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1、英语翻译中国传统节日之中秋节英文介绍Mid-Autumn Festival(Chinaculture.org)The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivities in China. According to Chinese lunar calendar, the 15thday of the 8th month is the exact midst of autumn, so its called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is anevenin

2、g celebration when families gather together to light lanterns, eat moon cakes and appreciate the round moon. Onthat night, the moon appears to be at its roundest and brightest. The full moon is a symbol for family reunion, which is why that day is also known as the Festival of Reunion.The Mid-Autumn

3、 Festival celebrations date back to more than 2,000 years ago. In feudal times, Chinese emperors prayedto Heaven for a prosperous year. They chose the morning of the 15th day of the second lunar month to worship the sunand the night of the 15th day of the eighth lunar month to hold a ceremony in pra

4、ise of the moon. In the western districtof Beijing is the Yuetan Park, which originally was the Temple of Moon, and every year the emperor would go there to offer a sacrifice to the moon.This ancient custom became prevalent in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) when people enjoyed and worshipped the full mo

5、on. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), however, people sent round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts inexpression of their best wishes of family reunion. When it turned dark, they gazed up at the full silver moon or wentsightseeing by lakes, to celebrate the festival.Since the Ming (1368-

6、1644) and Qing dynasties (1644-1911), the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration has becomeunprecedentedly popular. Together with the celebration appeared some special customs in different parts of the country,such as burning incense, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fir

7、e dragon dances, etc. Whenever the festival sets in, people would look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate their happy life, or thinking of theirrelatives and friends far from home and extending all of their best wishes to them.In mid-autumn, farmers have just finished gathering t

8、heir crops and bringing in fruits from the orchards. They areoverwhelmed with joy when they have a bumper harvest and at the same time, they feel quite relaxed after a year of hard work. So the 15th day of the eighth lunar month (the Mid-Autumn Festival) has gradually evolved as a widely celebratedf

9、estival for ordinary people.Night falls. The land is bathed in silver moonlight. Families set up tables in their courtyards or sit together on their balconies, chatting and sharing offerings to the moon. Together, they enjoy the enchanting spell of night. Naturally, they arereminded of beautiful leg

10、ends about the moon.中国传统节日之重阳节英文介绍2013.10.17|Double Ninth FestivalThe 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chong Yang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. In an ancient andmysterious bookYi Jing, orThe Book of Changes, 6 was thought to be of yincharacter, meaning feminine or negative, wh

11、ile number 9 was thought to be yang, meaning masculine or positive. So the 9 in both month and day create Double Ninth Festival, or Chong Yang Festival. The Chinese ancestors considered it an auspicious day worth celebration. Thats why Chinese people began to celebrate this festival from ancient tim

12、es.The celebration of Chong Yang Festival is colorful and romantic, generally speaking, including activities of outing and enjoyingthe scenes, climbing mountains, watching chrysanthemum, wearing dogwood, eating Chong Yang pastry and drinkingchrysanthemum wine, etc.The 9th day of the 9th lunar month

13、is the traditional Chong Yang Festival, because it has the same pronunciation with the word Jiu Jiu (forever) and the number nine is the largest number which carries the meaning of long life. Moreover, autumn also isgolden season for harvest, therefore, this special festival has more than one deep m

14、eaning and people have a special affectiontowards it since ancient times. There are a lot of famous works of Tang poem and Song poem for celebrating Chong YangFestival and intoning chrysanthemum.Today, Chong Yang has been given new meanings. In 1989, the Chinese government decided the Double Ninth F

15、estival asSeniors Day, combining the tradition and the modern, which made it become the festival of honoring, loving and helping theseniors. Since then, all government units, organizations and streets communities would organize an autumn trip each year forthose who have retired from their posts. At

16、the waterside or on the mountains, the seniors would find themselves merged intonature. Younger generations would also bring the elderly to suburban areas or prepare a nice meal for them on this day.积累背景知识，备战四六级翻译3（中国传统节日之端午节）Dragon Boat FestivalDragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival an

17、d the Double Fifth, is a traditional and statutory holiday in China and has long beencelebrated in Singapore and Malaysia.The festival is remembrance of Qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese scholar-statesman, who drowned in 277 B.C. while denouncing widespread government corruption; it was also a means of re

18、minding the public about the importance of health care. In 2006,the tradtional festival was listed as one of Chinas nationalintangible cultural heritages. In 2008, it was recognised as a public holiday in Chinesemainland.The festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar. This

19、 is the source of the alternative name of Double Fifth. Thedate varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar. In 2012 it fell on June 23, and in 2013 on June 12. The focus of the celebrations includes eatingzongzi(dumplings made of glutinous rice flour),drinking realgar wineand racingdragon bo

20、ats.积累背景知识，备战四六级翻译4（中国传统文化之中药）What is TCM?The origins of traditional Chinese medicine can be traced to Shen Nong Shi, a mythological figure from about 5,000 years ago, who sampled hundreds of herbs for use as medicines. The formal history of TCM starts about 2,500 years ago with the Yellow Emperors

21、Inner Classic, the first written account of its practice.TCM views a patients condition as a reflection of the interaction of five elements of nature: wood, fire, earth, metal andwater. The goal is to treat each patient holistically, with prescriptions tailored to the individual patients condition.C

22、hinese consumers generally perceive TCM as more effective for disease and chronic illness prevention, and they viewWestern medicine as being more effective for acute and serious illnesses.Another major difference between TCM and Western medicine is that, until recently, TCM has relied on patient exp

23、erience, not clinical trials, for proof of effectiveness.TCM combines raw materials, principally herbs, to treat disease. Historically, the formulation incorporated as many as10,000 ingredients, 90 percent extracted from herbs and 10 percent from animal byproducts and minerals.Today, practitioners o

24、f TCM regularly use around 300 ingredients in their widely available formulations. Any givenformulation requires four to eight ingredients on average.The principle used for combining ingredients has its origins in the framework of imperial ministerial-assistant-servant, which was documented 5,000 ye

25、ars ago in the Shen Nong Herbal Encyclopedia.The framework calls for an imperial herb, the chief herb or main ingredient of a formula; the ministerial herb, ancillary to the imperial herb, which augments and promotes the action of the main ingredient; the assistant herb, which reduces sideeffects of

26、 the imperial herb; and the servant herb, which harmonizes or coordinates the actions of the other herbs.Although only 10 percent of Chinas 2 million physicians are trained exclusively in TCM, most medical school students receive some training in the discipline. They can prescribe TCM medicines that

27、 have earned State Food and Drug Administrationapproval.积累背景知识，备战四六级翻译4（中国传统文化之中药）What is TCM?The origins of traditional Chinese medicine can be traced to Shen Nong Shi, a mythological figure from about 5,000 years ago, who sampled hundreds of herbs for use as medicines. The formal history of TCM st

28、arts about 2,500 years ago with the Yellow Emperors Inner Classic, the first written account of its practice.TCM views a patients condition as a reflection of the interaction of five elements of nature: wood, fire, earth, metal andwater. The goal is to treat each patient holistically, with prescript

29、ions tailored to the individual patients condition.Chinese consumers generally perceive TCM as more effective for disease and chronic illness prevention, and they viewWestern medicine as being more effective for acute and serious illnesses.Another major difference between TCM and Western medicine is

30、 that, until recently, TCM has relied on patient experience, not clinical trials, for proof of effectiveness.TCM combines raw materials, principally herbs, to treat disease. Historically, the formulation incorporated as many as10,000 ingredients, 90 percent extracted from herbs and 10 percent from a

31、nimal byproducts and minerals.Today, practitioners of TCM regularly use around 300 ingredients in their widely available formulations. Any givenformulation requires four to eight ingredients on average.The principle used for combining ingredients has its origins in the framework of imperial minister

32、ial-assistant-servant, which was documented 5,000 years ago in the Shen Nong Herbal Encyclopedia.The framework calls for an imperial herb, the chief herb or main ingredient of a formula; the ministerial herb, ancillary to the imperial herb, which augments and promotes the action of the main ingredient; the assistant herb, which reduces sideeffects of the imperial herb; and the servant herb, which harmonizes or coordinates