中国传统文化片段英语翻译

一、对龙图腾他的崇拜在中国大约已绵延了八千多年。中国龙是古人将鱼、蛇、马、牛等动物与云 雾、雷电等自

然天象集合而成的一种神物。

< br>中国龙的形成与中华民族的多元融合过程同步。在中国人的心目中，龙具有振奋

腾 飞、开拓变化的寓意和团结凝聚的精神。

Chinese Dragon

Dragon totem worship in China has been around for the last 8,000 years. The ancients in China

considered the dragon (or loong) a fetish that combines animals including the fish, snake, horse and ox with

cloud, thunder

, lightning and other natural celestial phenomena. The Chinese dragon was formed in accordance

with the multicultural fusion process of the Chinese nation. To the Chinese, the dragon signifies innovation and

cohesion.

二 、秧歌舞是中国汉族的一种民间传统舞蹈，通常在北方省份表演。秧歌舞者通常穿上明亮多彩的表演服装，他

们的表演动作有力迅速。在农历春节、元宵节等节日期间，人们一旦听到锣鼓声，不管外面天 气有多冷，他们都

会蜂拥到街上看秧歌舞表演。近年来，中国东北某些城市的老年人自发 组织了了秧歌队，队员常年通过跳秧歌舞

来保持健康，同事他们也乐在其中。

Yangko is one of tradition folk dance of Han in is usually performed in northern provinces. The dancers

usually wear colorful and light costumes, and the performance is powerful and rapid. During some festivals such

as Spring Festival, Lantein Festival, if people hear the sound of drum and gong, no matter how cold the weather

is , they will come to street and appreciate the Yangko. Recent years, the old people in city of east- northern of

China organized the team of Yangko by themselves, the teamers keep their health by dancing Yangko the whole

year

.

三、长城是人类创造的世 界奇迹之一。如果你到了中国却没去过长城，就想到了巴黎没有去看看菲尔铁塔，或者

就 像到了埃及没有去看金字塔一样。人们常说：

“

不到长城非好汉 。

”

实际上，长城最初只是一些断断续续的城墙，

直到秦朝统一中国后才将其连城长城。然而，今天我们看到的长城

——

东起山海关，西至嘉峪关

——

大部分都是

在明代修建的。

The Great Wall is one of the wonders of the world that created by human beings! If you come to China without

climbing the Great Wall, it's just like going Paris without visiting the Eiffel Tower; or going to Egypt without

visiting the Pyramids! Men often say,

as independent walls for different states when it was first built, and did not become the

Qin Dynasty. However

, the wall we see today, starting from Shanhaiguan Pass in the east to Jiayunguan Pass in

the west, was mostly built during the Ming Dynasty.

四、

Dumplings

Dumplings are one of the Chinese people’s favorite traditional dishes. According to an ancient

Chinese

legend,

dumplings

were

first

made

by

the

medical

saint ---Zhang

Zhongjing.

There

are

three

steps

involved in making dumplings: 1) make dumpling wrappers out of dumpling flour; 2) prepare the dumpling

stuffing; 3) make dumplings and boil them. With thin and elastic dough skin, fresh and tender stuffing, delicious

taste, and unique shapes, dumplings are worth eating hundreds of times. There’s a

n old saying that claims,

“Nothing

could

be

more

delicious

than

dumplings”.

During

the

Spring

Festival

and

other

holidays,

or

when

treating

relatives

and

friends,

Chinese

people

like

to

follow

the

auspicious

custom

of

eating

dumplings.

To

Chinese

people

who

show

high

reverence

for

family

love,

having

dumplings

at

the

moment

the

old

year

is

replaced by the new is an essential part of bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new year

.

饺子是深受中国人民喜爱的传统食品。

相传为古代医圣张仲景发明。

饺子的制作是包括：

1

）

擀皮、

2

）

备馅、

3

）

包馅水煮三个步骤。其特点是皮薄馅嫩，味道鲜美，形状独特，百食不厌。民间有

“

好吃不过饺子

”

的 俗语。

中国人接亲待客、逢年过节都有包饺子吃的习俗，寓意吉利。对崇尚亲情的中国人 来说，

“

更岁交子

”

< br>吃饺子，更

是欢度除夕、辞旧迎新必不可少的内容。

五、

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In accordance with

the “main and collateral channels” theory i

n TCM, the purpose of acupuncture is to dredge the channel and

regulate qi and blood, so as to keep the body’s yin and yang balanced and achieve reconciliation between the

internal organs. It features in traditional Chinese medicine that “internal diseases

are to be treated with external

therapy”. The main therapy of acupuncture involves using needles to pierce certain acupoints of the patient’s

body, or adopting moxibustion to stimulate the patient’s acupoints so as to stimulate the channels and relieve

pain. With its unique advantages, acupuncture has been handed down generation after generation and has now

spread

all

over

the

world.

Nowadays,

acupuncture,

along

with

Chinese

food,

kung

fu

(otherwise

known

as

Chinese martial arts), and traditional Chinese m

edicine, has been internationally hailed as one of the “four new

national treasures.”

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针灸是中医学的重要组成部分。按照中医的经络理论，针灸疗法主要是通过疏通经络、调和 气血，来达到阴阳归

于平衡，使脏腑趋于调和之目的。其特点是

“

内病外治

”

。主要疗法是用针刺入病 人身体的一定穴位，或用艾火的

温热刺激烧灼病人的穴位，

以达 到刺激经络。

治疗病痛的目的。

针灸以其独特的优势，

流传至今并传播到了世界，

与中餐、功夫、中药一起被海外誉为中国的< /p>

“

新四大国粹

”

。

六、

Chinese Kung Fu Chinese kung fu, or Chinese martial arts, carries traditional Chinese culture in abundance.

It is a

traditional Chinese sport which applies the art of attack and defence in combat and the motions engaged

with a series of skill and tricks. The core idea of Chinese king fu is derived from the Confucian theory of bo

th “the

mean and harmony” and “cultivating qi” (otherwise known as nourishing one’s spirit). Meanwhile, it also includes

thoughts

of

Taoism

and

Buddhism.

Chinese

kung

fu

has

a

long

history,

with

multi-various

sects

and

many

different boxing styles, and emphasizes coupling hardness with softness and internal and external training. It

contains the ancient great thinkers’ pondering of life and the universe. The skills in wielding the 18 kinds of

weapons

named

by

the

later

generations

mainly

involve

the

skills

of

bare- handed

boxing,

such

as

shadow

boxing (Taijiquan), form and will boxing (Xingyiquan), eight trigram palm (Baguazhang), and the skills of kung

fu weaponry, such as the skill of using swords, spears, two-edged swords and halberds, axes, tomahawks, kooks,

prongs and so on.

中国功夫即中国武术 ，

是将技击寓于搏斗和套路运动之中的中国传统体育项目，

承载 着丰富的中国民族传统文化。

其核心思想是儒家的中和养气之说，同时兼容了道家、释家 的思想。中国武术源远流长、流派林立、拳种繁多，

讲究刚柔并济、内外兼修，蕴含着先 哲们对生命和宇宙的参悟。后世所称十八般武艺，主要指：徒手拳艺，如太

极拳、形意拳 、八卦掌等；器械功夫，如刀枪剑戟、斧钺钩叉等。

Chinese Characters

七、

Chinese characters

were

initially

meant

to

be

simple

pictures

used

to

help

people

remember

things.

After

a

long

period

of

development,

it

finally

became

a

unique

character

system

that

embodies

phonetic sound,

image,

idea,

and

rhyme

at

the

same

time.

The

writing

system,

which

was

extremely

advanced

in

ancient

times,

began

with

inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells, and these are regarded as the original forms of Chinese characters.

Afterwards, Chinese characters went through numerous calligraphic styles: bronze inscriptions, official script,

regular script, cursive script, running script, etc. Chinese characters are usually round outside and square inside,

which is rooted in ancient Chinese beliefs of an orbicular sky and a rectangular Earth. The five basic strokes of

Chinese characters

are “

---

“ (the horizontal stroke) “

│

” (the vertical stroke), “

／

”( the left

-

falling stroke), “

＼

”

(the right-

falling stroke), and “

乙

” (the turning stroke).

汉字是从原始人用以记事的简单图画， 经过不断演变发展最终成为一种兼具音、形、意韵的独特文字。现存中国

古代最早成熟的 文字是甲骨文，被认为是现代汉字的初形。此后，汉字又经历了金文、隶书、楷书、草书、行书

< br>等不同的阶段。汉字结构

“

外圆内方

“

，

源于古人

< br>”

天圆地方

“

的观念。汉字有五 种基本笔画，即：横、竖、撇、捺、

折。

八、

Chinese Chopsticks

The Chinese way of eating with chopsticks is unique in the world. The recorded history

of chopsticks started more than three thousand years ago. Chopsticks were named zhu in ancient Chinese. They

look deceptively simple to use, but possess multi- various functions, such as clamping, turning over

, lifting up,

raking,

stirring,

scooping,

poking,

tearing,

and

so

on.

Chopsticks

were

taken

as

an

auspicious

mascot

by

ordinary

people

in

ancient

China.

For

example,

the

partial

tone

of

chopsticks

is

often

used

by

people

as

a