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【一】:中国传统节日的英文介绍和讨论
中国传统节日的英文介绍和讨论
I 中国主要传统节日的英文翻译
元旦(1月1日)New Year's Day
春节(农历一月一日)the Spring Festival
元宵节(农历一月十五日)the Lantern Festival
清明节(4月5日)Ching Ming Festival; Tomb-sweeping Festival
端午节(农历五月初五)the Dragon Boat Festival
中秋节(农历八月十五)Mid-autumn (Moon) Festival
重阳节(农历九月九日)Double-ninth Day
除夕(农历十二月三十日)New Year's Eve
II 新年习俗英译 过年 celebrate the spring festival 春联 spring festival couplets 剪纸 paper-cuts 年画 new year paintings
买年货 do shopping for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping 敬酒 propose a toast 灯笼 lantern 烟花 fireworks
爆竹 firecrackers (people scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.) 红包 red packets 舞龙 dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests)
舞狮 lion dance (the lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.)
戏曲 traditional opera 杂耍 variety show 灯谜 riddles written on lanterns 灯会 exhibit of lanterns 守岁 staying-up 禁忌 taboo
拜年 pay new year's call; give new year's greetings; pay new year's visit
去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune 祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar new year gift 旧岁 bid farewell to the old year
扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning
年糕nian-gao; rise cake; new year cake 团圆饭 family reunion dinner 年夜饭 the dinner on new year's eve
饺子jiaozi -; chinese meat ravioli ,dumplings
III XINHUA NEWS AGAENCY REPORT
2007-11-07
BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- China may increase the number of legal holidays and include some traditional festivals, such as the Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, as part of the country's legal holidays, sources said.
The Chinese government has formed a preliminary plan on the new legal holiday arrangement and the plan will be released "in the near future". After that public opinion will be sought on the Internet.
As an ancient country with a civilized history of more than 5,000 years, some traditional festivals represent part of the Chinese nation's cultural heritage. However, current legal holiday arrangement only includes the Spring Festival. CaiJiming, professor with Tsinghua University and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said that traditional festivals as legal holiday would help reserve the folk customs.
"The nation's traditional culture will find its way to develop," Cai said.www.shanpow.com_传统节日英文。
FengJicai, a renowned Chinese writer who upholds folk customs, said the cultural meaning of Chinese traditional festivals should be restored and emphasized, especially with increasing globalization.
Chinese people currently have ten days of legal holiday. Nine days are for May Day, the National Day and the Spring Festival, with three days for each, and one day for New Year's Day.
However, the weekends on one side of the first three holidays are designated as two working days, and people enjoy two days off on the working days, which makes the holiday a consecutive seven days. Millions of Chinese travel during the holidays, so earning them the name "golden weeks".
Regarded as one of the most important days on the Chinese calendar, the Tomb-Sweeping Day, or Qingming festival, which usually occurs on April 4 or 5 each year, was established by a Chinese emperor in memory of a loyal official who sacrificed himself to save the emperor's life more than 2,500 years ago.
The day gradually became a traditional occasion for paying homage to ancestors and departed family members.
The Dragon Boat Festival has been celebrated for thousands of years to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great Chinese patriotic poet, who lived in the state of Chu during the Warring States period (475 B.C. to 221 B.C.). He drowned himself in the Miluo River in today's Hunan Province in 278 B.C., on fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, hoping his death would alert the king to revitalize the kingdom.
The tradition arose that on the day of his death dragon boat races would be held and people should eat "zongzi", glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves.
The Mid-Autumn festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar, is considered an occasion for reunion of family members and loved ones. On the occasion, they would eat moon cakes, light lanterns while enjoying the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck.
The festival was flavored by the legend of Chang'e, a lonely fairy on the moon. According to the legend, she was the beautiful wife of Hou Yi, a hero who shot down nine suns scorching the earth but was slain by his apprentice FengMeng. Threatened by the murderer, Chang'e drank an elixir and flew to the moon.
China introduced the "Golden week" holidays in 1999, in a bid to boost domestic consumption.
It was reported that tourism revenue has increased from 14.1 billion yuan (1.76 billion U.S. dollars) during the National Day holiday in 1999 to 64.2 billion yuan during the "Golden week" this October.
Statistics also showed that the year 2001 alone saw tourist numbers reach 780 million, much higher than the figure of 240 million in 1989. While China's outbound tourists rose to 12.13 million in 2001, a big jump from 3 million in the early 1990s.
But after several years' experience, complaints about overcrowding, poor service, a scarcity of hotel rooms, and damage to scenic spots, especially historic sites, during the "Golden Week" holidays have spurred debate over the merits of the week-long holiday concept.
Last year, CaiJiming proposed shortening the National Day and May Day holidays from three days to one day and distributing the days to celebrate four
traditional festivals - the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, and New Year's Eve.
Other Chinese scholars have also reiterated their belief that the important traditional Chinese festivals should be made public holidays.
"The current holiday system does not accord with the long-standing customs of Chinese people," said Liu Quili, President of the Chinese Folklore Society.
Huang Tao, an associate professor of the People's University of China, said the most effective measures to protect cultural festivals were to make the traditional festivals legal holidays to enable more people to understand the importance of tradition.
IV 中国传统节日的整体介绍
Traditional Chinese Festivals
Boasting rich cultural meaning and a long history, traditional Chinese festivals compose an important and brilliant part of Chinese culture.
The formation of traditional festivals is a long process of historical and cultural accumulation in a nation or a state. Festival customs passed down to today still show signs of ethnic group struggles. Festival activities always reflect primitive sacrifice, superstitious taboo and earthly life, people's spirit and religious influence. Sometimes historical figures become the focus of a festival, showing people's commemoration for them and endowing some historical sense to it.
Moreover, traditional Chinese festivals were often connected with ancient astronomy, calendars and mathematics. Jieqi, or the 24 seasonal division points, is a key factor in forming traditional festivals. According to the traditional Chinese
【二】:英文版传统节日介绍
传统节日中英文介绍。
1、 腊八节
腊八节是指农历的腊月初八。在这天，中国人有喝腊八粥的习俗。一般腊八粥是甜味粥，里面有干果和干鲜果品，当然每家的腊八粥做法都不营养，在我们家的腊八粥里一般有红小豆，香米，核桃，花生，小米等等。
过了腊八节，各家就开始置办年货，打扫卫生，正式开始为春节的到来做准备了。 the laba Rice Porridge Festival
“Laba Festival” falls on the eighth day of the twelfth month in lunar calendar. On that day, the majority Chinese have long followed the tradition of eating Laba rice porridge. Usually, the rice porridge tastes sweet, with nuts and dried fruit, but different families have different ingredients in the porridge. My family usually make porridge with small red beans，fragrant rice，walnut，peanut and millet.
Laba Festival also marks the beginning of preparing for spring festival. Some families begin to do spring festival shopping and clean their houses after that day.
2、小年
小年又叫“祭灶节”，在农历的12月23或者24。在中国传统中，祭灶节这天，是掌管全家命运的神仙灶神将向玉皇大帝汇报这一家人一年的情况，玉皇大帝根据灶神汇报的情况决定在下一年对这一家的奖励或者惩罚。小年这天，是各家欢送灶王爷上天的日子。
老百姓在这一天做糖瓜，希望灶神可以吃了糖瓜，多为自己家美言几句，让来年更加吉祥幸福。www.shanpow.com_传统节日英文。
Kitchen God's Day
Kitchen God’s Day falls on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth month of the lunar year. According to tradition, Kitchen God who in charge of the fate of the whole family goes back to heaven during the spring festival to deliver what the family had done the last year to the Great God. According to Kitchen God’s words, the Great God makes decision to reward or punish the family in the next year. In other words, it is the day people honor the Kitchen God.
People usually made sugared melons with malt sugar on that day. We hope Kitchen God will eat sugared melons and put a good word for our family to the Great God, so we’ll be lucky next year.
3、 春节
对中国人来说，春节是最重要的节日。除夕这天，全家人要一起吃年夜饭。这是最好的一次家宴，不仅仅因为菜品丰富，更因为这是个全家人相聚的日子。
年夜饭后，我们会一起包饺子，通常会全家人一起看央视春晚。过年的时候，各家都放鞭炮，贴春联。还有一件事也很重要，那就是守岁，就是在旧年的最后一天夜里不睡觉，熬夜迎接新一年的到来的习俗。
大年初一， 亲戚朋友相互拜年，祝愿新的一年能事事顺利。通常大人们还会给小孩子发压岁钱。
大年初二回娘家，是指已婚妇女回娘家拜访。
初五这天全家再次团聚吃饺子。这天是人们要迎接灶王爷下界的日子。同时，人们打扫卫生，放鞭炮，来驱走“晦气”。
The Spring Festival
The spring festival is the most important festival for Chinese. At Chinese New Year’s Eve, family members have reunion dinner together. This dinner would be the best dinner, not only because we have various dishes, but it’s the day we could meet all our family members.
After family reunion dinner, we make Chinese dumplings together, and usually watch the Spring Festival Gala on CCTV. Each family would light firecrackers and paste up Spring Festival couplets. One more thing is important, that is people should stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve to welcome the new year.
On New Year’s Day of the Chinese lunar calendar, relatives and friends would send New Year's greetings to each other to wish everything smooth in the New Year. Adult usually give lucky money to children during Spring Festival.
The second day of the New Year is usually called the day of visiting parental home, which means that married daughters should return to their parents ' home.
Family members reunite to eat dumplings on the fifth day of the first lunar month. On that day, people welcome the Kitchen God come back to mortal world. People clean house and light firecracker so that keep away all bad luck.
4、正月十五
元宵节标志着中国春节的结束，是农历正月十五。通常这天家家都会吃元宵。元宵节的传统活动是赏花灯和猜灯谜。元宵节赏花灯正好是一个交谊的机会，未婚男女借着赏花灯也顺便可以为自己物色对象。这天我们还会看到舞龙和舞狮的表演。
The Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival marks the end of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year, and it's on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, People usually eat rice glue balls on Lantern festival. Traditional activities are enjoying the display of various lanterns and riddle solving. Enjoying
beautiful lanterns is also an opportunity for singles to make friends. Dragon and lion dances can also been seen on that day.
5、清明节
清明节是我国传统节日，也是最重要的祭祀节日，是祭祖和扫墓的日子。
清明节是24节气之一，预示着春耕的好时节已经到了。清明节又叫踏青节，因为一般在四月5日左右，正是中国的春天，人们喜欢郊游踏青，还喜欢在清明节放风筝。
Qingming Festival/Tomb sweeping day
Tomb Sweeping Day is traditional festival of China, is also the most important sacrifice festival, on that day, people worships ancestors and visits grave. People pay respects to somebody at his tomb.
It is one of the 24 solar terms, means that it’s good time for spring ploughing. Tomb Sweeping Day falls around April fifth, and it’s during the spring of China, so it is also called “hiking day”. People go to the suburbs for an outing in spring. People love to fly kites during the Qingming Festivalwww.shanpow.com_传统节日英文。
6、端午节
端午节是为了纪念中国伟大的爱国诗人屈原，是农历五月初五。
端午节有吃粽子和赛龙舟的习俗。粽子是一种用竹叶或芦苇叶包成棱形的状的饭团子。我们将艾蒿放在门上辟邪，艾蒿还有驱除蚊虫的作用。
端午节给儿童缠七色线，一直要戴到节后第一次下雨才解下来扔在雨水里。
Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu Festival
The festival is to commemorate a great patriotic poet of China—— Qu Yuan. It falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in lunar calendar.
There is the customs of eating Zongzi and racing dragon-boat on Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi is a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves to give it a special flavor. We put mugwort on the door to ward off evil, and it has insect repellent function.
Children wear bracelet made by seven colored strings until the first rain after the festival, they should throw the strings into puddle.
7、中秋节
每年的农历八月十五是中秋节。对中国人来说圆月代表着幸福圆满，所以中秋节时中国人全家团聚，一同赏月、吃月饼、吃石榴。月饼是圆形或矩形的糕点，大多数月饼皮薄酥软，馅足香甜。
Mid-Autumn Day
Mid-autumn day falls on the fifteenth day of eighth lunar month. For Chinese, the full moon means blessedness and unity. Traditionally, on that day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn moon, and eat moon cakes and pomegranate together. Typical mooncakes are round or rectangular pastries. Most mooncakes consist of a thin tender skin enveloping a sweet, dense filling
My explanations of interesting questions：
1、Why do Chinese have Spring Festival? Where did it come from?
In Chinese mythology, the monster Nian is a beast that lives in the mountains. Every 365 days, it comes out of hiding to attack people, especially children. That day is the critical day for people. But Nian is sensitive to loud noises and is afraid of the color red. People came up with a plan to drive the monster away. On the day Nian came out, people shut doors and stay at home. They made loud noises and light firecrackers to scare away Nian.
为什么中国人要过年？"年"是什么？
传说有一种凶猛的怪兽叫“年”住在山里，它每隔三百六十五天就出现一次，它咬伤百姓，尤其是小孩。百姓们便把每年的这可怕的一夜视为这一年的关口，但是年兽对噪音很敏感，而且害怕红色，于是百姓们想出了办法来赶走年兽。在年兽出没的那天，百姓们大门紧闭待在家里用，并用鞭炮的噪音来驱赶年兽。
2. Why should Chinese do house cleaning before Spring Festival?
The 24th day on the last lunar month is the day for cleanup. Everyone should have a
spring-cleaning, do home cleaning, sweep their home, clean windows, wash clothes and
clean dishes, so that keep dust away. In Chinese, the word “dust” has the same pronunciation with “old”. So to sweep dust is a metaphor of sweeping away the old and starting afresh.
为什么要大清扫？
农历腊月二十四传统扫房日。迎新首先要除旧。扫尘之日，全家上下齐动手，用心打扫房屋、庭院，擦洗锅碗、拆洗被褥，干干净净迎接新年。其实，人们借助“尘”与“陈”的谐音表达除陈、除旧的意愿。
3. Why do people wear new clothes on Spring Festival?
People wear new clothes in spring festival to make a good impression on others. New cloth is also the symbol of welcoming the New Year, hoping that everything is new and auspicious. 为什么要穿新衣？
人们穿上新衣服在新年时给别人留下好印象。新衣服也是迎接新年的标志，人们希望来年每件事是都是崭新而吉祥的。
4. Why do Chinese set off firecracker on Spring Festival?
In legend, people set off firecracker to scare the monster “Nian” away. Nowadays, we set off firecrackers to bid a farewell to old days and celebrate the start of the New Year.
为什么要放鞭炮？
传说以前人们放鞭炮以驱赶年兽，而如今，我们以劈劈啪啪的爆竹声辞旧迎新。
5. Why do Chinese Paste Spring Couplets?
Spring couplet is a kind of typical Chinese literature, expressing best wishes with brief, periodic and heroic couplets.
为什么要贴对联？
对联是以工整、对偶、简洁、精巧的文字描绘时代背景，抒发美好愿望，是我国特有的文学形式。
6. Why do Chinese hang red lanterns?
Red, in China always is to represent the good luck and auspiciousness. Red lantern is the symbol of happiness, peace and warmth,
为什么要挂红灯笼？
红色在中国一直有好运和吉祥之意。过春节挂红灯笼是因为灯笼是幸福、祥和和温馨的象征。
7. Why do Chinese make and eat Chinese dumpling?
In Chinese, the word of Chinese dumplings has the same pronunciation with the word which means the moment between the old and New Year. Chinese dumplings/Jiaozi means replacement of the old year by the New Year. Moreover, the shape of Chinese dumpling is like shoe-shaped gold ingot, which symbolizes the life rich and good luck.
【三】:中秋节英文
面对那些对中秋佳节非常感兴趣的外国朋友们，我们一定非常想向他们推荐我们国家的传统节日，但是是不是大家都知道中秋节用英文怎么说呢?今天小编就给大家带来一篇教大家怎么用英文说中秋节的文章，希望大家喜欢。
中秋节英文怎么说
中秋节的几种英文说法：Mid-Autumn Festival; Moon Festival; Mooncake Festival; Zhongqiu Festival;The Mid Autumn Festival;the Mid-autumn Festival (15th day of the 8th lunar month)
中秋节习俗英文介绍
In ancient times the "On the eve of Autumn Twilight" practices. On the eve of that worship Goddess. Set large incense table, put the moon cake, watermelons, apples, dates, plums, grapes other offerings, moon cake and watermelon is definitely not small. Also cut into the lotus-shaped watermelon. Under the month, the moon god on the moon that direction, Candle high burning the whole family followed by worship the moon, then the charge of the housewife cut happy moon cake. Pre-cut people who count the number of good family, at home, in the field should count together, can not cut more and no cut less the same size.
古代有“秋暮夕月”的习俗。夕月，即祭拜月神。设大香案，摆上月饼、西瓜、苹果、红枣、李子、葡萄等祭品，其中月饼和西瓜是绝对不能少的。西瓜还要切成莲花状。在月下，将月亮神像放在月亮的那个方向，红烛高燃，全家人依次拜祭月亮，然后由当家主妇切开团圆月饼。切的人预先算好全家共有多少人，在家的，在外地的，都要算在一起，不能切多也不能切少，大小要一样。
有关中秋节的英文单词
Mid-autumn day 中秋节
lunar 农历
mooncake 月饼
minimooncake 迷你月饼
mooncakes with meat / nuts 肉馅/果仁月饼
ham mooncake 火腿月饼
grapefruit / pomelo / shaddock 柚子
glue pudding 汤圆
lantern / scaldfish 灯笼
Chang E 嫦娥
Hou Yi 后羿
light lantern 点灯笼
carry the lantern around 提灯笼
burn incense 烧香
fire dragon dances 火龙舞
family reunion 家庭团聚 / 圆
中秋节英文精选
"Zhong Qiu Jie", which is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Adults will usually indulge in fragrant mooncakes of many varieties with a good cup of piping hot Chinese tea, while the little ones run around with their brightly-lit lanterns.
农历八月十五日是中国的传统节日——中秋节。在这天，每个家庭都团聚在一起，一家人共同观赏象征丰裕、和谐和幸运的圆月。此时，大人们吃着美味的月饼，品着热腾腾的香茗，而孩子们则在一旁拉着兔子灯尽情玩耍。
"Zhong Qiu Jie" probably began as a harvest festival. The festival was later given a mythological flavour with legends of Chang-E, the beautiful lady in the moon.
中秋节最早可能是一个庆祝丰收的节日。后来，月宫里美丽的仙女嫦娥的神话故事赋予了它神话色彩。
According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it. One day, all 10 suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi, succeeded in shooting down 9 of the suns. Yi stole the elixir of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule, but his wife, Chang-E drank it. Thus started the legend of the lady in the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-Autumn Festival.
传说古时候，天空曾有10个太阳。一天，这10个太阳同时出现，酷热难挡。弓箭手后翌射下了其中9个太阳，拯救了地球上的生灵。他偷了长生不死药，却被妻子嫦娥偷偷喝下。此后，每年中秋月圆之时，少女们都要向月宫仙女嫦娥祈福的传说便流传开来。
In the 14th century, the eating of mooncakes at "Zhong Qiu Jie" was given a new significance. The story goes that when Zhu Yuan Zhang was plotting to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty started by the Mongolians, the rebels hid their messages in the Mid-Autumn mooncakes. Zhong Qiu Jie is hence also a commemoration of the overthrow of the Mongolians by the Han people.
在14世纪，中秋节吃月饼又被赋予了一层特殊的含义。传说在朱元璋带兵起义推翻元朝时，将士们曾把联络信藏在月饼里。因此，中秋节后来也成为汉人推翻蒙古人统治的纪念日。
【四】:中国春节习俗英文介绍
中国春节有不少习俗，那你知道不同时期、不同地区、不同民族的习俗都不相同么?下面，小编为大家介绍一下中国春节习俗英文，欢迎大家阅读。
中国春节习俗英文介绍
Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China and some Asian nations. Because legend has it that the beast is afraid of red, afraid of fire and afraid of sound, so people will have couplets, firecrackers, gongs and drums and other customs. Different periods, different regions, different ethnic customs are not the same.
春节是中国及一些亚洲民族一个古老的传统节日。因为相传年兽怕红色，怕火光和怕响声，所以人们便有贴春联、放鞭炮、敲锣打鼓等习俗。 不同时期、不同地区、不同民族的习俗都不相同。
In China, the Spring Festival is also a minority national people's customs and festivals. People of all ethnic groups in accordance with their own customs, held a variety of celebration, with their strong national unique style. Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China. It is also one of the most important festival in the whole year. How to celebrate this festival, in the history of thousands of years, has formed some relatively fixed customs, there are still many people who have been handed down.
在中国，春节也是少数民族人民的风俗节日。各族人民按照自已的习俗，举行各种各样的庆祝活动，具有各自浓厚的民族独特风采。春节是中国一个古老的节日，也是全年最重要的一个节日，如何过庆贺这个节日，在千百年的历史发展中，形成了一些较为固定的风俗习惯，有许多还相传至今。
少数民族
Ethnic minority
In China, the Spring Festival is also a minority national people's customs and festivals. People of all ethnic groups in accordance with their own customs, held a variety of celebration, with their strong national unique style.
在中国，春节也是少数民族人民的风俗节日。各族人民按照自已的习俗，举行各种各样的庆祝活动，具有各自浓厚的民族独特风采。
The eve of the Chinese new year, people put on beautiful clothes, held a grand and grand "sorcerer". The boys dancing singing, in addition to the old and ushering in the new, the evil blessing. In the new year's morning, women would go back "auspicious water", I wish the new year Good luck and happiness to you.
除夕那天，人们穿上艳丽服装，举行隆重而又盛大的“跳神会”.小伙子们狂舞高歌，表示除旧迎新，驱邪降福。到了新年早晨，妇女们便去背“吉祥水”,预祝新的一年吉祥如意。
Yi Yi according to the selected calendar year. Some of the same with the local Han Chinese New year. In some areas of the Yi nationality, a pine in front of the door, with pine flooring, said to avoid disaster fire disaster. There are areas in the festival, butcher sheep, eat meat lump, people visit each other, exchanging the meat and steamed bun. Lunar New Year's day morning, the first thing is to get up in the home. They will have a bowl of water and a heavier weight than yesterday, such as the water of the new year.
彝族根据彝历选定年节。有的与当地汉族同过春节。有的地区彝族同胞，在门前树立青松，用松针铺地，表示免灾消祸。还有的地区，在节日里杀猪宰羊，吃坨坨肉，人们互相拜访，互赠肉类和馍馍。大年初一早晨，起床的第一件事就是挑水回家。他们将一碗水和昨天的水比重量，如新年的水重，就意味着到来的这一年里雨水充足。
【五】:感恩节习俗英文介绍
感恩节是西方传统节日，也是我国流行的一个“洋节”，感恩会使我们获得物质上的幸福，更使我们获得精神上的富有，怀着一颗感恩的心，去面对生活，去看待生活中的种种。下面，小编为大家整理了一些关于感恩节习俗英文介绍的精彩内容，欢迎阅读。
感恩节习俗英文介绍
The Thanksgiving legacy has been alive for hundreds of years. The customs we see in our homes today remind us of ancient celebrations of harvest, thankfulness for peace, and the endeavors of native Americans. It consists of stories of those who believe that gratitude for blessings is a virtue all must possess.
感恩节的已经有好几百年的历史了。现在我们看到的关于它的习俗活动使我们想起了过去人们的丰收、感谢和平以及美国印地安人的努力。这些都是由那些信仰感恩和赐福的人的故事构成。
★Custom of Family Dinner(家宴习俗)
The traditional stuffed turkey adorns every dinner table during the feast. pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, corns are some of the dishes cooked everywhere to mark the day.
家庭盛宴是感恩节期间的一个重要习俗。全家人围坐在饭桌边一起祈祷，愿上帝施与永不停息的恩惠。 这也让身处异地的亲友欢聚一堂，同庆美好时光。
Though historians don’t have an evidence to prove that turkey was eaten during the first thanksgiving dinner, the thanksgiving celebration will be incomplete without it.
传统的填制火鸡让每个餐桌生色不少，南瓜派、酸果沙司、玉米更是那天必不可少的菜肴。虽然历史学家没有证据证明在第一个感恩节时人们就吃火鸡，但没有火鸡的感恩节是不完美的。
The traditional thanksgiving parade probably started with president lincoln proclaiming it an official day. the full- dress parade is a way to display the country’s military strength and discipline. the main aim of such parades is to lift the spirits of the spectators, provide them with wholesome entertainment. in the present day, parades are accompanied with musical shows and celebrities.
感恩节那天进行的巡游仪式大概始于林肯总统时期，而且这天被宣布为法定节日。隆重的巡游仪式是显示国家军事力量和严明纪律的一个方式，但这样的巡游主要目的是振奋国人，为大众提供一个积极健康的娱乐活动。现代的巡游活动还加入音乐节目，众多名人也参与其中。
football games??watching nfl football during thanksgiving is a popular tradition. the traditional game between the detroit lions and the green bay packers continues. one of the most memorable games having been played on this day.
感恩节观看美国国家足球联盟的橄榄球比赛也是一个习俗。底特律雄狮和绿湾包装工队之间的传统比赛至今仍然保留着。其中最值得纪念的比赛之一就在感恩节这天举行
★Custom of Decoration(装饰习俗)
Thanksgiving is a time to decorate homes with wreaths, fresh and dried flowers. People beautify their homes, give the interiors a whole new look and feel. They light lamps to brighten the environment. Tables are adorned with best china and antique silver cutlery to mark the occasion.
感恩节是人们装饰房屋,用清新干花点缀房间的时间。人们美化家园,给内部一个全新的外观和感觉。他们点灯照亮周围环境。桌子也挂有最好的瓷器、古玩银餐具以示庆祝。
★Custom of sending messages(发送祝福的风俗)
Thanksgiving is a day when people send loving messages and warm wishes to their relatives, colleagues at work place, superiors and subordinates, near and dear ones. It is a day of conveying their feelings through Thanksgiving cards.
感恩节是人们送爱的信息和温馨的祝愿给他们的亲戚、同事、上司和下属、极亲密的人的一个节日。这一天他们通过赠送感恩节贺卡来表达自己的感受。
★Custom of Praying(祈祷的习俗)
For centuries, 'Thanksgiving Day' is associated with communal prayers in church and in homes. People offer various meal time prayers during the day. It is a time, when mankind thanks God for all his blessings and grace. It is also a day to show gratitude to your friends and relatives for all the good deeds.
几个世纪以来,“感恩节”与在教堂和家里祈祷者有关。人们提供各式各样的用餐，祷告一下白天的情况。这是一个人类感谢上帝带来所有祝福的时候，同时也是一个感激你的朋友和亲人及所有的好事的时候。
