the Spring Festival in China_中國的春節(jié)英語作文100字

Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. the dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the GREgorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February.

To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.

很久以來中國最重要的節(jié)日是春節(jié)，也被稱為中國的新年。對中國人來說就像西方人的圣誕節(jié)一樣重要。這個一年一度的慶?；顒拥娜掌谑怯赊r(nóng)歷而不是公歷確定的，因此假日的時間變化從一月下旬到二月上旬。

對于普通的中國人來說，春節(jié)于農(nóng)歷新年的第一天開始并于農(nóng)歷的第一個月的第五日前夕結(jié)束。但在第一個月的第十五日，通常被稱為元宵節(jié)，意味著在該國許多地區(qū)正式的結(jié)束春節(jié)。