端午节英文介绍

Good afternoon, I’m Cathy. I’m happy to be with you. I hope you can enjoy yourself in my class. First, I have got a question for you. Do you still remember the traditional festival on June 16? It was celebrated on Wednesday. Right. It is the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats. What is the origin for the festival? yes, we want to commemorate the great poet Qu Y uan who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in the miluo river. So today my topic is Chinese festivals. Now let’s recall them in the order of the time. New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, Women’s Day, Tree-planting Day, Tomb-sweeping Festival, Labor Day, Youth Day, Children’s Day, Dragon Boat Festival, qixi festival(Chinese Valentine’s Day), Army’s Day, Mid -autumn Festival, Teachers’ Day, Double Ninth, National Day.

The spring festival is the biggest and most important festival in China. In the festival, people will participate in many activities. Can you give us some examples? Right. Buy new clothes, have new haircut, clean the house, do new year’s shopping, stick couplets and “fu” on the doors, people usually put “fu” upside down. When it is placed in this position, it means the good luck has come or will come. (squibbing firecrackers). The younger generation can get some money as a gift, and we also set off

firecrackers. Nearly all the family members will come back for the family reunion dinner no matter where they stay or how busy they are. Here is my question for you? What do we usually eat in spring festival? yes, jiaozi, tangyuan, niangao, yu. Do you know why? We eat jiaozi because the shape of jiaozi is like “yuanbao”, it means you will have plenty of money and treasures in the coming year. The shape of tangyuan is round, means “get together” and the filling is sweet. It means family members stay together harmoniously and happily. Niangao share the same pronunciation as gao, means you’ll make progress year by year. Yu means surplus, in Chinese we have niannianyouyu, it is a wish for year of plenty. The Lantern Festival or Yuanxiao Jie is a traditional Chinese festival, which is on the 15th of the first month of the Chinese New Year. The festival marks the end of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year. Chinese started to celebrate the Lantern Festival from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 221 AD). Like most other Chinese festivals, there is also a story behind the Festival. It is also believed that the festival has Taoist origins.

This is a festival for people having fun. On the night of the festival, people go on streets with a variety of lanterns under the full moon, watching lions or dragon dancing, playing Chinese riddles and games,

and lighting up firecrackers. There is really a lot of fun for the young and the old.

Yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) or Tangyuan is the special food for the Lantern Festival. It is believed that Yuanxiao is named after a palace maid, Yuanxiao, of Emperor Wu Di of the Han Dynasty. Yuanxiao is a kind of sweet dumpling, which is made with sticky rice flour filled with sweet stuffing.

Yuanxiao is sticky, sweet and round in shape, symbolizing family unity, completeness and happiness.

Tree-planting day is celebrated to commemorate Dr. Sun yat-sen. March 12 is the anniversary of his death. He has attached great importance to forestry.

The traditional tomb-sweeping festival falls on April 5 and is seen by Chinese as a special day for remembering the dead. After the festival, the temperature will rise up and fainfall increases. It is the high time for plowing and sowing. 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.

This festival is in mid-summer when the weather is warm and the grass and trees reveal their luxurious greens. At night when the sky is dotted with stars, and people can see the Milky Way spanning from the north to the south. On each bank of it is a bright star, which see each other from afar. They are the Cowherd and Weaver Maid, and about them there is a beautiful love story passed down from generation to generation.

It was said long time ago, there was a boy whoes father died when he was a little boy. People called him Cowherd. He lived with his brother and sister-in-law. But his sister-in-law did not like him and always cornered him.

One day, the heartless women asked him herd the cows and told him he could go home on dondition that he turned those nine cows into ten which is utterly impossible. He went out with only nine cows. Later he came to a moutain and sat down on the grass, crying. Then came an old man who told him there was an injured cow in the wood. Cowherd followed the old man’s direction and finally found the cow. Then he learned that the cow he saved was a cow in the heaven.

Some days passed, the cow told cowherd that there would be some fairy maidens bathing in the lake. If he tole the red clothes of one of them, the one who owned the red clothes was going to be his wife. That day, Cowherd did do what the cow told him. And finally he married the fairy maiden called Weaver Maid.

They had a daughter and a boy and lived a happy life. But one day the cow told Cowherd if he died his skin can be made shoes, and the one who wears the shoes can fly. Several days later, the cow died.

The Queen Mother in the heaven flared up for she found that her daughter had married a man. So she sent troops from heaven to catch Weaver Maid. Cowherd came home finding that his wife was brought back to heaven. He wore the shoes made of the cow’s skin in a hurry and followed the troops to rescue Weaver Maid. But unfortunately no soner did he grabed Weaver Maid’s hand than the Queen Mother drew a line between them which immediately formed a river by using her golden hairpin.

Cowherd and Weaver Maid were separated on the each side of the river forever. The magpies were moved by their touching story. So they built a bridge for their once-a-year reunion till now.

This tragic story is known to all chiese people. So we name the day —7th July —Chinese Valentine’s Day, or rather, Double Seventh Festival.

Mid-autumn Day falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month（农历）. On that night the moon is brighter and fuller than any other night. In China, Mid-autumn Day is a time for family reunions (团圆). On this day, many families enjoy watching the full moon. Some families will bake（烘） cakes, called “moon cakes.” They're delicious!

In ancient China, poets considered the moon as a symbol of brightness（光明）, purity（纯洁）, and goodness（善良）. They wrote many beautiful poems about the moon. The most popular one was a story about a lady on the moon(嫦娥). She flew to the moon and lived in the Moon Palace （月宫）.