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校园冬至包饺子的英语作文 英语
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【答案】 Winter Solstice
As early as 2,500 years ago,about the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC),China had determined the point of Winter Solstice by observing movements of the sun with a sundial.It is the earliest of the 24 seasonal division points.The time will be each December 22 or 23 according to the Gregorian calendar.
The Northern hemisphere on this day experiences the shortest daytime and longest nighttime.After the Winter Solstice,days will become longer and longer.As ancient Chinese thought,the yang,or muscular,positive things will become stronger and stronger after this day,so it should be celebrated.
The Winter Solstice became a festival during the Han Dynasty and thrived in the Tang and Song dynasties.The Han people regarded Winter Solstice as a Winter Festival,so officials would organize celebrating activities.On this day,both officials and common people would have a rest.The army was stationed in,frontier fortresses closed and business and traveling stopped.Relatives and friends presented to each other delicious food.In the Tang and Song dynasties,the Winter Solstice was a day to offer scarifies to Heaven and ancestors.Emperors would go to suburbs to worship the Heaven; while common people offered sacrifices to their deceased parents or other relatives.The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) even had the record that Winter Solstice is as formal as the Spring Festival, showing the great importance attached to this day.
In some parts of Northern China,people eat dumpling soup on this day; while residents of some other places eat dumplings,saying doing so will keep them from frost in the upcoming winter.But in parts of South China,the whole family will get together to have a meal made of red-bean and glutinous rice to drive away ghosts and other evil things.In other places,people also eat tangyuan,a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous rice flour.The Winter Solstice rice dumplings could be used as sacrifices to ancestors,or gifts for friends and relatives.The Taiwan people even keep the custom of offering nine-layer cakes to their ancestors.They make cakes in the shape of chicken,duck,tortoise,pig,cow or sheep with glutinous rice flour and steam them on different layers of a pot.These animals all signify auspiciousness in Chinese tradition.People of the same surname or family clan gather at their ancestral temples to worship their ancestors in age order.After the sacrificial ceremony,there is always a grand banquet.
来写一点短的吧；冬至,顾名思义是“冬天到来”的意思.这是中国农历中一个非常重要的节气,也是中华民族的一个传统节日,也称“冬节”、“长至节”、“亚岁”等.冬至一般是在公历十二月二十一日至二十三日之间.依照中国传统的历法,五日为一候,三候为一气,一年又分为十二节和十二气,合称为二十四节气,而冬至就是二十四节气之一.这一天是北半球全年中白天最短、夜晚最长的一天.中国北方大部分地区在这一天有吃饺子的习俗.Winter solstice,as the name implies,means the coming of winter.As an important solar term in the traditional Chinese calendar,it is also a traditional holiday for Chinese,which is also called “冬节”,“长至节”,“亚岁”,etc.Generally,winter solstice occurs between December 21st and 23rd.According to the traditional Chinese calendar,five days constitutes a pentad and three pentads constitutes a solar term.One year is divided into twelve periods and twelve climates which are regarded as twenty-four solar terms.The Winter Solstice is one of twenty-four solar terms.On this day,in the Northern Hemisphere the period of daytime is the shortest of the year and the period of night is longest..In Northern China during winter solstice there is a custom of eating dumplings.
