专题04 端午节 -2023年高考英语中国传统文化写作背景必备素材

端午节 The Dragon Boat Festival 端午节的来历 The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on May 5th on lunarcalendar. It is a folk festival widely spread with a history of over 2,000 years, and is one of the most important Chinese festivals as well. There are various celebrating activities on that day, among which the customs of eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing are quite important. 端午节吃什么？ Glutinous rice filled with meat, nuts or bean paste and wrapped in bamboo leaves. It is associated with Dragon Boat Festival with historical meaning.The custom of eating zongzi is now popular in North and South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations. 糯米一般先用肉、坚果或者豆沙馅填充起来，然后再用竹叶包裹起来。这是和端午节的历史意义紧密结合在一起的。吃粽子的习俗，现在已经在朝鲜、韩国、日本和东南亚国家流行开来。 端午节玩什么？ Dragon boat racing is an indispensable part of the festival, held all over the country. As the gun is fired, people will see racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars harmoniously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums, speeding toward their destination. 赛龙舟是端午节重要的组成部分，在全国上下都会进行。枪声一响，人们就会看到龙舟上的运动员，伴随着快速的鼓点，迅速又整齐划一地划动船桨，冲向终点。 端午节戴什么？ On Dragon Boat Festival, parents also need to dress their children up with a sachet. They first sew little bags with colorful silk cloth, then fill the bags with perfumes or herbal medicines（草药）, and finally string them with silk threads. The sachet will be hung around the neck or tied to the front of a garment as an ornament. They are said to be able to ward off evil. 端午节挂什么？ Hang branches of moxa and calamus around the doors of their homes display portraits of evil's nemesis, Chung Kuei. 挂艾叶菖蒲和悬钟馗像都是为了驱疾避凶，讨个吉利。 吃粽子 Eating Zongzi 吃粽子 Eating Zongzi Zongzi is a kind of food made with sticky rice（糯米）and is wrapped（包裹）withreed（芦苇）or bamboo（竹）leaves. It has different shapes and fillings（馅料）. In the northern part of China, people use red jujube（枣）as fillings. In the southern part of China, people use beans, fresh meat, or egg yolk（蛋黄）as fillings. 赛龙舟 Dragon Boat Racing 赛龙舟