【原创】端午安康！ Happy the Dragon Boat Festival!
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《 端午日 》
唐·殷尧藩
少年佳节倍多情，老去谁知感慨生。
不效艾符趋习俗，但祈蒲酒话升平。
鬓丝日日添白头，榴锦年年照眼明。
千载贤愚同瞬息，几人湮没几垂名。
The Dragon Boat Festival
Yin Yaofan (Tang)
Young festival times affectionate, old to behold regrets born.
No effect of Fu more custom, but Qi Pu wine shengping.
Temples silk day add white-headed, Liu Jin annual as eyes.
For thousands of years,
there have been many sages and fools, and several people have lost their fame.
端午节吃粽子
Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped Chinese traditional rice-dumpling, is mainly made of glutinous rice and wrapped by bamboo or reed leaves.
Eating zongzi is a must do custom in China. Maybe most laowai orforeigners are curious about this little pyramid. They may wonder whyChinese people are so interested in this funny nest. So, please don't forget to peel off the skin before you open your mouth.
How to make zongzi?
This is how to make one type of zongzi.
1）have bamboo leaves watered.粽叶先浸水。
2）Fill the boat shape leaf with a few tablespoons of the soaked sticky rice. Top with a sprinkling of mung beans.在船型粽叶中填入几勺浸湿的糯米，再加少许绿豆。
3）Add some smoked meat and shrimps.再加入腌制过的肉和虾。
4）Packed it with line with three, four, or five angles.用线把粽子裹起来，可以做成三角、四角或五角。
5）Boiled them, first with big fire, then turn to small fire till rip.然后再进行蒸煮，先用大火，再转成小火直到粽子壳开裂。
你的粽子是什么馅儿的~
There is a great variety of Zongzi in different regions. Different places have different types. People may stuff all kinds of filling they like to make zongzi a special treat with authentic flavor and taste for their families.
粽子节
据统计，端午节的名称达二十多个，如有端五节、端阳节、重五节、重午节、当五汛、天中节、夏节、五月节、菖节、蒲节、龙舟节、浴兰节、屈原日、午日节、女儿节、地腊节、诗人节、龙日、午日、灯节、五蛋节等等。
After eating this dessert, there will be something more important to figure out the origination of this festival.
As different zongzi has different filling, this festival also has a great variety of names both in Chinese and in English, which may give you a shock.
Such as the Duanwu Festival, Duanyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Yulan Festival, Duanwu Festival and Daughter's Day，ect.
This festival is as important as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival in China. Chinese people usually and traditionally celebrate historical date on lunar calendar. This day falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese traditional lunar calendar. It's the first Chinese festival selected in World Intangible Cultural Heritage. Also people don't need to work for the reason that it is one of the national holidays too.
起源
The legends of origination of this festival circulated through the whole ancient history from Qv Yuan to the dragon.
1.Qv Yuan
The hero, a great patriotic poet, a minister lived in the Chu State duringWarring States Period (475-221 BC) of ancient China.
Qv Yuan with the brave spirit of throwing himself into the river showed hisinnocent heart against the court corruption.
Neighbors in town rowed their boats desperately but tried in vain to savehim.
With the broken heart, neighbors scattered rice into the river, hopingto distract hungry fish, prevented them from eating his body.
2.Wu Zixu
A general lived in the Wu state during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) of ancient China.
3.Gou Jian
A king, suffered great humiliation, lived in the Yue state during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC).
4.Cao E
A filial Chinese traditional female, lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty(25-220)
Being hopeless of seeing the body of her drowned father, she threw herself into the river like Qv Yuan too.
5.Dragon
As the oldest festival in China, people started celebrating this moment from Autumn Period (770-476 BC) of ancient China.
The leaders of ancestors in those large tribes treated dragon as their moral worship and flag, and declared themselves as the descendants of the dragon. The famous leaders represent the dragon tribe are Fu Xi, Nv Wa, Yu, and so on.
6.Wen Yiduo
The famous Chinese poet has pointed his view in his works of Duanwu Test and Duanwu Historical Education .
He says, Duanwu is the festival of commemorating dragon.
7.Public Health
With the remarkable achievement in civilization, more and more people pay strong attention on their health condition. Going to the gym, cooking at home and doing aerobics are becoming as the necessary activities on the way of keeping fit.
Traditional customs are closely related to these demands.
What do we do on this day?
Nowadays, people deem these activities not only as a way of honoring ancestors but also as a way of getting rid of evils, showing care for people,building their bodies, dispelling diseases, protecting life and health.
Eating Zongzi.
Dragon boat racing.
Wearing sachet. A sachet is ususally a small cloth bag stuffed with vanilla, medical herbs and flower petals, which can give off aroma.
Planting Chinese mugworts
Hanging calamus and wormwood clusters or bunches.
Scatering Zongzi into the river
Having realgar wine
To be continued.
By the way, it is delicious to eat zongzi, but eating more will result in weight gaining.
Children who have strong ability of digesting must love this festival the most.
吃完之后，运动一下
Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
life is but a dream!
Row row row your boat!
Row row row your boat!
Row row row your boat!
单词
gently：adv. 轻轻地；温柔地，温和地
stream：n. 溪流；流动；潮流；光线；（数据）流
merrily：adv. 愉快地；高兴地
dream：n. 睡梦；梦想，愿望；恍惚；极美好的人（或事物）；幻想；梦境般的事
life is but a dream：人生不过是一场梦
手工材料：
将左手及船桨部分用羊脚钉固定下来
