元宵节神话故事英语版及翻译【精选资料】

元宵节神话故事英语版及翻译

there are many stories on how this festival was

created. one other story is about a maid. in the han

dynasty, mr. eastern was a favorite advisor of the emperor.

onee winter dayy, he went to the gardeen and heardd a little ggirl

crying and gettingg ready to jump into a well to commmit

suicidee. mr. easteern stopped her and askked why. shee said

she wwas a maid in the emperor’s palacee and her naame was

yuann-xiao.

she never had the chance to meet her family afteer

she started worked aat the palacce. she misssed them so

much every 12th lunar month. if sshe couldn’t have

the cchance to shhow her filial piety inn this life, she would

rather die. mr. eastern promid her to findd a way so sshe

could reeunion with her family. mr. eastern left the palace

and t up a foortune-telling stall onn the street and

disguid himlf as a fortuuneteller. bbecau of hhis

reputation, many peeople asked for their fortunes.

buut every onee got the saame prediction - a veere fire

acccident on thhe 15th lunaar day. the rumor spreaad quickly.

everyone waas worried aabout the fuuture and assked mr.

easstern for heelp. mr. easstern said, “on the 13th lunar dayy,

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the god oof fire will nd a fairy lady in red to burnn down

the ccity. if youu e a ladyy in red weaaring green pants ridinng

a black hhor on thaat day, you should ask for her mercy.”

on thaat day, yuann-xiao preteended to be the red fairy lady.

whhen people aasked for heer help, shee said, “i’mm the

mesnnger of the god of firee and came to check on the

city annd i’m goingg to t up fire on 15th. this is an order

from jade empperor. he will watch from the heavvens.

i will give you aa copy of thhe imperial decree fromm the

god of fire. you should go to ask your emperor to find a

way out.” after she left, people went to the palace to showw

the emperoor the decreee which reaads “the cappital city is in

trouble. fire burns on the ppalace, and fire from hheaven

burnss all night long on thee 15th.” thee emperor of han

dynasty was very shocked. hee called andd asked mr.

eastern for advice. after pondering for a whhile, mr. eaastern

said, “i heard that the godd of fire likes to eat tang-yuan .

does yuan-xiao often cook tang-yyuan for youu? on the 155th

lunar daay, let yuann-xiao make tang-yuan.

your majestyy will take charge of the worshippping

ceremonny and you wwill give ann order to eevery hou to

prepare tang-yuan to worship the god of fire at the same

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time. also, delivver another order to assk every houu in

the ccity to hangg red lantern and exploode fire craackers. lastly,

everyonne in the paalace and peeople outsidde the city should

carry their lannterns on thhe street too watch the lantern

deccoration andd fireworks. if everythhing goes thhis way, thee

jade emperor would bee deceived.

then everyoone can avoid the fire accident.” the

emperor happily foollowed the plan. lanteerns were

evverywhere inn the capitaal city on the night of the 15th lunar

day. ppeople were walking on the street. fire crackkers kept

maaking lots oof noi. it looked likke the entire city was on

fire. yuuan-xiao’s pparents went into the ppalace to waatch the

lanntern decoraations, and yuan-xiao mmade a big lantern and

wrote her nname on the lantern. thhey happily reunited

toogether afteer her parennts called hher name. evverybody wass

safe durinng the night. the emperor of han ddynasty had a

new order that people should doo the same thing every

year. sincee yuan-xiao cooked the best tan-yuuan, people

called the day yuan-xiao festival.

这一则传说与吃元宵宵的习俗有关：相传汉武帝帝有个宠臣

名叫东方朔，他他善良又风趣。有一年冬天天，下了几天大雪 ，

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东方方朔就到御花园去给武帝折折梅花。刚进园门，就发现现有个

宫女泪流满面准备投投井。东方朔慌忙上前搭救救，并问明她要

自杀的原因因。原来，这个宫女名叫元元宵，家里还有双亲及一个

个妹妹，自从她进宫以后，，就再也无缘 东方朔与与元宵姑娘

的传说和家人见见面，每年到了腊尽春来的的时节，就比平常更

加的思思念家人。觉得不能在双亲亲跟前尽孝，不如一死了之之。

东方朔听了她的遭遇，，深感同情，就向她保证，，一定设法让

她和家人团聚聚。 一天，东方朔朔出宫在长安街上摆了一个个

占卜摊。不少人都争着向向他占卜求卦。不料，每个个人所占所

求，都是“正月月十六火焚身”的签语。一一时之间，长安里起了

很大大恐慌。人们纷纷求问解灾灾的办法。东方朔就说：“正月十

五日傍晚，火神君君会派一位赤衣神女下凡查查访，她就是奉旨

烧长安的的使者，我把抄录的偈语给给你们，可让当今天子想想想

办法。”说完，便扔下一一张红帖，扬长而去。老百百姓拿起红帖，

赶紧送到皇皇宫去禀报皇上。 汉武帝接过来一看，只见见上

面写着：“长安在劫，，火焚帝阙，十五天火，焰焰红宵夜”，他

心中大惊，，连忙请来了足智多谋的东东方朔。东方朔假意的想了

了一想，就说：“听说火神神君最爱吃汤圆，宫中的元元宵不是经

常给你做汤圆吗吗？十五晚上可让元宵做好好汤圆。万岁焚香上

供，传传令京都家家都做汤圆，一一齐敬奉火神君。再传谕臣臣民

一起在十五晚上挂灯，，满城点鞭炮、放烟火，好好像满城大火，

这样就可以以瞒过玉帝了。此外，通知知城外百姓，十五晚上进城

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城观灯，杂在人群中消灾解解难”。武帝听后，十分高高兴，就传

旨照东方朔的办办法去做。 到了正正月十五日长安城里张灯结

结彩，游人熙来攘往，热闹闹非常。宫女元宵的父母也也带着妹

妹进城观灯。当他他们看到写有”元宵”字样样的大宫灯时，惊喜

的高喊喊：“元宵！元宵！”， 元宵听到喊声，终于和家家里的亲

人团聚了。 如此热闹了一夜，长安安城果然平安无事。汉

武帝帝大喜，便下令以后每到正正月十五都做汤圆供火神君君，正

月十五照样全城挂灯灯放烟火。因为元宵做的汤汤圆最好，所以

这天叫做元元宵节。

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the history of lantern fesstival acccording to the

chinesee tradition，，at the veryy beginning of a new yeear，

when thhere is a bright full mmoon hangingg in the skyy， there

shoould be thouusands of coolorful lanterns hung oout. 根据

中国国的传统，新年伊始，当空空中出现一轮明亮的圆月时时，成

千的彩灯就会被悬挂挂出来。 during the lantern festivaal，

people wwill try to solve the ppuzzles on the lanternss and eat

yuuanxiao 。 在元宵节期间，人们会会试着猜灯谜，吃汤

圆。 in the ssui dynasty in the sixth century， emperor

yanngdi invitedd envoys froom other couuntries to cchina to ee

the colorful lighted lanterns annd enjoy thee gala

perfoormances. 在六世纪的隋朝，当时时的隋炀帝邀请他国

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的外交交使节来中国欣赏彩灯，观观看节目。 by the

beginning of the tang dynastyy in the vventh century， the

lantern displayys would lasst three dayys. the empeeror also

lifted the cuurfew， allowwing the peoople to enjooy the festive

lanternss day and night. 在七世世纪的唐初，彩灯的展示会会

一直延续3天。当时的帝帝王还颁布了宵禁令，允许许人们昼夜

地庆祝节日。 in the ssong dynastyy， the festival was

celebrated for five days and the activities beggan to spreaad

to many oof the big ccities in chhina. 到了宋宋代，人们会用5

天的时间间来庆祝元宵节，该节日也也开始蔓延到许多中国的大大

城市。 todaay，3the dispplaying of lanterns is still a bigg

event on the 15th dayy of the first lunar moonth throughhout

china. 今天，正月15挂挂花灯在整个华夏大地仍就就是一项

很隆重盛大的活动动。 the fillings inside the dumpplings or

yuuansiao are either sweeet or salty. sweet fillings are maade

of sugar，walnuts，seesame，osmanthus flowerss，ro

petals，or jujubee paste etc. a single ingredient oor any

combination can be ud as the fillingg . the salty variety is

filled with minced mmeat，vegetabbles etc. 汤圆的馅有甜，

也有咸咸。甜馅可以由糖，胡桃，，芝麻，桂花，玫瑰花瓣，，或

者枣泥做成。一个成分分或者任意几种成分的组合合都可以用来

做汤圆的馅。。咸馅则可以由碎肉末，蔬蔬菜等做成。12

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元宵节节闹花灯习俗在隋朝前已见见于文字记载。《资治通鉴

鉴》卷一百七十五载：柳 “以近世风俗，每正月十十五夜，燃

灯游戏，奏请禁禁之。曰：窃见京邑，爰及及外州，每以正月望

夜，充充街塞陌，聚戏朋游，鸣鼓鼓聒天。燎炬照地。竭资破破产，

竞此一时。尽室并孥孥，无问贵贱，男女混杂，，缁素不分。”

每年正月月十五夜晚，人们便都在大大街上尽情狂欢，鼓声

震天天，火光照地。人们不惜钱钱财，比赛灯的规模和精巧巧。而

且家中所有的人，也也不分主仆，不论贵贱，不不管男女，一切

等级、性别别、贵贱的界限全部打破，，一切隔阂全部消失，剩下

下的只是欢歌笑语。

正月月十五闹花灯风俗的兴起时时间大体在北周年间，大约约

在公元550年至5800年之间。从这一习俗产生生的时间、地域

及风俗内容容来推测，可能与佛教的流流传有关。《涅盘经》说，，

如来佛死后火化，将其得得到的舍利子装在精美的罐罐中，安放

在金床上。佛门门弟子一边散花一边奏乐，，并每绕城一步点燃

一盏灯灯，以此来表示对如来佛的的悼念，但还没有明确记载载是

正月十五。《西域记》》所说的僧俗共同观看舍利利放光的习俗

则明确说是“正月十五”了。

这两个个习俗的发展逐渐形成了正正月十五闹花灯这一民

俗。。从地点看，这一民俗开始始流行于北方的洛阳及周边边州郡。

这与北魏、北周时时崇尚佛教，以及著名禅宗宗大师达摩、慧可

先后在嵩嵩山少林寺传法有关，因为为禅宗开始兴起时，深受百百

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姓的欢迎。从习俗的内容容看，正月十五闹花灯打破破了一切界

限，体现了佛教教禅宗人人平等，人人都有有佛性的观点。这种

取消一一切束缚，打破一切界限的的习俗，时至今日还有余风风。

民间“正月十五没大小小”的俗语和风习便是古风风的余绪。

虽然正月十五五闹花灯的习俗起源于佛教教及佛事活动。但

当这一习习俗形成之后，其宗教色彩彩便渐渐淡化而成了百姓们们

狂欢的节日。

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