中国传统节日介绍英文版

1、,Chinese festivals,Mid-autumn Day,The spring festival,The spring festival,Brief introduction,The Spring Festival is also called the lunar calendar. It is a ceremonious(隆重的) and noisiest ancient tradition festival in our country. The Spring Festival has a long history. Also has a lot of various legen

2、ds(传说).,Origin,The lunar calendar new year origin, has the basis, also is rich and picks the varied fable to be possible to trace(追溯) to several millenniums before; Most is famous is the year beast fable. The year beast is a cruel terrible wild animal, ancient times the person believed year beast wh

3、en lunar New Years Eve night can come out eats the person.,Origin,The fable the year beast extremely fears red, the flame and the mixed sound, the people paste the red paper in the gate, and selects the torch all night, is setting off the artillery candle, avoids the year beast. To second day early

4、morning, has congratulated the sound to the ear, in the air does not fill the air is defeating the year beast the victory and the rebirth joy.,Customs,Paste Spring Festival Couplets 贴春联,Reunion dinner of the New year eve 年夜饭,The Spring Festival Gala 春节联欢晚会,Pay New Years call 拜年,Lion Dance and Dragon

5、 Dance 舞龙 舞狮,New Year paintings 年画,Paper-cuts 剪纸,Brief introduction,Origin,Customs,Qing Ming is a time to remember the dead and the dearly departed. More important, it is a period to honour and to pay respect to ones deceased ancestors and family members. Because it reinforces the ethic of filial pi

6、ety, Qing Ming is a major Chinese festival.,Origin,Brief introduction,Customs,Qing Ming is popularly associated with Jie Zi Tui, who lived in Shanxi province in 600 B.C. Legend has it that Jie saved his starving lords life by serving a piece of his own leg. When the lord succeeded in becoming the ru

7、ler of a small principality, he invited his faithful follower to join him. However, Jie declined his invitation, preferring to lead a hermits life with his mother in the mountains.,Origin,Brief introduction,Customs,Believing that he could force Jie out by burning the mountain, the lord ordered his m

8、en to set the forest on fire. To his consternation, Jie chose to remain where he was and was burnt to death. To commemorate Jie, the lord ordered all fires in every home to be put out on the anniversary of Jies death. Thus began the cold food feast, a day when no food could be cooked since no fire c

9、ould be lit.,Customs,Origin,Brief introduction,Qing Ming Festival is a time of many different activities, among which the main ones are tomb sweeping, taking a spring outing, flying kites. Some other lost customs like wearing willow branches on the head and riding on swings have added infinite joy i

10、n past days. The festival is a combination of sadness and happiness, perhaps bittersweet.,Dragon Boat Festival, the end of the section, the end of the five, weighing five call in May, daughter section, the bath Lan Festival said, is one of the oldest Chinese traditional festival. Prove According to

11、scholars, the Dragon Boat Festival is the latest in the Spring and Autumn Period already exists, so far, 20,000 years of history.,Historical material about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many different versions, four influential: the first is that the summer solstice customs; The

12、second is that Dragon Boat Festival from the Xia and Shang Dynasties that derived from the ancient times Wuyue national dragon totem worship; Third, the Dragon Boat Festival and the ancient Bad Moon and evil day linked; final say, most accepted view that the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yu

13、an.,Hanging calamus(菖蒲), wormwood(艾草): Every family in the house hanging calamus and the wormwood in order to ward off evil. Drink wine, medicine bath: People drinking soaked with realgar or calamus tincture, the bluegrass torment water juice bath illnesses in addition to the epidemic. The Dragon Bo

14、at accessories: People with all kinds of trinkets as symbol of exorcism Nourishing. For example, evil for good money.,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.,Long, long ago, th

15、ere 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 himself herding cattle and farming. One day, a fairy from heaven Zhi Nu (Weaver Maid) fell in love with him and came down

16、 secretly to earth and married him. The cowhand farmed in the field and the Weaver Maid wove at home. They lived a happy 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

17、.,With the help of celestial cattle, the Cowhand flew to heaven with his son and daughter. At the time when he was about to catch up with his wife, the Queen Mother took off one of her gold hairpins and made a stroke. One billowy river appeared in front of the Cowhand. The Cowhand and Weaver Maid we

18、re separated on the two banks forever and could only feel their tears. Their loyalty to love touched magpies, so tens of thousands of magpies came to build a bridge for the Cowhand and Weaver Maid to meet each other. The Queen Mother was eventually moved and allowed them to meet each year on the 7th

19、 of the 7th lunar month. Hence their meeting date has been called Qi Xi (Double Seventh).,Today some traditional customs are still observed in rural areas of China, but have been weakened or diluted in urban cities. However, the legend of the Cowhand and Weaver Maid has taken root in the hearts of t

20、he people. In recent years, in particular, urban youths have celebrated it as Valentines Day in China. As a result, owners of flower shops, bars and stores are full of joy as they sell more commodities for love.,Brief introduction,The Mid-Autumn Festival, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th mon

21、th of the lunar calendar. It is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Adults will usually indulge in fragrant moon cakes of many varieties with a good cup of piping hot Chinese tea, while the little ones

22、run around with their brightly-lit lanterns,Brief introduction,Origin,The Mid-Autumn Festival probably began as a harvest festival. The festival was later given a mythological flavour with legends of Chang-E, the beautiful lady in the moon,Origin,According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it. One day, all 10 suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved when a stron