春节的习俗

春节的习俗 吃饺子 Dumplings are greatly welcomed by common people. They have a long history. We Chinese people always eat dumplings during Spring Festival. Dumplings are moon-shaped refreshments. They are lumps of boiled dough, often served with meat or having meat fillings. Why do Chinese people like eating dumplings? The reason is that dumplings are very delicious and we have very special feeling for them. There are various fillings, such as sweets, peanuts, dates and chestnuts in dumplings. Sweets stand for sweet lives; peanuts stand for health; dates and chestnuts stand for having a baby soon. Dumplings can bring us happiness and it has become an important part of Chinese food culture. 春节晚会 In 1983, we had the first Spring Festival Evening Party held by CCTV. It was a direct broadcast live program. After it, the TV station received more than 160,000 letters from the audience.  On the lunar New Year's Eve, the whole family watch this program while having festival dinner. It has become a staple of what we should do on the eve of the lunar New Year. Families celebrate their reunion at that time. The evening party consists of all kinds of entertainment in different Chinese styles. People dance and sing sweet songs in the program. It also has talking shows and comedic performance. Because of this program, a song titled “My Chinese Heart” has been extremely popular throughout the nation. Every actor or actress in China feel it a great honor to be able to perform in this program. So they work hard for a chance to participate in this program. Nowadays people pay more and more attention to this program. In order to satisfy the people, CCTV tries its best to give a perfect program every year. As for this year's Spring Festival Evening Party, we will offer you more information later. 上海过年 After letting off firecrackers on traditional New Year's Day,the door will be opened wide to greet good luck. As verified by archaeological discoveries, Shanghai has a history of over 6,000 year. Its customs have also been developed for over 6,000 years alongside with the vigorous social development of the city. The Shanghai customs have undergone three stages of social development, namely primitivc culture, slavery and feudalism. With Shanghai located at the juncture of the Kingdoms of Wu and Yue, its customs were affected predominantly by the cultures of these two kingdoms and formed mainly at the time of feudal rule. To under- stand how Shanghai customs stand the test of time, we might try to get a hint by looking at their customs of celebrating the lunar New Year. The New Year celebration starts with thanks-giving ancestor worship on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month. Ancestors are sanctified as gods and believed to have divine powers to decide the destiny of the family. On New Year's Eve, every household worships its ancestors with sacrificial offerings to pray for good luck throughout the year. On New Year's Day. as soon as the day dawns, the head of the family leads his entire family in ancestor worship which follows certain rituals and rules in respect of sitting arrangement and sequence of worship. Shanghai families staying up all night on New Year's Eve to wait for the new year. The deafening sound of gongs and drums resounds through the sky. New Spring Festival couplets are pasted up on branches of cypress are hung from the eaves. Everything looks fresh and gay. New Year calls will be made from the early moming of the New Year's Day till the tenth day of lunar New Year, but not later than the fifteenth day. It starts with children's offering New Year felicitations to their parents who will then lead their children to visit their friends and relatives to extend congratulatory greetings. Paying New Year calls is also said to bring happiness to the family. The guests will be treated to "yuanbao tea" (tea with two Chinese olives) and liquor-saturated rice while the young will be given red packets. On the night of the fifteenth day of lunar New Year, the thunderous roar of firecrackers reverberates in the whole city which will be illuminated by a multitude of festive lanterns and thronged with large crowds of people. The whole scene is a tremendous spectacle. On that day, women and children will have a night out to adnure the lanterns and also to cross three bridges so as to dispel disease. All the festive lanterns will be removed on the night of the twenty-third day.