清明节英语介绍：节日文化英语介绍.docx

清明节英语介绍：节日文化英语介绍
Origin 清明节的起源
Qingming Festival, also known as Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day, is one n Period. He was one of many followers of Duke Wen of Jin before he became a duke. Once, during Wen”s 19 years of exile, they had no food and Jie prepared some meat soup for Wen. Wen enjoyed it a lot and wondered where Jie had obtained the soup. It turned out Jie had cut a piece of meat from his own thigh to make the soup. Wen was so moved he promised to reward him one day. However, Jie was not the type of person who sought rewards. Instead, he just wanted to help Wen to return to Jin to become king. Once Wen became duke, Jie resigned and stayed away from him. Duke Wen rewarded the people who helped him in the decades, but for some reason he forgot to reward Jie, who by then had moved into the forest with his mother. Duke Wen went to the forest, but could not find Jie. Heeding suggestions from his officials, Duke Wen ordered men to set the forest on fire to force out Jie. However, Jie died in the fire. Feeling remorseful, Duke Wen ordered three days without fire to honour Jie”s memory. The county where Jie died is still called Jiexiu (介休, literally “the place Jie rests forever“).



Customs 清明节的风俗****惯
Qingming Festival is a time of many different activities, among which the main ones are