今日大寒！奇速英语祝您腊八节快乐（附习俗英文表达）

今日大寒！冬将尽，春将始

我们迎来二十四节气中最后一个节气【大寒】

坚冰深处春水生

大寒意味着四时的终结

也预兆着新春的开始

腊八节是春节的开端，正式拉开了庆祝春节的序幕，这样重要的节日用英语怎么介绍呢？今天就来和小编一起看看吧。双语视频 |《四季中国》大寒（私信老师获取）

腊八节由来传说

Laba Festival there are two legendary origin. Buddha Sakyamuni Buddha said that a move mountain cultivation. December eighth day that day because of hunger and fatigue Zaidao street, was a shepherdess found with large gruel saved so that he Dachedawu. Enlightenment and Buddha. One said that the Ming emperor Zhu Yuan-hour cattle to the rich because the rich bracket was broken off in a room, three days did not give anything to eat, he was unbearable hunger. Searched everywhere. Finally found a rat hole, dig out the beans, grain and other food, Zhu Chengyu consumption, find it very sweet.

腊八节的由来有两个传说。一说佛祖释迦牟尼成佛前进山修行，十二月初八这天因饥饿劳累栽倒路旁，被一牧羊女发现，用大米粥救活，使他大彻大悟，得道成佛。一说，明朝皇帝朱元璋小时给财主放牛，因牛腿摔断被财主关在一间屋子里，3天没给饭吃，他饥饿难忍，到处搜寻，终于发现了一个老鼠洞，从中挖掘出豆、谷等各种粮食，煮成粥食用，觉得非常香甜。

Later, the emperor made the emperor, thinking a child eat porridge and that the taste of Dayton, he ordered his eunuchs to use a variety of food cooked up a pot of sugar porridge, feast courtiers, after North Korea Wenwubaiguan emulated and passed civil society, Sui Cheng A holiday customs. By Zhu Yuan sugar porridge eighth day of the days of the twelfth lunar month, so this porridge is also called laba porridge.

后来朱元璋做了皇帝，想起小时候吃那顿粥的味道，就命太监用各种粮食煮了一锅糖粥，欢宴群臣，后朝中文武百官争相效仿并传入民间，遂成了一种节日习俗。因朱元璋吃糖粥的日子是腊月初八，所以这粥也就叫腊八粥了。

Laba is a grand festival of Buddhism. Before the liberation around the temple for Buddha’s Birthday will be held prayers, and, like the Buddha into the Road, before the story of The Legend of chylous Munv Xian, with fragrant valley, fruit, etc. porridge worship Buddha, called laba porridge. Laba porridge and will be presented to the disciples and the believers, it would be in civil Xiangyan into the vulgar. Some monasteries in the twelfth lunar month is said to eighth day before the hand-held by the monks alms bowl, street alms, will be collected rice, chestnuts, dates, nuts and other ingredients laba porridge distributed to the poor.

“腊八”是佛教的盛大节日。解放以前各地佛寺作浴佛会，举行诵经，并效仿释迦牟尼成道前，牧女献乳糜的传说故事，用香谷、果实等煮粥供佛，称“腊八粥”。并将腊八粥赠送给门徒及善男信女们，以后便在民间相沿成俗。据说有的寺院于腊月初八以前由僧人手持钵盂，沿街化缘，将收集来的米、栗、枣、果仁等材料煮成腊八粥散发给穷人。

After eating legend could be the Buddha’s blessing, so poor, it is called the Buddha congee. Southern Song Dynasty, Lu You a poem that goes: at the present Buddha congee is more relative to feed, and anti-sense Emura a new section of material. Hangzhou temples temple is said to store leftovers within a stack of rice floor, usually every day the monks leftovers dried, plot a years of surplus grain to the lunar calendar laba porridge boiled eighth day he gave copies to his followers, known as Fu-zhou Ford porridge, which means that after eating you can Zengfu Zengshou. It is obvious that the monks cherish the virtues of food.

传说吃了以后可以得到佛祖的保佑，所以穷人把它叫做“佛粥”。南宋陆游诗云：“今朝佛粥更相馈，反觉江村节物新。”据说杭州名刹天宁寺内有储藏剩饭的“栈饭楼”平时寺僧每日把剩饭晒干，积一年的余粮，到腊月初八煮成腊八粥分赠信徒，称为“福寿粥”“福德粥”意思是说吃了以后可以增福增寿。可见当时各寺僧爱惜粮食之美德。

腊八节习俗

temple寺庙施粥

According to written records,large Buddhist temples would offer it to the poor to show their faith to Buddha.

In the Ming Dynasty about 500 years ago,it became such a holy food that emperors would offer it to their officials during festivals.As it gained favor in the feudal upper class,it also quickly became popular thoughout the country.

根据有记载的历史，大的佛寺要向穷人施粥以显示对佛祖的信仰。在距今500年前的明朝，腊八粥变成了神圣的食物，就连皇帝也要在过节的时候赐粥给群臣。在封建上层社会的推动下，腊八粥迅速风靡全国。

腊八粥（Laba porridge）

The laba porridge is not only a yummy traditional rite in China to mark the laba festival but also a delicacy good for health.

腊八节喝腊八粥是中国传统习俗，腊八粥不仅好喝，对身体也十分有益。

腊八粥，表达为"laba porridge";"la"即“腊”，农历12月就是“腊月”，即"12th lunar month"。腊八就是腊月初八，这天要喝的腊八粥也称八宝粥，即"babao porridge(eight treasures)"。

腊八粥由多种食材熬制，但所用材料各地不同，主要成分包括糯米 glutinous rice,红豆 red beans,薏米 lillets,大米 Chinese sorghum,莲子 lotus seeds,枣 dates,栗子 chestnuts,核桃 walunt,杏仁 almonds,花生 peanuts等。

腊八蒜(laba garlic)

In North China there is a custom of pickling garlic in vinegar on Laba Day.After some pickling,the garlic will turn green.This pickled garlic goes very well with dumplings.In Chinese,the words"garlic"and"calculate"have the same pronunciation;therefore,eating garlic on Laba Day is symbolic of reckoning the year's income and expenses as years-end approaches.

在中国的北方有一个习俗，在腊八节的时候把蒜泡到醋中，经过醋的浸泡后，蒜会变的通体碧绿。经过醋泡过的蒜和饺子一起吃更配哦~在中国“蒜”和“算”同音，随着年底的临近，在腊八节那天吃蒜是计算整年收支的象征。

腊八面(laba noodles)

Because northerners like foods made from wheat flour,they eat Laba noodles on Laba Day.

因为北方人喜欢吃小麦面粉做的食物，所以在腊八节这天他们吃腊八面。

煮五豆(boiling five kinds of beans)

In some areas,people boil five kinds of beans and make a dough in the shape of sparrow's head on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month.They believe if they eat "sparrow heads",the sparrows will have headaches and not harm their crops in the coming year.

有一些地区，人们在农历十二月初八那天煮五种豆子，还要用面团揉成一个麻雀的头的形状。人们相信如果吃“麻雀头”，麻雀就会头疼，来年他们就不会伤害农作物。

吃冰(eating ice)

Northerners have a custom of leaving a basin of water outside the house to be frozen;they break this ice into pieces and eat it on Laba Day.The ice on this day is said to possess supernatural power,capable of keeping those who eat it free from stomachache for a whole year.

北方人有一个习俗，他们在房子外面放一盆水等水冻成冰，在腊八节那天把冰捣碎并把它吃掉。据说，这天的冰拥有超自然的力量，它能让吃了的人一整年都不会肚子疼。

有关腊八节的英语作文

Laba rice porridge contains glutinous rice,red beans ,millet,Chinese sorghum,peas,dried lotus seeds,red reans and some other ingredients,such as dried dates,chestnut meat,walnut meat,almond,peanut,etc.Actually eight ingredient are used,cooked with sugar to make the porridge tasty.

Northerners prefer to use glutinous rice,red beans,dates,lotus seeds,dried pulp,walnuts,pine nuts and other dried fruits in their porridge;south erners like a salty porridge prepared with rice,soybeans,peanuts,broad beans,taro,water chestnuts,walnuts,vegetables and diced meat.In the north,it is a dessert with sugar added;in the south,salt is put in.Some people like to add cinnamon and other condiments to add flavor.Controlling the heat is of great importance in making laba porridge.At the start,the flame must be high,but the fire is then turned down to let the porridge simmer until it begins to emit a very delicious smell.The process is time-consuming but not complicated.

Laba porridge is not only easy to prepare,but also a nutritious winter food because it contains amino acids,protein,vitamins and other nutrition people need.Cooked nuts and dried fruit are good for soothing nerves,nourishing one's heart and vitality,and strengthening the spleen.Perhaps that is why it is also called babao(eight treasure)porridge.

在腊八节来临之际，首先感谢各位老师对奇速英语的支持，祝大家腊八节快乐！