Hi我是順飛君，明天就是端午節了，今天來學習一下如何用准確的英文向外國友人介紹端午節。
The Festival 節日概括
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar. The exact date varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar. In 2014, it occurred on June 2; in 2015, it occurred on June 20, and in 2016, it falls on June 9. The festival was long marked as a cultural festival in China, the government, however, did not officially recognize Duanwu as a public holiday until 2008.
lunar calendar 中國傳統的農曆
Gregorian calendar 格裏高裏曆, 所謂的公曆
Vary 變化 v.
public holiday國定假期,法定假期，也可以稱statutory holiday
The focus of most celebrations involves eating zongzi (sticky rice/glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves), drinking realgar wine, and racing dragon boats.The sun is considered to be at its strongest around the time of summer solstice.
bamboo leaves 竹葉
realgar wine 雄黃酒
summer solstice 夏至
Zongzi, is a traditional Chinese food, made of glutinous/sticky rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo, reed, or other large flat leaves. They are cooked by steaming or boiling. In the Western world, they are also known as rice dumplings, or sticky rice dumplings.
糯米的英文：glutinous rice or sticky rice
steam 蒸， boil 煮
fillings 餡
bamboo leaves 竹葉
Zongzi, 粽子的拼音，牛津詞典收錄單詞。但是如果你擔心外國朋友聽不懂，你也可以說rice dumpling或者sticky rice dumpling, 或者 sticky rice/glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves.
The Name 節日名稱
The official English name for the holiday, “Dragon Boat Festival,” directly translates into two alternative Chinese names for the holiday, Lóngchuánjié and Lóngzhōujié. Among Malaysian, Singaporean people, the festival is also known as the “Fifth Month Festival,” the “Fifth Day Festival,” and the “Dumpling Festival.” In Indonesian, the festival is known as “Peh Cun”, which is derived from the Hokkien phrase（扒船).
端午節的官方英文翻譯是Dragon Boat Festival(直譯爲:龍舟節), 另外流行的稱呼還包括：端午的拼音 Duanwu Festival, 和Double Fifth Festival
Malaysian 馬來西亞的
Singaporean 新加坡的
dumpling是一個非常概括的單詞，除了表示餃子，湯圓, 包子以外，還可以表示粽子。
The Story 淵源故事
The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of the poet Qu Yuan (c. 340–278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty. A cabinet member of the Chu royal house, Qu Yuan served in high offices.
commemorate： 慶祝， 紀念
Dynasty 朝代, 周朝就可以說Zhou Dynasty, 唐朝可以說Tang Dynasty
Warring States period 戰國時期, 春秋時期可以說Spring and Autumn period
However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance and even accused of treason. During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry. Twenty-eight years later, Qin captured Ying, the Chu capital. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River.
banish 驅逐
treason 叛國
exile 流放
suicide 自殺, 描述自殺這個動作可以說commit suicide.
It is said that the local people, who admired him, raced out in their boats to save him or at least retrieve his body. This is said to have been the origin of dragon boat races. When his body could not be found, they dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so that the fish would eat them instead of Qu Yuan’s body. This is said to be the origin of zongzi.
It is said… 據說
retrieve 取回
origin 起源，淵源
當然除了屈原之外，部分地區也有紀念伍子胥、曹娥等說法。
希望今天的分享能讓你對這一節日的英文表達有所幫助。
Happy Dragon Boat Festival!