读精美英文，品中国文化：The Dragon Boat Festival(端午节)

2017-11-18 副站长 草坪驿站

序号	英文
0	The Dragon Boat Festival(端午节)
Chinese Culture Reading in English（900单词系列）
1-1	The Dragon Boat Festival，one of the most important Chinese festival，is celebrated on May 5 of the lunar calendar.
1-2	The origin of this festival centers on Qu Yuan,minister of Chu during the Warring States Period.
1-3	Qu Yuan was a wise and upright(正直的) man,deeply loved by the common people.
1-4	He did much to fight against official corruption,which caused other officials’ fear and envy.
1-5	In the end he was exiled(流放) by the emperor.
1-6	Hearing that Chu was defeated by Qin,he threw himself into the Miluo River in despair.
1-7	The local people liv-ing by the Miluo River rushed into their boats to search for him and threw rice into the water to feed the river dragons so that they would not eat Qu Yuan’s body.
1-8	From then on,people who mourned the death of Qu Yuan threw rice into the river to feed his ghost every year on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month.
1-9	Today,this day is celebrated as the famous Dragon Boat Festival,which is best known for its dragon-boat races and a kind of rice ball wrapped in bamboo leaves called Zong Zi.
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