端午节的由来英语

端午节当然要聊端午!你知道吗，它有个相当霸气的英语名!而且不少美国人还很喜欢划龙舟呢!下面yjbys小编为大家分享端午节的由来。

　　端午节：Dragon Boat Festival

端午节的`由来大家都不陌生, 看看英语该怎么解释呢?

Dragon Boat Festival: 端午节，英语直接就是“龙舟节“。说Duanwu Festival大多数外国人不明为何物，而dragon boat许多人却很熟悉，我们稍后说原因

a high level of participation 高参与度

dragon boating: 划龙舟

the origin/backstory of the festival: 端午节的起源、背景

It commemorates the great poet Qu Yuan: 它纪念伟大诗人屈原

Poem: 诗 (一首诗)

Poetry: 诗的总称，比如唐诗, Tang poetry

Qu Yuan drowned himself in a river: 屈原投河自尽

to protest against injustice: 抗议不公

People were afraid that fish would eat his body: 老百姓怕鱼会吃屈原的遗体

So they put food into the river to stop the fish from eating him: 所以投食于河中，希望鱼不要吃屈原

　　原来粽子也叫dumpling

中国的各种传统小吃，只要是里面裹了馅儿的面食，英语里基本都翻成dumpling。

粽子也不例外，不过通常会翻成rice dumpling。

Rice dumpling: 粽子

Commercialized: 商业化的

sticky rice/glutinous rice: 糯米

Zongzi are wrapped in leaves: 粽子外面用粽叶裹着

to stuff a zongzi: 把馅包进粽子里