端午節(jié)-端午節(jié)英語日記大全_小學(xué)生日記
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2016/6/6
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. ití?s 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.
overall, the dragon boat festival is very interesting!
the dragon boat festival is a lunar holiday, occurring on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month the chinese dragon boat festival is a significant holiday celebrated in china, and the one with the longest history. the dragon boat festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
the boat races during the dragon boat festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet chu yuan. chu yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 b.c. chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. this later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings.
the celebration's is a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of the year. it is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying portraits of evil's nemesis, chung kuei. if one manages to stand an egg on it's end at exactly 12:00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.
