中國節(jié)日文化英語

1、如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!Spring Festival關(guān)于春節(jié)的單詞： 春節(jié) The Spring Festival 農(nóng)歷 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 元宵節(jié) The Lantern Festival 過年 Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival 對聯(lián) poetic couplet: two success

2、ive rhyming lines in poetry 春聯(lián) Spring Festival couplets 剪紙 paper-cuts 年畫 New Year paintings 買年貨 special purchases for the Spring Festival ; do Spring Festival shopping 敬酒 propose a toast 燈籠 lantern: a portable light 煙花 fireworks 爆竹 firecrackers (People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud

3、 pop.) 紅包 red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.) 舞獅 lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.) 舞龍 dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests) 戲曲 traditional opera 雜耍 variety show; vaudeville 燈謎 ri

4、ddles written on lanterns 燈會 exhibit of lanterns 守歲 staying-up 拜年 pay New Years call; give New Years greetings; New Years visit 禁忌 taboo 去晦氣 get rid of the ill- fortune 祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to ones ancestors 壓歲錢 gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift 辭舊歲 bid farewell to the old

5、 year 掃房 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. Chines

6、e 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 me

7、at mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is 2 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!“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 fam

8、ily 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:

9、 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

10、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

11、 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 Fes

12、tival 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 bal

13、l 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, fo

14、r 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.元宵節(jié)詞匯Words about Lantern Festival 2010-02-26 14:15 中國的傳統(tǒng)佳節(jié)元宵節(jié)就要到了。正月是農(nóng)歷的元月，古人稱夜為“宵”，所以稱正月十五為元宵節(jié)。正月十五日是一年中第一個月圓之夜，

15、也是一元復(fù)始，大地回春的夜晚，人們對此加以慶祝，也是慶賀新春的延續(xù)。元宵節(jié)又稱為“上元節(jié)”。按中國民間的傳統(tǒng)，在這天上皓月高懸的夜晚，人們要點起彩燈萬盞，以示慶賀。出門賞月、燃燈放焰、喜猜燈謎、共吃元宵，合家團聚、同慶佳節(jié)，其樂融融。下面就向大家介紹一些元宵節(jié)常用詞語的英文說法。3 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!the Lantern Festival 元宵節(jié)rice glue ball 元宵glutinous rice 糯米lions/dragons dancing 舞龍/舞獅guess lantern riddles 猜燈謎play couplets game 對對聯(lián)e

16、njoy beautiful lanterns 賞花燈snuff 燈花exhibit of lanterns 燈會dragon lantern dancing 耍龍燈walking on stilts 踩高蹺land boat dancing 劃旱船yangko/yangge dance 扭秧歌beating drums while dancing 打太平鼓drum dance 腰鼓舞fireworks party 焰火大會traditional opera 戲曲variety show/vaudeville 雜耍Lantern Festivals temple fair 元宵廟會colore

17、d lanterns temple fair 彩燈廟會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 ances

18、tors.3 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!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

19、 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 sorr

20、owed. He has to find a tavern to have a drink, perhaps in this way he will release himself from sadness.清明節(jié)詞匯追終慎遠，寄托哀思，清明節(jié)來臨之際，我們都在用自己的方式表達對已故親人的思念之情。古人過清明節(jié)要祭掃先祖、踏青游玩、植柳驅(qū)鬼，而如今的清明節(jié)人們又發(fā)明出了網(wǎng)上悼念等既經(jīng)濟又環(huán)保的新形式。讓我們來看看和清明節(jié)有關(guān)的英文表達吧。Ching Ming Festival/Grave-Sweeping Day 清明節(jié)Cold Food Festival 寒食節(jié)day of sacrific

21、e 祭祀節(jié)日offer sacrifices to ancestors 祭祖/上供online tomb-sweeping 網(wǎng)上祭掃Internet memorial 網(wǎng)絡(luò)紀(jì)念館condolence 哀悼之情hell note/joss paper 紙錢funeral supplies/products 殯葬用品funeral services 殯葬服務(wù)業(yè)mortician 殯儀業(yè)者burn incense 焚香tomb-sweeping 掃墓tomb sweeper 掃墓的人kite flying 放風(fēng)箏spring outing 踏青gods lantern 神燈memorial tabl

22、et 紀(jì)念碑willow branches inserted on each gate 門旁插柳online funeral 網(wǎng)上葬禮online tribute 網(wǎng)上悼念cremation urn 骨灰盒mourning ceremony 哀悼儀式inhumation 土葬cremation 火葬sea-burial 海葬boat-coffin burial 船棺葬t(yī)ree burial 樹葬celestial burial 天葬4 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!flower burials 花葬national mourning 全國哀悼national mournin

23、g day 全國哀悼日filial piety 孝順 孝心Day of the Dead（亡靈節(jié)，墨西哥傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日，人們通過守靈、上供等方式祭奠逝去的親人。）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 luna

24、r 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

25、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.-端午節(jié)相關(guān)詞匯-端午節(jié)the

26、Dragon Boat Festival粽子zongzi/tsung-tse/rice dumpling糯米glutinous rice 賽龍舟Dragon boat racing雄黃酒realgar wine香包perfumed medicine bag/sachet驅(qū)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

27、the Gregorian calendar.端午節(jié)（農(nóng)歷五月初五）是中國古老的傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日，始于春秋戰(zhàn)國時期，至今已有2000多年歷史。通常在陽歷的六月份。端午節(jié)吃什么？“粽包分兩髻，艾束著危冠。舊俗方儲藥，羸軀亦點丹?！倍宋绻?jié)不可不吃的美味食物就是tsung-tse（粽子），這種傳統(tǒng)源于汨羅江邊的漁夫，將米丟入江中平息江中的蛟龍，希望它們不要傷害屈原。粽子tsung- tse：Glutinous rice（糯米） filled with meat, nuts or bean paste（豆醬） and wrapped in bamboo leaves. It is associated wit

28、h 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.端午節(jié)喝什么？6 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!“櫻桃桑椹與菖蒲，更買雄黃酒一壺?！倍宋绻?jié)嘗試一下雄黃酒吧。端午節(jié)這天，人們把雄黃倒入酒中飲用，并把雄黃酒涂在小孩兒的耳、鼻、額頭、手、足等處，希望這樣可以使孩子們不受蛇蟲的傷害。Adults drink realgar w

29、ine, which can fend off evil spirits.端午節(jié)玩什么？“鼓聲三下紅旗開，兩龍躍出浮水來。棹影斡波飛萬劍，鼓聲劈浪鳴千雷。”端午節(jié)最應(yīng)景的節(jié)目就是賽龍舟。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, accomp

30、anied by rapid drums, speeding toward their destination.端午節(jié)戴什么？端午節(jié)最有特色的飾物就是香包（sachet）。小孩佩戴香包，傳說有避邪驅(qū)瘟之意。用含有多種香味的藥用植物做成的香包也可以預(yù)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 o

31、r herbal medicines（草藥）, 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.端午節(jié)掛什么？“不效艾符趨習(xí)俗，但祈蒲酒話升平?！痹S多人相信五月是一年中容易引發(fā)疾病的危險時節(jié)，因此必須有許多防備家人生病的措施。端午節(jié)時，人們會將一種特別的植物-艾草掛在門口，作為保護之用。在門上掛艾

32、葉和菖蒲hang branches of moxa and calamus around the doors of their homes 和懸鐘馗像display portraits of evils nemesis, Chung Kuei都是為了驅(qū)疾避兇，討個吉利。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 wors

33、hip 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 l

34、ive. 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 Chang6 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!e to keep. A man named Peng Meng knew about the elixir and wanted to get it from Change. One day when Yi w

35、as 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 i

36、t. 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.中秋節(jié)有關(guān)英語詞匯： Mid-autumn day / -autumn Festival 中秋節(jié) Moon Festival / Mooncake Festival / Moon Festival 中秋節(jié) lunar農(nóng)歷 mooncake月餅 minimooncake 迷你月餅 mooncakes with meat /

37、 nuts / 肉餡/果仁/蛋黃月餅 ham mooncake火腿月餅 grapefruit / pomelo / shaddock 柚子 glue pudding湯圓 lantern / scaldfish燈籠 Chang E 嫦娥 Hou Yi 后羿 Relative activities相關(guān)活動: gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon 聚在一起賞月 light lantern 點燈籠 carry the lantern around 提燈籠 burn incense 燒香 fire dragon dances火龍舞 The

38、 custom of worshipping the moon 拜月的習(xí)俗 worshippe the full moon拜滿月的習(xí)俗 family reunion家庭團聚 / 圓 came out to watch the full moon to celebrate the festival到戶外賞月 the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration慶祝中秋節(jié)的習(xí)俗 1. Wish you and yours a happy holiday on this gathering day. 在這團聚的日子里祝你全家節(jié)日快樂。I wish a happy

39、 Mid-Autumn Festival! 祝中秋愉快！Good round! 好夢連連中秋節(jié)英語介紹： 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 bri

40、ghtest 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. 8 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!Every year The Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15 at this time the people al

41、l 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 stori

42、es 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.中秋節(jié)快到了，和家人在一起邊吃月餅邊賞月很愜意吧，今天就分享一些與月亮有關(guān)的詞匯和短語，一起看看吧。 6. The Double Ninth Festiva

43、lThe 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 Festiva

44、l. 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

45、 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關(guān)于重陽節(jié)的英文介紹更新日期：2010-10-16 09:15 瀏覽:579次所屬分類/專題：英語文化Double Ninth FestivalThe 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongya

46、ng 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 posi

47、tive. 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 celebrati

48、on. 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

49、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.9 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!On this day, people will eat Double Ninth Gao (or Cake). In Chinese, gao (cake) has the same pronunciation with gao (

50、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

51、 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 ev

52、ilness.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

53、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

54、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. 重陽節(jié)，秋高氣爽，登高遠望，暢飲菊花酒，遍插茱萸頭這個古老節(jié)日的起源和傳說，你還記得嗎？The Double Ninth Festival - the ninth day of the ninth lunar monthThe Chong Yang Festiv

55、al is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and it is as such known as the Double Ninth Festival.習(xí)俗：登高、賞菊花、差茱萸這些古老的習(xí)俗，你體驗過嗎？Climbing mountains: On the Double Ninth Festival, people customarily climb mountains, appreciate chrysanthemum flowers, drink chrysanthemum wine, eat double-nin

56、th 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 imp

57、rove their health by taking part in the activities on the day of the festival.9 / 22如果您需要使用本文檔，請點擊下載按鈕下載!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.注釋：1、提到表示某個傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日時，一定不能用英語單詞中現(xiàn)成的月份，比如今天的重陽節(jié)就