【节庆英文】用英文谈谈端午节吧！ Let’s talk about the Dragon Boat Festival!
明天就是端午节了，如果有身边有外国友人，或者去国外旅行时想跟外国人介绍一下这个节日，我们该怎么说呢？
端午节英文叫作：
the Dragon Boat Festival 龙舟节
也可以说：
Duanwu Festival 端午节
（根据粤语译音的英文说法为：Tuen Ng Festival）
当然，如果你这么说的话，通常是要加以解释的。
众所周知，端午节是在农历的五月初五。英文这样说：
The Dragon Boat Festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar.
龙舟节是在中国传统历的五月五号。
所以呢，中国古人还把端午节叫作：
重五节 the Double Fifth Festival
你可以这么介绍这个节日
This traditional holiday is observed annually to commemorate Qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese patriotic poet.
人们每年过这一传统节日以纪念古代爱国诗人屈原。
（其实，这只是其中之一的起源呢。）
说起过端午节，自古以来的风俗就多了去了。不过，近年来据说端午节已“瘦身”为粽子节，因为人们到了端午就只记得吃粽子这件事啦！
粽子的英文？呵呵，这个肯定是拼音直译啦：
zongzi
或：zong
也有译成是“rice dumplings”或“sticky rice dumplings”的，听上去别扭吧？这个基本不用记了。直接说zongzi，听多了外国人自然就会说了！
你可以这么介绍粽子：
Zongzi is a traditional Chinese food, made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo, reed, or other large flat leaves. They are cooked by steaming or boiling.
粽子是一种传统的中国食品，是由竹叶或芦苇叶或其他大而扁平的叶子包裹糯米和各种不同的馅料做成的。可以蒸熟或煮熟。
除了eating zongzi，端午节还有以下习俗：
expelling five poisonous vermin
驱五毒
drinking realgar wine
喝雄黄酒
hanging mugwort and calamus
挂艾叶和菖蒲
wearing perfume pouch or scented sachets
佩香囊
wearing five-color silk bracelet hoping for longevity
带五色丝线长命缕
racing dragon boats
赛龙舟
最后我们来篇短文，看看怎样用英文介绍端午节吧：
The Duanwu Festival, which is also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is an ancient Chinese traditional festival, celebrated annually on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. For thousands of years, various celebrating activities are held all around the country. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats are the most common ones, which are said to be in memory of Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet. In some places, people draw the character for wang with realgar wine on the forehead of children in the hope of protecting them from the evil spirits. It is believed that May is a season when people tend to suffer from diseases, and therefore they hang mugwort and calamus and things like that around the doors to ward off evil and diseases and pray for good luck.
端午节，又称龙舟节，是中国古老的传统节日，在农历的五月初五这天庆祝。几千年来，全国各地都会举行多种多样的庆祝活动。最常见的就是吃粽子和赛龙舟，据说这是为了纪念伟大的古代诗人屈原。在有些地方，人们用雄黄酒在孩子们的额头上写“王”字，希望保护孩子们不受邪灵的伤害。人们认为五月是一年中容易引发疾病的时节，因此为了驱疾避凶，讨个吉利，他们会在门口悬挂艾叶和菖蒲等。
再送上一句端午节的祝福：
端午安康！
May you have a safe and healthy Duanwu/Dragon Boat Festival!
Now it's your time to open your mouth and practice! 张开嘴巴练起来！