关于元旦的英文
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【元旦的英文介绍】
yuandan is the first day of the lunar calendar. it is the day when the earth has circled the sun for one round and is beginning another circling. it represents a new beginning when people send off the old days and welcome the new ones. as the first day of the year, yuandan has been considered to be the most important festival since the ancient times.
1. kaisui(beginning of the year): according to the chinese traditional custom, starting from haishi(9p.m. to 11p.m.)of the last evening of the twelfth lunar month, each family must prepare offering s to deities at the altar.
at the same time, they too prepare food for the new year day: the whole family will then stay awake together to attend to the year(called shou sui).
after haishi, zishi(11p.m. to 1a.m.)will come, and this is the arrival of new year(yuandan). at this moment, people begin the celebration with fireworks.
vegetarian and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings, and incense be burned to welcome the deities. in the ancient times, it was believed that haishi connected the two years and thus was called kaisui.
at the same night, some families will follow the instruction in tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the "fortune deity" during the "fortune time" to receive the deity. if the direction of the "fortune deity" is at the "ill position", people will choose to receive "happy deity" or "noble deity" instead.
2. there is an apparent difference in the custom of food taking on yuandan between the chinese in the northern and southern regions. the northern chinese has the habit of taking jiao zi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped inside).
some people may put a sweet or a coin inside jiao zi, hoping to have a sweet year after tasting the sweet and a wealthy year after tasting the coin. on the other hand, the southern chinese have the taboo for killing on yuandan.
therefore, they do not take meat in tee morning of yuandan, so as to avoid bloodshed or mutual slaughter. in order to evade misfortune, they have the first meal of this day without meat. instead, they take vegetarian food for the sake of virtue.
3. what is special during the new year is that parents or elders will distribute red packets(ang pao or ya sui qian)to the children. people in the ancient times were more particular in giving away the red packets: the distribution took place on the eve of new year so that the kids could suppress the past year and enter the new year. ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the unpredictable future.
representing the wishes for the healthy psychological growth of the children, ya sui qian symbolises the elders' hope to see their children overcome all the unpredictable elements brought by the "year".
【西方元旦由来】
西元前46年,古罗马凯撒把这一天定为西历新年的开始,为了祝福Janus,这位罗马神话中的门神,Janus后来也演化为英文一月January这个词。原本以为教皇把耶稣诞生年作为西元元年,西元一月一日也和耶稣有关联,现在看来并非如此。可能依照西方普遍信仰基督教,还应该是12月25日耶诞日为过年,所以西方的新年没有耶诞隆重。
大约在公元前五万年左右,古埃及人已由游牧改为农耕,定居在尼罗河两岸,他们的农业收成与尼罗河是否发生洪水有很大关系。古埃及人从长期的观察中发现,尼罗河泛滥的时间是有规律的,他们就把这个时间每次都记录在竹竿上,从中得知两次泛滥时间之间大约相隔365天;同时还发现,当尼罗河初涨的潮头来到今天开罗城附近的`时候,也正好是太阳与天狼星同时从地平线上升起的时候。于是,古埃及人便把这一天定为一年的开始。这是"元旦"最早的由来。
元旦是庆贺新年的开始,欢度元旦可说是世界各国各地区的普遍习俗。
现在,世界上大多数国家把每年1月1日作为元旦,由于世界各国所处的经度位置不同,各国的时间也不同,因此,“元旦”的日期也有不同。如大洋洲的岛国汤加位于日界线的西侧,它是世界上最先开始新的一天的地方,也是最先庆祝元旦的国家。而位于日界线东侧的西萨摩亚则是世界上最迟开始新的一天的地方。
阿富汗把春分作为元旦;犹太人把秋分作为元旦;而寒带的爱斯基摩人的元旦是不固定的,他们把第一次下雨作为元旦。公元前46年,罗马皇帝儒略·凯撒制定儒略历,开始时他把冬至作为元旦。但是,人们坚持要把朔日作为元旦,因此就把元旦延到冬至后10天。
按公历计,我国是世界上第12个开始新年的国家。各个国家由于其历史、文化、宗教信仰、民族习惯不同,也都有自己不同的庆祝。不过,这也使得这个世界多姿多彩,更显地域、民族特色了。
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