清明的英文介绍

写作思路：根据题目要求，介绍清明节的习俗及特色。

Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival with a history of 2500 years.

清明佳节是中国传统的节日，有两千五百年的历史。

Its main traditional cultural activities include: going to the grave, going on a walk, playing on the swing, etc.

它主要的传统文化活动有：上坟、踏青、荡秋千、等。

On this day, pedestrians on the road are thinking of the dead and expressing their respect and sorrow.

在这个日子里，路上的行人都在思念去世的人们，表达对他们的尊重与哀思。

Qingming is a recognition and respect of Chinese traditional culture.

清明，是中国传统文化的一种认可及尊重。

Tomb Sweeping Day is a very important festival in the traditional customs of the ancients. It is also the most important festival of memorial ceremony, which is the day of ancestor worship and tomb sweeping.

清明是古人传统习俗中十分重要的一个节日，也是最重要的祭奠节日，是祭祖和扫墓的日子。

During the Qingming Festival, people went back to their hometown to worship their ancestors, which is a kind of culture and a habit.

在清明人们纷纷回乡祭拜祖先，这已是一种文化，一种习惯。

Qingming festival, also known as the spring outing festival, is the 108th day after the winter solstice. The traditional qingming festival in China, started around the zhou dynasty, has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Influenced by the han culture, China's 24 ethnic minorities, including manchu, hezhen, zhuang, tujia, miao and yao, also have the custom of qingming festival. Grave worship, outing outing is the basic theme.

Qingming started as a name for solar terms and became a festival to commemorate ancestors related to the cold food festival. The day after the cold food festival was set as qingming festival.

Tomb-sweeping day is one of the most important "eight festivals" in China, usually around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. The qingming festival was originally referred to 15 days after the spring equinox.

In 1935, the government of the republic of China designated April 5 as the national tomb-sweeping day, also known as the national tomb-sweeping day. When tomb-sweeping day arrives, the temperature will rise, which is a good time for spring plowing.

The origin of the qingming festival, it is said that it started from the ancient emperors and generals "tomb offering" ceremony, and later the folk also imitate, on this day to worship ancestors grave, followed by generations and become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.

On May 20, 2006, the qingming festival declared by the ministry of culture of China was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list upon the approval of the state council.

Qingming Festival, also known as the outing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival and ancestor worship Festival, is held at the intersection of mid spring and late spring. Qingming Festival originated from the ancient ancestor belief and spring festival rituals and customs. It has both natural and human connotations. It is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival.清明节，又称踏青节、行清节、三月节、祭祖节等，节期在仲春与暮春之交。清明节源自上古时代的祖先信仰与春祭礼俗，兼具自然与人文两大内涵，既是自然节气点，也是传统节日。词汇清明节Tomb Sweeping Day踏青go for a walk in the country in spring; have an outing in spring三月March; the third month of the lunar year; the third moon祭祖offer sacrifices to ancestors仲春second month of spring; the middle of spring暮春late spring上古palaeoid; ancient times; remote ages礼俗etiquette and custom节气a day marking one of the 24 divisions of the solar year in the traditional Chinese calendar; solar terms传统节日traditional festival; traditional holidays; Traditional Festivals

中国清明节的英文介绍：

The Qingming or Ching Ming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English, is a traditional Chinese festival on the first day of the fifth solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either 4 or 5 April in a given year.

Qingming has been regularly observed as a statutory public holiday in China. It became a public holiday in China in 2008.

The holiday is associated with the consumption of qingtuan, green dumplings made of glutinous rice and barley grass.

The festival originated from the Cold Food Festival ("Hanshi Festival"), established by Chong'er, Duke Wen of Jin, during the Spring and Autumn period. The festival was a memorial for his retainer Jie Zitui,who had loyally followed him during his years of exile. Supposedly, he once even cut meat from his own thigh to provide Chong'er with soup. Once Chong'er was enthroned as duke, however, Jie considered his services no longer required and resigned. Although Duke Wen was generousin rewarding those who had helped him in his time of need, he long passed over Jie, who had moved into the forest with his mother. Duke Wenwent to the forest in 636 BCbut could not find them. He then ordered his men to set fire to the forest in order to force Jie out. When Jie and his mother were killed instead, the duke was overcome with remorse and ordered three days without fire to honor Jie's memory. The city erected over the former forest is still called Jiexiu (lit. "Jie's rest").

Qingming was frequently mentioned in Chinese literature. Among these, the most famous one is probably Du Mu's poem (simply titled "Qingming"):

清明时节雨纷纷

A drizzling rain falls on the Mourning Day;

路上行人欲断魂

The mourner's heart is breaking on his way.

借问酒家何处有

Inquiring, where can a wineshop be found?

牧童遥指杏花村

A cowherd points to Apricot Flower Village in the distance.

Ching Ming Festival is one of the 24 segments in Chinese calendar. It normally falls on the 4th or 5th of April because it's depended on the Cold Food Day （105 days after previous year's winter solstice）. In the old days, Ching Ming was celebrated 3 days after the Cold Food Day but Cold Food Day was shorted to one day and then abandoned. So nowadays, Ching Ming and Cold Food Day fall on the same day although no one celebrate Cold Food Day any more. Ching Ming is also known as "Remembrance of Ancestors Day" or 'Grave Sweeping Day'. On Ching Ming, the whole family will visit their ancestors or relatives' graves. I remember when I was little, we had to catch a diesel train to north New Territories to do grave sweeping. As a kid, I always find it scary when the train go through the dark tunnel of the hill. But there is no more diesel trains running in HK now. If you want to see one, you can find it in the Railway museum in Tai Po Market. We have to carry incense sticks, joss sticks and paper offerings like paper money and paper clothes and any other paper accessories, depends how serious your family is with this thing. All paper offerings will be burnt for they believe that the relatives can receive the goods and even 'money' this way. As a kid, I am always asked to carry a bunch of flower. Chrysanthemum is normally chosen so don't give Chrysanthemum to Chinese people as gift coz it's a funeral/grave sweeping use flowers, although some households may find it to display home on normal days. Food like roasted suckling pig, steamed chicken, fruit and wine are offered during the ceremony. Then we will eat it up after the worshipping. There were children in scruffy looking t-shirts offering you a red piece of paper and a stone to put on top of the grave stone. My family never explains to me what it's for but I suppose red always implies luck so maybe it helps to bring good luck to the dead person? In return, you are supposed to give a few dollars to the children to buy this red paper. There were also poor teenagers or adults carrying sickles and offer weeding services around the grave stones. As our family visits the graves twice a year （Ching Ming and Chung Yeung）, we can manage with a pair of scissors! Some superstitious people even carry willow branches with them or hang it on the front door. It's believed that willows help to get rid of evil spirits, when Ching Ming is one of the days that ghosts and spirits wander about.