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新春佳节
农历：lunar calendar
腊八节：Laba Festival
小年：Little New Year
除夕：Lunar New Year’s Eve
春节：the Spring Festival
正月初一：the lunar New Year’s Day
元宵节:the Lantern Festival
正月：the first month of the lunar year
二月二：Dragon Heads-raising Day
传统习俗
喝腊八粥：eat Laba porridge
扫尘：sweep the dust
扫房：spring cleaning
祭灶：offer sacrifices to the God of kitchen
守岁：staying up
拜年：Pay a New Year’s call
祭祖：offer sacrifices to one’s ancestors
祭财神：worship the God of Wealth
春联：Spring Festival couplets
贴倒福：paste the Chinese character “Fu” upside down
去晦气：get rid of the ill-fortune
辞旧岁：bid farewell to the old year
兆头：omen
禁忌：taboo
烧香：burn incense
阖家团圆
敬酒：propose a toast
红包：red envelops
吃团圆饭：have a family reunion dinner
年夜饭：New Year’s Eve dinner
全家团圆：family reunion
办年货：do Spring Festival shopping
穿新衣：wear new clothes
压岁钱：gift money
美食小吃
年糕：rice cake
饺子：dumpling
汤圆：dumpling made sweet rice
八宝饭：eight-treasure rice pudding
什锦糖：assorted candies
糖莲子：candied lotus seed
花生糖：peanut candy
蜜冬瓜：candied winter melon
瓜子：red melon seeds
金桔：cumquat
红枣：red dates
春卷：spring roll
冰糖葫芦：candied haws on a stick
驴肉火烧：donkey burger
腊肠：Chinese sausage
米酒：rice wine
腊肉：preserved meat
糖板栗：sugar chestnut
民间艺术
泥人：clay figure
皮影戏：shadow puppetry
木偶戏：puppet show
刺绣：embroidery
剪纸：paper-cut
中国结：Chinese knot
年画：New Year painting
吹糖人：sugar-figure blowing
舞龙:dragon dance
舞狮：lion dance
秧歌：Yongko dance
灯笼：lantern
曲艺表演
戏曲：traditional opera
折子戏:opera highlights
相声：comic dialogue
小品：skits
口技：vocal imitations
杂技：acrobatic performance
马戏：circus performance
京韵大鼓：drum song of Peking
踩高跷：walk on stilts
娱乐活动
打麻将：play mahjiong
庙会：Temple Fair
春节联欢晚会：Spring Festival gala
灯会：exhibit of lanterns
送贺卡：sending New Year’s greeting cards
放烟花：set off fireworks
放鞭炮：set off firecrackers
灯谜：riddles written on lanterns
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