The Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese festivals. It is often 【小题1】 (call) “Lunar New Year”, because — as part of the lunisolar (阴阳的) Chinese calendar — the date is partially determined based on lunar phase (月亮或行星的相位). The festival traditionally 【小题2】 (begin) on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends with the Lantern Festival 【小题3】 is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year’s Eve, a day when Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as Chú Xī. It literally means “Year-pass Eve”.

According to【小题4】 (tale) and legends, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight against 【小题5】 mythical (神话的) beast called Nian (年兽). Nian would come on the first day of New Year to devour livestock (牲畜), crops, and even villagers, 【小题6】 (especial) children. To protect 【小题7】, the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year. It was believed that after the Nian 【小题8】 (eat) the food they prepared, it wouldn’t attack people any more. One time, people saw that the Nian was scared away by a little child wearing red. The villagers then understood that the Nian was afraid 【小题9】the colour red. Hence, every time when the New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used fireworks 【小题10】 (frighten) away the Nian. From then on, Nian never came to the village again.

On April 20th, the 13th United Nations Chinese Language Day themed “Chinese Language: Together for a Bright Future” took place, 【小题1】 was a series of events in celebration of the third International Chinese Language Day.

Beijing Dance Academy launched 【小题2】 online event to mark the day, featuring six original dance works of different styles, such as ballet, contemporary dance 【小题3】 classic Chinese dance. Six art schools from five 【小题4】 (country) joined in the online event with dance works created for the special event.

One of the highlights was a new dance piece, titled Together, which was created and 【小题5】 (perform) by Beijing Dance Academy and dancers from Brazil, South Africa and Poland. It 【小题6】 (inspire) by the classic Confucius philosophy of datong, referring 【小题7】 great unity and grand harmony.

Language Days seek 【小题8】 (celebrate) cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six 【小题9】 (office) languages. The date for the Chinese day was selected from Grain Rain (谷雨),the sixth of 24 solar terms (节气), when the weather is mild and it always rains 【小题10】 (gentle).

A concert 【小题1】 (feature ) ancient China's Tang Dynasty poems was held in Philadelphia, on Friday night January 6 to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year.

Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems, the 1.5-hour-long concert attracted more than 2,000audience and brought the Tang Dynasty to life with ancient poems reinterpreted by young international【小题2】 (composer).

【小题3】 concert, presented jointly by Suzhou International Young Artist Festival and the Philadelphia Orchestra, was also held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s historic 1973 tour of China.

Chinese Consul General in New York Huang Ping, 【小题4】 made remarks before the show, said, “The Philadelphia Orchestra 【小题5】 (become) one of the most popular foreign orchestras in China since the ensemble’s (乐团) trip to China. The stories between the Philadelphia Orchestra and 【小题6】 (it) Chinese partners showed that people to people exchange is a constant driving force for China-U. S. relations.”

【小题7】 (found) in 1900, the orchestra was the first U S orchestra to perform in China Since then, it has 【小题8】 (frequent) visited the Asian country, serving 【小题9】 a bridge for bilateral cultural, educational and people-to-people exchanges. “The concert was marvelous, ”said Jennifer Lin, a local documentary director told Xinhua after the show. “The poetry was 【小题10】 (impress) .The singing was beautiful , and the orchestra was fantastic ”