端午節Dragon Boat Festival

The Duanwu Festival,which is also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is an ancient Chinese traditionalfestival, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. For thousandsof years, various celebrating activities are held all around the country. Eatingzongzi and racing dragon boats are the most pertinent ones, which are said tobe in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet. In some places, people spread realgarwine on the children in the hope of protecting them from the evil spirits. Manypeople consider May as an especially dangerous time for diseases in a year, andtherefore they hang moxa and calamus and things like that around the doors toward off evil and diseases and pray for good luck.

端午節，又稱龍舟節，是中國古老的傳統節日，在農曆的五月初五這天慶祝。幾千年來，全國各地都會舉行多種多樣的慶祝活動。最應景的就是吃糉子和賽龍舟，據說這是爲了紀念偉大的古代詩人屈原。在有些地方，人們把雄黃酒塗抹在小孩的身上，希望這樣可以使孩子們不受邪靈的傷害。許多人認爲五月是一年中容易引發疾病的時節，因此爲了驅疾避兇，討個吉利，他們會在門口懸掛艾葉和菖蒲等。