翻译：Double Ninth Festival（重阳节）

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重阳节

Double Ninth Festival

重阳节，又称重九节、晒秋节、“踏秋”，是中国传统节日之一。庆祝重阳节一般会包括出游赏秋、登高远眺、观赏菊花、遍插茱萸、吃重阳糕、饮菊花酒等活动。

Today is September ninth by lunar calendar. It's the Double Ninth Festival. 　

今天是农历九月初九，重阳节。

Today is the Double Ninth Festival. I almost forgot. I promised to go to climb the Green Mountain with my parents. Will you join us? 　

今天是重阳节。我差点忘了，我说过要和父母一起去爬青山。你要不要跟我们一起去?

重阳节的由来

The Origin

The Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the Warring States Period. 

重阳节可以被追溯到战国时代。

During the Tang Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival was on official lists of folk festivals. 

在唐朝期间，九九重阳节就被官方列入了民间节日。

重阳节的习俗

Customs

During the Chongyang Festival, people went outside and climbed mountains together, and engaged in many other outdoor activities, such as enjoying the chrysanthemum, inserting Zhuyu, eating Chongyang cakes, and drinking chrysanthemum wines, among others.

在重阳节，人们外出一起爬山，还有各种各样的户外活动，比如赏菊花、插茱萸、吃重阳糕、饮菊花酒等等。 

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1

登高 Climbing Mountains

People like to climb mountains on this festival, so Double Ninth Festival is also called “Mountain-climbing Festival”.

人们喜欢这个节日去爬山，所以重阳节又被称作“登高节”。

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2

赏菊 Enjoying Chrysanthemum Flowers

Chrysanthemum originated in China and was recorded in some Chinese books as early as the 5th century B.C. Chrysanthemum blossom in the ninth lunar month have a beautiful name of “flower of longevity”.

菊花产自中国，最早记载始于公元前5世纪。菊花在阴历九月盛开，它有一个美称“长寿之花”。

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3

插茱萸 Wearing Dogwood

The dogwood is a species of evergreen arbor; it is heavy-scented plant whose fruit is edible and stock and leaves can be medicinal materials. They can expel insects, get rid of the humidity, help digestion and cure inner heat. It puts out purple flowers in spring and bears, in autumn, purplish-brown fruit that is sour, puckery and mild in nature.

茱萸为长青乔木。该植物具有浓香，它的果实可食用或干存。它的叶子可以用作药材。茱萸具有驱虫去湿，助消化去内热的功效。春季它开紫色的花，然后开始孕育果实。到了秋天，就结出了紫褐色，味酸，带皱，质感柔软的果实。

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吃重阳糕 Eating Double Ninth Cake

The Double Ninth cake is also known as “chrysanthemum cake” or “flower cake”.  It dates back to the Zhou Dynasty. It is said that the cake was originally prepared after autumn harvests for farmers to have a taste of what was just in season, and it gradually grew into the present cake for people to eat on the Double Ninth Day.

重阳糕又名“菊花糕”或“花糕”，它的历史可追溯到周朝。相传，最初人们是为了庆祝秋收而制作重阳糕的。到后来，就逐渐演变为人们在重阳节常吃的一种糕点了。

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5

放纸鸢 Flying a paper crane

Paper crane is just kite. According to our traditions and customs, flying kites usually happen at the Qing Ming Festival. But Tomb Sweeping Festival is during the rainy season which obviously is not suit for flying a kite, while Double Ninth Day owns clear autumn sky and crisp air making kite flying a best outdoor activity.

纸鸢类似于风筝。据中国传统习俗，人们通常在清明节放风筝。但每逢清明，也是雨纷纷的时节，因而并不适合放风筝。相比之下，重阳节这天，秋高气爽，最适合户外放风筝。

重阳节诗歌和词汇

《重阳节》（Double Ninth Festival），又称重九节、晒秋节、“踏秋”，中国传统节日。重阳节，为每年的农历九月初九日，是中国传统节日。“重阳”也叫“重九”，因为《易经》中把“九”定为阳数，九月九日，两九相重，故曰“重阳”；九在数字中又是最大数，所以赋予有生命长久、健康长寿的寓意；古人认为重阳是一个值得庆贺的吉祥日子。古代民间在重阳节有登高祈福的习俗，庆祝重阳节一般包括登高、晒秋、赏菊等活动；  于重阳之日享宴高会（举行敬老宴），感恩敬老。庆祝重阳节一般会包括出游赏秋、登高远眺、观赏菊花、遍插茱萸、吃重阳糕、饮菊花酒等活动。每年的农历九月初九日，与除夕、清明节、中元节三节统称中国传统四大祭祖的节日。

九月九日忆山东兄弟

王维（唐）

独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。

遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人。

Thinking of my Brothers on Mountain Climbing Day 

（许渊冲译）

Alone, a lonely stranger in a foreign land,

I doubly pine for kinsfolk on a holiday.

I know my brothers would, with dogwood spray in hand,

Climb up mountain and miss me so far away.

采桑子·重阳         

  毛泽东  1929年10月

 许渊冲 译

Nature does not grow old as fast as man；

Each year the Double Ninth comes round.

And now the Double Ninth comes round.

How sweet are yellow flowers on the battleground.

See autumn reign with heavy winds once every year,

Unlike springtime.

Far more sublime,

The boundless sky and waters blend with endless rime.

人生易老天难老，岁岁重阳。今又重阳，战地黄花分外香。

一年一度秋风劲，不似春光。胜似春光，寥廓江天万里霜。

1. Double Ninth Festival 重阳节

2. the Warring States Period 战国时期

3. Yin (Yin qi) 阴（阴气）

4. Yang (Yang qi) 阳（阳气）

5. fire sacrifice 火祭

6. poem/poetry 诗文/诗歌

7. poet 诗人

8. traditional Chinese calendar 农历，老历，旧历

9. climb mountains 爬山，登高

10. chrysanthemum appreciation 赏菊

11. chrysanthemum tea 菊花茶

12. chrysanthemum wine 菊花酒

13. make chrysanthemum wine 制作（酿造）菊花酒

14. pick chrysanthemum 采菊

15. wear dogwood flower 佩戴茱萸

16. keep away 远离

17. promote digestion 促进消化

18. black day  凶日，不吉利之日

19. go hiking 徒步旅行

20. chat with 和...聊天

21. stay at home 宅在家

22. wait for 等待……

23. the end of 在……的尽头/结尾

24. <The Book of Changes> 易经

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