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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Spring festival,Christmas,四组,AND,Spring festivalChristmas四组AND,The Spring Festival,Far and away,the most important traditional holiday in China is Spring Festival,also known as the Chinese New Year,starts at the beginning of spring.It occurs somewhere between January 30 and February 20.Each Chinese year is represented by a repeated cycle of 12 animalas,the rat,ox,tiger,hare,dragon,snake,horse,ram,monkey,rooster,dog and pig.,The Spring FestivalFar and awa,The chinese new year is now popularly known as the spring festival because it starts from the begining of spring(the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of nature).Its origin is too old to be traced.Several explanations are hanging around.All agree,however,that the word nian,which in modern chinese solely means year,was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.,The origin:,The chinese new year is now p,One legend goes that the beast nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite.People were very scared.One day,an old man came to their rescue,offering to subdue nian.He said to nian,“I hear that you are very capable,but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?“So,it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.,One legend goes that the beas,After that,the old man disappeared riding the beast nian.He turned out to be an immortal god.Now that nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests,people begin to enjoy their peaceful life.Before the old man left,he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each years end to scare away nian in case it sneaked back again,because red is the color the beast feared the most.,After that,the old man disapp,From then on,the tradition of observing the conquest of nian is carried on from generation to generation.The term guo nian,which may mean survive the nian becomes today celebrate the(new)year as the word guo in chinese having both the meaning of pass-over and observe.The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around.however,people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this,except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.,From then on,the tradition of,Charismas,Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ.No one knows the exact date of Christs birth,but most Christians observe Christmas on December 25.On this day,many go to church,where they take part in special religious services.During the Christmas season,they also exchange gifts and decorate their homes with holly,mistletoe,and Christmas trees.The word Christmas comes from Crises massed,an early English phrase that means Mass of Christ.The story of Christmas comes chiefly from the Gospels of Saint Luke and Saint Matthew in the New Testament.,CharismasChristmas is a Chris,The history of Christmas dates back over 4000 years.Many of our Christmas traditions were celebrated centuries before the Christ child was born.The 12 days of Christmas,the bright fires,the yule log,the giving of gifts,carnivals(parades)with floats,carolers who sing while going from house to house,the holiday feasts,and the church processions can all be traced back to the early Mesopotamians.,The history of Christmas dates,The custom of giving gifts to relatives and friends on a special day in winter probably began in ancient Rome and northern Europe.In these regions,people gave each other small presents as part of their year-end celebrations.In the 1800s,two more Christmas customs became popular-decorating Christmas trees and sending Christmas cards to relatives and friends.Many well-known Christmas carols,including Silent Night and Hark!The Herald Angels Sing,were composed during this period.In the United States and other countries,Santa Claus replaced Saint Nicholas as the symbol of gift giving.,The custom of giving gifts to,Advantage:,Spring Festival:,Working outside year round people can go home;After a busy year you can take a break,Christmas,:,Improved understanding of Western culture;Increase consumption,Advantage:Spring Festival:Wo,Disadvantage:,Spring Festival:,With the arrival of the Spring Festival,prices are up all sorts of things;A lot of businesses out of business,which have an adverse impact on economic development,Christmas,：,Christmas in Chinas rise is completely driven out of business interests;Christmas is the most celebrated young people,especially students,especially students have a girlfriend,increase their burden.,Disadvantage:Spring Festiva,Christmas,Spring festival,Differences,ChristmasSpring festivalDiffer,Spring festival and Christmas are both t
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