五月五，是端午。門(mén)插艾，香滿(mǎn)堂。吃粽子，撒白糖。龍船下水喜洋洋。一年一度的端午節(jié)又到了。以前我只知道端午節(jié)要吃粽子，卻不知道怎么裹粽子，為什么要裹粽子。今年的端午節(jié)，我總算明白了。

　　May 5 is Dragon Boat Festival. The door is full of wormwood. Eat zongzi and sprinkle sugar. The dragon boat went into the water jubilantly The annual Dragon Boat Festival is here again. Before, I only knew that I would eat Zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival, but I didnt know how to wrap zongzi and why. This years Dragon Boat Festival, I finally understand.

　　瞧！我婆婆正忙得不亦樂(lè)乎呢，又要準(zhǔn)備粽子，又要準(zhǔn)備五紅和五黃?？雌牌虐兆?，我覺(jué)得是一種享受。只見(jiàn)她左手拿起一片粽葉，迅速地卷成漏斗狀，右手抓一把糯米塞進(jìn)粽葉，再用粽葉緊緊裹住糯米，然后用線把粽子扎緊。就這么一會(huì)兒功夫，碧綠的粽葉、雪白的糯米，搖身一變就成了一個(gè)三角形的粽子。

　　Look! My mother-in-law is so busy that she has to prepare zongzi, five red and five yellow. I think its a pleasure to see my mother-in-law making zongzi. She picked up a piece of Zongye in her left hand and quickly rolled it into a funnel-shaped shape. With her right hand, she grabbed a handful of glutinous rice and stuffed it into the Zongye. Then she tightly wrapped the glutinous rice in the Zongye and tied the zongzi with thread. In such a short time, green zongzi leaves and white glutinous rice are transformed into a triangle zongzi.

　　我問(wèn)婆婆：端午節(jié)為什么要包粽子呢？我也不太清楚，反正我們從小就是這樣過(guò)端午節(jié)。你去問(wèn)問(wèn)你外公。這時(shí)外公走過(guò)來(lái)說(shuō)：端午節(jié)吃粽子是為了紀(jì)念戰(zhàn)國(guó)時(shí)期的詩(shī)人屈原。楚國(guó)都城被秦國(guó)攻占了以后，屈原就投江自盡了。人們?yōu)榱瞬蛔尳锏聂~(yú)蝦把他吃掉，就包了粽子扔進(jìn)江里。賽龍舟的習(xí)俗也是這么來(lái)的。 www.joozone.com

　　I asked my mother-in-law, why do you make Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival? I dont know. Anyway, this is how we spent the Dragon Boat Festival when we were little. Ask your grandfather. At this time, grandpa came and said, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, the poet of the Warring States period. After the capital of Chu state was occupied by Qin state, Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river. In order not to let the fish and shrimps in the river eat him, people wrapped dumplings and threw them into the river. This is also the custom of dragon boat racing.

　　哦。你們小時(shí)候是怎么過(guò)端午節(jié)的?。?/p>

　　Oh. How did you spend the Dragon Boat Festival when you were little?

　　我們小時(shí)候過(guò)端午除了吃粽子，還要準(zhǔn)備五紅五黃。家家門(mén)口都掛艾草。

　　In addition to eating zongzi, we had to prepare five red and five yellow for the Dragon Boat Festival as children. Wormwood is hung at the door of every house.

　　什么叫五紅五黃??？

　　What is five red and five yellow?

　　應(yīng)該是五種吃的，我知道的有雄黃酒、鴨蛋、莧菜。

　　There should be five kinds of food. I know realgar wine, duck eggs and amaranth.

　　為什么要掛艾草呢？

　　Why do you want to hang wormwood?

　　因?yàn)榘萦幸环N特殊的香味，可以驅(qū)趕蚊蟲(chóng)。

　　Because wormwood has a special fragrance that can repel mosquitoes.

　　看來(lái)端午節(jié)的習(xí)俗真不少呢。

　　It seems that there are many customs of Dragon Boat Festival.

　　是啊，端午在過(guò)去是一個(gè)重要的節(jié)日呢，這些習(xí)俗也是傳統(tǒng)文化?。‖F(xiàn)在過(guò)端午沒(méi)有那么講究了，不過(guò)，粽子還是要包的。你跟你婆婆學(xué)學(xué)包粽子去吧！

　　Yes, the Dragon Boat Festival was an important festival in the past. These customs are also traditional culture! Now the Dragon Boat Festival is not so exquisite, but zongzi is still to be wrapped. You and your mother-in-law learn how to make zongzi!