春节The Spring Festival
阴历the lunar Chinese calendar
阳历the Solar Chinese calendar
羊年the Year of the Sheep
腊月the last lunar month/the lunar 12th month
腊八Laba (the eighth day of the lunar 12th month)
祭灶Jizao/Kitchen God Worshipping (the 23rd of the 12th lunar month)
小年Xiaonian/Minor New Year
春联 Spring Festival couplets
年画the New Year Pictures
福Fu(which means happiness)
食物和他们的意义Food and their meaning：
鸡chicken--auspicious吉
鱼fish--surplus余
豆腐bean curd--happiness多福
饺子jiaozi/dumplings (with meat and vegetable stuffing)
(其中文发音同交子Its Chinese pronunciation means to ring the old year out and the New Year in. 形如元宝Jiaozi shapes like the Chinese ingot (shoe-shaped gold or silver ingot used as money in ancient China),象征好运 so it also represents people’s wish for good fortune.)
年糕niangao/New Year cake
(年糕象征一年更比一年高niangao symbolizes “getting better and better with each passing year.)
鞭炮，爆竹firecracker (aiming at scaring away the ghosts and warding off evil spirits with the sharp cracks and bright lights)
中央电视台春节晚会The CCTV's Spring Festival Evening Party
拜年bainian/greeting the New Year
元宵节Yuanxiao Festival/the Lantern Festival （the fifteenth day of the first lunar month）
元宵yuanxiao/rice dumpling (symbolize union of the family and a sweet life in the new year)