雅思常用分類詞匯

　　Customs：

　　過年　Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival

　　對聯(lián)　poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry

　　春聯(lián)　Spring Festival couplets

　　剪紙　paper-cuts

　　年畫　New Year paintings

　　買年貨　special purchases for the Spring Festival; do Spring Festival shopping

　　敬酒　propose a toast

　　燈籠　lantern: a portable light

　　煙花　fireworks

　　爆竹　firecrackers

　　紅包　red packets

　　舞獅　lion dance

　　舞龍　dragon dance

　　戲曲　traditional opera

　　雜耍　variety show; vaudeville

　　燈謎　riddles written on lanterns

　　燈會(huì)　exhibit of lanterns

　　守歲　staying-up

　　拜年　pay New Years call; give New Years greetings; New Years visit

　　禁忌　taboo

　　去晦氣　get rid of the ill-fortune

　　祭祖宗　offer sacrifices to ones ancestors

　　壓歲錢　gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift

　　Culture Note: In the old days, New Years money was given in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on a red string and symbolized the hope that one would live to be a hundred years old. Today, money is placed inside red envelopes in denominations considered auspicious and given to represent luck and wealth

　　辭舊歲　bid farewell to the old year

　　掃房　spring cleaning; general house-cleaning

　　雅思常用分類詞匯

　　Customs：

　　過年　Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival

　　對聯(lián)　poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry

　　春聯(lián)　Spring Festival couplets

　　剪紙　paper-cuts

　　年畫　New Year paintings

　　買年貨　special purchases for the Spring Festival; do Spring Festival shopping

　　敬酒　propose a toast

　　燈籠　lantern: a portable light

　　煙花　fireworks

　　爆竹　firecrackers

　　紅包　red packets

　　舞獅　lion dance

　　舞龍　dragon dance

　　戲曲　traditional opera

　　雜耍　variety show; vaudeville

　　燈謎　riddles written on lanterns

　　燈會(huì)　exhibit of lanterns

　　守歲　staying-up

　　拜年　pay New Years call; give New Years greetings; New Years visit

　　禁忌　taboo

　　去晦氣　get rid of the ill-fortune

　　祭祖宗　offer sacrifices to ones ancestors

　　壓歲錢　gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift

　　Culture Note: In the old days, New Years money was given in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on a red string and symbolized the hope that one would live to be a hundred years old. Today, money is placed inside red envelopes in denominations considered auspicious and given to represent luck and wealth

　　辭舊歲　bid farewell to the old year

　　掃房　spring cleaning; general house-cleaning