节日名 Greeting season
 
1. 春节 The Spring Festival
2. 农历 lunar calendar
3. 正月 lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar
4. 除夕 New Year's Eve; eve of lunar New Year
5. 初一 the beginning of New Year
6. 元宵节 The Lantern Festival
 
  习俗 Customs
 
  7. 过年 Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival
  8. 对联 poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry
  9. 春联 Spring Festival couplets
  10. 年画 New Year paintings
  11. 贴倒福 paste the Chinese character "Fu" upside down
  12. 买年货 special purchases for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping
  13. 灯笼 lantern: a portable light
  14. 烟花 fireworks
  15. 爆竹 firecrackers
  16. 戏曲 traditional opera
  17. 杂耍 variety show; vaudeville
  18. 灯谜 riddles written on lanterns
  19. 灯会 exhibit of lanterns
  20. 守岁 staying-up
  21. 拜年 pay New Year's call; give New Year's greetings; New Year's visit
  22. 禁忌 taboo
  23. 去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune
  24. 祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
  25. 压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift
  26. 辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year
  27. 扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning
买年货