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中国民俗文化英语词汇荟萃
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常见传统节日及其活动
春节
Spring Festival
拜年
pay a New Year
visit
鞭炮，爆竹
firecracker
除夕
Eve of Chinese New Year
春联
Spring
couplets
辞旧迎新
ring out the old year
and ring in the new
饺子
Jiaozi, boiled
dumpling
锅贴
pot sticker
庙会
temple fair
鸣钟辞旧岁
ring out
the old year
年画
(traditional) New Year
pictures
年夜饭
the Eve Feast; family reunion dinner on
Lunar New Year
’
s Eve
年终大扫除
year-end household cleaning
守岁
stay up late on the New
Year
’
s Eve
团圆饭
family reunion dinner
压岁钱
New Year gift-money; money given to
children as a New Year gift
舞龙
dragon dance
元宵节
Lantern
Festival (15th day of the first lunar month)
元宵
sweet sticky
rice dumplings
花灯
festival lantern
灯谜
lantern riddle
狮子舞
lion dance
踩高跷
stilt walking
清明节
Pure Brightness Festival/Tomb-sweeping
Day (April the 5th)
扫墓
sweep tomb sites of loved
ones
祭祖
offer
sacrifices to the ancestors
踏青
go for an
outing in spring
端午节
dragon Boat Festival (5th
of the fifth lunar month)
赛龙舟
dragon boat
race
粽子
zongzi
(pyramid-shaped dumpling made by glutinous rice
wrapped in reed
or bamboo leaves)
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亡灵
Departed soul
忠臣
loyal minister
诗人屈原
Quyuan the poet
中秋节
Moon Festival/Mid- Autumn
Day (15th of eighth lhunar month)
月饼
mooncake
赏月
appreciate the
glorious full moon
团圆
reunion
桂花
sweet osmanthus
重阳节
Double Ninth Day/the Aged
Day
赏菊
admire the beauty of chrysanthemum
登高
climb mountain
中药
TCM (traditional Chinese medicine)
秦始皇帝
First
Emperor, Emperor Chin
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传统节日词汇
春节
Spring
Festival
元宵节
Lantern Festival
端午节
Dragon Boat
Festival
儿童节
Children
’
s Day
妇女节
Women
’
s Day
泼水节
Water-Splashing Day
五四青年节
Youth Day
国庆节
National Day
中秋节
Mia-Autumn Festival
荔枝节
the Litchi
Festival
西瓜节
the
Water Melon Festival
风筝节
the Kate Festival
教师节
the Teachers’
Day
建军节
the Army Day
七夕节
Chinese
Valentine
’
s Day
重阳节
Double Ninth Day/the Aged
Day
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民俗词汇
赋诗
inscribe a
poem
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对对联
matching an antithetical
couplet
轿子
sedans
风车
pinwheel
杂技
acrobatics
魔术
magic
拨浪鼓
shaking drum
竹苗
bamboo flute
皮影
shadow puppet
糖人
sugar-molded
四合院
courtyard
homes
踩高跷
stilt
walk
武术
martial
arts
人力车
rickshaw
宫灯
palace lantern
猜拳
finger-
guessing game
说书
monologue story-telling
老字号
time-honored
相声
cross talk
拜年
pay a new year call
爆竹
firecracker
鞭炮
a string of
small fire crackers
大扫除
year-end household
灯谜
lantern
riddles
庙会
temple
fair
年画
new year’
s picture
挂年画
to hang o
ut new year’s
picture
年夜饭
family reunion dinner on lunar new year
守岁
to stay awake
all night
年糕
glutinous cake for new year
大年初一
the first
day of the first lunar month
八宝饭
eight-
treasure rice pudding
对联
poetic couplets
贴春联
to put up
antithetical couplets
糊窗花
to put up window paper-cuts
压岁钱
money given
to children as a lunar new year gift
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中国古代四大发明
火药
gunpowder
指南针
compass
造纸术
paper-making
techniques
印刷术
paper-printing techniques
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京剧相关词汇
地方戏：
local opera
戏剧脸谱
theatrical mask
生
male characters
旦
female
characters
净
painted face characters
末
middle-aged
male characters
丑
clown
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中国特有的事务
民间传说
folklores
寓言
fable
传说
legend
神话
mythology
玉皇大帝
God of
Heaven
八仙
the Eight Immortals
嫦娥
Chang
’
e,
the Chinese moon goddess
伏羲
F u Xi, God of Fishery and
Husbandry
福禄寿三星
god of fortune, god of
prosperity, and god of longevity
财神
god of fortune
灶神
god of the
kitchen
公神
Gonggong, God of Water
后羿
Houyi (a legendary hero
who shot down nine suns)
黄帝
Yellow Emperor
夸父
Kuafu (a
fabled sun-chasing giant )
女娲
Nuwa: a
goddess who patches up the sky
盘古
Pan Gu, creator of the
universe
神农
Patron of Agriculture
禹
Yu,
the reputed founder of the Xia Dynasty
祝融
Zhurong, God of Fire
阳历
solar calendar
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