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中国传统节日六级翻译
天干地支背诵口诀>隐秘的地方Spring Festival
The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one. Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chine government now stipulates people have ven days off for the Chine Lunar New Year. Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened. Spring Festival .Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils. Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chines
e calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from hou owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance. The Chine character "fu" (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. The character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chine the "reverd fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as "fudaole." What's more, two big red lanterns can be raid on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be en on window
glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall.
Lantern Festival
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The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance. This day's important activity is watching l
anterns. Throughout the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), Buddhism flourished in China. One emperor heard that Buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of Buddha's body, and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to Buddha on this day. Later, the Buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people and its influence expanded from the Central Plains to the whole of China. Lantern Festival. Guessing lantern riddles is an esntial part of the Festival. Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift. The activity emerged during people's enjoyment of lanterns in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). As riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all social strata. People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "Yuanxiao Festival."Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with ro petals, same, bean
paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What's more, tangyuan in Chine has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family. Qingming Festival
The Qingming (Pure Brightness) Festival is one of the 24 asonal division points in China, falling on April 4-6 each year. After the festival, the temperature will ri up and rainfall increas. It is the high time for spring plowing and sowing. But the Qingming Festival is not only a asonal point to guide farm work, it is more a festival of commemoration.? The Qingming Festival es a combination of sadness and happiness.The Hanshi (Cold Food) Festival was usually one day before the Qingming Festival. As our ancestors often extended the day to the Qingming, they were later combined. On each Qingming Festival, all cemeteries are crowded with people who came to sweep tombs and offer sacrifices. Traffic on the way to the cemeteries becomes extremely jammed. The customs have been greatly simplified today. After slightly sweeping the tombs, people offer food, flowers and favorites of the dead, then burn incen
and paper money and bow before the memorial tablet. Dragon Boat Festival
公务员学历
The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, has had a history of more than 2,000 years. It is usually in June in the Gregorian calendar. Dragon boat racing is an indispensable part of the festival, held all over the
country. As the gun is fired, people will e racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars harmoniously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums, speeding toward their destination. Folk tales say the game originates from the activities of eking Qu Yuan's body, but experts, after painstaking and meticulous rearch, conclude that dragon boat racing is a mi-religious, mi-entertaining program from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). In the following thousands of years, the game spread to Japan, Vietnam and Britain as well as China's Taiwan and Hong Kong. Now dragon boat racing has developed into an aquatic sports item which features both Chine tradition and modern sporting spirit. In 1980, it was listed into the state sports competition programs and has since been held every year. The award is called "Qu Yuan Cup."
Double Seventh Festival20以内加减法
The Double Seventh Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, is a traditional festival full of romance. It often goes into August in the Gregorian calendar. This festival is in mid-summer when the weather is warm and the grass and trees reveal their luxurious greens. At night when the sky is dotted with stars, and people can e the Milky Way spanning from the north to the south. On each bank of it is a bright star, which e each other from afar. They are the Cowherd and Weaver Maid, and about them there is a beautiful love story pasd down from generation to generation.
Long, long ago, there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niu Lang (Cowhand).
His parents died when he was a child. Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law. So he lived by himlf herding cattle and farming. One day, a fairy from heaven Zhi Nu (Weaver Maid) fell in love with him and came down cretly to earth and married him. The cowhand farmed in the field and the Weaver Maid wove at home. They lived a h
appy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unfortunately, the God of Heaven soon found out the fact and ordered the Queen Mother of the Western Heavens to bring the Weaver Maid back.
