神话传说有关的节日英文版
神话传说有关的节日英文版 神话传说有关的节日英文版篇一：重阳节 as recorded in a historical book of the sixth century, in ancient times, there lived a man named huan jing. he was learning the magic arts from fei changfang, who had become an immortal after many years of practicing taoism. one day, the two were climbing a mountain. fei changfang suddenly stopped and looked very upset. he told huan jing, on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, disaster will come to your hometown. you must go home immediately. remember to make a red bag for each one of your family members and put a spray of dogwood on every one. then you must all tie your bags to your arms, leave home quickly and climb to the top of a mountain. most importantly, you must all drink some chrysanthemum wine. only by doing so can your family members avoid this disaster.on hearing this, huan jing rushed home and asked his family to do exactly as his teacher said. the whole family climbed a nearby mountain and did not return until the evening. when they got back home, they found all their animals dead, including chickens, sheep, dogs and even the ox. later huan jing told fei changfang about this. fei said the poultry and livestock died in place of huan jing"s family, who escaped disaster by following his instructions. since then, climbing a mountain, carrying a spray of dogwood and drinking chrysanthemum wine became the traditional activities of the double ninth festival, to avoid evil spirits and misfortunes. 神话传说有关的节日英文版篇二：中秋节 the story begins around 2170 b.c. after the great flood in the hsia dynasty. yu, king of many kingdoms, was credited with stopping the flood, and with teaching farmers how to cultivate their fields, thus commencing a prosperous epoch. at the same time in heaven the jade emperor wished to help the farmers raise animals and cultivate their fields. he gave orders to his ten sons to become ten suns and travel across the sky one at a time, each taking one day. the ten young men disobeyed;
all ten of them came out every day, and the heat from ten suns shining all at once made the earth intolerably hot. people and animals died of heat, rivers dried up, land became barren and forests scorched and burned. the farmers prayed, giving sacrifices and burning incense to heaven for deliverance. the jade emperor heard their prayers and saw the destruction caused by his sons. he sent hou yi, his bravest god, down to earth to solve the problem of the ten suns and end the catastrophe. hou yi was a good, courageous god with a beautiful wife, chang er. deeply in love with each other, they were known as the divine couple. chang er didn"t like the thought of going down to earth, but she was unwilling to be separated from her husband, so together they descended to earth and became mortals among the eastern clans. 神话传说有关的节日英文版篇三：七夕节on the east bank of the heavenly river(1) lived a girl weaver, daughter of the emperor of heaven. she worked hard year in and year out, weaving colourful clothes for gods and goddesses. since she lived all alone, the emperor took pity on her and allowed her to marry the cowherd on the west bank of the river. however, she stopped weaving after she was married. greatly outraged, the emperor forced the girl back across the river and allowed her to join her husband only once a year. 神话传说有关的节日篇四：元宵节 there are many stories on how this festival was created. one other story is about a maid. in the han dynasty, mr. eastern was a favorite advisor of the emperor. one winter day, he went to the garden and heard a little girl crying and getting ready to jump into a well to commit suicide. mr. eastern stopped her and asked why. she said she was a maid in the emperor"s palace and her name was yuan-xiao. she never had the chance to meet her family after she started worked at the palace. she missed them so much every 12th lunar month. if she couldn"t have the chance to show her filial piety in this life, she would rather die. mr. eastern promised her to find a way so she could reunion with her family. mr. eastern left the palace and set up a fortune-telling stall on the street and disguised himself as a fortuneteller. because of his reputation, many people asked for their fortunes. but every one got the same prediction - a severe fire accident on the 15th lunar day. the rumor spread quickly. everyone was worried about the future and asked mr. eastern for help. mr. eastern said, "on the 13th lunar day, the god of fire will send a fairy lady in red to burn down the city. if you see a lady in red wearing green pants riding a black horse on that day, you should ask for her mercy." on that day, yuan-xiao pretended to be the red fairy lady. when people asked for her help, she said, "i"m the messenger of the god of fire and came to check on the city and i"m going to set up fire on 15th. this is an order from jade emperor. he will watch from the heavens. i will give you a copy of the imperial decree from the god of fire. you should go to ask your emperor to find a way out." after she left, people went to the palace to show the emperor the decree which reads "the capital city is in trouble. fire burns on the palace, and fire from heaven burns all night long on the 15th." the emperor of han dynasty was very shocked. he called and asked mr. eastern for advice. after pondering for a while, mr. eastern said, "i heard that the god of fire likes to eat tang-yuan (sweet dumpling). does yuan-xiao often cook tang-yuan for you on the 15th lunar day, let yuan-xiao make tang-yuan. your majesty will take charge of the worshipping ceremony and you will give an order to every house to prepare tang-yuan to worship the god of fire at the same time. also, deliver another order to ask every house in the city to hang red lantern and explode fire crackers. lastly, everyone in the palace and people outside the city should carry their lanterns on the street to watch the lantern decoration and fireworks. if everything goes this way, the jade emperor would be deceived.then everyone can avoid the fire accident." the emperor happily followed the plan. lanterns were everywhere in the capital city on the night of the 15th lunar day. people were walking on the street. fire crackers kept making lots of noise. it looked like the entire city was on fire. yuan-xiao"s parents went into the palace to watch the lantern decorations, and yuan-xiao made a big lantern and wrote her name on the lantern. they happily reunited together after her parents called her name. everybody was safe during the night. the emperor of han dynasty had a new order that people should do the same thing every year. since yuan-xiao cooked the best tan-yuan, people called the day yuan-xiao festival.
