爱华网1.the Dragon Boat Festival (falling on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month)
请看端午节的相关英文介绍：
The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar holiday, occurring on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings. The celebration’s is a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying portraits of evil’s nemesis, Chung Kuei. If one manages to stand an egg on it’s end at exactly 12：00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.
上文的The Dragon Boat Festiva就是端午节。
众所周知，端午节(the Chu Emperor)是为了纪念楚国的大夫屈原(Qu Yuan)，他因为对朝廷的贪污腐败感到绝望而投河自尽。镇上的人纷纷冲上船去救他，却没有成功。后来大家把米撒到水里，希望把饥饿的鱼群从他的躯体边引开。
在端午节这天，人们都会吃粽子(zongzi)，并且举行划龙舟比赛(the traditions of racing dragon boats)。
Notesignificant：重要的
drumbeat：鼓声，打鼓
patriotic：爱国的
concoction：调和物
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