英语口语练习:腊八粥用英语怎么说
编者按:腊八粥是腊八节必吃的食物,腊八粥具有多种叫法,英语的说法又是怎么样的呢?一起来看一看腊八粥用英语怎么说吧。
Sakyamuni is the son of Jinfan emperor in the ancient northern Indian. It is said that he couldn't bear the people's suffering from the diseases and was not satisfied with the rule of Bramins. So he gave up the throne and entered into religion to practice doctrine. On the way to practice Buddhism, he was hungry and exhausted. A shepherd girl fed him with the porridge made with beans and rice. Sakyamuni was thus able to continue his journey. Six years later, he became a Buddha under the bodhi tree on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month. To commemorate this and remember his sufferings, people eat porridge to make offerings to the Buddha on the day every year.
Eating Laba Porridge Custom
The custom first originated in the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) and became popular in the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). Now it has been over one thousand years that the Chinese people eat Laba Congee on Laba Festival day. As is known to all, since ancient times Chinese people have attached great importance to growing crops, so when the land bears a good harvest after years of hard work, the farmers will show great appreciation by sacrificing to the ancestors, and heaven and earth. Boiling Laba Congee is one way people celebrate their harvest.
Ingredients of Laba Porridge
The ingredients of Laba Porridge are various items that are full of nutrition. It is made of diversified rice (glutinous rice, oats, corns etc.), beans (soy beans, mung beans, kidney beans, cowpeas etc.), dried nuts (chestnuts, almonds, peanuts, etc.), bean curd and meat. Melon seeds, lotus seeds, pine nuts, sugar, and other preserved fruits are added to give more flavors. After 10 centuries of development, there are now over one hundred different cooking methods.
After hours of boiling, the porridge is offered as a sacrifice to the ancestors and is presented to friends before noon. Family members eat Laba Porridge together and leave some, symbolizing a good harvest next year. Some kind people hand out the porridge to the poor to show their pity. And in some regions people believe that pasting porridge on the flowers and fruit trees indicates the blossom of flowers and good fruition.
Laba Porridge is now regarded as a very nutritious food in winter that has the function of strengthening the spleen, stimulating the appetite, and soothing the nerves. It is welcomed by all people of different ages.
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