中文中“過年”這個詞組用以表示對春節（中國新年）的慶祝。下面請看小編帶來的關於春節的來歷英文版！
關於春節的來歷英文版
The Origin of Chinese New Year
The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means "year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.
One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said, "I hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?" So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.
After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term "Guo Nian", which may mean "Survive the Nian" becomes today "Celebrate the (New) Year" as the word "guo" in Chinese having both the meaning of "pass-over" and "observe". The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.
譯文
春節，是農曆的`歲首，也是我國古老的傳統節日。古代過“年”不是在臘月二十九日或三十日，而是在“蠟日”，即後來的“臘八”。南北朝以後，把“蜡祭”移至歲末。到了民國時 ，改用陽曆，才把陰曆年叫“春節”，因爲春節一般都在“立春”前後。
春節是我國最盛大、最熱鬧的一個古老傳統節日。俗稱“過年”。按照我國農曆，正月初一古稱元日、元辰、元正、元朔、元旦等，俗稱年初一，還有上日、正朝、三朔、三朝、三始、三元等別稱，意即正月初一是年、月、日三者的開始。
春節，顧名思義就是春天的節日。春天來臨，萬象更新，新一輪播種和收穫季節又要開始。 人們有足夠的理由載歌載舞來迎接這個節日。於是，節前就在門臉上貼上紅紙黃字的新年寄語。
春節的另一名稱叫過年。“年”是什麼呢?是一種爲人們帶來壞運氣的想象中的動物。“年”一來。樹木凋蔽，百草不生;“年”一“過”，萬物生長，鮮花遍地。“年”如何才能過去呢?需用鞭炮轟 ，於是有了燃鞭炮的習俗。1993年，北京市人民政府頒佈了禁放煙花爆竹的法律，使這一沿續了幾百年的習俗成爲歷史。
春節是個親人團聚的節日，這一點和西方的聖誕節很相似。離家的孩子這時要不遠千里回到父母家裏。真正過年的前一夜叫“除夕”，又叫“團圓夜”，“團年”。傳統的慶祝活動則從除夕一直持續到正月十五元宵節。喜慶氣氛要持續一個月。 正月初一前有祭竈、祭祖、 掃除污穢。三十日要貼門神、對聯、掛旗、吃餃子、放鞭炮，除夕“守歲”等 儀 式;正月初一晚輩向長輩拜年，然後至親友家賀年。親友第一次見面時，說些“恭賀新喜”、“恭喜發財”、“恭喜”、“過年好”等話，互相祝賀。