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Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is one of Chinese traditionalfestivals. It's on the fifth day of the fifth lunarmonth. It is known as one of the four majortraditional festivals of Han Chinese together withthe Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. A number of theoriesexist about its origins, but the best accepted one is that it's for memorizing the famouspatriotic poet Qu Yuan. On this day, people have the customs of eating zongzi(rice dumpling),racing dragon boats and drinking realgar wine, etc. In 2008, it was recognized as a publicholiday in mainland China for the first time which cannot only help spread this traditionalculture but also meet the need of people.
1.农历:即阴历,“农历五月初五”即可翻译为on the fifthday of the fifth lunar month。
2.与…并称为:可以翻译为 known as...together with...。
3.端午节的来源有多种说法:不要一看见“有”字,就仅想到there are... “有” 也可以指“存在”,翻译时要注意合理的选词及句式的多变。“说法”也可翻译为theories。
4.粽子:可译为rice dumpling,也可直接添加拼音标注。
5.法定节假日:应译为public holiday。为了精确起见,中国的法定节日可加上地域限制in mainlandChina。