关于过春节的英语美文

Spring Festival is also calledspend the New Year,it means celebrate the New Year.There is an old story about year.Yearis a monster,which lives in the deep water.Yearcomes out of water to hurt human every 365 days.People are afraid of Year,so they flee.One year,everyone escapes from the village except an old man.When Year comes,there comes a loud sound of firecrackers.Year are afraid of the sounds.Then the old man appears in the Year wearing a red coat.Yearis trembling,and dare not go to the village anymore.
Do you know why Yearrun away?Yearis afraid of red things,the fire and the sound of firecrackers.
How do Chinese people celebrate Spring Festival?We buy ourselves new clothes because it is new year,and everything should be new.Each family placards couple on the outside door.People often put up posters with Fu(it means luck and fortune)on them upside down on doors as a regular decorative way to welcome the new year.Putting the Fu character upside down is used as a metaphor,showing the arrival of promising spring and auspicious prosperity.We also hang lanterns in the Spring Festival.We eat dumplings on New Year's Eve and the New Year's morning.Dumpling means reunion.When we eat dumplings,we set off firecrackers.
We wish everyone Happy New Year.We visit our neighbour and relatives to send our blessings.People make a ceremonial call on New Year.That's very important.Children can get red packets from seniority.Children can get red packets when they make a new year call.Or some parents put the red packets below the pillow.Just like western people put gifts in their child's socks.Red packets are also called lucky money,or a cash gift.I hope you can understand what I mean.^^The rest of the day,we can do anything we want.We can hang out with our friends.We can get together to do something funny.