2018年6月英语六级翻译练习：端午节

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端午节是中国传统重要节日，为每年农历五月初五，又称端阳节、端日节、午日节、五月节、五日节、艾节、端五、重午、重五、午日、夏节、蒲节，同时也是中国国家法定休假日，迄今已有2500年历史，在全国各地以及一些周边国家有较大影响力。本来是夏季的一个送离五瘟神，驱除瘟疫的节日。后来楚国爱国诗人屈原于端午节投江自尽，在华人世界就变成纪念屈原的节日，是华人三大节日之一，与新年、中秋等节日同属东亚文化圈的中国大陆、港澳地区、台湾地区、琉球、日本、朝鲜半岛、越南的重要传统节日。 端午节庆祝方式和内容因各地而不同，比如：祭祀屈原、纪念伍子胥、插艾蒿、挂菖蒲、喝雄黄酒、吃粽子、龙舟竞渡、除五毒等，有着丰富的传统文化内涵。中国“端午节”于2009年9月成功入选《人类非物质文化遗产代表作名录》。

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Dragon Boat Festival, which is on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, is an important Chinese traditional festival and a national legal holiday with a history of 2,500 years. It has numerous alternative names in the Chinese language and has a large influence on all parts of China and the surrounding countries. It was originally a festival in summer sending away God of Plague and driving plagues. Then, it became a festival among ethnic Chinese of commemorating Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu State in Warring States who drowned himself in water on this day to prove his determination of saving his country and the people. It is one of the three main festivals of ethnic Chinese people and is an important traditional festival along with the New Year and mid-autumn day in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam which are all within the East Asian cultural circle. Different places have different ways and customs of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, for example, offering sacrifice to Qu yuan, commemorating Wu Zixu, planting Chinese mugworts, hanging calamus, drinking realgar wine, eating Zongzi (a traditional Chinese rice-pudding), dragon boat racing and getting rid of the five poisonous creatures, which have rich traditional culture connotations. Chinese Dragon Boat Festival was successfully classified in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in September 2009.

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