内容正文:
Daur People Keep Thousand-year-old Traditions through Festival Celebrations
达斡尔族千年传统文化的传承
文章选自《环球时报》
主题语境:人与社会 子语境:传统文化
原文出处:Global Times 语篇类型:说明文
关键词:tradition;festival;minority;experience
篇章导读:中国农历正月十六,40岁的伊热起得很早。她迅速悄悄地爬到孩子们还在炕上睡觉的房间,把她从锅底刮下来的黑灰抹在他们的脸上,祝他们平安健康。孩子们和孙子们后来也把骨灰抹在了长辈的脸上。在这个“抹黑节”期间,脸上灰最多的人被认为是最幸运的。在达斡尔族中,这个节日被认为是城市级的非物质文化遗产,达斡尔人是众多中国少数民族之一。
原汁原味外刊阅读及模拟强化训练
China, a united multi-ethnic country, has 56 ethnic groups. Each of the ethnic groups has its own distinctive history and tradition, contributing to the rich Chinese culture. The Global Times is to publish a series of articles focusing on the folk traditions of the ethnic groups including costumes, festivals and customs to show their unique beauty.
On the 16th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, 40-year-old Yire got up very early. She quickly and quietly crept to the room where the children were still sleeping on the kang (traditional bed) and smeared black ash she had scraped from the bottom of the pot on their faces and wished them a safe and healthy year. The children and grandchildren later also smeared the ashes on their elders' faces. During this "smearing festival" the person with the most ash on their face is believed to be the luckiest. The festival is considered a city-level intangible cultural heritage, among the Daur people, one of the many Chinese ethic minority groups.
"The smearing is no longer limited to the elder generations, everyone can smear each other to ward off evil spirits and pray for good blessings," Yire told the Global Times, expressing her pride to be a Daur person.
Maintaining the heritage
In order to inherit and spread the traditional Daur culture to more people, Yire opened public accounts on Chinese social media platforms and posted articles and videos about this unique minority group. Her recent videos about the ice-piercing for fishing in Hulun Buir's first ice and snow sports tourism season,