap-forward development xx; a long-broken foot home, confined xxxxdevelopment, beginning toward the automatic integration into the world all-round opening xxforward!
The new year is the 16th Party Congress in the first year of effort, also. "Throughout the year, fifteen key development in all aspects of the situation, for xxconcerned, both full of opportunities, but also face many pressures with provocation Let the spirit of the Congress leadership should take, seize the day, strenuously aggressive, renovation and realistic, keep to develop the theme, the bigger and stronger as the top priority, structural adjustment and sustained efforts to improve skills, promotion management level, conversion operational mechanism, strengthen their quality and ensure a steady increase in efficiency and steadily push forward the reorganization strategy, try to transform the first company to develop, secure new situation.
Facing the new situation, new requests, new obligations, and headquarters company party cadres and workers hope to continue to unite and brainstorming to more plump enthusiasm and enthusiastic mental condition, and then New Years success spectral music!
In the footsteps of Father Time quietly diversion, we are not there flies, Riyuerusuo feeling? Eastern Jin Dynasty poet Tao had such a sigh: "prime is not heavy, the day can no longer morning, when timely encouragement, time does not treat people." We also lack this sense of urgency. We are the youth, the youth is life in the spring, at eight or nine in the morning sun. We are the generation of the next century, as studies in this century, into a career in the new era, the era we will be fighting the flood waves warrior. Born into this time, honored and arduous. Efforts of all those great things the only way, is the basis of all creation. Serious work requirements of the times. We use the hard work and sweat cause compaction of the building foundation, with hard work to obtain the value of the time, as the bright flag luster with both hands. The only way to be worthy descendants to take up the past and future of the mission.
Spring Festival
Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year Day. I enjoy it very much. On the Chinese New Year Day, some of our relatives come to visit us. They often give me some lucky money. Then I would play with their children. We often play firecrakers together, which is quite interesting.
At night the whole family would sit together, talking and watching TV programmes. Sometimes we take pictures of the whole family members in the house. I often go to bed late during the holiday, but I dont feel fired at all. I think the Spring Festival is the most enjoyable day for every family in China.
When clock is belling,my heart ripple along with it,to distant with you,transmit my missing,to be joyful!My dear friend!
Please open the window,let the new years wind blow your room and the snow flying in,my warming wish flutter to your heart!
Flowers are disseminationing fragrant,friendship transmissing warm,hope us to brimming in a happy year,wishes you: Happy New Year! Best wishes! Does not experience the wind and rain, how can see the rainbow?nobody can casually succeed!So refuel!The same as New year!
Missing are a smell of flower fragrance,inundated the mountain valley,cover your and me,and blessing are the boundless attention,overflow the eye,until the heart.We hugging and listening the new yearclock,just like listening the breath of annual,crowding around our same dream,making the sincerly blessing with the ture love,Happy New Year!
My dear friend!wish you happy usually,have the vitality continually,still have happiness and content,Im very happy to cooperate with you in the past year,hoped you best wishes in the new year!The breeze lightly strokes,the white clouds far pass,in my heart was the eternal friendship,willing my blessing is the most freshest,and you will take it to your heart!!!
The spring festival
Good afternoon everyone.I’m Wu Yunfei .Today ,I’ll talk about the topic about spring festival .
The Spring festival ,Chinese New Year,is the most important festival for all us. But we find the western festival become more popular than New Year in the recently years. some people wonder whether the Christmas will replace the Spring Festival in the future.we can find easily Christmas cards become popular with students.Meanwhile the Spring Festival is less appealing to youngsters.Then this worry is fairly unnecessary .Why?Do we should treasure the Spring Festival forever?
In my opinion ,the Spring Festival as the most influential traditional festival have important meaning for us .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 (春联)posted on the doors. Colorful lanterns are hung at the gate.All family members will get together on New Year Eve to have a big meal . During which people do not work except for the workers on duty. Students do not go to school,and shops are closed. At the same time ,everyone celebrates to each other . When people meet on the way, they say to each other "Happy New Year"..At about 12 oclock,some parents and children light crackers.The whole sky is lighted brightly. We may watch the fireworks excitedly. How busy it is! On the first early
morning of one year,Friends and relatives pay new year calls and gives presents to each other. At that time,children are the happiest because they can get many red packets form their parents,grandparents,uncles,aunts and so on.
I think,it is natural that with increasing exchanges with the West,a lot of Western holidays have been gradually introduced into China. For us Chinese we should never neglect or even discard our own traditional festivals. For centuries Chinese have observed this traditional holiday to welcome the beginning of a new year. And we will treasure the Spring Festival forever.
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