七夕节英文

　　About the Double-Seventh Day

　　The seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar is known as Qixi Festival, or Chinese Lovers' Day and there is an old story behind it. A long long time ago, there was a poor cowherd, Niulang. He fell in love with Zhinu,“the Girl Weaver". But the couple was separated by a wide swollen river in the sky and can only meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. This sad love story, with traditional values and customs from it, has passed down from generation to generation. In ancient times, young women performed certain activities on this special festival, such as threading a needle with their holiday best while facing the moon to pray for various kinds of ingenuity and celebrate the annual meeting of the cowherd and the Girl Weaver. Nowadays Chinese people no longer hold such activities. But they still regard it as Chinese Lovers' Day when loves express true affections to each other and pray that their love reign as long as the earth endures.

　　七夕知多少

　　每年农历七月初七是中国七夕节，亦是中国的情人节。关于这个节日，有一段古老的传说广为流传。很久以前有个放牛的男子叫牛郎，爱上了一个名为织女的纺织女子。这对相恋的爱人，却为浩淼银河所隔，天各一方，遥遥相望，只有在每年农历七月初七才得以相会。这个古老的爱情故事，连同它蕴藏着的传统价值观和风俗习惯代代相传。古时候，每逢七夕，年轻女子都会身着盛装，望月认针乞巧，以纪念牛郎织女一年一次的鹊桥之会。如今，七夕佳节不再盛行认针乞巧等传统习俗，但是作为中国情人节，相恋的人们仍会在这个特殊的时刻互诉情意，共同祈祷真爱地久天长!

　　Double Seventh Festival

　　The Double Seventh Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, is a traditional festival full of romance. It often goes into August in the Gregorian calendar

　　This festival is in mid-summer when the weather is warm and the grass and trees reveal their luxurious greens. At night when the sky is dotted with stars, and people can see the Milky Way spanning from the north to the south. On each bank of it is a bright star, which see each other from afar. They are the Cowherd and Weaver Maid, and about them there is a beautiful love story passed down from generation to generation.

　　Long, long ago, there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niu Lang (Cowhand). His parents died when he was a child. Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law. So he lived by himself herding cattle and farming. One day, a fairy from heaven Zhi Nu (Weaver Maid) fell in love with him and came down secretly to earth and married him. The cowhand farmed in the field and the Weaver Maid wove at home. They lived a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unfortunately, the God of Heaven soon found out the fact and ordered the Queen Mother of the Western Heavens to bring the Weaver Maid back.

　　With the help of celestial cattle, the Cowhand flew to heaven with his son and daughter. At the time when he was about to catch up with his wife, the Queen Mother took off one of her gold hairpins and made a stroke. One billowy river appeared in front of the Cowhand. The Cowhand and Weaver Maid were separated on the two banks forever and could only feel their tears. Their loyalty to love touched magpies, so tens of thousands of magpies came to build a bridge for the Cowhand and Weaver Maid to meet each other. The Queen Mother was eventually moved and allowed them to meet each year on the 7th of the 7th lunar month. Hence their meeting date has been called "Qi Xi" (Double Seventh).

　　Scholars have shown the Double Seventh Festival originated from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD220). Historical documents from the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD371-420) mention the festival, while records from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) depict the grand evening banquet of Emperor Taizong and his concubines. By the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties, special articles for the "Qi Xi" were seen being sold on markets in the capital. The bustling markets demonstrated the significance of the festival.

　　Today some traditional customs are still observed in rural areas of China, but have been weakened or diluted in urban cities. However, the legend of the Cowhand and Weaver Maid has taken root in the hearts of the people. In recent years, in particular, urban youths have celebrated it as Valentine's Day in China. As a result, owners of flower shops, bars and stores are full of joy as they sell more commodities for love.

　　七夕节，这些句子表白

　　01. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

　　我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。

　　02. It is impossible to love and to be wise.

　　要爱又兼有理性是不可能的。

　　03. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry.

　　没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

　　04. Just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn‘t mean they don‘t love you with all they have.

　　爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你，那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。

　　05. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

　　爱人和被人爱是人生最大的幸福。

　　06. True love‘s the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.真爱是上帝单独赐予普天下芸芸众生的礼物。

　　07. A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

　　一个真正的朋友会握着你的手，触动你的心。

　　08.The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can‘t have them.

　　失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。

　　09.Love and a cough cannot be hid.

　　爱情跟咳嗽一样是掩饰不了的。

　　10. Never stop smiling, not even when you‘re sad, some man fall in love with your smile.

　　永远都不要停止微笑，即使在你难过的时候，说不定有人会因为你的微笑而爱上你。

　　11.To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

　　对于世界而言，你是一个人;但是对于某个人，你是他的整个世界。

　　12. Love is not only a sentiment but also an art.

　　爱情不仅仅是感情，它也是艺术。

　　13. Love triumphs over everthing. Love has no age, no limit and no death.

　　爱情战胜一切。爱情没有寿命，没有极限，不会死亡。

　　14. Don't spend time with someone who doesn‘t care spending it with you.

　　不要把时间花在一个不在乎与你分享的人身上。

　　15. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.

　　在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先遇到别的人;在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便应当心存感激。

　　16. Love is ever matter of comedies, and how and then of tragedies.

　　爱情常是喜剧，偶尔是悲剧。

　　17. Don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

　　不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。

　　18. There will always be people who‘ll hurt you, so you need to continue trusting, just be careful.

　　生活中总会有人想伤害你，你仍然需要继续相信别人，只是小心点而已。

　　19. Don‘t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn‘t willing to waste their time on you.

　　不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。

　　20. Love is a chord in life, not a solo.

　　爱是人生的和弦，而不是孤独的独奏曲。

　　21. Every man is a poet when he is in love.

　　每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。

　　22. Become a better person and be sure to know who you are before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.

　　做一个更好的人，确信在遇见一个新的人之前知道自己是谁，也希望那个人知道你是谁。

　　七夕“乞巧”的风俗由来已久，年轻女孩子们在这一天乞求的，不仅仅是巧夺天工的好手艺，还会乞求一段美好姻缘。似乎是TVB剧中经常出现七夕之夜女子祈求姻缘的桥段~不知道今年七夕，有多少人会在星空之下默默祈祷呢?

　　七夕“乞巧”的风俗：

　　On that night, unmarried girls prayed to the Weaving Maid star for the special gift. When the star Vega was high up in the sky, girls performed a small test by placing a needle on the water's surface: If the needle did not sink, the girl was considered to be ready to find a husband. Once a year, on this day, girls could wish for anything their hearts desired.

　　七夕之夜，未婚女子通常会向织女星乞巧，也会乞求姻缘。她们将一根针放在水面上，倘若针不下沉的话，她们就能得偿所愿。据说这一晚女孩子们能祈求任何心愿成真。

　　七夕“乞巧”的风俗相关英语表达：

　　这里“乞巧”的这个“乞”，我们可以说beg，也可以用plead这个词，plead to be endowed with perfect sewing skills. 貌似这两个词都和浪漫气氛不符哦，plead其实更常见于法庭上，律师为某人辩护，就是plead one's case;而那句我们耳熟能详的“不认罪”，则是plead not guilty，反之“认罪”就是plead guilty——注意这里的用法，比较特殊哦，是在动词plead后面直接加形容词guilty——法官就会经常问这句话：Do you plead guilty or not guilty?你可认罪?(好有包大人的风范啊~)

　　也有一个更常见的情况，就是被告人plead insanity，以精神失常为借口，试图减轻刑罚。

　　回到七夕乞巧的风俗吧，乞巧是为了精进自己的女红手艺，女红(注意啊注意啊，这里的“红”读音是“工”，不要读错了哦)也就是针线活，用英语说就是doing needlework。印象中女红活儿就是刺绣(embroider)吧，不知道现在还有多少女孩子会刺绣活儿呢?似乎大家都更prefer简单易学的十字绣 (cross-stitch)了。那么，学十字绣的话，也是需要乞一下巧的吧……

　　至于祈求姻缘，这个恐怕还是要看缘分哦，如果两个人是predestined to be together，那么是无论如何都会相遇并相爱的吧。在这里祝天下有情人终成眷属吧!(All shall be well, and Jack shall have Jill!)

　　七夕节的来历

　　每年农历七月初七这一天是我国汉族的传统节日七夕节。因为此日活动的主要参与者是少女，而节日活动的内容又是以乞巧为主，故而人们称这天为“乞巧节”或“少女节”、“女儿节”。七夕节被国务院列入第一批国家非物质文化遗产名录。现又被认为是“中国情人节”。

　　传说中，七夕牛郎织女一年相会一次，就在这一天。七夕节始终和牛郎织女的传说相连，这是一个很美丽，千古流传的爱情故事，是我国四大民间爱情传说之一。在中国七夕节那天，情侣们神庙祈祷永远的爱和甜蜜的婚姻。单身的人也会去神庙祈祷自己能拥有一份美好的爱。

　　The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is known as Qi Xi Jie or 七夕节, a traditional holiday that has been recently called China's Valentine's Day.

　　People believe that the star Vega, east of the Milky Way, is Zhi Nu and, at the constellation of Aquila, on the western side of the Milky Way, Niu Lang waits for his wife.On Chinese Valentine's Day, couples go to temples to pray for everlasting love and marriage. Even single people will frequent the temple for luck in love