哪位大侠可以帮我用英文介绍一下春节的风俗.

哪位大侠可以帮我用英文介绍一下春节的风俗.
最近要进行一次英文演讲、主题是 the spring festival 由于本人能力有限、哪位大侠可以帮我用英文分别介绍一下春节的习俗吗?

The Spring Festival in China is an ancient festival,is also one of the most important annual festival to celebrate this holiday,over one thousand years of history in the development,formed some relatively fixed customs and habits,and many still so far down from generation to generation.
Dust and
"December 24,dust and dust," according to the traditional house in spring and autumn "account,our country many legends in day and the Spring Festival customs of dust.According to the folk said:because of the "dust" and "Chen" homophonic,in the spring and a "except ChenBu dust new meaning,it is intended to put all poor luck,bad luck all go out and.This custom is placing people make New Year old desire and prayer.Every Chinese New Year comes,every household will clean environment,cleaning tools to unpick and wash bedding,curtain,SaSao six Lv dust brushed dirt courtyard,spider web,dredging AnGou open channels.People everywhere brimmed with cleaning,clean with joy to meet the New Year's happy atmosphere.
Spring Festival couplet
Spring Festival couplets and to spring posts,false accusation,couplet,pairs,TaoFu etc,it neatly and dual,concise,exquisite words describe background,to express good wishes,is China's unique form of literature.Every Chinese New Year,no matter the city or the country,every family to select a bright red couplets on the doors,stick in for the festival festival atmosphere increase.This custom up in song dynasty,in the Ming dynasty,the qing dynasty,became popular among the Spring Festival couplet thoughts and artistry had the very big enhancement,LiangZhang moment of Spring Festival couplets monograph "was written words" on the couplets al plexus origin and the characteristics of all kinds of works are discussed.
The type of Spring Festival couplets is more,according to its use place,can be divided into the door of heart,box,HengPi,ChunTiao,DouFang,etc."Heart" stuck on the door at the top center parts; door plank "Box to" stick in the or so two doorposts; "HengPi" stuck on the door of a bar; mei "ChunTiao" according to different content,stick at the corresponding place; "Fight jin" also called "door leaf",for the diamond,post more square in furniture,YingBi.
Stick a window and DaoTie "f" word
In the folk people also like in the Windows of paper-cut-window.Not only the grilles festive time foil atmosphere,also set adornment sex and appreciation sex and practical at an organic whole.Paper-cutting is in our country is a very popular folk art,one thousand years very popular,because most of it is posted on the window,so was also called it "the window".Window by its unique summarized and hyperbole auspicious auspicious thing will thing,and good will show incisively and vividly,will be decorated prosperous holiday richly.
In the Spring Festival couplet at the same time,some people in the door to,wall,signage pasted greatly small "f" word.The Spring Festival is stuck "f" word,is our country folk customs of has a long history."F" word refers to the blessing,good fortune,showing the people to the happy life yearning,to the glorious future wishes.In order to fully reflect the yearning and wishes,some people simply will "fu" character,"said Brian stick to" good luck "happiness already has to".Folk and will "fu" character fine fine make it all sorts of design of the draw,design has the birthday girl,peach,carp jump,the grain and multiply it,and ChengXiang dragon etc.
pictures
The Spring Festival pictures hang stick in urban and rural areas are popular,heavy variety of New Year paintings to thousands of ach has added many joy festival atmosphere.The prosperity New Year pictures is our country's an old folk art,reflect the people's simple customs and beliefs,repose the they hope for the future.As Spring Festival couplets and New Year paintings,also,originated in "keeper".With the rise of New Year paintings,block printing was already part of the keeper is not limited to,the theme of the drab,become rich and colorful,in some pictures in the workshop has fu lu shou three map ","TianGuan blessed","the grain and multiply it","LiuChu prosperous","blessed" by new classical color pictures,to meet people prayer for good wishes of the festival.The appeared in our country New Year paintings three important origin:suzhou TaoHuaWu,tianjin and shandong weifang YangLiuQing; Formed the Chinese New Year pictures of the three schools,each characteristic.
Our country nowadays,our country the first collection of southern song dynasty in the pictures with a gentle and graceful pour the advance of the kingdom of New Year paintings,painting the is by wang zhaojun,zhao fly,class and green beads's four ancient beauty.The most popular folk is a picture of the mouse was the New Year pictures.Describes the mice in accordance with the custom of the world his bride interesting scenes.The early republic,Shanghai ZhengManTuo calendar year and will combine both.This is a new form of pictures.This GeErErYi New Year paintings,later developed into the calendar,swept the country so far.
ShouSui
The New Year's eve ShouSui is the most important customs in one of the common ShouSui activities,has a long history.The earliest record of the week in western in local volunteers ":New Year's eve,giving each phase,called" feed years old "; Especially phase,called "don't invite age"; Together,his drink praise complete,called "points years old"; Everybody doesn't sleep at night,waiting for the morning light and call yue "shou sui".
"Night even double years old,just before dawn," two days points on New Year's eve,the family gather together,had the reunion dinner,a.m.candles or the lamp and sat beside chatting,wait for furnace year time,all night vigil,a symbol of everything BingYi wen run off as evil,looking forward to the New Year auspicious sign.The custom gradually popular,to the tang dynasty,emperor taizong early writing li shi-mm "shou sui" poem:"cold,white snow warm spring breeze to resign." Even today,people also used in the New Year's eve ShouSui orientation.
Ancient ShouSui have two kinds of meanings:older people ShouSui phrase for "old" and cherish the time mean; Young people ShouSui,is to lengthen the life of parents.Since the han dynasty,since the turn of the last time new general for midnight.
firecrackers
China folk have "open the door fireworks" said one.In the New Year is coming,every family to open the door is the first thing set off firecrackers to beep PaPa it act of riddance went the orientation.Fireworks is the animal,also say "BaoZhang","the firecracker went off," "firecrackers".Its origin early,has been two thousand DuoNian history.Off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere,is busy holiday a kind of recreational activity,can give people bring joy and giovanni cobolli gigli.With the passage of time,the fireworks used more widely,design and color is various,also became greater variety and every major holiday celebration,weddings,funerals and builds a house,opening and so on,are to set off firecrackers to show celebration,figure a lucky.Now,hunan,guangdong foshan midway and east yao,jiangxi of yichun and pingxiang,zhejiang wenzhou area such as the famous Chinese wide village,production of fireworks,design and color is high quality,not only sell well in the whole country,but also exported to the world.
new
The first New Year,people woke early,put on the most beautiful clothes,dress neatly,go out to relatives and friends,New Year,to wish each other good luck in the next year.The best way DuoZhong diversity,have a plenty of brother led some people long from door to door to new; Have a plenty of colleagues invited a few people to new phase; Also have them together in mutual congratulations,called "TuanBai".Due to the new house time-consuming,and then some elites and scholars will use the mutual shots,which stick "developed later" zh zh pieces ".