拜年
Happy New Year
春节里的一项重要活动，是到新朋好友家和邻那里祝贺新春，旧称拜年。汉族拜年之风，汉代已有。唐宋之后十分盛行，有些不必亲身前往的，可用名帖投贺。东汉时称为"刺"，故名片又称"名刺"。明代之后，许多人家在门口贴一个红纸袋，专收名帖，叫"门簿"。
The Spring Festival is an important activity, is to establish new contacts friends home and adjacent there, old say congratulations Spring Festival happy New Year. Han Chinese New Year wind, han dynasty existing. Tang is a very popular, some don't after personally to greet MingTie shots, usable. Han dynasty, so called "stab" card, say again "MingCi". After the Ming dynasty, many people in the doorway stick a red paper bags, only collect MingTie, called "door book".
烧门神纸
Burn keeper paper
旧时初三日夜把年节时的松柏枝及节期所挂门神门笺等一并焚化，以示年已过完，又要开始营生。俗谚有"烧了门神纸，个人寻生理"。
The festival night when old grade of 1605 and the appointed feasts hang keeper door depicting etc, in order to show years already together incineration finish, should begin again racket. Out.this common saying "burned keeper paper, personal search physiological".
谷子生日
Millet birthday
民间以为正月初三位谷子生日，这一天祝祭祈年，且禁食米饭。
Folk thought the grade a birthday, the day the millet wishing offering unlikelihood years, and fasted rice.
小年朝
Off-year toward
即天庆节。宋代宫廷节日，宋真宗大中祥符元年，因传有天书下降人间，真宗下诏书，定正月初三日为天庆节，官员等休假五日。后来称小年朝，不扫地、不乞火，不汲水，与岁朝相同。
The sky kei section. The song dynasty court festivities, emperor song zhenzong medium-sized temple-xiang first because linked with a drop too mystierious and earth, authentic, decide the next letters for days beginning 3 kei festival, officials vacation 5. Later said off-year dynasty, not sweeping, don't ever fire, not with the same age, toward the courtyards.
春节，是农历正月初一，又叫阴历年，俗称"过年"。这是我国民间最隆重、最热闹的一个传统节日。春节的历史很悠久，它起源于殷商时期年头岁尾的祭神祭祖活动。按照我国农历，正月初一古称元日、元辰、元正、元朔、元旦等，俗称年初一，而之前则是年三十了。呵呵，大抵与平安夜是一个级别。
The Spring Festival, is the first day of the lunar year, also called celebrated on the fifteenth day, commonly known as the "Chinese New Year". This is our country folk ceremonious and noisiest a traditional festival. Spring Festival's history is long, which originates from the sacrifices of SuiWei shells period years worshipping god activities. According to China's lunar calendar, the day of the first month YuanRi, yuan Calvin, anyang positive and yuan RMB shomer, New Year's day, commonly known as on New Year's day, whereas previously is thirty. Ha ha, generally with Christmas Eve is a level.
传统的春节应该怎样过？
How should the traditional lunar New Year?
From: http://www.hxen.com/englishwriting/yyscb/2014-01-29/319648.html
