春节由来英语

1、December 30, the first day to the fifteenth day of the day is the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival, there are many folk customs, such as New Year, setting off firecrackers, get lucky money...

The origin of the Spring Festival because of a story. On New Years day, there was a monster called in to cause disturbance in the village. Years of appearance is very fierce. At this moment, there are an old man went into the village. Old lady hurriedly escape nien persuaded him to go to the mountain, but the old man slowly said: if you let me stay overnight in the home, I will drive away the years. Years and came into the village, in the middle of the night, and found the old woman home with red couplets, startled. All of a sudden, the yard came the villagers firecrackers, years frighten ran. The villagers go back to the village, they saw there safe and sound, old woman to the villagers about all this. Years after being away on that day, never appear. The villagers live a life to live and work in peace and contentment.

From then on, people set off firecrackers every year the Spring Festival, paste couplets.

2、翻译:十二月三十，正月初一到正月十五是春节。春节有许多民俗，比如拜年、放鞭炮、拿压岁钱……，春节的来历是因为一个故事。除夕节那天，有个叫年的怪兽来村里捣乱。年的样子很凶猛。这时，有一位老人走进了村子。老婆婆连忙劝他赶紧去山上躲避年兽，可是老人却不紧不慢地说：“你若让我在家呆一夜，我一定会把年赶走的。”半夜时分，年又闯进了村里，发现老婆婆家门口贴着红对联，年吓了一跳。突然，院子里传来了噼里啪啦的鞭炮声，年吓得拔腿就跑。村民们回到村里，看见里面安然无恙，老婆婆向村民们诉说了这一切。那天年被吓跑后，再也没有出现。村民们过着安居乐业的生活。从此，人们每年春节都要放鞭炮，贴对联。