中国传统文化的故事英语

文言文 宋人有耕田者。田中有株，兔走触株，折颈而死。因释其耒而守株，冀复得兔。兔不可复得，而身为宋国笑。今欲以先王之政，治当世之民，皆守株之类也。

白话文 宋国有一个农民，每天在田地里劳动。一年四季，早上天一亮就起床，扛着锄头往田野走；傍晚太阳快落山了，又扛着锄头回家。他实在是很辛苦。 有一天，这个农夫正在地里干活，突然一只野兔从草丛中窜出来。野兔见到有人而受了惊吓。它拼命地奔跑，不料一下子撞到农夫地头的一截树桩子上，折断脖子死了。农夫放下手中的农活，走过去捡起死兔子。他非常庆幸自己的好运气。 晚上回到家，农夫把死兔交给妻子。妻子做了香喷喷的野兔肉，两口子有说有笑美美地吃了一顿。 第二天，农夫照旧到地里干活，可是他再不像以往那么专心了。守株待兔他干一会儿就朝草丛里瞄一瞄、听一听，希望再有一只兔子窜出来撞在树桩上。就这样，他心不在焉地干了一天活，该锄的地也没锄完。直到天黑也没见到有兔子出来，他很不甘心地回家了。 第三天，农夫来到地边，已完全无心锄地。他把农具放在一边，自己则坐在树桩旁边的田埂上，专门等待野兔子窜出来。可是又白白地等了一天。 后来，农夫每天就这样守在树桩边，希望再捡到兔子，然而他始终没有再得到。而农夫地里的野草却越长越高，把他的庄稼都淹没了。农夫因此成了宋国人议论的笑柄。 [2]现在如果还要用以前的方法来治理现在的人民，就象守着一棵树等兔子来撞一样.

守株待兔的英译文

Staying by a Stump Waiting for More Hares To Come and Dash Themselves Against It

This story took place more than 2,000 years ago,in the Warring States period（475-221 B.C.）.Tradition has it that in the State of Song at that time there was a man who was famous for staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and dash themselves against it.

He was a yong farmer,and his family had been farmers for generations.Year after year and generation after generation, farmers used to sow in spring and harvest in autumn,beginning to work at sunrise and retiring at sunset.In good harvest years,they could only have enough food to eat and enough clothing to wear.If there was a famine due to crop failure,they had to go hungry.

This young farmer wanted to improve his life.But he was too lazy and too cowardly.Being lazy and cowardly over everything,he often dreamed of having unexpected blessings.

A miracle took place at last. One day in late autumn,when he was ploughing in the field,two groups of people were hunting nearby.As shoutings were rising one after another,scared hares were running desperately.Suddenly,a blind hare dashed itself headlong against the stump of a dead tree in his field and died.

That day,he ate his fill.

中国传统文化 英语作文

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关于长城的传说

In the north of China, there lies a 6,700-kilometer-long (4,161-mile-long) ancient wall. Now well-known as the Great Wall of China, it starts at the Jiayuguan Pass of Gansu Province in the west and ends at the Shanhaiguan Pass of Hebei Province in the east. As one of the Eight Wonders in the world, the Great Wall of China has become the symbol of the Chinese nation and its culture.

Lots of beautiful legends and stories about the Great Wall took place following along the construction, and since that time these stories have spread around the country. Those that happened during construction are abundant, such as Meng Jiangnu's story and the legend of the Jiayuguan Pass. Meng Jiangnu's story is the most famous and widely spread of all the legends about the Great Wall. The story happened during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). It tells of how Meng Jiangnu's bitter weeping made a section of the Great Wall collapse. Meng Jiangnu's husband Fan Qiliang was caught by federal officials and sent to build the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu heard nothing from him after his departure, so she set out to look for him. Unfortunately, by the time she reached the great wall, she discovered that her husband had already died. Hearing the bad news, she cried her heart out. Her howl caused the collapse of a part of the Great Wall. This story indicates that the Great Wall is the production of tens of thousands of Chinese commoners.

Another legend about the Jiayuguan Pass tells of a workman named Yi Kaizhan in the Ming Dynasty (1368BC-1644BC) who was proficient in arithmetic. He calculated that it would need 99,999 bricks to build the Jiayuguan Pass. The supervisor did not believe him and said if they miscalculated by even one brick, then all the workmen would be punished to do hard work for three years. After the completion of the project, one brick was left behind the Xiwong city gate. The supervisor was happy at the sight of the brick and ready to punish them. However Yi Kaizhan said with deliberation that the brick was put there by a supernatural being to fix the wall. A tiny move would cause the collapse of the wall. Therefore the brick was kept there and never moved. It can still be found there today on the tower of the Jiayuguan Pass.

In addition to the above-mentioned stories about the construction of the Great Wall, there are also plenty of stories about current scenic spots. A famous one is the legend of the Beacon Tower. This story happened during the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC-711 BC). King You had a queen named Bao Si, who was very pretty. King You liked her very much, however Bao Si never smiled. An official gave a suggestion that setting the beacon tower on fire would frighten the King's subjects, and might make the queen smile. King You liked the idea. The subjects were fooled and Bao Si smiled at the sight of the chaos. Later enemies invaded Western Zhou, King You set the beacon tower on fire to ask for help. No subjects came to help because they had been fooled once before. Thus, King Zhou was killed by the enemy and Western Zhou came to an end.

Beautiful stories and legends about the Great Wall help to keep alive Chinese history and culture. In each dynasty after the building of the Great Wall, many more stories were created and spread.

历史

No one can tell precisely when the building of the Great Wall was started but it is popularly believed that it originated as a military fortification against intrusion by tribes on the borders during the earlier Zhou Dynasty. Late in the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC), the ducal states extended the defence work and built "great" structures to prevent the attacks from other states. It was not until the Qin Dynasty that the separate walls, constructed by the states of Qin, Yan and Zhao kingdoms, were connected to form a defensive system on the northern border of the country by Emperor Qin Shi Huang (also called Qin Shi Huangdi by westerners or the First Emperor). After the emperor unified the country in 214 BC, he ordered the construction of the wall. It took about ten years to finish and the wall stretched from Linzhao (in the eastern part of today's Gansu Province) in the west to Liaodong (in today's Jilin Province) in the east. The wall not only served as a defence in the north but also symbolized the power of the emperor.

From the Qin Dynasty onwards, Xiongnu, an ancient tribe that lived in North China, frequently harassed the northern border of the country. During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu (Han Wu Di), sent three expeditions to fight against the Xiongnu in 127 BC, 121 BC and 119 BC. The Xiongnu were driven into the far north of the Gobi. To maintain the safety of the Hexi Corridor (today's Gansu Province), the emperor ordered the extension of the Great Wall westward into the Hexi Corridor and Xinjiang region. The ruins of the beacon towers and debris of the Han Wall are still discernible in Dunhuang, Yumen and Yangguan. A recent report shows that ruins of the Han Wall have been discovered near Lopnur in China's Xinjiang region.

Further construction and extensions were made in the successive Northern Wei, Northern Qi and Sui dynasties.

The present Great Wall in Beijing is mainly remains from the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). During this period, bricks and granite were used when the workers laid the foundation of the wall and sophisticated designs and passes were built in the places of strategic importance. To strengthen the military control of the northern frontiers, the Ming authorities divided the Great Wall into nine zones and placed each under the control of a Zhen (garrison headquarters). The Ming Wall starts from Yalujiang River (in today's Heilongjiang Province), via today's Liaoning, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia provinces, to Guansu. The total length reaches 12,700 li (over 5,000 kilometers). The Shanhaiguan Pass and the Jiayuguan Pass are two well-preserved passes at either end.

Today, the Wall has become a must-see for every visitor to China. Few can help saying 'Wow!' when they stand on top of a beacon tower and look at this giant dragon. For centuries, the wall served succeeding dynasties as an efficient military defence. However, it was only when a dynasty had weakened from within that invaders from the north were able to advance and conquer. Both the Mongols (Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368) and the Manchurians (Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911) were able take power because of weakness of the government and poverty of the people but never due to any possibility of weakness of the Wall.

或者

The Great Wall was first built in the Spring and Autumn Period and it have a history over 2.000 years. The Great Wall, that is called “the ten-thousand-li Great Wall”, is actually more than 6000 kilometers long, 6-7 meters high and 4-5 meters wide. Every a few hundred meters along the Great Wall there are watchtowers. We Chinese are proud of in the Great wall because it is one of the wonders in the world and it stands for China.. Today the Great Wall becomes a famous place of interest in the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people, not only from China from also all over the world, come to visit it.

谁有有关‘中国传统文化’的英语文章

Chinese traditional culture is a reflection of the Chinese civilization evolution and to assemble national characteristics and style of the national culture, is the national history of ideological culture, ideology of overall performance, refers to living in China region of the Chinese nation and their ancestors have created, for the development of the Chinese nation has inherited from generation to generation, has the distinct national characteristics, has a long history, and profound connotation, excellent traditional culture. It is the crystallization of the civilization of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. Besides the core content of Confucian culture, it also contains other cultural forms, such as Taoist culture, buddhist culture and so on.

The traditional Chinese culture should include: ancient prose, poetry, ci, qu, fu, national music, ethnic drama, quyi, Chinese painting, calligraphy, couplet, lantern riddles, shooting, wine making, shuanji, idiom, etc. Traditional festival (according to the lunar calendar) are as follows: the first day lunar New Year (lunar New Year), the first lunar month of the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival, ching Ming festival, Dragon Boat Festival is May 5, 5 April July 7 Chinese valentine's day, August 15 the Mid-Autumn festival, lunar New Year's eve and all kinds of folk 30; Traditional Chinese natural sciences, including traditional calendars, and the traditional cultures of various regions and ethnic minorities in the Chinese family, are also part of the traditional Chinese culture. Main Chinese culture can be summarized as three kinds: 1. The patriarchal clan culture 2. 3. Agricultural culture blood culture. The three culture constitutes the mainstream of Chinese traditional culture. And with the evolution of the history of mutual penetration between them is more and more closely. For example, in the feudal family, kinship is very important, with particular emphasis on the reproductive and status level gap, therefore attaches great importance to family's house rules, they, to some extent even than the national system of some of the more cohesive and authority, in lu xun's novels, we can often see patriarchal clan culture of feudal rule and the impact of people's thoughts; Since ancient times, China is still a large agricultural country, and the so-called economic foundation determines the superstructure of the superstructure, and the agricultural economic form will inevitably produce the cultural system that is compatible with it.