英文翻译《春节的由来》

英文翻译《春节的由来》
春节和年的概念，最初的含意来自农业，古时人们把谷的生长周期称为“年”。《说文·禾部》：“年，年画谷熟也。”在夏商时代产生了夏历，以月亮圆缺的周期为月，一年划分为十二个月，每月以不见月亮的那天为朔，正月朔日的子时称为岁首，即一年的开始，也叫年，年的名称是从周朝开始的，至了西汉才正式固定下来，一直延续到今天。但古时的正月初一被称为“元旦”，直到中国近代辛亥革命胜利后，南京临时政府为了顺应农时和便于统计，规定在民间使用夏历，在政府机关、矿场、学校和团体中实行公历。 1949年9月27日，在中国人民政治协商会议第一届全体会议上，通过了使用世界上通用的公历纪元，把公历的元月一日定为元旦，俗称阳历年；农历正月初一通常都在立春前后，因而把农历正月初一定为“春节”，俗称阴历年。 传统意义上的春节是指从腊月初八的腊祭或腊月二十三的祭灶，一直到正月十五，其中以除夕和正月初一为春节的高潮。在春节这一传统节日期间，我国的汉族和大多数少数民族都要举行各种庆祝活动，这些活动大多以祭祀神佛、祭奠祖先、除旧布新、迎禧接福、祈求丰年为主要内容。活动形式丰富多彩，带有浓郁的民族特色。

Chinese New Year and the years the concept of the original meaning comes from agriculture, the ancient people called the Valley of the growth cycle "year." "Wo said the Ministry of Culture": ", the pictures are cooked Valley." Generated in the Xia and Shang era of lunar calendar to the moon's period of months, one year into twelve months, seen a month to the day of the moon for the moon, the first month called the beginning of the year the first nine days of midnight, the beginning of the year, also known as, the year of the name is from the Zhou Dynasty began to formally set down in the Western Han Dynasty, has continued to this day. But the ancient first day is called "New Year's Day" until after the victory of Revolution in Modern China, Nanjing Provisional Government to comply with the farming season and statistical purposes, provides for civil use of lunar calendar, the government, mines, schools and organizations in the implementation of the Gregorian calendar . September 27, 1949, in the first session of the CPPCC plenary session, adopted the Gregorian calendar with the world's common era, to the Gregorian calendar on January 1 as New Year's Day, commonly known as the solar year; first lunar month is usually before and after the beginning of spring, which is the beginning of the Lunar some as the "Spring Festival", commonly known as the lunar year. Traditional Spring Festival is the eighth day of the wax from the twelfth lunar month festival, or the twelfth lunar month XXIII Jizao, until the fifteenth, of which the first day for New Year's Eve and New Year's climax. This traditional holiday period, most of China's ethnic Han Chinese and various celebrations are held, these activities are to worship deities and ancestors, blow away the cobwebs, then Fu Ying Hei, hope of the harvest as the main content. Rich and varied forms of activities, with strong ethnic characteristics.