端午

The Dragon Boat Festival

（唐）文 秀

(Tang) the show

节分端午自谁言，万古传闻为屈原；

Who put forward the Dragon Boat Festival?

The rumors of ages are for Qu yuan;

堪笑楚江空渺渺，不能洗得直臣冤。

To laugh at the emptiness of the Chu river,

which cannot prove Qu yuan's innocence.

端午节，为每年农历五月初五，是起源于中国的传统节日之一。

The Dragon Boat Festival lies in the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and is one of the traditional festivals that originated in China.

端午节因战国时期的楚国（今湖北）诗人屈原在该日抱石跳汨罗江自尽，统治者为树立忠君爱国标签，将端午作为纪念屈原的节日；部分地区也有纪念伍子胥、曹娥等说法。

In the Warring States Period of ancient China, Qu yuan, a poet from the state of Chu (Hubei Province Nowadays) jumped into the Miluo River to commit suicide with a stone in this day. To commemorate his patriotic behavior, people took this day as a festival. Some parts of China also take this day as a commemoration day for Mr. Wu Zixu or Miss Cao E.

端午节与春节、清明节、中秋节并称为中国民间的四大传统节日。

The Dragon Boat Festival as well as the Spring Festival, the Qingming festival and the Mid-Autumn festival are known as the four traditional festivals of China.

自2008年起，端午节被列为国家法定节假日。2006年5月，国务院将其列入首批国家级非物质文化遗产名录；2009年9月，联合国教科文组织正式审议并批准中国端午节列入世界非物质文化遗产，成为中国首个入选世界非遗的节日。

Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national holiday. In May 2006, the state council announced it as one item of the first national intangible cultural heritage list. In September 2009, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) examined and approved the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival as one of the world intangible cultural heritages, which became the first Chinese world heritage festival.

端午小知识

流行地区

Areas

中国、日本、朝鲜半岛、越南等国

China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.

节日起源

Origin

古代百越地区对龙图腾的崇拜与信仰

The worship and belief of the dragon totem in the ancient Baiyue Re

gion

节日饮食

The festival diets

粽子、雄黄酒等

Rice dumplings, Realgar wine, etc.

民俗活动

Customs

迎鬼船，悬挂菖蒲、艾草，佩香囊，赛龙舟，放风筝，比武，击球，荡秋千，给小孩洗苦草麦药澡，饮用雄黄酒，吃咸蛋、粽子和时令鲜果等。各地过法虽不尽相同，但包粽子、划龙船是普遍习俗。

Welcoming the ghost ship, hanging calamus and wormwood, wearing sachets, racing dragon-boat flying kite, martial arts contest ancient Chinese batting, swinging, giving children a hard wheat grass medicine bath, drinking realgar wine, eating salted egg, zongzi and seasonal fruit, etc. Although the customs vary from region to region, it is common to make zongzi and have a dragon-boat race.