拜年 pay a new year call 爆竹 firecracker 鞭炮 a string of small fire crackers 大扫除 year-end household 灯谜 lantern riddles 庙会 temple fair 年画 new year’ s picture 挂年画 to hang out new year’s picture 年夜饭 family reunion dinner on lunar new year 守岁 to stay awake all night 年糕 glutinous cake for new year 大年初一 the first day of the first lunar month 八宝饭 eight-treasure rice pudding 对联 poetic couplets 贴春联 to put up antithetical couplets 糊窗花 to put up window paper-cuts 压岁钱 money given to children as a lunar new year gift
四，京剧相关词汇
地方戏：local opera 戏剧脸谱theatrical mask 生 male characters 旦 female characters 净 painted face characters 末 middle-aged male characters 丑 clown
武术 martial arts 气功 Qigong 打擂台 to fight a challenge fight in an arena 听评书 to listen to historical or traditional stories 下象棋 to play Chinese chess 练习书法 to make special studies of calligraphy 画国画 to do traditional Chinese painting 题诗 to inscribe a poem 求对 to match an antithetical couplet 元宵节 the Lantern Festival 端午节 the Dragon-Boat Festival 中秋节 the Mid-autumn Day 荔枝节 the Litchi Festival 西瓜节 the Water Melon Festival 风筝节 the Kate Festival 国庆节 the National Day 劳动节 the Labor Day 妇女节 the Women’s Day 儿童节 the Children’s Day 教师节 the Teachers’ Day 建军节 the Army Day 解放 the Liberation in 1949 建国 the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 改革开放 to carry out reforms and adopt open policies 基层 at grass-root level 干部 cadre 文革 the Cultural Revolution 上山下乡 to settle down in the mountainous areas and in the countryside 国民党 the Kuomintang 四世同堂的大家庭 an extended family with four generations living under the same roof 独生子女家庭 family with only one child 大龄未婚青年 elder unmarried youth 离退休人员 retired people 贫困地区 poverty-stricken area 贫困户 poverty-stricken family 承包 to adopt the responsibility system 致富 to become well-off 铁饭碗 iron rice bowl/a secure job 吃大锅饭 to eat from the same large caldron
