
【英文版的嫦娥奔月故事】One day, when Houyi was out, Chang'e secretly swallowed the potion(一剂) in the hope that she would become immortal. The result was quite unexpected: she felt herself becoming light, so light that she flew up in spite of herself, drifting and floating in the air, until she reached the palace of the moon.She is regarded by later generations as the goddess of the moon.This beautiful story has always been liked by the Chinese and provides a favourite allusion(暗示) for poets and writers.Chairman Mao Zedong's poem in memory of his martyred(有牺牲精神的) wife Yang Kaihui has these well - known lines:The lonely moon goddess spreads her ample sleevesTo dance for these loyal souls in infinite space.Here, in the Chinese original, the name Chang'e is used instead of "moon goddess".The figure of Chang'e, a beauty dressed in the elegant garments of a bygone(过去) age floating towards the moon, naturally supplies unending inspiration for painters and sculptors.【中文故事简介】传说古代天空中有10个太阳同时出来,大地被烤成焦土,后羿为民除害射掉了9个太阳,西天的王母娘娘奖赏他长生不老的仙药。他的妻子嫦娥趁后羿不注意时偷吃了这些药,突然她就成仙飞向天宫,王母娘娘惩罚她,让她在广寒宫里思过。【典故】羿请不死之药于西王母,姮娥窃以奔月,怅然有丧。西汉·刘安《淮南子·览冥训》
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Chinese New Year (中国农历新年)The Chinese New Year has a great history. In other traditions, by this time in the year, most resolutions - made on December 31 - have been subtly forgotten and placed in a cupboard marked "maybe next year." However, all hope is not lost, as there's a second chance to start afresh with the celebration of Chinese New Year on February 12th.The Chinese New Year is very similar to the Western one, swathed in traditions and rituals.The origin of the Chinese New Year is itself centuries old - in fact, too old to actually be traced. It is popularly recognised as the Spring Festival and celebrations last 15 days. Preparations tend to begin a month from the date of the Chinese New Year (similar to a Western Christmas), when people start buying presents, decoration materials, food and clothing. A huge clean-up gets underway days before the New Year, when Chinese houses are cleaned from top to bottom, to sweep away any traces of bad luck, and doors and windowpanes are given a new coat of paint, usually red. The doors and windows are then decorated with paper cuts and couplets with themes such as happiness, wealth and longevity printed on them.The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing. Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings, signifying different good wishes. Delicacies include prawns, for liveliness and happiness, dried oysters (or ho xi), for all things good, raw fish salad or yu sheng to bring good luck and prosperity, Fai-hai (Angel Hair), an edible hair-like seaweed to bring prosperity, and dumplings boiled in water (Jiaozi) signifying a long-lost good wish for a family. It's usual to wear something red as this colour is meant to ward off evil spirits - but black and white are out, as these are associated with mourning. After dinner, the family sit up for the night playing cards, board games or watching TV programmes dedicated to the occasion. At midnight, the sky is lit up by fireworks.On the day itself, an ancient custom called Hong Bao, meaning Red Packet, takes place. This involves married couples giving children and unmarried adults money in red envelopes. Then the family begins to say greetings from door to door, first to their relatives and then their neighbours. Like the Western saying "let bygones be bygones," at Chinese New Year, grudges are very easily cast aside.The end of the New Year is marked by the Festival of Lanterns, which is a celebration with singing, dancing and lantern shows. Although celebrations of the Chinese New Year vary, the underlying message is one of peace and happiness for family members and friends.(chinese.new-year.co.uk)-----------------------------------Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节)The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival, the third and last festival for the living, was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon". In the Western calendar, the day of the festival usually occurred sometime between the second week of September and the second week ofOctober.This day was also considered a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. With delinquent accounts settled prior to the festival , it was a time for relaxation and celebration. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates , melons, oranges and pomelos might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro, edible snails from the taro patches or rice paddies cooked with sweet basil, and water caltrope, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds, lotus seeds, almonds, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard. A golden yolk from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year," that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary moon.(chinavoc.com)
1、女娲补天
英文:
It is said that there was no man when the sky andthe earth were separated by Pangu. It was Nuwawho made human beings after her own model withyellow clay.From then on, man began to live in peace andhappiness on the earth.
nexpectedly, one year, the fourpillars supportingthe heaven suddenly collapsed and the earthcracked. A great fire raged; torrential water flooded all the lands;fierce animals preyed on men. ThenNuwa melted fivecolored stones, using them to mend the cracks in the sky.
To replace the broken pillars, she cut off the four legs of a huge turtle and used them tosupport the fallensky.Thus the sky was patched up, its four corners were lifted, the flood was tamed, harmful animalswere killed, and the innocent people were able to restore their happy lives.
中文:
盘古开天辟地后,世上本没有人,是女蜗按照自己的样子用黄 泥塑出了人类。此后,人们便开始在大地上幸福的生活着。天有不测风云,一年, 忽然天崩地裂,大火肆虐,洪水滔天,野兽横行伤人。
女蜗把五彩石融化,再用这些熔化了的液体把天上的洞补好。然后,她又将一只万年巨龟的四足斩下,把它们用作擎天柱,支撑住了天地的四方。
就这样,天补好了,四个角撑住了,洪水被驯服, 猛兽被消灭,人类的生活又恢复到往日的幸福祥
和之中。
2、玉兔捣药
英文:
Legend has it that there are three gods into three of the elderly poor, to foxes, monkeys, rabbits for food, the fox and the monkey had food to relief, only rabbit be at a loss what to do. Then the rabbit said: "you eat my flesh!" it into the fire, will he cooked, fairy touched, put the rabbit to the palace of the moon, the moon. Company E, and ramming ever-young medicine.
中文:
相传有三位神仙变成三个可怜的老人,向狐狸、猴子、兔子求食,狐狸与猴子都有食物可以济助,唯有兔子束手无策。后来兔子说:“你们吃我的肉吧!”就跃入烈火中,将自己烧熟,神仙大受感动,把兔子送到月宫内,成了玉兔。陪伴嫦娥,并捣制长生不老药。
3、精卫填海
英文:
Once upon a time, Yan has a small daughter, Her name is baby girl, he loved his little daughter, Yan often play with the girls, but the terrible thing happened, girls playing in the sea, unfortunately, dead water, and then She turned into a bird, named Jingwei, Yan sad day Jade Bird watching it, and finally decided to make this Jingwei filled the sea, so that he no longer claimed more lives!
中文:
从前,有1个女孩叫做精卫,她很爱自己的父亲炎帝,他们经常在一起玩,每天都很开心。有一天,精卫去划船,不小心掉进了海里,后来她变成了1只鸟。她经常去看她的父亲,她的父亲为此很伤心。后来精卫决定用石子把那个海填起来。
4、夸父追日
英文:
Kua Fu tried his best to chase the sun. When he arrived at the place where the sun set, he had to turned around, as he could not bear the thirst, and came to the Yellow River and the Wei River.
In one breath, he quaffed up all the water in both rivers. Though he drank up two rivers, he still felt thirsty, and he decided to go to the large lake in the north for a good drink. On the way to the north, Kua Fu eventually died of thirst.
The walking stick thrown down by him, being nurtured by the nourishment converted from his dead body, unexpectedly bloomed and fructified, and it grew into peach woods, which stretched for thousands of miles.
中文:
夸父竭尽全力追赶太阳。当他追赶太阳降落的地方时, 由于忍受不了干渴,只好掉转头,回到黄河、渭河所在的地方,一口气便将这两条河里的水喝得精光。
虽然喝光了两条大河,但夸父还是感到不解渴,又打算到北方的大湖里去痛饮一番。北去的途中,夸父终因干渴而死。
扔下的手杖,被他的尸体所化成的养料滋润,竟然开花结果,长成一片连绵千里的桃林。
5、牛郎织女
英文:
On the east bank of the heavenly river lived a girl weaver, daughter of the emperor of heaven. She worked hard year in and year out, weaving colorful clothes for gods and goddesses.
Later she sneakly married the cowherd who is only a mortal and raised two children with him. However, goddess found the fact that she concealed. Greatly outraged, the goddess forced the girl back across the river and allowed her to join her husband only once a year.
On the seventh day of each autumn, magpies would suddenly become bald-headed for no obvious reasons at all. According to legend, that day the cowherd and the weaver met on the east bank of the river, and magpies were made to form a bridge for them. And for this reason the down on their heads was worn out from book of plants and animals.
中文:
天河东岸住着一个女孩,她是天帝的女儿。她年复一年地辛勤工作,为众神和女神编织丰富多彩的衣服。
后来,她偷偷嫁给了一个只是凡人的牛郎,并和他一起抚养了两个孩子。然而,女神发现了她隐藏的事实。女神非常愤怒,她强迫女孩过河,让她一年只能和丈夫团聚一次。
每年秋天的第七天,喜鹊突然变得秃顶,完全没有明显的原因。传说那天牛郎和织女在河的东岸相遇,喜鹊被做成了一座桥。正因为如此,他们的头上的毛从植物和动物的书上磨损了。
The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea(精卫填海)Once upon a time, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan, legendary ruler of primitive China, went boating on the Eastern Sea. While she was enjoying herself, a strong wind rose on the sea and her boat capsized. Just before she was buried by the surging waves, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. As it flew over the roaring sea, it cried sadly in the sound "jinwei, jingwei". That was why people called it "Jingwei".The bird lived on a mountain near the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying in a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea.One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, "Poor little bird, stop doing that meaningless thing! You'll never fill me up." Jingwei replied, "I'll fill you up no doubt! I will, even if it'll take me thousands of years! I'll fight on until doomsday!"The brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the Eastern Sea without taking a rest.From this fable comes the idiom "The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea". We use it to describe people who are firm and indomitable and will not stop until they reach their goal.