Note: An Interesting Festival
An Interesting Festival
一个有趣的节日。
festival
The Agricultural Feast takes place after the independence Day.
农业盛会在独立日后举行
takes place
independence
feast
agricultural
It is not a worldwide celebration.
它不是一个全球的庆典。
worldwide
celebration
Only Christians in Mexico look forward to its arrival for its religious origin:
由于它的宗教起源，只有墨西哥的基督徒才盼望它的到来。
origin
religious
arrival
look forward
Mexico
Christians
Long age, humans’ ancestors were bad.
很久以前，人类的祖先们很坏。
ancestors
They fooled and played tricks on each other and never kept their word.
他们互相欺骗，耍诡计而且从不信守诺言。
tricks
fooled
So God turned up and drowned all their crops.
crops
drowned
turned up
Humans starved day and night, weeping.
weeping
day and night
starved
In order to gain God’s forgiveness, a woman poet set off to see God.
为了获取上帝的原谅，一位女诗人出发去见上帝。
set off
poet
forgiveness
gain
She admired God and kept apologizing. God was moved.
他钦佩上帝并且保持歉意。上帝被感动了。
apologizing
admired
With his permission, humans finally had good harvests again.
有了它的允许，人类最终又获得了丰收。
harvests
permission
So, to wipe sadness and remind themselves of the belief in God, people began the festival.
因此，为了抹平创伤并提醒他们自己对上帝的信仰，人们开始了这个节日。
belief
remind
sadness
wipe
On the festival, people gather in open air, such as playgrounds or parking lots, and energetically have hun with each other all night long, as though they were never tired.
在节日那天，人们聚集在露天场所，例如操场或停车场，彼此都整夜积极地娱乐，仿佛他们从不知疲倦。
energetically
in open air
parking
When a beauty dressed up in lovely clothing reads poems in memory of the poet, everyone holds their breath.
当一位用可爱地衣服盛装打扮地美女朗读诗歌以纪念那位诗人时，所有人都摒住了呼吸。
breath
memory
beauty
Then, it is the custom that the bone of a rooster head is given to her as an award.
然后，按照风俗奖励她一个公鸡地头骨。
award
rooster
bone
custom
Obviously, the story is not true, but the festival is interesting.
很明显，这个故事是假的，但是节日很有趣。
obviously
An Interesting Festival
The Agricultural Feast takes place after the independence Day. It is not a worldwide celebration. Only Christians in Mexico look forward to its arrival for its religious origin:
Long age, humans’s ancestors were bad. They fooled and played tricks on each other and never kept their word. So God turned up and drowned all their crops. Humans starved day and night, weeping. In order to gain God’s forgiveness, a woman poet set off to see God. She admired God and kept apologizing. God was moved. With his permission, humans finally had good harvests again. So, to wipe sadness and remind themselves of the belief in God, people began the festival.
On the festival, people gather in open air, such as playgrounds or parking lots, and energetically have hun with each other all night long, as though they were never tired. When a beauty dressed up in lovely clothing reads poems in memory of the poet, everyone holds their breath. Then, it is the custom that the bone of a rooster head is given to her as an award.
Obviously, the story is not true, but the festival is interesting.