初一端午节的英语作文80词【经典20篇】

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During May day,I went to Shanghai with my family.We all fell in love with it at the moment we saw it.

Shanghai is really a beautiful city!There are many tall buildings and trees!There are also many flowers,it makes Shanghai look like a nice garden!If I have oppotunities to visit Shanghai again,I will be very happy! i go to beijing yestoday.i see great wall and so on .

im very happy because i see a old red man. he is 95 years old.i like him because he tel our many story.

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五一期间,我和我的家人去了上海。我们都爱上了它目前我们看到它。

上海真是一个美丽的城市!有很多高楼和树木!上海也有很多鲜花,看起来像一个漂亮的花园!如果我有机会再次访问上海,我将会非常快乐!我昨天去北京了。我看到长城等等。

我很高兴,因为我看到一个红色的老人。他已经95岁了。我喜欢他因为他电话我们的许多故事。

Dear Charlie,

I’m LiHua, president of the Student Union. I’m writing to invite you to our Dragon Boat Festival celebration, which is to be held in the Lecture Hall at 14:00 next Monday.

The Duanwu or Dragon Boat Festival, generally celebrated on the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calender, falls on June 18 this year. It is one of the oldest festivals in China, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Legend holds that this festival is in memory of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet during the Warring States Period.

In the celebration, you can enjoy a performance about that legend and watch live broadcast of dragon boat racing. In the meanwhile, varieties of Zongzi, an essential food for this unique occasion, are available, which take different shapes and various fillings. Come and join us!

Your early reply is highlyappreciated!

Yours,

Li Hua

My sister is a lovely girl. She has a nice English Name, “Elsa”. She is very clever and pretty. She is eight years old so she is old enough to go to school. This year, she tells me that she is a student now.

One day, my aunt took her to my home. My aunt had something important to do and had no time to look after her, so she told me to take care of her. First, I played with her for a short time. I thought the game was boring, so I taught her some polite words, such as hello, please, sorry… She listened carefully. Suddenly, there was a person knocking on the door. Elsa went to the door to open it. Afterwards, she was polite to say, “Please come in.”

Do you think she is lovely and clever? I think you will say, “Yes, I do.”

Today, I went to the grandmas home with my father and mother for the Dragon

Boat Festival. When we entered the door, grandma said, "today is Dragon Boat

Festival. Lets make dumplings." We promised. Grandma said, "bamboo leaves need

to be soaked for a while.

After a while, we began to pack the zongzi. Each of us picked up three

pieces of bamboo leaves, grabbed a handful of glutinous rice with our hands, put

them in the bamboo leaves, and put on some big red dates. And then wrap it into

a cone. Im glad to have a zongzi wrapped up. I said to grandma, "the dumplings

are so simple. Grandma said, "the real bag is not easy!" After finishing the

package, the dumplings were cooked.

Our whole family is very happy to eat sweet rice dumplings.

today is my grandpas birthday. our family went back to my grandpas home in the morning. we got together to have a big family dinner to celebrate his birthady. we bought a big birthday cake and gave some presents to my grandpa.

in the afternoon, we went to the park to go boating. we had a good time. my grandpa had a nice time on his birthday.

Today, the New Year.Everybody in new clothes, with new hats.Each family affixed to the couplet.When the sky was just fainted, people crackled with firecrackers.Today, every family eats jiaozi and tangyuan, which symbolizes the circle and happiness of the group.After breakfast, I went to the New Year with the adults, and the adults always gave the children a lot of candy and lucky money, and I couldnt fit in my pocket.

When we finished, my mother took us to the park. The park was busy and crowded.We had a great time.If only on the New Years day, how nice would it be?

今天，过新年。大家穿新衣，带新帽。每家每户贴对联。天刚朦朦亮，人们就噼里啪啦地放起了鞭炮。今天的早饭家家户户都吃饺子和汤圆，象征着团团圆圆，美满幸福。吃完早饭，我和大人一起去拜年，大人们总是给孩子们很多的糖果和压岁钱，我的口袋都装不下了。

我们拜完年，妈妈带我们去公园里玩，公园里人来人往，十分拥挤。我们玩的很开心。要是在新年的这一天过生日，那该多好呀?

端午节是我国传统节日之一，也叫端阳节、重午节。这个节日主要流行于汉、壮、布依、侗、土家、仡佬等民族地区。

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also called the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival day. This festival is mainly popular in the Han, Zhuang, Buyi, Dong, Tujia, Gelao ethnic minority areas.

学者闻一多还认为，端午节是龙节，是四五千年以前南方少数民族纪念龙神的日子。端午节的主要活动是赛龙舟和吃粽子。相传赛龙舟是为了捞救投汩罗江而死的爱国诗人屈原。把粽子投入江中，是让鱼虾吃饱了，不再吃屈原的遗体。端午节的来历我不是特别清楚。端午节的欢乐之时，人们也要把房子打扫干净，还要在厨房里洒上雄黄水，用来杀死毒虫或防止毒虫滋生。

Scholar Wen Yiduo also believes that the Dragon Boat Festival is the Dragon Festival, four thousand or five thousand years ago to commemorate the day of dragon of ethnic minorities in South china. The main activities of the Dragon Boat Festival is the dragon boat races and eating rice dumplings. According to legend, the dragon boat race is the Miluo River to die in order to rescue the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Put the dumplings into the river, is to let the fish eat, do not eat Qus body. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival: I dont know much. The Dragon Boat Festival joy, people will have the house clean, but also in the kitchen with realgar water, used to kill or prevent the worm worm breeding.

端午又称为重五的原因是端午的许多习俗也与“五”这个数字联系在一起，比如人们用五种颜色的线系在儿童的脖颈，称为长命缕。各家还要插“五端”，南方还要吃五黄。

The Dragon Boat Festival is also called the five reason is many customs of dragon boat is also associated with the number five relates in together, such as people with five kinds of color lines on the childs neck, called a long thread. Each will insert "five ends", the South eat yellows.

希望端午节能流传下去，到永远。

Wish Dragon Boat Festival is going to last, forever.

A Chinese holiday is gaining worldwide popularity

Some holidays are so much fun that they catch on outside of their culture. The most obvious example is probably Christmas, which is celebrated around the world by people who arent even Christian. Similarly, in recent years, the Dragon Boat Festival has moved beyond China to become an international holiday celebrated by people who may know little about the holidays origins.

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of three major Chinese holidays, along with the Spring and Moon Festivals. Of the three, it is possibly the oldest, dating back to the Warring States Period in 227 B.C. The festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a minister in the service of the Chu Emperor. Despairing over corruption at court, Qu threw himself into a river. Townspeople jumped into their boats and tried in vain to save him. Then, hoping to distract hungry fish from his body, the people scattered rice on the water.

Over the years, the story of Qus demise transformed into the traditions of racing dragon boats and eating zongzi – a kind of rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. The races have certainly captured the imagination of people from all over the world. Every spring there are nearly 60 dragon boat races held outside of China in cities from Vancouver to Sydney, from Gdańsk, Poland to Cape Town, South Africa. Canada alone has nearly 50 dragon boat teams and Germany has nearly 30.

So what is it about the Dragon Boat Festival that appeals to foreigners? “Its an unusual sport,” says one racer from Germany. “Its not like everybodys doing it. Thats one of the reasons that theres such great team spirit in a dragon boat team – everybody feels like were doing something special.” And what about the zongzi? “Ehhh, theyre not bad, I guess,” he says. “Something of an acquired taste. I just havent really acquired it yet.”

I have many favorite holiday, such as: the Dragon Boat Festival and the double ninth festival, but I most like the needlework. Because the needlework section is by niulang and zhinv, below I will speak to you of the origin of the needlework section.

Met a sick one day, the cowherds workhorse, cowherd saw it was ill, and was taken care of.

One day, met a group of vega cowherd, and fell in love with the one of the female, the vega also like cowboy, they lived a happy life. This thing is know the heavenly queen, and catch the vega on the day.

After women talked: "when I die, I made a pair of leather shoes, you can walking." The old cow died, cowherd took the old cow leather to make shoes, find vega flew to heaven, but was head of the heavenly queen hair clasp into the Milky Way of blocking the way. Cowboy on the other side has kept many days, finally, was touched by the heavenly queen so heavenly queen in July 7th this one day, only to meet niulang and zhinv. Vega ingenuity, women are begging for blessing themselves can also ingenuity.

This is the origin of the needlework section.

我有许多喜欢的节日，比如：端午节、重阳节，但我最喜欢乞巧节。因为乞巧节是由牛郎和织女而来的，下面我就来给你讲一讲乞巧节的由来吧。

有一天，牛郎碰见一头生病的老黄牛，牛郎见它生病了，就悉心照料。

有一天，牛郎碰见一群织女，并喜欢上了其中一个织女，那个织女也很喜欢牛郎，他们过上了幸福的生活。这事被王母娘娘知道了，又把织女抓上了天。

老牛说话了：“等我死了以后，把我的皮做成一双鞋，你就可以腾云驾雾了。”老牛死了以后，牛郎把老牛的皮做成了鞋，飞上了天去找织女，可是却被王母娘娘头上的簪子变成的银河挡住了去路。牛郎在对面守了许多天，最后王母娘娘也被感动了，所以王母娘娘只在七月七日这一天，让牛郎和织女见面。织女心灵手巧，女人都乞福自己也能心灵手巧。

这就是乞巧节的来历。

The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Double FifthFestival, is celebrated on May 5th on lunarcalendar.It is a folk festival widely spread with ahistory of over 2,000 years, and is one of the mostimportant Chinese festivals as well. There are variouscelebrating activities on that day, among which the customs of eating rice dumplings anddragon boat racing are quite important.There are many legends on the origin of the DragonBoat Festival.Some people think it is to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan, while others say it isto be in honour of Wu Zixu, a famous general during the Warring States period. However, thelegend of Qu Yuan spreads most widely. People appreciate highly the noble sentiment andprominent talent of this patriotic poet and are very sympathetic with the ending that hecommitted suicide by drowning himself in a river.

端午节(the Dragon Boat Festival)，又称重五节，于每年农历五月初五庆祝。 这是广泛流传2000多年的民间节日，也是中国最重要的节日之一。端午节当天举行各种庆祝活动，吃粽子和赛龙舟(dragon boat racing)是其中的重要习俗。关于端午节的起源，有很多传说。一部分人认为端午节是为了纪念诗人屈原，另一部分人则认为是为了纪念战国时期的著名将领伍子胥。然而，屈原的传说流传最广。人们非常欣赏这位爱国诗人的高尚情操和出众才华，更对他投江自尽的结局深表同情。

The summer vacation this year, our family person went a lot of a lot of

amused interesting place plays, we went 101 buildings, lunar eyebrow explores

Eden, gao Tie explores a house... etc amused interesting place plays, what I

feel happy days always passes is very fast, I spend the summer vacation this

year very happily, so I just can feel happy to light always passes very quickly.

I am written down so that our family has the summer vacation this year the 101

buildings that go to Taipei city, when elevator still does not have attic, can

see Taipei city, I feel I am like is big giant, the house resembles is toy

house, the car resembles is toy house, the person resembles is small ant euqally

small, I feel absorbing.

Besides, our family still has go lunar eyebrow explores Eden, over there

very big! We play skyscraping annulus first, skyscraping annulus can reach very

tall place, we play corsair later, corsair left and right sides shakes special

stimulation, we still have go playing very resemble rotating the You Le

establishment of coffee cup, establishment of this You Le is very amused, if did

not help good armrest up to be able to slip all the time,will slip, this I feel

very interesting, we still have go playing imperial crown swing, establishment

of this one You Le wont be very exciting, when rotating, have slightly wind is

blown, this feeling seems to blowing fanner, nevertheless, the fanner of its

nature, besides this a few swim interestingly again amusedly outside happy

establishment, still have a lot of amused You Le establishment! The summer

vacation this year, our family besides go 101 buildings and Eden of lunar

eyebrow exploration play, still have go Gao Tie explores a canal to look around,

gao Tie has the thing of a lot of a lot of Guan Wugao iron inside exploration

house, have: Film appreciation, the game that fish, drive Gao Ties game, for

very the appearance of Gao Tie is 3 pediform principle... wait a few amused

interesting establishment, I acquired a lot of knowledge inside house of tall

iron exploration.

I feel although this one summer vacation passes exceedingly quickly,

nevertheless, I went to the place of a lot of playing in this one summer

vacation, also increased the knowledge of a lot of in a lot of place, I saw

Taipei city in the 101 buildings of Taipei city, also explored a house to

understand Gao Tie in Gao Tie, had termed begins now, my hope is fine

nevertheless summer vacation comes quickly, can look around to each district and

amuse oneself.

I have a happy family, this family is very warm. Family members have father, mother, and very naughty to me.

Mother sometimes tough, sometimes gentle, just something about her tough time!!!! One day, my mother and I was watching TV, I put the sofa of the ribbon to pull down, to see the mother said: "ice ice, I know its you pull, I ask you, why want to drag off the ribbon?" I was afraid, he said: "mom, not me, is it fell off." Mother said: "his pen will walk? Clothes move?" That I was afraid. Finally, dont have to and mother noisy up. Noisy for a while, I will back to his room. Wanted to think, feel should not lie. So, I then walked out of the room and said to mother: "Im sorry, but I pulled ribbon is." Mom smiled and said to me: "brave admit a mistake, it is a good boy, later should do an honest boy."

My father is a serious person, sometimes I write my homework is not serious, my father fire emit three zhangs, and said, "hurry to do homework cant half-hearted." As soon as I heard the stern voice I do quickly, good father also accompany me to go downstairs to play or watch cartoons. Look, this is my father.

Naughty I very love make little damaged, mother in the home clean and tidy, let me get very disorderly, mom and dad gave me up a nickname is a rascal.

Mom and dad to me is tough, but I know they are teaching me how to do a good boy, I for myself and proud to have such a good family. Mom and dad you gave me love, I also dont finish the rest of my life. If the next life god give me the chance, you are my mom and dad. Mom and dad I want to say to you: "I love you."

我有一个快乐的家庭，这个家庭很温馨。家庭里的成员有爸爸、妈妈，还有很调皮的我。

妈妈有时严厉，有时温和，就讲一讲她严厉的时候吧!有一天，我和妈妈在看电视的时候，我把沙发上的丝带给拽下来了，妈妈看见了就说：“冰冰，我就知道是你拽的，我问你，为什么要拽掉丝带呢?”我心里很害怕，就说：“妈妈，不是我拽的，是它自己掉下来的。”妈妈便说：“钢笔会自己走呀?衣服自己能动啊?”这一下我就害怕了。最后，没办法只好和妈妈吵起来了。吵了一会儿，我就回到了自己的房间。想了想，感觉自己不应该说谎。于是，我便走出房间，对妈妈说：“对不起，丝带是我拽的。”妈妈笑着对我说：“勇敢的承认错误，真是个好孩子，以后应该做一个诚实的好孩子。”

我的爸爸是个严肃的人，我有时候写作业不认真，爸爸就火冒三丈地说：“快点做，写作业不能三心二意的。”我一听到这严厉的声音就赶快做，表现好的时候爸爸还陪我下楼玩或看动画片。看，这就是我的爸爸。

调皮的我就很爱搞小破坏了，家里妈妈收拾整齐的东西，让我弄的很乱，妈妈和爸爸便给我起了一个外号叫捣蛋鬼。

爸爸、妈妈对我严厉，但我心里知道他们是在教我怎样做一个好孩子，我为我自己有一个这么好的家庭而骄傲。妈妈、爸爸你们给我的爱，我一辈子都还不完。如果下辈子上天再给我机会的话，你们还是我的爸爸和妈妈。爸爸、妈妈我要对你们说一声：“我爱你们。”

Im looking for a weekend. Its happy and its free. This is my dream.

At this weekend, I dont have to play the violin; I dont have to draw pictures; Olympic Maths is far away from me; Handwriting doesnt bother me.

I can play and I can sing; I can do everything interesting. No one can stop me.

Oh, what a happy weekend! But, its only my dream. I hope it will come true.

An unforgettable thing during Summer vacation

暑期难忘的一件事

It was a sunny day today,when I got up in the morning, I decided to see my grandparents. So I took the bus and got there at noon,they were happy to see me, and I was very happy, too.

今天天气不错,太阳天.当我早上醒来,我决定去看看爷爷奶奶,所以我乘巴士中午到了那里,爷爷奶奶看到我很开心,而且我也很开心。

In the afternoon, my farther asked me to help him water the plant, and I was happy to see the flowers smiling in the wind.

下午爸爸叫我帮他给植物浇水,看到那些在风中微笑的花儿我很开心。

In a word, today is a unforgetive day. because I saw my relatives and helped people.

总的说来,今天是难忘的一天.因为我去看了亲戚也帮助了他人。

winter is my favourite season. because my birthday is in it. it lasts from december to february. in winter it is cloudy, windy, cold and dry. in winter i take off my dress and put on my coat. i can make a snowman, go sking and go skating in it. i can drink chocolate. but i can’t drink cold water and eat ice-creams. winter is white. i like winter very much.

Look this is my English teacher .Hes tall and fat .Hes very fanny !

He has two small eyes ,and a big mouth.I tell you, he looks like a big bear.

So,If I meet him I often said :Hello,Mr bear .And he said :Hell ,small bear.Because my classmates think I look like a bear too.

My English teacher works very hard .And he often tell us :You must

very hard to leron English .

I like my English

teacher very mueh!!!!

Welcome to meet my English!!!!

Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, and finally to the new years day, I am happy! That kind of feeling, strange, like eating honey, is simply indescribable in language.

Early morning, my mother called me up, I rubbed my eyes: "what are you doing? So call me so early? " Mother said, "today is your grandfathers birthday, we have to go faster." I reluctantly dressed, washed and finished, and my mother pulled me around. I felt like I was running so fast for the first time in my life. My mother was still running, saying, "hurry up, hurry up, the car is leaving." Walking on the street, the streets are gray. Because the streets are deserted in the morning and no shop opens, they cant see that today is new years day. There is no doubt about the atmosphere of new years day.

In the country, a lot of fog, everywhere there is the sound of firecrackers, the way people are gathered together, talk about their home in the new years Day is to kill a few pigs, slaughter a few sheep, and buy what new things, everyone put on new clothes, filled with a smile. In the face, giving a feeling of children bursting with happiness, have also come out, with new toys, their families run around here and there, in the run between, to the club to candy, to Hezekiah to drink, no one to blame them, because this is after all new years Day!

However, I am not interested in this, because I still miss me >warm quilt!

On the morning of new years day, I opened my eyes with the sound of a firecracker. Open the calendar, open a new year, open a wonderful story. I l

In recent years our life is becoming better andbetter. But our environment

is becoming worse and worse. It’s very bad for ourlife. Now many people have

air-conditioners and cars, they produce (give off )waste gas. More and more

trees are being cut down. There are so much sand onthe earth (leaving only sand

) . We often see factories pour waste into riversor lakes. Water in the river is

quite dirty. We haven’t enough clean water todrink in cities. Now we are in

danger. It’s very necessary and important toprotect the environment well. I

think if everyone tries his best to protect theenvironment, the world will

become much more beautiful , and our life will bebetter and better .

dragon boat festival, often known as tuen ng festival or duan wu festival, is a traditional chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the chinese calendar. it is also known as the double fifth.it has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of east asia as well, most notably korea.

端午节，往往被称为端午节，端午节，是中国的传统节日在中国日历的第五个月的第五天举行。它也被称为双第五。它已被庆祝，以各种方式，在东亚地区，尤其是韩国。

the exact origins of duan wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the chinese poet qu yuan of the warring states period. he committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the chu government. the local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fishes to prevent them from eating qus body. they also sat on dragon boats, and tried to scare the fishes away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking dragon-head in the front of the boat.

端午确切的起源尚不清楚，但一个传统的观点认为，这个节日纪念中国诗人屈原战国时期。他自杀的河中溺死自己，因为他讨厌楚国的政府腐败。当地的人，知道他是一个好人，决定把食物扔到河里喂鱼来防止他们吃屈原的尸体。他们还坐在龙艇，并试图恐吓鱼类远离的齐鸣声在前面的船船和凶猛的龙头鼓。

in the early years of the chinese republic, duan wu was also celebrated as "poets day", due to qu yuans status as chinas first poet of personal renown.

在民国初期，端午节又为“诗人节”，由于屈原的地位，作为中国第一诗人的个人名声。

today, people eat zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fishes) and race dragon boats in memory of qus dramatic death.

今天，人们吃粽子(食物原本打算饲料鱼类)和赛龙舟来纪念屈原的壮举。

How to protect the environment has become one of thebiggest problems in the

world .

It’s our duty to protect our environment . No matterwhere we live , we

should do something to keep our neighborhood clean and tidy. We can collect

waste paper or other waste things for recycling. We shouldplant more trees and

we should prevent those factories from pouring waste waterinto rivers, lakes and

fields. Weshouldn’t leave rubbish everywhere and spit in public places . We

mustn’t pickthe flowers or step on the grass in public. If everyone tries his

best toprotect the environment , the world will become much more beautiful and

ourlife will be better and better .

战国时代楚秦争夺霸权，诗人屈原位列右大夫，很受楚王器重。后来，屈原的主张遭到上官大夫靳尚为首的守旧派的反对，他们不断在楚怀王的面前诋毁屈原，楚怀王渐渐疏远了屈原。有着远大抱负的屈原倍感痛心，他怀着难以抑制的忧郁悲愤，写出了《离骚》、《天向》等不朽诗篇。

The Warring States Chu chin hegemony, the poet Qu Yuan ranks right doctor, highly popular with the king of chu. Later, Qu Yuans idea Shangguan doctor Jin Shang led the conservative opposition, they constantly in front of chuhuaiwang vilify Qu Yuan chuhuaiwang alienated the Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan has lofty aspirations more distressed, he with difficulty suppressed anger depression, write the "Li Sao", "days" and other immortal poems.

公无前229年，秦国攻占了楚国八座城池，接着又派使臣请楚怀王去秦国议和。屈原看破了秦王的阴谋，冒死进宫陈述利害，楚怀王不但不听，反而将屈原逐出郢都。楚怀王如期赴会，一到秦国就被囚禁起来，楚怀王悔恨交加，忧郁成疾，三年后客死于秦国。楚顷襄王即位不久，秦王又派兵攻打楚国，顷襄王仓惶撤离京城，秦兵攻占郢都。屈原在流放途中，接连听到楚怀王客死和郢都攻破的噩耗后，万念俱灰，仰天长叹一声，投入了滚滚激流的汩罗江。江上的渔夫和岸上的百姓听说屈原大夫投江自尽，都纷纷来到江上奋力打捞屈原的尸体，同时拿来了粽子、鸡蛋投入江中。有些郎中还把雄黄酒倒入江中，以便药昏蛟龙水兽使屈原大夫尸体免遭伤害。

No public 229 years ago, the state of Qin conquered the eight cities, and then sent envoys please go to the representative qin. Qu Yuan saw through the plot, risked his life to enter the palace of King Huai statements of interest, not only did not listen, but Qu Yuan will be expelled from the capital. The king of Chu scheduled to attend the meeting, to the state of Qin was imprisoned, King Huai mixed feelings of remorse and shame, depression disease, three years after the death of Yu Qinguo. King Xiang of Chu are ascended the throne soon, he also sent troops to attack Chu king Qingxiang, desperate to evacuate the capital, Qin Bing capture. Qu Yuan in exile, has heard the king of Chu die off and break the bad news, All thoughts are blasted., sigh a, invested rolling rapids of the river. Jiang on the fishermen and people on shore heard the doctor Qu Yuan drowned himself in a river, have come to the river to salvage the bodies of Qu Yuan, at the same time brought Tzu, eggs into the river. Some healers also hsiunghuang wine poured into the river, so that drug faint water dragon beast doctor so that the body of Qu Yuan from harm.

从此，每年五月初的屈原投江殉难日，楚国人民都到江上划龙舟，投粽子，以此来纪念伟大的爱国诗人，端午节的风俗就这样流传下来。

Since then, every year in early five Qu Yuan Jiang martyrs day to vote, Chu people rowing on the river, throwing dumplings to commemorate the