清明节可以说 Tomb Sweeping Day,也可以说Qingming Festival。 The Qingming Festival in spring is the occasion for visiting ancestral graves. 清明节是扫墓拜祭先人的日子。 清明节有种扫墓的习俗叫前三后四,也就是说百姓扫墓应该选择清明节当天的前三天或者后四天去进行扫墓、祭拜逝去的亲人。为了倡导低碳祭拜,近几年,百姓们衍生出了许多低碳环保的祭拜方式,纸钱祭拜将逐渐淡去。 说到纸钱,英语中是怎么表述的呢?大家可能第一时间想到的就是paper money,不过字面上的确是纸钱的意思,实际上paper money的意思是纸质货币,与金属货币metal money相对应,是人世的钱,不是烧给死者的纸钱哦:例:The Song dynasty was the first government in world history to issue paper money. 宋朝是世界上第一个发行纸币的政府。 那么,烧给死者的纸钱是什么呢?一起来看看有哪些说法:By overloading the path with spiritual money, hopefully all troubled souls on the way will be too occupied with the money and leave the traveling-soul alone.在路上洒满纸钱,亡魂就会忙于捡钱,不会骚扰过路者。 Yan Wang is normally depicted wearing a Chinese judges cap and sometimes appears on Chinese Hell Bank Notes.阎王通常穿着一身古代官服,纸钱上也会有他的形象。 |