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The Dragon Boat Festival(Chinese-English,thanks for your comments)
Dragon Boat Festival is a popular and traditional festival celebrated on the 5 day of 5 lunar month by Chinese. The festival is marked by holding dragon boat races, eating zongzi (a kind of dumpling make of sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves), drinking yellow wine, hanging mugwort plants on doors and wearing sachet.
农历五月五日的端午节是中国民间的传统节日。举行龙舟比赛、吃粽子、喝黄酒、悬挂艾叶，佩戴香袋是端午节的主要的标志性的习俗。
The dragon boat race is especially popular in the south of china because there are many rivers and lakeside. The dragon boat race has a legend. It’s said that Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet of Chu, who was persecuted by some treacherous court official of the time. He committed suicide in Miluo River without hesitation after hearing his motherland was annihilated and the day was on the 5 day of 5 lunar month. The local people tried to salve Qu Yuan’s corpse, so that the dragon boat race has been held since that time. Nowadays, it’s a national race for Chinese. I watched a dragon boat race at my hometown when I was a child of nature. It was held in Xiangjiang River Hunan Province. Racers carried a big wooden boat with a image of dragon’s head on their shoulders then laid it in watertight compartments. The racers in a dragon boat include a commander-in-chief, standing on the bow, waved a pennant and song a race song. The drummer beat a drum to cheer the rowers upon. The rowers tried their best to drive the boat as fast as possible. A piece of red cloth was used as the finish line. When race boats reached the line of sight, thousands of people were cheerfully. In 1980, dragon boat race was listed into the state sports competition programs and has since been held every year. The award is called "Qu Yuan Cup."
龙舟比赛在中国的南部尤为盛行，因为这里河流交织交错，湖泊星罗棋布。有个关于龙舟比赛的民间传说：屈原，一个伟大的楚国爱国诗人，他被当时的奸臣所陷害。农历五月五日，在得知自己的祖国被歼灭后，屈原义无反顾地跳进了汨罗江。当地人们用船竭尽全力想要打捞屈原的尸体，因此从这个时候，龙舟比赛就应运而生了。现在，龙舟比赛已经成为了全国性的比赛。小时候，我在家乡看过一场龙舟比赛。那场比赛是在湖南的湘江举行的。参赛人员用肩把很大的龙舟扛到水里。这些参赛者，包括一个指挥者，一个击鼓的还有一些划船的。指挥的人站在船头，挥舞着短绳，喊着号子，击鼓的为了使桨手们振奋起来，卖力的击打着鼓。桨手们尽全力划船，越快越好。一块红色的条状布作为终点线，当船到达终线时，成千上万的人欢呼着。在1980年，龙舟比赛作为了政府规定的每年一次的比赛项目，其中奖项叫做“屈原杯”。
Mama taught how to make zongzi by sticky rice and bamboo leaves. In early times, it was only sticky rice dumplings wrapped in reed or other plant leaves and tied with colored thread, but now the fillings are more diversified, including jujube and bean paste, fresh meat, and ham and egg yolk. If time permits, people will soak glutinous rice, wash reed leaves and wrap up zongzi .The custom of eating zongzi is now popular in North and South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations. The custom of eating zongzi is also linked to a legend of Qu Yuan. When people heard that Qu Yuan has drowned himself in the Miluo River, they threw zongzi into the river, in hope that the fish and other animals would not eat Qu Yuan’s copse after eating too much of these foods. Year after year, it becomes a custom that people deliver their gratitude to Qu Yuan by eating zongzi on the 5 day of 5 lunar month.
妈妈教我怎样用糯米和竹叶做粽子。在早期，粽子只是用竹叶包裹纯糯米，然后用彩色的丝线扎住，但是现在，人们在糯米中填充了各种各样的食物，包括枣子、豆酱、鲜肉、火腿、蛋黄。端午时间到了，中国百姓家家都要浸糯米、洗粽叶、包粽子。吃粽子的风俗，千百年来，在中国盛行不衰，而且流传到朝鲜、日本及东南亚诸国。吃粽子这个习俗也与屈原有关系。当人们听说屈原投江自杀之后，他们往江里扔粽子，希望鱼和其他水生动物吃饱这些食物之后，不去吃屈原的尸体。一年接一年，都是如此，人们在农历五月五日，通过吃粽子来表达对屈原的感激之情。
The custom of drinking yellow wine at the Dragon Boat Festival also attaches much to Qu Yuan. It’s said that, on the day of Qu Yuan’s death, an old doctor poured a jug of yellow wine into the river, hoping to turn all aquatic animals drunk, which might eat Qu Yuan’s corpse. Later people drink yellow wine to worship Qu Yuan. People also sprinkle some yellow wine on their floors and doors for sterilization on that day.
端午喝黄酒也与屈原息息相关。据说，在屈原自尽的那天，一位老医师则拿来一坛雄黄酒倒进江里，希望薰晕蛟龙水兽，以免伤害屈原。后来人们喝黄酒来表达对屈原的爱戴之情。为了消毒灭菌保平安，人们也在地板和门上洒些黄酒。
Mama would hang mugwort plants on doors at the Dragon Boat Festival when I was a child. There are many mugwort plants around my house in Hunan. There is a folk tale about this custom. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao, the leader of farmers’ revolution, came across a woman who held a elder child in one arm and took a younger child by hand. He was puzzled about the woman and asked why she behaved so. The woman replied, “The government told us all to flee as Huang Chao’s soldiers are coming to massacre our city.” Huang Chao said, “why do you hold the elder child one arm while take the younger one by hand?” the woman answered, “ the elder is an orphan and the younger is my own son, when Hang Chao’s army arrived, I would flee with the elder and discard my own son.” Huang Chao was moved and said, “Tell the residents in your city hang two mugwort on their doors then soldiers would not kill you.” At the 5 day of 5 lunar month, Huang Chao captured the city, his army didn’t kill these residents, on the contrary, he order his soldiers distributed foods to them. From then on, people would hang mugwort plants on doors to honor Huang Chao at the 5 day of 5 lunar month.
我小时候，妈妈在端午的时候，会在门口悬挂艾叶，在湖南老家，有很多艾叶。民间有个关于艾叶的传说。在唐朝末年，黄巢领导了一次农民起义。有一天，他碰到了一个女人，她一只手抱着一个稍大的孩子，另一只手牵着比较小的孩子。他对这个非常迷惑，于是便问她为什么这样。妇女说：“县衙说黄巢将要来屠城，要我们都逃走。”黄巢说：“为什么你把大的孩子抱在怀里，而把小的牵在手里？”妇女回答：“这个大的是个孤儿，小的是我自己的儿子，如果黄巢的军队来了，我抱着大的逃走，抛弃我自己的儿子。”黄巢非常感动，她说：“告诉你们城里的百姓，在门口悬挂艾草，战士就不会杀你们。”在农历五月五日，黄巢占领了城镇，他的军队没有杀百姓，相反地，他命令他的士兵把食物发送给百姓。从那时起，每逢五月五日，人们便在门口悬挂艾叶，表达对黄巢的感激。
Another special custom is wearing sachet. This is especially popular for children. There are arsenic sulphide and some other herbal medicines in the sachet. They can emit aroma and do benefits to people’s health. They are supposed to be able to ward off evil and avoid illness. Parents 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, 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.
另一个奇特的传统是佩戴香袋，这在孩子们当中尤为流行。香袋里有雄黄和其他中草药。能够发出香味，而且对人的身体有益。据说还有传说有避邪驱瘟避免病害之意。人们用彩色丝线缝制一个小布袋，然后在里面洒些香水，填充中草药，再以五色丝线弦扣成索，香袋作为佩饰物悬挂在脖子上或者衣服上。
