中国文化的英语介绍

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.

对龙图腾他的崇拜在中国大约已绵延了八千多年。

与云雾、雷电等自然天象集合而成的 一种神物。

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。

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 an 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，

< br>寓意吉利。对崇尚亲情的中国人来说，

“更岁交子”吃饺子，更是欢度除夕、辞旧 迎新必不

可少的内容。

Acupuncture

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

“

main

and

collateral

channels

”

theory

in

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 medicine, has been internationally hailed as one of the

“

four

new national treasures.

”

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，

< br>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“新四大国粹”

。

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

both

“

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。

< br>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

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、

< br>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、行书等不同的阶段。汉字结构“外圆内方“，

源 于古

人”天圆地方“的观念。汉字有五种基本笔画，即：横、竖、撇、捺、折。