2018牛津上海版（一起）六下Unit 3《Dragon Boat Festival》.ppt

This custom hangs an interesting folk tale. Towards the end of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) a nation-wide peasant uprising took place. It is said that one day the leader Huang Chao, commanding his army, came to present Dengxian County of Henan Province to survey the terrain [‘terein ] （地形）for a battle. Huang came across a panic-stricken woman who held a child about six years old in one arm and took a child about three years old by the hand. Puzzled, Huang dismounted from his horse and asked why she behaved so. The woman replied in a plaintive voice, “The older is an orphan and the younger is my own son. In case we run into Huang Chao’s soldiers, I would flee with the older alone at the sacrifice of my own son.” Huang was moved by the reply, pulling up two mugwort plants at the roadside immediately and gave them to her. Huang added:“ Tell the poor residents in Dengzhou city to hang this kind of mugwort plants on their doors. Seeing this sign, my soldiers will not kill them. ” the next day, Huang Chao’s army captured Dengzhou city, killed the magistrate [‘m?d?istrit] (地方官员）,and distributed grain from the official granaries [’ɡr?n?ri] （谷仓）to the poor. That day happened to be the Dragon Boat Festival; hence the custom of hanging mugwort plants on doors. Drinking realgar [ri‘?lɡ?]（雄黄）wine It is said that, on the day of Qu Yuan’s death, an old practitioner of Chinese medicine poured a jar of realgar wine into the Miluo River, supposedly to make drunk the dragon and other aquatic animals which might devour Qu Yuan’s corpse. Yet the present custom is a little different from what it used to be. At the festival, adults of a family drink it as a prevention against vermin [‘v?:min] （害虫）and children, who are unfit to drink wine, have some of the wine applied to their noses and ears for the same purpose. World Heritage The Dragon Boat Festival comprising ceremonies, dances, performances, games, and the preparation of food and beverages, is carried out in an atmosphere of harmony