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本文格式为Word版，下载可任意编辑，页眉双击删除即可。 Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting! 端午节英语介绍 端午节英语介绍 端午节英语介绍 The Dragon Boat Festival ,also called the Duanwu Festival ,is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar.People always eat rice dumplings and watch dragon boat races to celebrate it. The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races,especially in the southern places where there are many rivers and lakes. Its very popular. The rice dumpling is made of glutinous rice,meat and so on. You can eat different kinds of rice dumplings.They are very delicious.And Dragon Boat Festival is for Qu Yuan. He is an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river. 端午节英语介绍 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 Period(475-221BC)(战国时期). 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 第 1 页 共 3 页 本文格式为Word版，下载可任意编辑，页眉双击删除即可。 Qu, he was disgraced and dismissed from office. Realizing that the rice. The pudding is then wrapped with bamboo leaves, bound with country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt officials, Qu a kind of raffia and boiled in salt water for hours. grabbed a large stone and leapt into the Miluo River on the fifth The dragon-boat races symbolize the many attempts to rescue and day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to try and save recover Qus body. A typical dragon boat ranges from 50-100 feet in him but were unable to even recover his body. Thereafter, the state length, with a beam of about 5.5 feet, accommodating two paddlers declined and was eventually conquered by the State of Qin. seated side by side. The people of Chu who mourned the death of Qu threw rice into A wooden dragon head is attached at the bow, and a dragon tail the river to feed his ghost every year on the fifth day of the fifth at thestern(船尾). A banner hoisted on a pole is also fastened at month. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners the stern and the hull is decorated with red, green and blue scales that a hugereptile(爬行动物)in the river had stolen the rice. The edged in gold. In the center of the boat is a canopied shrine behind spirit then advised them to wrap the rice in silk and bind it with which the drummers,gong(铜锣)beaters andcymbal(铙钹)players are five different-colored threads before tossing it into the river. seated to set the pace for the paddlers. There are also men During the Duanwu Festival, a glutinous rice pudding called positioned at the bow to set off firecrackers, toss rice into the zong zi is eaten to symbolize the rice offerings to Qu. Ingredients water and pretend to be looking for Qu. All of the noise and such as beans,lotus seeds(莲子),chestnuts(栗子), pork fat and the pageantry creates an atmosphere of gaiety and excitement for the golden yolk of a salted duck egg are often added to the glutinous participants and spectators alike. The races are held among 第 2 页 共 3 页 本文格式为Word版，下载可任意编辑，页眉双击删除即可。 different clans, villages and organizations, and the winners are awarded medals, banners, jugs of wine and festive meals. 端午节英语介绍 端午节英文 第 3 页 共 3 页 本文来源：https://www.dywdw.cn/71ba5397bad528ea81c758f5f61fb7360a4c2b54.html
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2022-06-11
