关于端午节的英语作文四篇

关于端午节的英语作文四篇

【篇一】关于端午节的英语作文

Duanwu Festival is a traditional Chinese festival

held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese

calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth.It has

since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts

of East Asia as well. In the West, it’s commonly known

as Dragon Boat Festival.

The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one

traditional view holds that the festival memorializes

the Chinese poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period.

He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river

because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu

government. The local people, knowing him to be a good

man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the

fish so they would not eat Qu’s body. They also sat

on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, and

tried to scare the fish away by the thundering sound

of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking carved

dragon head on the boat’s prow(船头).

In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan

Wu was also celebrated as "Poets’ Day," due to Qu Yuan’s status as China’s first poet of personal

renown(名声名望).

Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed

glutinous(粘的) rice dumplings called the food

originally intended to feed the fish and race dragon

boats in memory of Qu’s dramatic death.

【篇二】关于端午节的英语作文

do you know who is "qu yuan"? what type

of "zongzi" do you like most? have you ever

joined a dragon boat competition? all these are related

to the dragon boat festival.

do you know the origin of this festival? read the

following essay and you will have a clear picture of

the dragon boat festival.

the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar year is

an important day for the chinese people. the day is

called duan wu festival, or dragon boat festival,

celebrated everywhere in china.

this festival dates back to about 2,000 years ago

with a number of legends explaining its origin. the

best-known story centers on a great patriotic poet

named qu yuan. the customs vary a lot in different areas of the

country, but most of the families would hang the picture

of zhong kui (a ghost that can exorcise), calamus and

moxa in their houses. people have dragon boat races,

eat zong zi (dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped

in bamboo or reed leaves) and carry a spice bag around

with them.

【篇三】关于端午节的英语作文

Some holidays are so much fun that they catch on

outside of their culture. The most obvious example is

probably Christmas, which is celebrated around the

world by people who aren’t even Christian. Similarly,

in recent years, the Dragon Boat Festival has moved

beyond China to become an international holiday

celebrated by people who may know little about the

holiday’s origins.

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of three major

Chinese holidays, along with the Spring and Moon

Festivals. Of the three, it is possibly the oldest,

dating back to the Warring States Period in 227 B.C.

The festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a minister in the

service of the Chu Emperor. Despairing over corruption

at court, Qu threw himself into a river. Townspeople jumped into their boats and tried in vain to save him.

Then, hoping to distract hungry fish from his body, the

people scattered rice on the water.

Over the years, the story of Qu’s demise

transformed into the traditions of racing dragon boats

and eating zongzi – a kind of rice wrapped in bamboo

leaves. The races have certainly captured the

imagination of people from all over the world. Every

spring there are nearly 60 dragon boat races held

outside of China in cities from Vancouver to Sydney,

from Gdańsk, Poland to Cape Town, South Africa. Canada

alone has nearly 50 dragon boat teams and Germany has

nearly 30.

So what is it about the Dragon Boat Festival that

appeals to foreigners? “It’s an unusual sport,” says

one racer from Germany. “It’s not like everybody’s

doing it. That’s one of the reasons that there’s such

great team spirit in a dragon boat team – everybody

feels like we’re doing something special.” And what

about the zongzi? “Ehhh, they’re not bad, I guess,”

he says. “Something of an acquired taste. I just

haven’t really acquired it yet.”

【篇四】关于端午节的英语作文