购物英文-辽五味子
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清明时节雨纷纷，疫情期间云祭扫。
Tomb-
sweeping Day during the coronavirus outbreak
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The Qingming Festival is an important
traditional Chinese holiday. It is also
called
Tomb-sweeping Day, for on that day Chinese people
will offer
sacrifices to their ancestors and
sweep the tombs of the dead family members.
Because the weather is usually clear and
bright at that time, it is also called
Pure
Brightness Festival. As one of the Chinese 24
solar terms, it is an
important seasonal
symbol for agriculture. After the festival, the
temperature
rises up and rainfall increases.
So it marks a good time to plow (耕地) and sow.
It is also a good time for Chinese people to
go outside to enjoy the greenery of
spring.
In 2020, the Qingming Festival falls on April
4. To help control the epidemic,
many Chinese
cities have launched an online service platform
for this year’s
Tomb-sweeping Day. Yang Ling,
who works at the Nanjing funeral
management
office, said that people can ask cemetery (公墓)
workers to
sweep tombs for them or
honor their ancestors on cemetery websites.
Origin of the festival
The Qingming
Festival dates back to the Spring and Autumn
Period
(770-476 BC) to commemorate (纪念) a
loyal official called Jie Zitui. Jie cut a
piece of flesh from his own leg in order to
save his hungry lord who was forced
to go into
exile (流放). The lord came back to his position as
the emperor
nineteen years later and forgot
Jie Zitui. But later he felt ashamed and decided
to reward him. However, Jie had blocked
himself up in a mountain with his
mother. In
order to find Jie, the emperor ordered that the
mountain should be
set on fire. Later Jie was
found dead with his mother under a willow (柳树). In
order to commemorate Jie, the emperor
announced that the day Jie died was
Hanshi
(Cold Food) Festival — the day that no fire was
allowed and only cold
food could be second
year after Jie died, the emperor went to the
mountain to honor him and found the willow
where Jie died beside revived. So
he gave the
willow the name of “Qingming Willow” and set the
day after Hanshi
Festival to be the Qingming
Festival. Gradually, the two festivals combined
into
the present Qingming Festival.
1. Why is the Qingming Festival called Tomb-
sweeping Day?
A. Because on that day the
weather is usually clear and bright.
B.
Because on that day Chinese people will meet their
ancestors .
C. Because on that day Chinese
people will sweep the tombs of the dead
family members.
D. Because it
sounds beautiful.
2. What is the Qingming
Festival called?
-sweeping Day
b.
Dragon Boat Festival
c. Lantern
Festival Brightness Festival
B.
ac
C. ad
did many
Chinese cities do during the Qingming Festival in
2020?
Chinese cities have canceled the Tomb-
sweeping Day.
Chinese cities have launched
an online service platform for this
year’s
Tomb-sweeping Day.
Chinese cities do nothing
else as before.
Chinese cities have advised
people to sweep tomb.
Qingming Festival
is to commemorate___?
Yu Zitui.
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