中国清明节的英文介绍：
BriefintroductiontotheQingmingFestival:
TheQingmingorChingMingFestival,alsoknownasTomb-SweepingDayinEnglish,isatraditionalChinesefestivalonthefirstdayofthefifthsolartermofthetraditionalChineselunisolarcalendar.Thismakesitthe15thdayaftertheSpringEquinox,either4or5Aprilinagivenyear.
QingminghasbeenregularlyobservedasastatutorypublicholidayinChina.ItbecameapublicholidayinChinain2008.
Theholidayisassociatedwiththeconsumptionofqingtuan,greendumplingsmadeofglutinousriceandbarleygrass.
OriginoftheQingmingFestival:
ThefestivaloriginatedfromtheColdFoodFestival("HanshiFestival"),establishedbyChong'er,DukeWenofJin,duringtheSpringandAutumnperiod.ThefestivalwasamemorialforhisretainerJieZitui,whohadloyallyfollowedhimduringhisyearsofexile.Supposedly,heonceevencutmeatfromhisownthightoprovideChong'erwithsoup.OnceChong'erwasenthronedasduke,however,Jieconsideredhisservicesnolongerrequiredandresigned.AlthoughDukeWenwasgenerousinrewardingthosewhohadhelpedhiminhistimeofneed,helongpassedoverJie,whohadmovedintotheforestwithhismother.DukeWenwenttotheforestin636BCbutcouldnotfindthem.HethenorderedhismentosetfiretotheforestinordertoforceJieout.WhenJieandhismotherwerekilledinstead,thedukewasovercomewithremorseandorderedthreedayswithoutfiretohonorJie'smemory.ThecityerectedovertheformerforestisstillcalledJiexiu(lit."Jie'srest").
TheQingmingFestivalinliterature:
QingmingwasfrequentlymentionedinChineseliterature.Amongthese,themostfamousoneisprobablyDuMu'spoem(simplytitled"Qingming"):。
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