春節習俗
貼年畫 Pasting New Year Prints
The custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With the creation of board carvings， New Year paintings cover a wide range of subjects. The most famous ones are Door Gods， Surplus Year after Year， Three Gods of Blessing， Salary and Longevity， An Abundant Harvest of Crops， Thriving Domestic Animals and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Year Print are Tɑohuɑwu of Suzhou， Yɑngliuqing of Tianjin， Wuqiɑng of Hebei and Weifang of Shangdong. Now the tradition of pasting New Year paintings is still kept in rural China， while it is seldom followed in cities.
吃餃子 Having Jiaozi
On New Year’s Eve， the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi and celebrate the Spring Festival. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. The tradition of having jiaozi is very important during the Spring Festival. You cannot have a complete Spring Festival without having jiaozi. (See page 82 for more information about "jiaozi”)
英語祝福
May everything beautiful and best be condensed into this card. I sincerely wish you happiness, cheerfulness and success.
愿一切最美好的祝福都能用這張賀卡表達，真誠地祝你幸福快樂成功!
A cheery New Year hold lots of happiness for you!
給你特別的祝福，愿新年帶給你無邊的幸福如意。
May you have the best New Year ever.
愿你度過最美好的新年!
Wishing you peace, joy and happiness through the coming year.
在新年來臨之際，祝福你平安快樂幸福!
Warm greetings and best wishes for the New Year!
致以熱烈的祝賀和良好的祝福,新年快樂。
It seems that Christmas time is here once again, and it is time again to bring in the New Year. We wish the merriest of Christmas to you and your loved ones, and we wish you happiness and prosperity in the year ahead.
又該迎接新的一年了。我們向你及你的親人們致以最美好的祝福，愿你在新的一年里事業興旺，幸福美滿!
New Year comes but once a year. But when it comes it brings good cheer.
新年一年只有一次，但每次來臨都帶來喜悅。
Much joy to you in the up coming year. May the warmest wishes, happy thoughts and friendly greetings come at New Year and stay with you all the year through.
讓溫馨的祝愿幸福的思念和友好的祝福，在新年來到你身邊，伴你左右。
