短文Chinese New Year

今天读了“Chinese New Year” ｜春节。

Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people all over the world.

It is also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year.

The exact date of the Spring Festival on the Western calendar changes from year to year.

However, Chinese New Year takes place between January 1 and February 19.On the Chinese calendar every year has an animal's name.

These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

A Chinese legend says that these twelve animals had a race.

The first year was named after the rat, the winner.

The other eleven years were named according to the order in which the animals arrived in the race.

The clever rat jumped onto the ox's back, and then at the end jumped over the ox's head to arrive first!

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中文释义：春节。

对于全世界的华人来说，中国的新年是最重要的节日。

人们也称它为春节或农历新年。公历春节的确切日期每年都在变化。

但是春节一般都在1月1日到2月19日之间。在农历中，每年都有一个生肖。

这些生肖是鼠牛虎兔龙蛇马羊猴鸡狗猪。据传说这12个动物举行了一次赛跑。

第1年就以全胜者“鼠”命名。其他11年就根据动物们到达终点的顺序命名。

聪明的鼠跳在牛背上，在最后时刻跳过牛的头顶，第1个到达终点。

中国人相信在某一年出生的人具有这一年生肖的一些特征。