Useful Words,Expressions and Sentences
Words and Expressions
1.阳历 solar calendar
2.阴历lunar calendar
3.春节联欢晚会 Spring Festival Gala
4.庙会temple fair
5.金玉满堂 treasures fill the home
6.生意兴隆 business flourishes
7.岁岁平安 peace all year round
8.恭喜发财 wish you prosperity
9.和气生财 harmony brings wealth
10.心想事成 may all your wishes come true
11.吉祥如意 everything goes well
12.国泰民安 the country flourishes and people live in peace
13.招财进宝 money and treasures will be plentiful
14.财源广进 May a river of gold flow into your pocket
15.鹏程万里 have a bright future
16.年年有鱼/余 Every year there is fish/leftover
17.一帆风顺 wish you every success
18.步步高升 promote to a higher position
19.出入平安 safe trips wherever you go
20.赏月 appreciate the glorious full moon
21.元旦（1月1日）New Year’s Day
春节（农历一月一日）Spring Festival
元宵节（农历一月十五日）Lantern Festival
妇女节（3月8日）Women’s Day
植树节（3月12日）Arbor Day
清明节（4月5日前后）Qing Ming Festival； Tomb-sweeping Festival
劳动节（5月1日）Labour Day
中国青年节（5月4日）Chinese Youth Day
端午节（农历五月初五）Duanwu Festival （Dragon Boat Festival）
儿童节（6月1日）Children’s Day
中国共产党成立纪念日（7月1日）the Party’s Birthday
七夕情人节（农历七月初七）Double-seventh Festival
建军节（8月1日）the Army’s Day
中秋节（农历八月十五）Mid-autumn （Moon） Festival
教师节（9月10日）Teachers’ Day
重阳节（农历九月九日）Double-ninth Day
国庆节（10月1日）National Day
除夕（农历十二月三十日）New Year’s Eve
22.过年 celebrate the spring festival
23.春联 spring festival couplets
24.剪纸 paper-cuts
25.年画 new year paintings
26.敬酒 propose a toast
27.爆竹 firecrackers （people scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.）
28.舞狮 lion dance （the lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.）
29.舞龙 dragon dance （to expect good weather and good harvests）
30.杂耍 juggling
31.灯谜 riddles written on lanterns
32.守岁 staying-up
33.拜年 pay new year’s call；give new year’s greetings；pay new year’s visit
34.压岁钱 gift money；money given to children as a lunar new year gift culture note
35.辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year
36.团圆饭 family reunion dinner
37.年夜饭 the dinner on new year’s eve
38.满月 full moon
39.银河 the Milky Way
40.鹊桥 bridge of magpies
41.牛郎 Cowherd
42.织女 the Weaving Maid
43.乞巧 praying-for-cleverness
44.女红 needlework
45.灯会 exhibit of lanterns
46.嫦娥 Chang’e/Goddess of the moon
47.鹊桥 a bridge of magpies
48.年糕 nian-gao； rice cake； new year cake
49.饺子 jiao-zi/dumpling； chinese meat ravioli
50.粽子 rice dumpling
Sentences
1.农历的正月初一，是中国的农历新年。在中国的传统节日中，这是一个最重要、最热闹的节日。
The first day of the first lunar month is the New Year in the Chinese lunar calendar.Among the traditional Chinese festivals,this is the most important and the most bustling.
2.在这段时间里，家家户户要大扫除，买年货，贴窗花，挂年画，写春联，蒸年糕，做好各种食品，准备辞旧迎新。
Every family will undertake thorough cleaning,do their Spring Festival shopping,create paper-cuts for window decoration,put up New Year pictures,write Spring Festival couplets,make New Year cakes,and also prepare all kinds of food to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new.
3.春节的前夜叫“除夕”。除夕之夜，是家人团聚的时候。一家人围坐在一起，吃一顿丰盛的年夜饭，说说笑笑，直到天亮，这叫守岁。
New Year’s Eve is the time for a happy reunion of all family members,when they sit around the table to have a sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner,talking and laughing,until daybreak,which is called “staying up to see the year out”.
4.放爆竹是春节期间孩子们最喜欢的活动。传说燃放爆竹可以驱妖除魔，所以每年从除夕之夜起，到处就响起了接连不断的爆竹声。
Setting off firecrackers is the favorite activity of children in the Spring Festival.According to legend,this could drive off evil spirits.
5.阵阵烟花，声声爆竹，给节日增添了喜庆的气氛。
The continuous sound of firecrackers can be heard everywhere,adding to the atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity.
6.春节期间，很多地方还要举办庙会。庙会上精彩的舞龙舞狮表演，各式各样的工艺品和地方小吃，吸引着千千万万欢度佳节的人们。
Many places hold temple fairs.The wonderful dragon lantern dance and the lion dance performances,along with various handicraft articles and local snacks attract thousands of people.
7.爆竹声中一岁除，春风送暖入屠苏。
Amid the boom of firecrackers a year has come to an end,and the spring wind has wafted warm breath to the Tusu Wine.
8.北风吹雪四更初，嘉瑞天教及岁除。
The north wind brings a heavy snow at midnight,God sending this auspicious snow to promise a good harvest.
9.今年元夜时，月与灯依旧。
This year at the Lantern Festival the moon and the lights are the same as then.
10.中秋节自古便有祭月、赏月、吃月饼、玩花灯、赏桂花、饮桂花酒等民俗。
From ancient times,people have followed the customs of offering sacrifices to the moon,enjoying the moon,eating moon cakes,playing with lanterns,appreciating osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine.
11.民间有首乞巧歌：乞手巧，乞貌巧，乞心巧，乞我爹娘千百岁，乞我姊妹千万年。
There is a folk song praying for skills: pray for skilled hand,pray for beautiful appearance,pray for wise mind,pray for parents living for hundreds of years and pray for sisters being together for as long as possible.
12.天阶夜色凉如水，坐看牵牛织女星。
The steps seem steeped in water when cold grows the night.She lies to watch two stars in love meet in the sky.
13.但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。
Will live long as he can! Though miles apart,we’ll share the beauty she displays.
14.花间一壶酒，独酌无相亲；举杯邀明月，对影成三人。
From a wine pot amidst the flowers,
I drink alone without partners.
To invite the moon I raise my cup,
We’re three,as my shadow shows up.
15.露从今夜白，月是故乡明。
Dew turns into frost since tonight;
The moon viewed at home is more bright.
16.金风玉露一相逢，便胜却人间无数。
When Autumn’s Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade,
All the love scenes on earth,however many,fade.
17.今夜月明人尽望，不知秋思落谁家？
All people look up at the bright full moon tonight,knowing not whom the autumn homesickness falls on.
18.独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人。
As a lonely stranger in the strange land,Every holiday the homesickness amplifies.Knowing that my brothers have reached the peak,All but one is present at the planting of flowers.
19.海上生明月，天涯共此时。情人怨遥夜，竟夕起相思。
Over the sea grows the moons bright; we gaze on it far,far apart.Lovers complain of long,long night; they rise and long for the dear heart.
20.此生此夜不长好，明月明年何处看。
How often can we enjoy a fine mid-autumn night? Where shall we view next year a silver moon so bright?
21.酒贱常愁客少，月明多被云妨。中秋谁与共孤光。把盏凄然北望。
Of my poor wine few guests are proud; the bright moon is often veiled in cloud.Who would enjoy with me the mid-autumn moon lonely? Wine cup in hand,northward I look only.
22.佳节又重阳，玉枕纱厨，半夜凉初透。
The Double Ninth comes again；
Alone I still remain
In silken bed curtain,on pillow smooth like jade.
Feeling the midnight chill invade.
23.人生易老天难老，岁岁重阳。今又重阳，战地黄花分外香。
Man ages all too easily,not Nature: Year by year the Double Ninth returns.On this Double Ninth,The yellow blooms on the battlefield smell sweeter.
24.两情若是久长时，又岂在朝朝暮暮。
If love between both sides can last for aye,
Why need they stay together night and day?
25.清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。
A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; the mourner’s heart is going to break on his way.