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新春佳节
传统中国节日：traditional Chinese festival
农历：lunar calendar
腊八节：Laba Festival
除夕：Lunar New Year"s Eve
春节：the Spring Festival
正月初一：Lunar New Year"s Day
元宵节：the Lantern Festival
正月：the first month of the lunar year
二月二：Dragon Heads-raising Day
过年： have the Spring Festival
传统习俗
喝腊八粥：eat Laba porridge
扫尘：sweep the dust
扫房：spring cleaning
祭灶：offer sacrifices to the God of Kitchen
守岁：stay up 守岁 staying-up
拜年： pay a New Year"s call
祭祖：offer sacrifices to one"s ancestors
祭财神：worship the God of Wealth
春联：Spring Festival couplets
对联： poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry
贴倒福：paste the Chinese character "Fu" upside down
去晦气：get rid of the ill-fortune
辞旧岁：bid farewell to the old year
兆头：omen
禁忌： taboo
