中国节日文化英语.doc

节日风俗 Spring Festival关于春节的单词： 春节 The Spring Festival 农历 lunar calendar 正月 lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar 除夕 New Years Eve; eve of lunar New Year 初一 the beginning of New Year 元宵节 The Lantern Festival 过年 Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival 对联 poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry 春联 Spring Festival couplets 剪纸 paper-cuts 年画 New Year paintings 买年货 special purchases for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping 敬酒 propose a toast 灯笼 lantern: a portable light 烟花 fireworks 爆竹 firecrackers (People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.) 红包 red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.) 舞狮 lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.) 舞龙 dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests) 戏曲 traditional opera 杂耍 variety show; vaudeville 灯谜 riddles written on lanterns 灯会 exhibit of lanterns 守岁 staying-up 拜年 pay New Years call; give New Years greetings; New Years visit 禁忌 taboo 去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune 祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to ones ancestors 压岁钱 gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift 辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year 扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaningThe Spring Festival is known as the most important Festival in China. During the holiday, people go back to hometown from everywhere no matter how far the distance is. They prepare various delicious food and presents for the Spring Festival Eve. Chinese will have a happy family union in the Spring Festival Eve, they believe thats the end day of last year and they will stay up for good luck until the first day of next year. In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is “JIAO ZI”, ”JIAO” means ”cross”, ”ZI” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00”, so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI” means “cross 24:00”, just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family begins eating dumplings. Firecracker is also necessary for Spring Festival, the story of Firecracker is: Long ago, in a small village, there appeared a savage animal called “NIAN”, this animal always came out to eat people in the Eve. One day, villagers found three things can make “NIAN” scared: Red color, Fire and noise. So when “NIAN” came again, villagers put up red paper on the door and set firecracker everywhere. After that, “NIAN” disappeared from that village. Now putting up red paper on the door and setting firecracker becomes Spring Festival customs and people believe doing these will bring their family safety. Spring Festival is also the happiest time for children, because they can get red envelope containing money as a gift from the elder. During the Spring Festival, any unfortunate word cannot be heard because it will make people upset and unhappy. People also make use of this holiday to visit their relatives and bring them some presents and well-wishing.1. The Lantern FestivalThe Lantern Festival is January 15 on the lunar calendar. The lunar January is the first month of a year and 15th is the first day of full moon. Therefore, Lantern Festival is an important Festival right after Spring Festival.During Lantern Festival, people go along the street to watch lanterns and children light their own small lanterns for some fun. The biggest and most beautiful lantern is the dragon lantern, which looks like a flying dragon, held by several young guys. One with a ball in hand leads the dragon to move.Some lanterns have puzzles on them, called lantern puzzle, the one who gets the answer could receive small presents and be happy for his intelligence.The traditional food for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball. Rice glue ball is a flavor ball with filling in it, for example, peanut filling, sesame filling and jam filling,the rice glue balls shape is just like the full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by children.元宵节词汇Words about Lantern Festival 2010-02-26 14:15 中国的传统佳节元宵节就要到了。正月是农历的元月，古人称夜为“宵”，所以称正月十五为元宵节。正月十五日是一年中第一个月圆之夜，也是一元复始，大地回春的夜晚，人们对此加以庆祝，也是庆贺新春的延续。元宵节又称为“上元节”。按中国民间的传统，在这天上皓月高悬的夜晚，人们要点起彩灯万盏，以示庆贺。出门赏月、燃灯放焰、喜猜灯谜、共吃元宵，合家团聚、同庆佳节，其乐融融。下面就向大家介绍一些元宵节常用词语的英文说法。the Lantern Festival 元宵节rice glue ball 元宵glutinous rice 糯米lions/dragons dancing 舞龙/舞狮guess lantern riddles 猜灯谜play couplets game 对对联enjoy beautiful lanterns 赏花灯snuff 灯花exhibit of lanterns 灯会dragon lantern dancing 耍龙灯walking on stilts 踩高跷land boat dancing 划旱船yangko/yangge dance 扭秧歌beating drums while dancing 打太平鼓drum dance 腰鼓舞fireworks party 焰火大会traditional opera 戏曲variety show/vaudeville 杂耍Lantern Festivals temple fair 元宵庙会colored lanterns temple fair 彩灯庙会2. Tomb- sweeping DayTombsweep Day is an ancient festival in spring, also called Qing Ming Festival. In ancient China, the emperor worshipped heaven and earth in order to bless for harvest. People worshipped their ancestors with sacrifice and showed their missing for ancestors.Tomb-sweeping Day, are always rainy days, just like the sky crying for dead people. A Chinese poem described as following: Qing Ming usually comes with rainy daysPassengers on the way are full of sorenessI ask a Buffalo boy for tavern to release my sadnessHe points to the village covered by apricot blossomsThis poem “The Day of Qing Ming” is written by a poet called Du Mu in Tang Dynasty. Qing Ming Festival is the day to worship his mother with family, but the writer goes alone in the rainy days as a passenger far from his hometown, he felt deeply upset and sorrowed. He has to find a tavern to have a drink, perhaps in this way he will release himself from sadness.清明节词汇追终慎远，寄托哀思，清明节来临之际，我们都在用自己的方式表达对已故亲人的思念之情。古人过清明节要祭扫先祖、踏青游玩、植柳驱鬼，而如今的清明节人们又发明出了网上悼念等既经济又环保的新形式。让我们来看看和清明节有关的英文表达吧。Ching Ming Festival/Grave-Sweeping Day 清明节Cold Food Festival 寒食节day of sacrifice 祭祀节日offer sacrifices to ancestors 祭祖/上供online tomb-sweeping 网上祭扫Internet memorial 网络纪念馆condolence 哀悼之情hell note/joss paper 纸钱funeral supplies/products 殡葬用品funeral services 殡葬服务业mortician 殡仪业者burn incense 焚香tomb-sweeping 扫墓tomb sweeper 扫墓的人kite flying 放风筝spring outing 踏青gods lantern 神灯memorial tablet 纪念碑willow branches inserted on each gate 门旁插柳online funeral 网上葬礼online tribute 网上悼念cremation urn 骨灰盒mourning ceremony 哀悼仪式inhumation 土葬cremation 火葬sea-burial 海葬boat-coffin burial 船棺葬tree burial 树葬celestial burial 天葬flower burials 花葬national mourning 全国哀悼national mourning day 全国哀悼日filial piety 孝顺 孝心Day of the Dead（亡灵节，墨西哥传统节日，人们通过守灵、上供等方式祭奠逝去的亲人。）3. The Dragon Boat FestivalThe Dragon Boat Festival is in May 5th on the lunar calendar. The beginning of this festival is in memory of Qu Yuan, a wise minister and poet in Chu dynasty, who jumped into Mi Luo River in lunar May 5th for despair of country, unfair treat and defamation. People threw rice dumplings to River to protect his body from eating by fish and showed their respect for Qu Yuans noble spirit.In recent China, people also eat rice dumplings in Dragon Boat Festival. From the name, we can directly know the campaign of this festival is Dragon Boating. A team of strong men on the Dragon Boat will try their best to win 1st and show Chinese strongest spirits.People use moxa to clean themselves and use five-color thread crossing small childrens arms and fingers to keep illness far away.-端午节相关词汇-端午节the Dragon Boat Festival粽子zongzi/tsung-tse/rice dumpling糯米glutinous rice 赛龙舟Dragon boat racing雄黄酒realgar wine香包perfumed medicine bag/sachet驱邪ward off evil祛病ward off disease-The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, has had a history of more than 2,000 years. It is usually in June in the Gregorian calendar.端午节（农历五月初五）是中国古老的传统节日，始于春秋战国时期，至今已有2000多年历史。通常在阳历的六月份。端午节吃什么？“粽包分两髻，艾束著危冠。旧俗方储药，羸躯亦点丹。”端午节不可不吃的美味食物就是tsung-tse（粽子），这种传统源于汨罗江边的渔夫，将米丢入江中平息江中的蛟龙，希望它们不要伤害屈原。粽子tsung- tse：Glutinous rice（糯米） filled with meat, nuts or bean paste（豆酱） and wrapped in bamboo leaves. It is associated with Dragon Boat Festival with historical meaning.The custom of eating tsung-tse is also popular in North and South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.端午节喝什么？“樱桃桑椹与菖蒲，更买雄黄酒一壶。”端午节尝试一下雄黄酒吧。端午节这天，人们把雄黄倒入酒中饮用，并把雄黄酒涂在小孩儿的耳、鼻、额头、手、足等处，希望这样可以使孩子们不受蛇虫的伤害。Adults drink realgar wine, which can fend off evil spirits.端午节玩什么？“鼓声三下红旗开，两龙跃出浮水来。棹影斡波飞万剑，鼓声劈浪鸣千雷。”端午节最应景的节目就是赛龙舟。Dragon boat racing is an indispensable part of the festival, held all over the country. As the gun is fired, people will see racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars harmoniously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums, speeding toward their destination.端午节戴什么？端午节最有特色的饰物就是香包（sachet）。小孩佩戴香包，传说有避邪驱瘟之意。用含有多种香味的药用植物做成的香包也可以预防疾病。On Dragon Boat Festival, parents also need to dress their children up with a sachet. They first sew little bags with colorful silk cloth, then fill the bags with perfumes or herbal medicines（草药）, and finally string them with silk threads. The sachet will be hung around the neck or tied to the front of a garment as an ornament. They are said to be able to ward off evil.端午节挂什么？“不效艾符趋习俗，但祈蒲酒话升平。”许多人相信五月是一年中容易引发疾病的危险时节，因此必须有许多防备家人生病的措施。端午节时，人们会将一种特别的植物-艾草挂在门口，作为保护之用。在门上挂艾叶和菖蒲hang branches of moxa and calamus around the doors of their homes 和悬钟馗像display portraits of evils nemesis, Chung Kuei都是为了驱疾避凶，讨个吉利。5. Mid-Autumn DayMid-autumn Day is August 15th on lunar calendar. According to history records, Chinese emperor has tradition that worship the Sun in spring and worship the Moon in autumn. As august 15th is exactly the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn DayThere are a lot of stories about the moon since ancient China. One most famous story is Change flying to the moon. Thousands of years ago, there were 9 suns in the sky, many people felt too hot to live. A young man called Yi was brave enough and shot 8 suns to the ground and saved people. One day Yi got a potion of elixir from Queen Mother and gave his wife Change to keep. A man named Peng Meng knew about the elixir and wanted to get it from Change. One day when Yi was out for hunting, Peng Meng went to rob the elixir. In order to protect the elixir, Change swallowed all of the elixir then flied to the moon.In memory of Change, she is recognized as the goddess of the moon.The traditional food of Mid-Autumn Day is Moon cake, a round baked cake with fillings in it. The round shape of moon cake represents family reunion. In the night of Mid-Autumn Day, every family has moon cake and watches the moon.中秋节有关英语词汇： Mid-autumn day / -autumn Festival 中秋节 Moon Festival / Mooncake Festival / Moon Festival 中秋节 lunar农历 mooncake月饼 minimooncake 迷你月饼 mooncakes with meat / nuts / 肉馅/果仁/蛋黄月饼 ham mooncake火腿月饼 grapefruit / pomelo / shaddock 柚子 glue pudding汤圆 lantern / scaldfish灯笼 Chang E 嫦娥 Hou Yi 后羿 Relative activities相关活动: gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon 聚在一起赏月 light lantern 点灯笼 carry the lantern around 提灯笼 burn incense 烧香 fire dragon dances火龙舞 The custom of worshipping the moon 拜月的习俗 worshippe the full moon拜满月的习俗 family reunion家庭团聚 / 圆 came out to watch the full moon to celebrate the festival到户外赏月 the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration庆祝中秋节的习俗 1. Wish you and yours a happy holiday on this gathering day. 在这团聚的日子里祝你全家节日快乐。I wish a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 祝中秋愉快！Good round! 好梦连连中秋节英语介绍： Mid-Autumn Day Mid-Autumn Day is a traditional festival in China. Almost everyone likes to eat mooncakes on that day. Most families have a dinner together to celebrate the festival. A saying goes, The moon in your hometown is almost always the brightest and roundest. Many people who live far away from homes want to go back to have a family reunion. How happy it is to enjoy the moon cakes while watching the full moon with your family members. Every year The Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15 at this time the people all want to eat the moon cake, to enjoy looking at the moon, the moon is very beautiful. THIS Festival is also a family holiday .and we are also stay together. The family member are happy, because that day moon is roundest, but the most happy thing is we can get together .Also has many wonderful stories about midautumn festivals moon, is having these expectation, Midautumn Festival, We also enjoyed looking at the moon this year. That is the Mid-Autumn Day in my mind. I will always re-member: East or West, home is best.中秋节快到了，和家人在一起边吃月饼边赏月很惬意吧，今天就分享一些与月亮有关的词汇和短语，一起看看吧。 6. The Double Ninth FestivalThe Double Ninth Festival is an important traditional Chinese festival in September 9th on lunar calendar. It is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, ancient Chinese believes nine represents sun, the brightest thing, September 9th has two nine, the sun is doubled, so call it Double Ninth Festival. Nine also means Long in Chinese words, so the Double Ninth Festival is also recognized The Old Festival.In Double Ninth Festival, people go to their ancestors tombs to worship with coat for winner.The campaign for Double Ninth Festival is climbing mountain and planting a kind of plant called “Zhu Yu”. A poem written by famous Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei is as following:I stay alone as a visitor in a country foreignThe festival makes me feel homesick and missing关于重阳节的英文介绍更新日期：2010-10-16 09:15 浏览:579次所属分类/专题：英语文化Double Ninth FestivalThe 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number 6 was thought to be of Yin character, meaning feminine or negative, while number 9 was thought to be Yang, meaning masculine or positive. So the number nine in both month and day create the Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival. Chong in Chinese means double. Also, as double ninth was pronounced the same as the word to signify forever, both are Jiu Jiu, the Chinese ancestors considered it an auspicious day worth celebration. Thats why ancient Chinese began to celebrate this festival long time ago.The custom of ascending a height to avoid epidemics was passed down from long time ago. Therefore, the Double Ninth Festival is also called Height Ascending Festival. The height people will reach is usually a mountain or a tower. Ancient literary figures have left many poems depicting the activity. Even today, people still swarm to famous or little known mountains on this day.On this day, people will eat Double Ninth Gao (or Cake). In Chinese, gao (cake) has the same pronunciation with gao (height). People do so just to hope progress in everything they are engaged in. There is no fixed ways for the Double Ninth Cake, but super cakes will have as many as nine layers, looking like a tower.The Double Ninth Festival is also a time when chrysanthemum blooms. China boasts diversified species of chrysanthemum and people have loved them since ancient times. So enjoying the flourishing chrysanthemum also becomes a key activity on this festival. Also, people will drink chrysanthemum wine. Women used to stick such a flower into their hair or hang its branches on windows or doors to avoid evilness.In 1989, the Chinese government decided the Double Ninth Festival as Seniors Day. Since then, all government units, organizations and streets communities will organize an autumn trip each year for those who have retired from their posts. At the waterside or on the mountains, the seniors will find themselves merged into nature. Younger generations will bring elder ones to suburban areas or send gifts to them on this day.My brothers must have already climbed to High MountainEveryone can plant ZhuYu there except me, a lonely personThis poems name is “On the Double-ninth Day thinking of my brothers”. This poem is full of sadness and homesick. In autumn, chrysanthemum is in blossom. People can look at the beautiful flowers and climb mountains as they like. 重阳节，秋高气爽，登高远望，畅饮菊花酒，遍插茱萸头这个古老节日的起源和传说，你还记得吗？The Double Ninth Festival - the ninth day of the ninth lunar monthThe Chong Yang Festival is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and it is as such known as the Double Ninth Festival.习俗：登高、赏菊花、差茱萸这些古老的习俗，你体验过吗？Climbing mountains: On the Double Ninth Festival, people customarily climb mountains, appreciate chrysanthemum flowers, drink chrysanthemum wine, eat double-ninth cakes, and wear the zhuyu (茱萸) plant, Cornus officinalis. (Both chrysanthemum and zhuyu are considered to have cleansing qualities and are used on other occasions to air out houses and cure illnesses.). The Double Ninth Festival is also the Old Men Festival. Old people are especially meant to improve their health by taking part in the activities on the day of the festival.Family get-togethers: The Double Ninth Festival is also a time for family get-togethers. It is an occasion to remember ones ancestors, the sacrifices they made and the hardships they underwent. Often, family outings are organized during which people search to renew their appreciation of nature and to reaffirm their love and concern for family members and close friends.注释：1、提到表示某个传统节日时，一定不能用英语单词中现成的月份，比如今天的重阳节就不说September 9。所以这里用的是the ninth day of the ninth lunar month。2、The Warring States Period就是中国的战国时期了，春秋时期就是The Spring and Autumn Period。3、yin和yang这两个词很多外国人是懂的，别以为他们不懂。在CSI的一集里，Gil和Catherine调查一桩用钝器（猜测是锤子）谋杀的案件，他们在比较死者头部的伤口和在现场发现的锤子的时候需要做模型，Gil冲着Catherine说：Ive got the yang, and youve got the yin.4、中国有句话叫百善