dragon Boat Festival
端午节
According to the Chinese lunar calendar, is China's folk traditional festival, Dragon Boat Festival, it is the Chinese traditional festivals. DuanWu also say, DuanYang prayer. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many nicknames, such as: good afternoon, section, fifty, May Day, bath orchid, sections, days, to la, poet, dragon, etc. Although different name, but overall, the local people's feast with different customs or more.The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, is over 2,000 years of tradition, region, because many nationalities, plus many stories, so not only produced many different section, but also has the same throughout the custom. It is the main content: hang kui took his daughter, like her, ghost ship, hide, esther YeFu midday midday, hanging calamus, grass, swim, diseases, peiwei feels ashamed: and the fight, dragon boat racing, strokes, swing, give children XiongHuang, drinking realgar wine with sweet, eat bread and wine, WuDu salty zongzi and seasonal fruit, etc, in addition to the superstitious color has already disappeared gradually activities, other has spread all over China and neighbouring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, has been a new development, broke through the time and geographical boundaries, become an international sporting event.
译文：
农历五月初五，是中国民间的传统节日——端午节，它是中华民族古老的传统节日之一。端午也称端五，端阳。此外，端午节还有许多别称，如：午日节、重五节，五月节、浴兰节、女儿节，天中节、地腊、诗人节、龙日等等。虽然名称不同，但总体上说，各地人民过节的习俗还是同多于异的。过端午节，是中国人二千多年来的传统习惯，由于地域广大，民族众多，加上许多故事传说，于是不仅产生了众多相异的节名，而且各地也有着不尽相同的习俗。其内容主要有：女儿回娘家，挂钟馗像，迎鬼船、躲午，帖午叶符，悬挂菖蒲、艾草，游百病，佩香囊，备牲醴,赛龙舟，比武，击球，荡秋千，给小孩涂雄黄，饮用雄黄酒、菖蒲酒，吃五毒饼、咸蛋、粽子和时令鲜果等，除了有迷信色彩的活动渐已消失外，其余至今流传中国各地及邻近诸国。有些活动，如赛龙舟等，已得到新的发展，突破了时间、地域界线，成为了国际性的体育赛事。
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