第一篇
Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February.
To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country. 總的來説在中國最重要的節日是春節,亦稱中國新年。對中國人民來説它的重要性就如方聖誕節對於西方人民。這個一年一次的節日日期取決於陰曆而不是格里曆，因此假日的時間變化從一月下旬到上旬2月。對普通的中國人，節日總是在除夕夜開始,結束於陰曆的第一個月的第五天。 但1第一個月的15號，通常稱燈會，在國家的大部分地區意味春節的正式結尾。
"Guo Nian," meaning "passing the year," is the common term among the Chinese people for celebrating the Spring Festival. It actually means greeting the New Year. At midnight at the turn of the old and New Year, people used to let off fire-crackers which serve to drive away the evil spirits and to greet the arrival of the New Year. In an instant the whole city would be engulfed in the deafening noise of the firecrackers.
“過年”意義為“度過這一年”，是中國百姓慶祝春節的共同術語。它事實上意味着歡迎新的一年。在新舊年交替的午夜，百姓習慣的放會趕走怪物的煙火，並且歡迎新年的到來。在那一瞬間，整個城市都響徹爆竹的震耳欲聾的聲音。
第二篇
Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival. Because China is a big country, different parts of people have different ways to celebrate Spring Festival. Many people eat noodles dumplings and so on，they hope to have good luck to make the life longer and healthier. During Spring Festival, people like to visit relatives. Children love Spring Festival very much. Because they can eat delicious food, wear new clothes and let off firecrackers, they also can get money to buy things that they want.
春節是最重要的傳統節日。因為中國是一個大國家，不同地方的人有不同慶祝春節的方式。很多人在春節吃麪條，餃子還有很多，他們希望能有好運，使生命更長遠更健康。春節期間，人們喜歡去拜訪親戚。小孩子酷愛春節。因為他們可以吃很多好吃的食物，穿新衣賞和放鞭炮，當然他們可以獲得很多錢去買他們想要的東西。
Yuan "have a beginning of Italy," denier "means the time and the dawn general refers to the daytime. New Year's day, is the first day of the year." New Year's day, the word from the earliest sishi XiaoZiYun the dielectric jas beam people poems: "four gas new New Year's day, WanShouChu today. "The song dynasty wu self" the dream LiangLu "volume a" first "entries:" the ShuoRi, is known as the New Year's day, common cry for the New Year.
In the past dynasties on June 21 is not uniform. In the first month, system of shang, zhou dynasty in December month in November, qin shihuang unified after six month, and the first day in October for New Year's day, has not changed since past dynasties (shiji). In the beginning, yuan emperor, sima qian created the "the beginning calendar", this ability again with the first day of the first lunar New Year's day, and took provisions as, say again so "XiaLi", have been used to the revolution of 1911. The republic of China in order to establish, sun yat-sen, so summer "line is the farming; from the western, so that statistics", set the first month (New Year's day), and for the Spring Festival in the western calendar January 1st as New Year's day.
In contemporary, New Year's day, refers to the Christian era at the first day. Since the western introduced into China, New Year's day after a word was dedicated to the New Year, the traditional JiuLiNian says the Spring Festival.
And before this, New Year's day is always the first day of the lunar year means. Yuan is "beginning" "beginning" mean, denier means "day", New Year's day, the company that is "initial day", also is the first day of the year. On sep. 27, 1949 the Chinese people's political consultative conference the first tentative plenary session resolution: "the People's Republic of China by the Christian confence approved, that is what we call the solar calendar, in order to distinguish the lunar New Year, and two to the solar calendar in view of the lunar year" of "24 solar terms in just before and after the lunar New Year, so he put on the lunar calendar renamed" Spring Festival ", the solar calendar as "New Year's day on January 1, thus, the New Year's day to become national people's joy festival.
Celebration of the New Year began to celebrate the New Year's day is, countries in the world over the common custom. In our country, but also on the national holidays. China and the most countries in the world, district the Gregorian calendar dating method, the January 1st as the beginning of the New Year, called the "New Year's day".
Because of the longitude of the world in different locations, countries of time is also different, accordingly, "new date there are also different. Such as Oceania located in the west of the RiJieXian island-state, it is the first day of the first place, also be to celebrate New Year's country. Located in the east side of the RiJieXian XiSaMaYa is the world's most late start a new day of place. According to the calendar to count, our country is the world's first start New Year 12 countries
元”有始之意，“旦”指天明的時間，也通指白天。元旦，便是一年開始的第一天。“元旦”一詞，最早出自南朝梁人蕭子云《介雅》詩：“四氣新元旦，萬壽初今朝。”宋代吳自牧《夢樑錄》卷一“正月”條目：“正月朔日，謂之元旦，俗呼為新年。
我國曆代元旦的月日並不一致。夏代在正月七年級，商代在十二月七年級，周代在十一月七年級，秦始皇統一六國後，又以十月七年級日為元旦，自此歷代相沿未改(《史記》)。漢武帝太初元年時，司馬遷創立了“太初曆”，這才又以正月七年級為元旦，和夏代規定一樣，所以又稱“夏曆”，一直沿用到辛亥革命。中華民國建立，孫中山為了“行夏正，所以順農時;從西曆，所以便統計”，定正月七年級(元旦)為春節，而以西曆(公曆)1月1日為新年。
在當代，元旦指公元紀年的歲首第一天。自西曆傳入我國以後，元旦一詞便專用於新年，傳統的舊曆年則稱春節。
而在此之前，元旦一直是指農曆歲首第一天的。元是“初”“始”的意思，旦指“日子”，元旦合稱即是“初始的日子”，也就是一年的第一天。1949年9月27日，中國人民政治協商會議第一界全體會議決議：“中華人民共和國紀年採用公元紀年法”，即是我們所説的陽曆，為了區別農曆和陽曆兩個新年，又鑑於農曆二十四節氣中的“立春”恰在農曆新年的前後，因此便把農曆正月七年級改稱為“春節”，陽曆一月一日定為“元旦”，至此，元旦才成為全國人民的歡樂節日。
慶賀新年的開始，歡度元旦可説是世界各國各地區的普遍習俗。在我國，還列入了國定假日。我國和世界上大多數國家、地區採用公曆紀年法，把1月1日定為新年的開始，稱作“元旦”。
由於世界各國所處的經度位置不同，各國的時間也不同，因此，“元旦”的日期也有不同。如大洋洲的`島國湯加位於日界線的西側，它是世界上最先開始的一天的地方，也是最先慶祝元旦的國家。而位於日界線東側的西薩摩亞則是世界上最遲開始新的一天的地方。按公曆計，我國是世界上第12個開始新年的國家
元旦歌歌曲：
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I
Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway
Happy new year
Happy new year
元旦賀詞：
Good luck, good health, hood cheer. I wish you a happy New Year.
祝好運、健康、佳餚伴你度過一個快樂新年。
With best wishes for a happy New Year!
祝新年快樂，並致以良好的祝福。
I hope you have a most happy and prosperous New Year.
謹祝新年快樂幸福，大吉大利。
With the compliments of the season.
祝賀佳節。
May the season's joy fill you all the year round.
願節日的愉快伴你一生。
Season's greetings and best wishes for the New Year.
祝福您，新年快樂。
Please accept my season's greetings.
請接受我節日的祝賀。
To wish you joy at this holy season. Wishing every happiness will always be
with you.
恭祝新年吉祥，幸福和歡樂與你同在。
Good health, good luck and much happiness throughout the year.
恭祝健康、幸運，新年快樂。
May the joy and happiness around you today and always.
願快樂幸福永伴你左右。
Please accept my sincere wishes for the New Year. I hope you will continue
to enjoy good health.
請接受我誠摯的新年祝福，順祝身體健康。
Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to
you all my best wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
恭賀新禧，祝身體健康、事業發達。
Best wishes for the holidays and happiness throughout the New Year.
恭賀新禧，萬事如意。
詩詞：Hope you will join with me in bringing in the new spring.
願和你一起迎春接福。
The coming of spring means the coming of new hopes.
春天的來臨，象徵新希望的到來。
May you have many dreams fulfilled.
祝你許多美夢都能成真。
We wish you a renewed hope in life.
我們祝福你再度燃起生命的希望。
Please join us to light off firecrackers.
讓我們一起來燃放爆竹除舊歲。
We hope your family and my family can get together for a celebration like last year.
我們希望你們全家與我們家能像去年一樣，聚在一起共同慶祝新年。
Wishing you and your family peace and prosperity for the coming year.
祝福你與家人吉祥平安。
May the people of the nation live happily and wealthily this upcoming year.
願新的一年裏國富民安。
