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How to speak English festivals

Celebrate the Spring Festival for China New Year.

Spring Festival couplets

paper cutting

New year pictures

Buy new year's goods to do shopping for the Spring Festival; Spring Festival shopping

toast

Lantern lanterns

Fireworks, fireworks

Firecrackers (people scare away monsters with loud crackles. )

Red envelopes (cash wrapped in red paper) symbolize the wealth of the coming year. )

Lion dancing is considered to show evil and bring good luck. )

Dragon dance (expecting good weather and abundant crops)

Chinese opera

variety show

A riddle written on a lantern

Lantern exhibition

stay up late

Happy new year; ; Happy new year; pay New Year calls

Taboo taboo

Get rid of bad luck.

Sacrifice to ancestors

Gift money; For the lucky money; Money culture notes given to children as Chinese New Year gifts; In the past, lucky money was distributed in the form of 100 copper coins strung on a red rope, symbolizing people's hope to live to be 100 years old. Today, money is put in a red envelope, and its face value is considered auspicious, representing luck and wealth.

Say goodbye to the old year

Cleaning the house, spring cleaning; thorough cleanup

Age; Raise the cake; New year cake

reunion dinner

Dinner on New Year's Eve

Jiao zi jiao zi/dumping; China rouxian wonton

Zongzi Zongzi