雅思口语素材整理：中国农历新年

　　在雅思考试的四大模板中口语考试是最有难度的，你是否已经准备好了和考试官的面对面交谈，在雅思口语考试中通常会出现很多素材，对历年来雅思考试中的各类素材做个总结，会让考生更清晰考试的考点，下面由出国留学网雅思频道为您提供雅思口语素材整理：中国农历新年(下)，供您参阅学习，欢迎您访问出国留学网浏览更多资讯。

　　Luo, Bo Bin writes:

　　I'm a Chinese reader of this article, as a Chinese I think maybe the writer of this article have some misunderstanding about Chinese New Year, or maybe all the author tells us is just the customs of the place which he/she visited.

　　1. As far as I know on the second day of Chinese most of the people in China don't treat dogs as well as the author said and as a Chinese I have never heard about the Dog's Birthday.

　　2. On the fifth day of Chinese New Year so far as I know people can do anything they like – before this I never knew if you visit friends and families it will bring bad luck.

　　3. At Chinese New Year it's a Chinese tradition to have a family reunion dinner but this dinner is not on the eighth day of Chinese New Year, it is held on the last night of the previous year.

　　4. Not only parents give their children money in lucky red envelopes, you must give the red bags to your family members children or even your friend's children. The red bags are not given on the Lantern Festival, they are given on the first day of the new year, and not only given to the children, but to the old people also.

　　Maybe some places have special customers - you know China is such a big country - but in my personal thinking the author doesn't know Chi...

　　在雅思考试的四大模板中口语考试是最有难度的，你是否已经准备好了和考试官的面对面交谈，在雅思口语考试中通常会出现很多素材，对历年来雅思考试中的各类素材做个总结，会让考生更清晰考试的考点，下面由出国留学网雅思频道为您提供雅思口语素材整理：中国农历新年(上)，供您参阅学习，欢迎您访问出国留学网浏览更多资讯。

　　Have a happy Chinese New Year!

　　by Claire Powell

　　In the west, we celebrate New Year on the 31st December and 1st January. Resolutions are made – I will go to the gym twice a week, I will help my wife with the housework - and probably forgotten! Does that sound like you? Well, there is another chance, as Chinese New Year is celebrated on January 22nd.

　　Why do the Chinese celebrate New Year at a different time? The traditional Chinese calendar, like many Asian calendars, follows the lunar cycle. So the New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and the celebrations end on the full moon fifteen days later. A month is a ‘Moon’ and the cycle lasts about twenty nine or thirty days. In order to catch up with the solar calendar, the Chinese insert an extra month once every seven years out of a nineteen year cycle. This is the same as adding an extra day for a leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.

　　The origins of the event are so ancient that they cannot be traced. However, the event is an exciting one, swathed in traditions and rituals.

　　Preparations begin a month before the date of the Chinese New Year. People buy presents and clothes, decorate their homes ...