Chinese New Year is the most important festival for the Chinese people all over the world.It also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year.
The excat date of the New Year on the western calendar changes from year to year.However,the Chinese New Year takes place between January 1 and Febrary 19.
On the Chinese calendar,every year has a animal's name.These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, monkey, dog and pig.A Chinese Legend says these twelve animals have a race.The first year was named after the rat, the winner.The 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 at the edn jumped over the ox's head to arrive the first! The Chinese believe that a person born in a particular year has some characteristic of the animal.
注意：羊：不應(yīng)是公羊而更應(yīng)是綿羊撞反，代表著為人正直，性格溫柔，善群夹纫，好仁（來源：http://www.yidianzixun.com/article/0Nd14dVv）
festival [?fest?vl] =[?fest?vl]?n.(音樂萄唇、戲劇此改、電影等的)會演茫虽，節(jié);節(jié)日;節(jié)期;喜慶日（詞根：fest敲打--節(jié)日）
lunar[?lu?n?(r)]adj.陰歷的姓赤，月球的;月亮的
calendar [?k?l?nd?(r)] = [?k?l?nd?(r)]n.日歷;掛歷;日程表;記事本;(一年之中的)重大事件(或重要日期)一覽表
legend [?led??nd]n.傳說;傳奇故事;(尤指某領(lǐng)域中的)傳奇人物;(地圖或書中圖表的)圖例赡译，說明，解釋
particular [p??t?kj?l?(r)]adj.專指的不铆，特指的(與泛指相對);不尋常的;格外的;特別的;講究;挑剔n.(正式記下的)細(xì)節(jié)蝌焚，詳情;詳細(xì)資料;詳細(xì)介紹材料
characteristic [?k?r?kt??r?st?k] adj.典型的;獨特的;特有的n.特征;特點;品質(zhì)
ram [r?m]v.和…相撞;撞擊;塞進(jìn);擠進(jìn)n.公羊;夯錘;撞擊裝置
rooster [?ru?st?(r)] n.雄雞;公雞
