文档介绍：春 节 Spring Festival（Chinese New Year）
春节是中华民族最为隆重的一个传统节日，有着悠久的历史和渊源。它标志农历旧的一年结束，新的一年开始。在春节，人们守岁拜年，告别寒冷单调的冬季，迎接生机盎然的春天。
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The Special Meaning For Chinese
Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival .It’s also a symbol of unity ,prosperity 。Chinese consider spring festivalas the end of the past year in Chinese rular and new hope for the future sustenance。
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春 节 Spring Festival（Chinese New Year）
春 节 The Spring Festival   农 历 lunar calendar   正 月 lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar   除 夕 New Year‘s Eve; eve of lunar New Year   初 一 the beginning of New Year   元宵节 The Lantern Festival
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春 节 Spring Festival（Chinese New Year）
过 年 Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival 对 联 poetic couplet: two successive rhyming
lines in poetry 春 联 Spring Festival couplets 剪 纸 paper-cuts 年 画 New Year paintings 买年货 special purchases for the Spring
Festival ;do Spring ; Festival shopping
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春 节 Spring Festival（Chinese New Year）
敬 酒 propose a toast 灯 笼 lantern: a portable light 烟 花 fireworks 爆 竹 firecrackers (People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.) 红 包 red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.)
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春 节 Spring Festival（Chinese New Year）
守 岁 staying-up
拜 年 pay New Year's call; give New Year's greetings;
New Year‘s visit   禁 忌 taboo   去晦气 get rid of the ill-fortune   祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
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春 节 Spring Festival（Chinese New Year）
压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift (Culture Note: In the old days, New Year‘s money was given   in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on a red string and symbolized the hope that one would live to be a hundred years old. Today, money is placed inside red envelopes in denominations conside