中国传统节日及风俗英文介绍

1. Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is the most significant traditional Chinese festival, akin to Christmas in the West, where family members gather and indivials away from home make their way back to their respective families. This period, lasting about half a month leading up to the festival, is the peak travel season in China, resulting in bustling airports, train stations, and bus terminals as people Rush to reunite with their loved ones.
2. Lantern Festival: Also known as the Yuanxiao Festival, this event takes place on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The ancient Han people referred to the night as "Xiao," hence the name for the festival. It commemorates the first full moon of the year and symbolizes the arrival of spring. The Lantern Festival is celebrated by enjoying various lantern displays and sweet glutinous rice balls, signifying the continuation of the New Year's joy and the hope for a fresh start.
3. Laba Rice Porridge Festival: According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, once herded cattle for a wealthy man. In one incident, his negligence led to a cow breaking its leg, for which he was harshly punished by being locked in a small room without food. In this state of hunger, he discovered a老鼠洞 (mouse hole) in the corner of the room filled with stolen red beans, rice, dates, and other grains. He cooked a pot of porridge with these ingredients and savored it. Since this occurred on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, he named the porridge "Laba" rice porridge. This festival is now observed by making and consuming Laba porridge, symbolizing charity and blessings for the coming year.

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