Tết Trung Thu, hay còn được gọi là Rằm Trung Thu, là một trong những lễ hội quan trọng và đặc biệt ở Việt Nam. Hãy cùng tìm hiểu về những khía cạnh đặc biệt trong Tết Trung Thu thông qua các từ vựng tiếng Anh dưới đây.
1. Mid-autumn festival: Tết trung thu, rằm trung thu
Ví dụ: Mid-autumn festival is one celebrated annually on the 15th August in the lunar calendar, which falls in mid-september in the Western calendar.
2. Moon cake: Bánh trung thu
Ví dụ: Moon cake is one of the most important and special cakes made from meat, egg yolk, flavor, mashed dried fruits, and lotus seed.
3. Dragon dance and Lion dance: Múa rồng và múa lân
Ví dụ: In Vietnam, there are many traditional activities during the Mid-autumn festival including dragon dances and lion dances performed by both trained professional groups and amateurs.
4. Lantern: Đèn lồng
Ví dụ: On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn festival, parents buy their small children toy-drums and lanterns.
5. Toy figurine: Tò he
Ví dụ: Toy figurine is usually made of sticky rice flour and other natural ingredients for children to use as toys without affecting their health.
6. Mask: Mặt nạ
Ví dụ: Many children also take great interest in traditional paper toys, lion heads, and masks of animals from old tales.
7. Banyan: Cây đa
Ví dụ: According to the legend, a man named Chu Cuoi is sitting under the banyan tree on the Moon.
8. Lantern parade: Rước đèn
Ví dụ: In the Mid-Autumn festival, children gather together and walk along the roads or streets holding different kinds of lanterns to join in the lantern parade.
9. The Man in the Moon: Chú Cuội
Ví dụ: The Mid-Autumn festival is associated with the legend of the man in the Moon, a popular Vietnamese fairy tale that explains the origin of the festival.
10. Moon goddess: Chị Hằng
Ví dụ: The Moon goddess is a character in the legend associated with the legend of Cuoi with the banyan tree in the moon.
11. Jade Rabbit: Thỏ ngọc
Ví dụ: Jade Rabbit is a friend who always accompanies Moon goddess and often uses the pestle to pound the elixir of life and look after the moon.
12. Star lantern: Đèn ông sao
Ví dụ: In Vietnam, we have star lanterns, which children also want to have to join the lantern parade, on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn festival.
13. Watch and admire the Moon: Ngắm trăng, trông trăng
Ví dụ: We love watching and admiring the Moon, and wait until midnight when the moon is at its fullest to enjoy the Mid-Autumn festival, eat moon cakes, and various fruits.
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