端午节英文手抄报图片（2张） Dragon Boat Festival 端午节手抄报

　　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 Qu, he was disgraced and dismissed from office. Realizing that the country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt officials, Qu grabbed a large stone and leapt into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to try and save him but were unable to even recover his body. Thereafter, the state declined and was eventually conquered by the State of Qin.

　　The people of Chu who mourned the death of Qu threw rice into the river to feed his ghost every year on the fifth day of the fifth month. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a hugereptile(爬行动物)in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised them to wrap the rice in silk and bind it with five different-colored threads before tossing it into the river.

　　Dragon Boat Festiva　 commemorates the death of the poet andminister Qu Yuan from the Warring States Period, who committed suicide out of love for his country.　It is said that the local people, who admired him, raced out in their boats in Miluo River to save him, or at least retrieve his body. This is said to have been the origin of dragon boat races (龙舟赛). When his body could not be found, they dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so that the fish would not eat his body. This is said to be the origin of Zongzi (粽子).

　　端午节是为了纪念战国时期诗人兼大臣屈原的逝世。据说当地人都很敬仰他，纷纷乘船到汨罗江去救他，或者至少找回他的尸体。据说这就是龙舟赛的起源(龙舟赛). 当他的尸体找不到的时候，他们把糯米球扔到河里，以免鱼吃掉他的尸体。据说这就是粽子的起源(粽子).