清明节英语作文：清明节的由来

China's traditional Qingming Festival began about Zhou Dynasty, more than two thousand five hundred years of history. Qingming is the beginning of a very important solar terms, the Qingming arrives, temperatures rise, it is an excellent spring spring planting season, so there is "before Tomb Sweeping Festival, you reap what you sow beans." Afforestation, none other than lucid Nongyan. Later, as the Cold Food Qingming day close, and Cold Food grave civil fire ban days, gradually, Cold Food and Qingming on the combined, while the Cold Food Qingming both become another name, has become a custom for the Ching Ming Festival Japan does not move clear and bright fireworks, eat cold food.
About Cold Food, there is such a legend:
According to legend, Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Xian concubine Li Ji in order to allow his son Xi Qi throne, Prince is located deadly trap murdered Nobuo, Nobuo forced to commit suicide. Nobuo Chong Er's brother, in order to avoid the scourge of exile home. In exile, Chong Er suffered the humiliation. He had fled with him a courtiers, mostly after another all rushed out of the way to go. Only a handful of loyal people, always after him. One of them called Jie. On one occasion, Chong Er hungry fainted. In order to save Chong Er Jie, from his legs cut off a piece of meat, roasted on the fire gave Chong Er to eat. Nineteen years later, Chong Er return to do the monarch, is one of the famous Spring Hegemons Gong.
Gong after the ruling, to those courtiers and his big plus raised him through thick and thin, with the exception forgot Jie. Someone in front of Lord Wen Jie done an injustice. Gong suddenly remember the old things, his guilt and immediately sent for to be rewarded Jie towards official seal. However, the police went to a few times, Jie did not come. Gong had to go pro, please. However, when Jie Gong came home, I saw the door closed. Jie want to see, he has been carrying a mother hid Mianshan (now Shanxi Jiexiu County, southeast). Gong will let him Guards Mianshan search and did not find. So, someone had an idea to say, it is better to set fire to the mountains on three sides ignition, leaving the party, when fire from Jie come out on their own. Gong is ordered to move Huoshaoshan, guessed the big fire for three days and three nights, after the fire goes out, after all, seen Jie out. Up the hill and saw Jie mother and son holding a charred Daliushu dead. Gong Jie looked at the corpse Kubai while, and then bury the remains, found Jie backbone Duzhe willow tree holes, the hole seems to have something. I took a look, turned out to be pieces skirts, above the title of a poem blood:
Feng Jun loyalty flesh do, I hope my lord often Qingming.
Liu eventually seen mainly as a ghost, instead of passing Banjun for Jian Chen.
If the lord my heart, I recalled the often introspective.
Chen clear conscience in the nether world, diligent Qingming complex Qingming.
Gong Tibetan Book of the blood into the sleeve. Then Jie and his mother were buried under the big willow tree charred. To commemorate Jie, the lord ordered Mianshan to "medium mountain, establish shrine in the mountains, and to set fire to the mountain that day as the Cold Food Festival, spoke to the country, every year on this day the taboo fireworks, eat cold food.
When walking, he cutting some charred willow, to the palace made a double clogs, looking at it every day exclaimed:. "How sad indeed the first step," the first step is subordinate to the ancient mutual respect between superiors or peers title, it is said sources here.
The next year, Duke Wen led ministers, hiking clothes of mourning memorial, condolences. Line to the grave, I saw the old willow tree dead tree resurrection, Greenwood one thousand, wind wave. Looking at the resurrection of the old willow Gong, Jie like to see the same. He walked in front of respect, cherish pinch a little branch, made up a circle worn on the head. After the sweep, the resurrection of the old willow Gong Ciming "Ching Ming Liu, again this day as the festival.
Later, Lord Wen often put in blood sleeve in the side, as the ruling spur their own motto. His diligent Qingming, good governance, the governance well.
Since then, the Jin people to live and work, not home for active, Jie not miss FIG wealth. Every day he died, prohibit fireworks to represent the memorial. Also with flour and with Zaoni, shape looks like swallows, string together with willow strips, inserted in the door, call his soul, this thing called "the push Yan (also known as push Jie referral). Thereafter, Cold Food, Qingming became a national holiday every grand people Cold Food, people ie not for cooking, eating cold in the north, people eat well in advance of the cold, such as date bread, cakes and other wheat; in the South, are much more green Mission and glutinous rice sugar lotus. each Qingming, people wicker circle worn on the head, the wicker sticks inserted in their houses, to show miss.

我国传统的清明节大约始于周代，已有二千五百多年的历史。清明最开始是一个很重要的节气，清明一到，气温升高，正是春耕春种的大好时节，故有“清明前后，种瓜种豆。“植树造林，莫过清明的农谚。后来，由于清明与寒食的日子接近，而寒食是民间禁火扫墓的日子，渐渐的，寒食与清明就合二为一了，而寒食既成为清明的别称，也变成为清明时节的一个习俗，清明之日不动烟火，只吃凉的食品。
关于寒食，有这样一个传说：
相传春秋战国时代，晋献公的妃子骊姬为了让自己的儿子奚齐继位，就设毒计谋害太子申生，申生被逼自杀。申生的弟弟重耳，为了躲避祸害，流亡出走。在流亡期间，重耳受尽了屈辱。原来跟着他一道出奔的臣子，大多陆陆续续地各奔出路去了。只剩下少数几个忠心耿耿的人，一直追随着他。其中一人叫介子推。有一次，重耳饿晕了过去。介子推为了救重耳，从自己腿上割下了一块肉，用火烤熟了就送给重耳吃。十九年后，重耳回国做了君主，就是着名春秋五霸之一晋文公。
晋文公执政后，对那些和他同甘共苦的臣子大加封赏，唯独忘了介子推。有人在晋文公面前为介子推叫屈。晋文公猛然忆起旧事，心中有愧，马上差人去请介子推上朝受赏封官。可是，差人去了几趟，介子推不来。晋文公只好亲去请。可是，当晋文公来到介子推家时，只见大门紧闭。介子推不愿见他，已经背着老母躲进了绵山（今山西介休县东南）。晋文公便让他的御林军上绵山搜索，没有找到。于是，有人出了个主意说，不如放火烧山，三面点火，留下一方，大火起时介子推会自己走出来的。晋文公乃下令举火烧山，孰料大火烧了三天三夜，大火熄灭后，终究不见介子推出来。上山一看，介子推母子俩抱着一棵烧焦的大柳树已经死了。晋文公望着介子推的尸体哭拜一阵，然后安葬遗体，发现介子推脊梁堵着个柳树树洞，洞里好象有什么东西。掏出一看，原来是片衣襟，上面题了一首血诗：
割肉奉君尽丹心，但愿主公常清明。
柳下作鬼终不见，强似伴君作谏臣。
倘若主公心有我，忆我之时常自省。
臣在九泉心无愧，勤政清明复清明。
晋文公将血书藏入袖中。然后把介子推和他的母亲分别安葬在那棵烧焦的大柳树下。为了纪念介子推，晋文公下令把绵山改为“介山，在山上建立祠堂，并把放火烧山的这一天定为寒食节，晓谕全国，每年这天禁忌烟火，只吃寒食。
走时，他伐了一段烧焦的柳木，到宫中做了双木屐，每天望着它叹道：“悲哉足下。“足下是古人下级对上级或同辈之间相互尊敬的称呼，据说就是来源于此。
第二年，晋文公领着群臣，素服徒步登山祭奠，表示哀悼。行至坟前，只见那棵老柳树死树复活，绿枝千条，随风飘舞。晋文公望着复活的老柳树，像看见了介子推一样。他敬重地走到跟前，珍爱地掐了一下枝，编了一个圈儿戴在头上。祭扫后，晋文公把复活的老柳树赐名为“清明柳，又把这天定为清明节。
以后，晋文公常把血书袖在身边，作为鞭策自己执政的座佑铭。他勤政清明，励精图治，把国家治理得很好。
此后，晋国的百姓得以安居乐业，对有功不居、不图富贵的介子推非常怀念。每逢他死的那天，大家禁止烟火来表示纪念。还用面粉和着枣泥，捏成燕子的模样，用杨柳条串起来，插在门上，召唤他的灵魂，这东西叫“之推燕（介子推亦作介之推）。此后，寒食、清明成了全国百姓的隆重节日。每逢寒食，人们即不生火做饭，只吃冷食。在北方，老百姓只吃事先做好的冷食如枣饼、麦糕等；在南方，则多为青团和糯米糖藕。每届清明，人们把柳条编成圈儿戴在头上，把柳条枝插在房前屋后，以示怀念。