Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth moon of
the lunar calendar. It is one of the three most important of the
annual Chinese festivals. The other two are the Autumn Moon
Festival and Chinese New Year.
The story of this colorful festival concerns a famous Chinese
scholar-statesman(政治家) named Chu Yuan(屈原) who, some three
centuries before the birth of Christ, served the King of Chu(楚怀王)during the Warring States period. As a loyal minister(大臣), Chu
Yuan at first enjoyed the full confidence and respect of his
sovereign(君主). Eventually, through the intrigues of his rivals, he
was discredited.
Chu Yuan was never able to regain(恢复) the emperor's favor
and on the fifth day of the fifth moon in the year 295 B.C.(Before
Christ), at the age of 37, Chu Yuan clasped a stone to his chest and
中国传统节日英文介绍——端午节 Rice Dumpling Festival
Rice Dumpling Festival or Dragon Boat
Festival falls on the 5th day of the 5th
month on the lunar calendar. It happen to
be on the 28th May 2009 this year. The
festive is celebrate amongst the Chinese.
Basically, all you do is to make or buy some
rice dumplings, exchange rice dumplings
with your relatives and friends and watch
the dragon boat race if there is one near
your place.
Some families get everyone to make rice
dumplings together and some uses rice
dumplings as offerings to their ancestors.
There is no strict rules on what you must do as this is not a religious festival.
populations, such as in Singapore and
Malaysia. Equivalent and related festivals
outside Chinese-speaking societies include
the Kodomo no hi in Japan, Dano in Korea,
and T?t ?oan Ng? in Vietnam.
Unit 6 The Dragon Boat Festival
第六单元 端午节Section 1: Introduction to the Dragon Boat Festival
第一节 重阳节的简介
Hello, everybody.
大家好
Welcome to my class.
欢迎来到我的课程
Today we are going to talk about
今天我们要讲的节日是the Dragon Boat Festival.
端午节
This class consists of 4 parts:
本单元共分四部分
introduction,
端午节的简介legends,
端午节的传说
Customs
端午节的习俗
as well as the significance of the festival.
以及端午节的意义
The 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar
阴历五月五日
is the Dragon Boat Festival.
为端午节
It was customary that
古时的皇帝
the Emperor distributed summer clothes 这天要给大臣们
to his court officials on this day.
赏赐夏季官服
In 758 A.D.,
公元 758 年
Du Fu was rewarded a piece of official garment
杜甫这天得到了
by the Emperor on that day.
皇帝所馈赠的官服
So in order to pay respect and show gratitude
为了表达
towards the Emperor,
自己的崇敬和感激之情he wrote a poem titled
他写下了一首诗
端午节的来历和习俗英文版
端午节为每年农历五月初五，又称端阳节、午日节、五月节、五日节、艾节、端五、重午、午日、夏节，原来是夏季的一个驱除瘟疫的节日。端午节是我国汉族人民的传统节日，这一天必不行少的活动渐渐演化为吃粽子，赛龙舟，挂菖蒲`蒿草、艾叶，薰苍术、白芷，喝雄黄酒。
The Dragon Boat Festival every May in Chinese lunar calendar,
also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Kenneth day festival, May
Festival, five days Festival, AI Festival, terminal five, afternoon,
afternoon, the summer festival, was originally a summer holiday
from plague. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of
the Han people in China, this day indispensable activity gradually
evolved into eating dumplings, Dragon-boat race, hanging calamus,
wormwood, Artemisia argyi, smoked herb, Angelica dahurica, drink
yellow wine.
屈子祠内新塑造的高达三米的屈原像（拍摄于1981年）。湖南省东北部的汨罗江上，每年农历五初五“端午节”都要进行盛大的龙舟竞赛，纪念两千年前在这里怀沙自沉的宏大爱国诗人屈原。新华社记者王平摄
The new shape of Quzi Temple up to three meters of Qu Yuan like
