托福阅读背景-重阳节文化.doc

PAGE  PAGE 12 托福阅读背景-重阳节文化 智课网TOEFL备考资料 托福阅读背景:重阳节文化 摘要： 唐代文人所写的登高诗很多，大多是写重阳节的习俗;杜甫的七律《登高》，就是写重阳登高的名篇。小马过河网托福频道为大家整理了小马过河推荐托福阅读背景:重阳节文化。 今天是一年一度的重阳节，重阳节作为中国特有的节日，也会出现在 托福 阅读背景中，但是你真的了解重阳节吗?重阳节文化你知道多少? 九九重阳节 The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number 6 was thought to be of Yin character, meaning feminine or negative, while number 9 was thought to be Yang, meaning masculine or positive. So the number nine in both month and day create the Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival. Chong in Chinese means double. Also, as double ninth was pronounced the same as the word to signify forever, both are Jiu Jiu, the Chinese ancestors considered it an auspicious day worth celebration. Thats why ancient Chinese began to celebrate this festival long time ago. 农历九月九日，为传统的重阳节。因为古老的《易经》中把“六”定为阴数，把“九”定为阳数，九月九日，日月并阳，两九相重，故而叫重阳，也叫重九，古人认为是个值得庆贺的吉利日子，并且从很早就开始过此节日。