用英语介绍寒食节

2021年2月13日发(作者：left)

用英语介绍寒食节

【篇一：清明节中英文简介】

qingming festival

（清明节中英文介绍）

the qingming (pure brightness) festival is one of the 24

seasonal division points in china, falling on april 4-6 each year.

after the festival, the temperature will rise up and rainfall

increases. it is the high time for spring plowing and sowing.

but the qingming festival is not only a seasonal point to guide

farm work, it is more a festival of commemoration. the

qingming festival sees a combination of sadness and

happiness.

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清明是中国的二十四节气之一，时间为每年的

4

月

4

日到

6

日。 清

明节之后，气温上升，雨水增多，是春耕和播种的大好时间。但是，

< br>清明作为节日，不仅是指导农耕的节气，更是一个纪念的节日。

（节气是我国物候 变化、时令顺序的标志，而节日则包含着一定的

风俗活动和某种纪念意义。）因此，这个 节日中既有祭扫新坟生别

死离的悲酸泪，又有踏青游玩的欢笑声，是一个富有特色的节日 。

this is the most important day of sacrifice. both the han and

minority ethnic groups at this time offer sacrifices to their

ancestors and sweep the tombs of the diseased. also, they will

not cook on this day and only cold food is served. 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.

清明节是最重要的祭奠日子。汉族和一些少数民族在这个时候会他

们祖先献上 祭品以及把坟墓外面打扫干净。同时，他们在这一天不

动烟火，而是只吃凉的食物。寒食 节一般是清明节的前一天，我们

的祖先们一般把这一天延长到清明节，最后干脆合二为一 了。

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 incense and paper money and bow

before the memorial tablet.

每一个清明节，所有的墓地挤满了前

来扫墓和 献祭品的人。前往公墓的道路因而变得异常拥挤。现在的

习俗已经简单了很多。稍微打扫 坟墓之后，人们开始将食物、鲜花

和已故之人喜欢的供祭在墓前，然后就在墓碑前点燃香 烛、焚化纸

钱和鞠躬。

in contrast to the sadness of the tomb sweepers, people also

enjoy hope of spring on this day. the qingming festival is a

time when the sun shines brightly, the trees and grass become

green and nature is again lively. since ancient times, people

have followed the custom of spring outings. at this time

tourists are everywhere.

与清明节 扫墓的悲哀相反，人们在这个春光明媚的日子里，也一样

是可以享受生活的。在清明节里 ，阳光明媚，树木和小草绿意盎然，

大自然又充满了活力。自从古代，人们就春游的风俗 ，这这个时候

到处都是春游的人。

people love to fly kites during the qingming festival. kite

flying is actually not limited to the qingming festival. its

uniqueness lies in that people fly kites not during the day, but

also at night.

a string of little lanterns tied onto the kite or the thread look

like shining stars, and therefore, are called gods lanterns.

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放风筝也是清明时节人们所喜爱的活动。放风筝其实不局限于清明

节。每逢 清明时节，人们不仅白天放，夜间也放。夜里在风筝下或

风稳拉线上挂上一串串彩色的小 灯笼，象闪烁的明星，被称为

“

神

灯< /p>

”

。

the qingming festival is also a time to plant trees, for the

survival rate of saplings is high and trees grow fast later. in the

past, the qingming festival was called arbor day. but since

1979, arbor day was settled as march 12 according to the

gregorian calendar.

因为种植树苗成活率高，成长快，清明节也是一个植树的好时 间。

在过去，清明节也被叫做

“

植树节

”

。但自从

1979

< br>年，每年公历的三

月

12

日被规 定为

“

植树节

”

。

origin

（起源）

qing ming is popularly associated with jie zi zhui, 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 ruler 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.

谈到清明节，有点历史知识的人，都会联想到历史人物介子 椎。据

历史记载，在两千多年以前的春秋时代，晋国公子重耳逃亡在外，

生活艰苦，跟随他的介子椎不惜从自己的腿上割下一块肉让他充饥。

后来，重耳 回到晋国，作了国君（即晋文公，春秋五霸之一），大

事封赏所有跟随他流亡在外的随从 ，惟独介子椎拒绝接受封赏，他

带了母亲隐居绵山。

believing that he could force jie out by burning the mountain,

the lord ordered his men 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 could be lit.

晋文公无计可施，只好 放火烧山，他想，介子椎孝顺母亲，一定会

带着老母出来。谁知这场大火却把介子椎母子 烧死了。为了纪念介

子椎，晋文公下令每年的这一天，禁止生火，家家户户只能吃生冷< /p>

的食物，这就是寒食节的来源。

the cold food festival occurs on the eve of qing ming and is

often considered as part of the qing ming festival. as time

passes, the qing ming festival replaced the cold food festival.

whatever practice is observed

，

the basic observation of qing

ming is to remember ones elders by making a special effort to

visit their graves, ashes or ancestral tablets. to make the visit

even more meaningful, some time should be spent to remind

the younger members of the family of the lives and

contributions of their ancestors, and the story of jie zi zhui

who choose death over capitulation.

寒 食节是在清明节的前一天，古人常把寒食节的活动延续到清明，

久而久之，清明取代了寒 食节。拜介子椎的习俗也变成了清明扫墓

的习俗了。无论以何种形式纪念，为了使纪念祖 先的仪式更有意义，

我们应该让年轻一代的家庭成员了解先人过去的奋斗历史，当然，< /p>

还要学习介子椎宁死不屈的气节。

【篇二：中国四大传统节日英文介绍】

中国四大传统节日：春节，中秋节，端午节，清明节

元宵节

the lantern festival (

元宵节

) is the last day of the chinese new

year celebration. this day is for the last moment for setting off

fireworks, the last excuse for eating a big feast and the last

chance

for family getting together before the “

年

”

celebrations are over. (latern festival is also a traditional time

of celebration for foreigners who live in china).

the lantern festival, the 15th of the first month of the lunar

calendar, is the first full moon of the year. celebrations and

traditions on this day date back to the western han dynasty.

traditions for this festival: as the name indicates, hanging and

looking at

lanterns is the main tradition. lanterns of various shapes and

sizes are displayed on trees, or along river banks.

parents often take their children to lantern fairs and

sometimes lucky kids even get a mini toy lantern.

another tradition is guessing lantern riddles. these are riddles

that are hung on lanterns for people to shoot down and solve.

the riddles are usually short, wise, and sometimes humorous.

the answer to a riddle can be a chinese character, a famous

persons name, a place name or a proverb. this tradition has

become a

popular game with serious staying power even as social

development changes other traditions.

other than that, the most important thing to do today is to eat

sweet

dumplings. in northern china, sweet dumplings made of

glutinous rice flour are called “

元宵

” while in southern part

they are called “

汤圆

”. typical sweet

dumplings are filled with black sesame sauce, sweetened

bean paste, or hawthorn. making “

元宵

” today is like a game or

an activity, so its seldom done without a reason and a group of

friends or family present to help out.

端午节

the dragon boat festival, also called the duanwu festival, is

celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the

chinese calendar. for thousands of years, the festival has been

marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice

（糯米）

wrapped to

form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves) and racing

dragon boats.

the festival is best known for its dragon-boat races, especially

in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and

lakes. thisregatta

（赛舟会）

commemorates the death of qu

yuan , an honest minister who is said to have committed

suicide by drowning himself in a river. qu was a minister of the

state of chu situated in present-day hunan and hubei

provinces, during thewarring states per iod(475-221bc)

（战国时

期）

< br>. he was upright, loyal and highly esteemed for his wise

counsel that brought peace and prosperity to the state.

however, when a dishonest and corrupt prince vilified qu, he

was disgraced and dismissed from office. realizing that the

country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt officials, qu

grabbed a large stone and leapt into the miluo river on the fifth

day of the fifth month. nearby fishermen rushed over to try and

save him but were unable to even recover his body. thereafter,

the state declined and was eventually conquered by the state

of qin. the people of chu who mourned the death of qu threw

rice into the river to feed his ghost every year on the fifth day

of the fifth month. but one year, the spirit of qu appeared and

told the mourners that a hugereptile

（爬行动物）

in the river

had stolen the rice. the spirit then advised them to wrap the

rice in silk and bind it with five different-colored threads before

tossing it into the river.

during the duanwu festival, a glutinous rice pudding called

zong zi is eaten to symbolize the rice offerings to qu.

ingredients such as beans,lotus seeds

（莲子）

,chestn uts

（栗

子）

, pork fat and the golden yolk of a salted duck egg are

often added to the glutinous rice. the pudding is then wrapped

with bamboo leaves, bound with a kind of raffia and boiled in

salt water for hours.

the dragon-boat races symbolize the many attempts to rescue

and recover qus body. a typical dragon boat ranges from 50-

100 feet in length, with a beam of about 5.5 feet,

accommodating two paddlers seated side by side.

a wooden dragon head is attached at the bow, and a dragon

tail at thestern

（船尾）

. a banner hoisted on a pole is also

fastened at the stern and the hull is decorated with red, green

and blue scales edged in gold. in the center of the boat is a

canopied shrine behind which the drummers,gong

（铜锣）