范文一：用英语介绍西方国家新年的由来

用英语介绍西方国家新年的由来

用英语介绍西方国家新年的由来

"Happy New Year!That greeting will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks as a new year gets under way. But the day celebrated as New Year's Day in modern America was not always January 1.

ANCIENT NEW YEARS

The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).

The beginning of spring is a logical time to start a new year. After all, it is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary.

The Babylonian new year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own particular mode of celebration, but it is safe to say that modern New Year's Eve festivities pale in comparison.

The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the

sun.

In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again established January 1 as the new year. But in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.

THE CHURCH'S VIEW OF NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS

Although in the first centuries AD the Romans continued celebrating the new year, the early Catholic Church condemned the festivities as paganism. But as Christianity became more widespread, the early church began having its own religious observances concurrently with many of the pagan celebrations, and New Year's Day was no different. New Years is still observed as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision by some denominations.

During the Middle Ages, the Church remained opposed to celebrating New Years. January 1 has been celebrated as a holiday by Western nations for only about the past 400 years.

NEW YEAR TRADITIONS

Other traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition also dates back to the early

Babylonians. Popular modern resolutions might include the promise to lose weight or quit smoking. The early Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.

The Tournament of Roses Parade dates back to 1886. In that year, members of the Valley Hunt Club decorated their carriages with flowers. It celebrated the ripening of the orange crop in California.

Although the Rose Bowl football game was first played as a part of the Tournament of Roses in 1902, it was replaced by Roman chariot races the following year. In 1916, the football game returned as the sports centerpiece of the festival.

The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC. It was their tradition at that time to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, representing the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility. Early Egyptians also used a baby as a symbol of rebirth.

Although the early Christians denounced the practice as pagan, the popularity of the baby as a symbol of rebirth forced the Church to reevaluate its position. The Church finally allowed its members to celebrate the new year with a baby, which was to symbolize the birth of the baby Jesus.

The use of an image of a baby with a New Years banner as a symbolic representation of the new year was brought to early

America by the Germans. They had used the effigy since the fourteenth century.

FOR LUCK IN THE NEW YEAR

Traditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor happened to be a tall dark-haired man.

Traditional New Year foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes "coming full circle,completing a year's cycle. For that reason, the Dutch believe that eating donuts on New Year's Day will bring good fortune.

Many parts of the U.S. celebrate the new year by consuming black-eyed peas. These legumes are typically accompanied by either hog jowls or ham. Black-eyed peas and other legumes have been considered good luck in many cultures. The hog, and thus its meat, is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosperity. Cabbage is

another "good luckvegetable that is consumed on New Year's Day by many. Cabbage leaves are also considered a sign of prosperity, being representative of paper currency. In some regions, rice is a lucky food that is eaten on New Year's Day.

AULD LANG SYNE

The song, "Auld Lang Syne,playing in the background, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year. At least partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700's, it was first published in 1796 after Burns' death. Early variations of the song were sung prior to 1700 and inspired Burns to produce the modern rendition. An old Scotch tune, "Auld Lang Syneliterally means "old long ago,or simply, "the good old days.The lyrics can be found here.

范文二：新年的由来英文

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新年的由来英文

Holiday movies ancient times known as Mongol Yuan Chen, Yuan-cheng, Yuan Shuo, New Year's Day and so on, since the beginning of the first year of Emperor Wu was in the beginning to the summer of year (Lunar) New Year started this as a "Sui Shou" (ie "year"), the date of New Year Thus fixed, continues to this day. New Year ancient times known as "New Year's Day." The Revolution of 1911, they began to adopt the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) year terms, and gradually became known as the Gregorian calendar January 1 "New Year's Day," said the first lunar month, who started the "Spring Festival." Country attaches great importance to the intangible cultural heritage protection, May0,006, "Spring Festival" Folk by the State Council approved the inclusion of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage site.

The lunar calendar new year is the day which the Chinese nationality most takes,the Spring Festival origin,is familiar-sounding comes from to be able detailed "the year beastly story",the speech said when the ancient times,a like lion body like ox's

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unicorn,named "the year beast","the year beast" this is locked by the deity to the remote mountain,but the deity consented every year gives it a day-long freedom,a year0 is late,"the year beast" walks to the folk disturbs in all directions.But when it walks hangs big scarlet cloth others to a household gate in front of,immediately the postscript fully dashes about wildly,the people discovered "the year beast" the fear flaming flame and sets off the firecrackers the great sound,thereupon then starts the new year's celebration to paste the red paper,hangs and burns custom and so on firecracker,but custom which lunar New Year's Day pays new year's call in,also represents was evading "the year beast" perhaps "wickedly transports" but mutually congratulates.The ancient "the year" the character is by "the standing grain" and "thousand" two characters compositions,meant the grain is

sumptuous,crop good meaning,farmer when end of the year examines the passing year crop,also will fill the expectation to a future year,according to the Chinese history literature record,will start from the Yao and Shun time,the people will have in the new year celebrate

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the abundant harvest,greet new year-old the folk custom,afterwards gradually became the traditional holiday which decided.

友谊是一个神圣而又古老的名字。

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范文三：新年的由来介绍

新年?的由来介?绍?

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新年的?来历?50?字?

新年?的日?期，?在各?朝代?并不?相同?。夏?朝定?在一?月初?一，?商朝?定在??十二月初?一，?周朝??定在十一?月初?一，?秦朝?定在?十月?初一?。到?西汉?太初??元年，汉?武帝?接受?司马?迁等?人的?建议??使用《太?初历?》，?恢复?了夏?历即??农历，以?正月?为岁?首，?把二?十四?节气?订入?历法?。后?来历??朝历代虽?对历??法有过修?改，?但基?本上?仍然?以《?太初?历》?为蓝?本，?以夏?历的?孟春?正月??为岁?首，正月?初一?为元?旦、?元日?，即?新年?的第?一天?。?

中国?新年?的来?历?

农历?正月?初一??，又叫阴?历年?，俗?称“?过年?”、?“新?年”?。这?是我??国民间最?隆重?、最?热闹?的一?个传?统节??日。春节?的历?史很?悠久?，它?起源??于殷商时?期年?头岁?尾的?祭神?祭祖?活动?。按?照我?国农?历，??正月初一?古称??元日、元?辰、?元正?、元?朔、?元旦?等，?俗称?年初?一，?到了?民国?时期?，改??用公?历，公历?的一?月一?日称?为元?旦，?把农?历的?一月?一日?叫春?节。? ?

春节到?了，?意味?着春?天将?要来?临，?万象?复苏?草木?更新?，新?一轮?播?种和收?获季?节又?要开?始。?人们?刚刚?度过?冰天??雪地草木?凋零?的漫?漫寒??冬，早就?盼望?着春?暖花?开的?日子?，当?新春?到来?之际?，自?然要?充满??喜悦?载歌载舞?地迎?接这?个节?日。? ?

千百年??来，人们?使年?俗庆?祝活?动变?得异?常丰?富多?彩，?每年?从农?历?腊月二?十三?日起?到年?三十?，民?间把?这段?时间?叫做?“迎?春日?”，?也叫?“扫??尘日”，?在春?节前?扫尘?搞卫?生，?是我?国人?民素?有的?传统?习惯?。?

然后?就是?家家?户户?准备?年货?，节?前十?天左?右，?人们?就开?始忙?于采??购物品，?年货?包括?鸡鸭?鱼肉?、茶?酒油?酱、?南北?炒货?、糖?饵果?品，?都要??

采买充足?，还?要准?备一?些过?年时?走亲?访友?时赠??送的礼品?，小?孩子?要添??置新衣新?帽，?准备?过年??时穿。?

在节?前要?在住?宅的?大门?上粘?贴红?纸黄?字的?新年?寄语?，也?就是?用红??纸写成的?春联?。屋?里张?贴色?彩鲜?艳寓?意吉?祥的?年画?，心?灵手?巧的?姑娘??们剪出美?丽的?窗花?贴在?窗户?上，?门前?挂大?红灯?笼或?贴福?字及?财神?、门??神像等，?福字?还可?以倒?贴，?路人?一念?福倒?了，?也就?是福?气到?了，?所有??这些活动?都是?要为?节日?增添?足够?的喜?庆气?氛。? ?

春节的?另一?名称?叫过?年。?在过?去的??传说中，?年是?一种?为人?们带?来?坏运气?的想?象中?的动?物。?年一?来。?树木?凋敝?，百?草不?生?;?年一过，?万物??生长，鲜?花遍?地。?年如?何才?能过??去呢??需用鞭?炮轰?，于?是有?了燃?鞭炮?的?习?俗，这其?实也?是烘?托热?闹场?面的?又一?种方?式。??

春节是?个欢?乐祥?和的?节日?，也?是亲?人团?聚的?日子?，离?家在?外的?孩?子在过?春节?时都?要回??家欢聚。?过年?的前?一夜?，就?是旧?年的?腊月?三十??夜，也叫?除夕?，又?叫团?圆夜?，在?这新?旧交?替的??时候，守?岁是?最重?要的??年俗活动?之一?，除?夕晚??上，全家?老小?都一?起熬?年守?岁，?欢聚?酣饮?，共??享天伦之?乐，?北方?地区?在除?夕有?吃饺?子的?习俗??，饺子的?作法?是先?和面?，和?字就?是合?;?饺子的?饺和?交谐?音，?合和?交有?相聚?之意?，又?取更?岁交?子?之意。?在南?方有?过年?吃年?糕的?习惯?，甜??甜的粘粘?的年?糕，?象征?新一?年?生活甜?蜜蜜?，步?步高?。?

待第?一声?鸡啼?响起?，或?是新?年的??钟声敲过?，街?上鞭?炮齐?鸣，?响声??此起彼伏?，家??家喜气洋?洋，?新的?一年?开始?了，?男女?老少?都穿??着节日盛??装，先给?家族?中的?长者?拜年?祝寿?，节??中还有给?儿童?压岁?钱，?吃团?年饭?，初? ?

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?二、?三就?开始?走亲?戚看??朋友，相?互拜?年，?道贺?祝福?，说?些恭?贺?新喜、?恭喜?发财?、恭?喜、?过年?好等?话，?祭祖?等活?动。? ?

节日的?热烈?气氛??不仅洋溢?在各?家各?户，?也充?满各?地的?大街?小巷?，?一些地?方的?街市?上还?有舞?狮子?，耍?龙灯?，演?社火?，游?花市?，逛?庙会?等?习俗。?这期?间花?灯满?城，??游人满街?，热??闹非凡，?盛况?空前?，直?要闹?到?正月十?五元?宵节?过后?，春?节才?算真?正结?束了?。?

春节?是汉?族最?重要?的节?日，?但是?满、?蒙古?，瑶?、壮??、白、高?山、??赫哲、哈?尼、?达斡?尔、?侗、?黎等?十几?个少?数民?族也?有过?春节??的习俗，??只是过节?的形?式更?有自?己的?民族?特色?，更?蕴味?无穷?。?

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范文四：新年的由来英文版

新年的由来英文版

新年的由来英文版

春节源自何时很难考究，不过一般认为起源于中国殷商时期的年头岁末祭神、祭祖活动(腊祭);传说最早在尧舜时就有过春节的风俗。农历的正月是一年的开始，而正月上旬或中旬，大部分情况正好是春季的开始(少部分情况立春是在农历腊月下旬)。节日的时间相信和农业劳作影响有关;甲骨文和金文中的年字都有谷穗成熟的形象。

“年”的甲骨文写法为上面部分为“禾”字，下面部分为“人”字。金文的“年”字也与甲骨文相同也从禾、从人。小篆的“年”写作“上禾下千”，《说文解字禾部》;”年”字下面的“人”字又作何解释呢?从甲骨文看，“年”字好像是人头上顶着谷物。

还有一种传说:

中国古时候有一种叫“年”的兽，头长触角，凶猛异常。“年”长年深居海底，每到除夕才爬上岸，吞食牲畜伤害人命。因此，每到除夕这天，村村寨寨的人们扶老携幼逃往深山，以躲避“年”兽的伤害。有一年除夕，从村外来了个乞讨的老人。乡亲们一片匆忙恐慌景象，只有村东头一位老婆婆给了老人些食物，并劝他快上山躲避“年”兽，那老人把胡子撩起来笑道:“婆婆若让我在家呆一夜，我一定把‘年兽赶走。”老婆婆继续劝说，乞讨老人笑而不语。

半夜时分，“年”兽闯进村。它发现村里气氛与往年不同:村

东头老婆婆家，门贴大红纸，屋内烛火通明。“年”兽浑身一抖，怪叫了一声。将近门口时，院内突然传来“砰砰啪啪”的炸响声，“年”浑身战栗，再不敢往前凑了。原来，“年”最怕红色、火光和炸响。这时，婆婆的家门大开，只见院内一位身披红袍的老人在哈哈大笑。“年”大惊失色，狼狈逃蹿了。第二天是正月初一，避难回来的人们见村里安然无恙,十分惊奇。这时，老婆婆才恍然大悟，赶忙向乡亲们述说了乞讨老人的许诺。这件事很快在周围村里传开了，人们都知道了驱赶“年”兽的办法。从此每年除夕，家家贴红对联、燃放爆竹;户户烛火通明、守更待岁。初一一大早，还要走亲串友道喜问好。这风俗越传越广，成了中国民间最隆重的传统节日。

另外还有一种说法:

古时候，有一种叫“年”的野兽,比现在的大象还大几倍，比老虎还凶几十倍。专门吃人，而且一吃就是几十个人，被它吃的人数也数不过来。老百姓可遭了殃。有一天，“年”又来了，有个年轻人恨极了，说:“与其让它吃掉，还不如和它拼了，反正都是一死。”他拿把劈斧冲了上去，好多年轻人也跟着冲了上去。可他们不是“年”的对手，年轻人都被“年”吃掉了。此后，“年”变得更凶恶了，老百姓个个怨气冲天，恨声震地。

冲天的怨气惊动了天上的太白金星，震地的恨声惊动了地下的地王菩萨。太白金星和地王菩萨一商量，就派神农老祖到大地收“年”。神农手执打兽鞭，对准“年”的屁股就是一鞭。凶猛的“年”

竟乖乖伏地不动了。神农奔上几步，一只脚踏在“年”头上，怒吼道:“畜牲，你吃人无数，作孽极深，今天你的末日到了。”说罢，从腰间拿下两片瓜钵，对准“年”就一合。比象还大的“年”竟一下合在瓜钵里了。神农把装 “年”的钵埋在地底下，临走时他再三叮嘱说:“这钵埋在地下，将来会长出瓜来，这瓜不能破，一定要说它不破。”后来，那个埋钵的地方真的长出瓜来，百姓就按照神农“不”的话音，把它叫成“北瓜”。神农除“年”的那天正巧是农历十二月三十日，百姓便把这一天叫做“过年”，即避过“年”和除去“年”的意思。这天，北瓜供在堂上，以示压邪，并敲锣打鼓，鸣竹张灯，以纪念神农老祖的功德。 大概是后人根据年俗传统附会的。不太可能是“年”的起源。

古时春节曾专指二十四节气中的立春，也被视为一年的开始。后来改为夏历正月初一(农历正月初一)开始为岁首。从明代开始，新年节日一般要到正月十五日(元宵节)之后才结束，有些地方的新年庆祝活动甚至到整个正月结束为止。春节入选中国世界纪录协会中国最大的节日。位居中国三大传统节日春节、端午节、中秋节之首。

中华民国成立后，民国政府废除传统农历(阴历，实为阴阳历)改行欧洲的格利高里历(阳历)，曾试图禁止人民庆祝农历新年，但因民间的坚持而未果。在袁世凯主政期间，将格利高里历的1月1日定为新年元旦，以农历正月初一为“春节”，但老百姓照旧“过新年”，作家们照旧以“过元旦”来称呼过农历新年。

“春节”一词真正广为流行还是在1949年中华人民共和国建

立之后，农历新年现在也被称为农历年、旧历年。日本阴历天保

在明治维新后明治6年(1873年)1月1日起停用，改用太阳历计日，

原来的阴历便称之为旧，人民的庆祝活动也只在西历元日起的三

天国定假日，虽然如此，日本人仍然依照传统习俗过年，只是更

改过年的日期，把过年的传统习俗改为格里历新年进行，但原琉

球国领地冲绳县以及奄美诸岛等地区仍有旧正月的庆祝活动。同

样受中华文化影响的如韩国及越南，即使官方历法改用了西历，

官方及民间仍然有农历春节的庆祝活动。

The Origin of Chinese New Year

the Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All aGREe, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means "year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.

One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a GREat many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said, "I hear say that you are very

capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy

opponents?So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.

After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each years end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most.

From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term "Guo Nian", which may mean "Survive the Nianbecomes today "Celebrate the (New) Yearas the word "guoin Chinese having both the meaning of "pass-overand

"observe". The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.

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范文五：新年的由来英文简短

新年的由来英文简短

新年的由来英文简短

The Origin of Chinese New Year The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means

"year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year. One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said, "I hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy

opponents?So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time. After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to

put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most. From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term "Guo Nian", which may mean "Survive the Nianbecomes today "Celebrate the (New) Yearas the word "guoin Chinese having both the meaning of "pass-overand "observe". The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration

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