英语作文春节与圣诞节的对比

Comparison Of Spring Festival and Christmas The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. It originated in the Shang Dynasty from the people s sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the solar calendar, then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished. With the new year approaching, every family is busy preparing for the reunion. People completely clean the indoors and out doors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils. Men and women go out to do spring festival shopping. Then people begin decorating their rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with spring festival couplets. The content varies from house owners wishes for a bright future to good luck for the new year. The chinese character “fu” is a must. The character put on paper can be pasted upside down, for in chinese the “reversed fu” is pronounced as “fu dao le”. What s more, red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored new year paintings with auspicious meaning may be put on the wall. In china, people always celebrate and spend the Spring Festival together with their parents and children at home. No wonder many people hurry home even from thousands of miles away, whether they are living or working abroad. This is the tradition handed down from remote antiquity. People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members enjoy eating as many as over 10 to 16 courses of delicious dishes. In particular, almost every family makes dumplings.Afterthedinner,thewholefamilywillsittogether, chatting and watch TV. The Spring Festival party broadcast on CCTV is essentialentertainmentforthechinesebothathomeandabroad. Accordingtocustom,eachfamilywillstayuplatetilltheclock strikes twelve, and then they let off various fireworks outdoors to see the Old Year off and usher the New Year in. The next three days are good timeforrelatives,friends,classmatesaswellascolleaguesto exchange greetings. As the most important holiday in china is Spring Festival, the most popular holiday is Christmas in western. Although no one knows exactly whenJesuswasborn,christiansthroughouttheworldcelebratehis birthday on December 25. This date was selected in the fourth century so thatChristmaswouldreplacethepagancelebrationofthewinter solstice. People usually have two weeks for this holiday, beginning shortly before christmas and ending soon after New Year. When Christmas aroundthecorner,western peoplestarttopreparefortheholiday excitingly. Red and green are christmas color. They decorate homes with evergreens. The winter custom of decorating homes and churches with evergreensbeganinancienttimes.Branchesoffirorsprucewere thought to bring good luck and guarantee the return of spring. The modern ame