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Tutoring and Teaching Innovation for Vocational English Speaking Competition
高职英语口语大赛辅导及教学创新

大贵还是贫困潦倒，学富五车还是乡野村夫，每家每户都要在新年时门前贴春联，
以寄托对新年的美好祝愿。
The Spring Festival is a time for the Chinese to have family reunion, on Chinese

New Year’s Eve (Chu Xi), the whole family must sit at the table to eat the New Year’s
Supper together. This meal is usually made from scratch with the entire family working
together, and this meal is usually the most sumptuous meal of the year. In the New
Year’s Supper, it is essential that some dishes contain the family wishes for the New
Year.

春节是一个合家团圆的日子，在除夕夜，全家都合家团圆一起共享除夕大餐。
这顿饭通常是全家总动员，每个人都要参与，也通常是一年之中最丰盛美味的一
餐。在年夜饭中，有一些美好象征意义的美食是必备的。

年糕，or the New Year’s Cake, is very common in Southern China, it Is made of
sticky rice. In Chinese, niangao sounds like “getting higher year by year”. In Chinese
people’s mind, the higher you are, the more prosperous your business is.
年糕在中文的发音里意味着年年高升。因此中国人总认为，如果一个人地位

较高，其财富就越多。
饺子，or the stuffed Dumpling, is a very common Northern Chinese Dish, Chinese
dumplings look like silver ingots. Legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during
New Year celebration, the more money you can make in the New Year. Even making

these dumplings, coins and pennies are usually put into selected few, those lucky family
members that happen to eat those special dumplings are believed to have special good
fortune in the upcoming year.
饺子的开关酷似一个元宝，并且在传统观念里认为饺子吃得越多，那么来年

钱就挣得越多。在做饺子的时候，人们喜欢在一些饺子里放上硬币，吃到硬币的
幸运儿就意味着来年会有特殊的好运。
Lighting Firecrackers used to be one of the most important customs in the Spring
Festival celebration. However, concerning the danger and the negative noises that

lighting firecrackers may bring, the government has banned this practice in many major
cities. But people in small towns and rural areas still hold to this traditional celebration.
Right as the clock strike 12 o’ clock midnight of New Year’s Eve, cities and towns

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