中国春节（四）：节庆活动 Chinese Spring Festival （IV）

中国全景初级汉语三第30课
The 30th lesson, in China Panorama, Basic Level

    杨丽：雪芹，过年好！
    Yang Li：Xue Qin, happy new year!

    方雪芹：过年好！
    Fang Xueqin: Happy new year!

    田、赵：恭喜发财
    Tian, Zhao: May you come into a good fortune!

    方雪芹：同喜、同喜！快请进。
    Fang Xueqin: The same to you. Come on in.

    身体非常重要，所以春节的问候往往加上“身体健康”。
    Health is very important. So new greetings normally have “Good health!”

    万事如意，心想事成。
    Hope everything goes your way. May you succeed at whatever you try.

    事业有成！
    Have a successful career!

     原来拜年呐，亲戚朋友互相串门，就是坐一会儿，各家都摆一点糖果、瓜子，让大家尝尝，就走。这种人际的交往吧，初一初二这家里边闲不住，老是人来人往，这和现代化这个手段还是有区别的。 
     The Spring Festival visits in the past meant that relatives and friends will drop each other a visit. Everyone had candies and sunflower seeds for guests. They sat together and talked for a while. In the first and second day of the first lunar month, nobody would stay at home. They were all busy visiting each other. This social act is different from the modern way.

    除了以往的到家里拜年，或寄贺年卡，近年来，人们也开始通过电话、电子邮件和手机短信拜年。
    The tradition way of extending Spring Festival greetings includes to drop a visit or to send new year cards. In recent years, people began to use telephone, email and sms to extend their Spring Festival wishes.

    虽然拜年的方式变化了，但对孩子们来讲，有一件事是不变的，那就是拜年时长辈们会给压岁钱，因为压岁钱多是放在红纸袋里的，所以人们也称之为“红包”。
    Although people have different ways of extending the Spring Festival wishes now, for children, one thing still remains unchanged. This is, when they pay a Spring Festival visit to their elders, elders will give them Yasuiqian, like gift money. Since Yasuiqian is money put into a small red paper envelope, people also call it “red bag”.