Translation of Li Longji's Ancient Poems on Dragon Boat Festival

The translation of Li Longji's ancient poems on Dragon Boat Festival is as follows:

The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching midsummer, and the days are getting longer and longer. Salt and plums add flavor to the tripod, and wine has been poured into the cup. This is a custom left by the ancients, and it has been many years now.

Only by leaning against the railing can we know that the hibiscus grows luxuriantly, and only by facing the water can we find that the reed grass is really fragrant. The people in the world have lived a happy life for a long time, and ministers ensure the prosperity of the country. If everyone's loyalty to the country can be consistent, this virtue will surely spread to future generations.

The original text is as follows:

The Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and it is longer in sunny days. Salt plum has been used as a tripod and has been sung ever since. The ancients left traces of things, and the years were long. When Xuan knows that there are many flowers and flowers, he has a faint scent of water. Living together for trillions of years, the princes are immortal. Loyalty, if not replaced, will make Fang Kun come from behind.

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Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival.

On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.

In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.

Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival in which ancient ancestors offered sacrifices to their ancestors in the form of dragon boat races. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, threw himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some places, there are sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui.