端午節 the Dragon Boat Festival

　　追溯到 date back to

　　戰國時代 the Warring States Period

　　紀念 commemorate

　　大夫minister

　　因…感到絕望 despair over

　　沒有成功 in vain

　　撒 scatter

　　引開 distract

　　演變成 transform into

　　賽龍舟 race dragon boats

　　吃粽子 zongzi—a kind of rice wrapped in bamboo leaves

　　聯合國教科文組織 United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

　　宣布 proclaim

　　非物質文化遺產 intangible cultural heritage

　　【精彩譯文】

　　The Dragon Boat Festival can date back to the Warring States Period in 227 B.C. The festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a minister in the service of the Chu Emperor. Despairing over corruption at court, Qu threw himself into a river. Townspeople jumped into their boats and tried in vain to save him. Then, hoping to distract hungry fish from his body, the people scattered rice into the water. Over the years, the story of Qu’s death transformed into the traditions of racing dragon boats and eating zongzi—a kind of rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival was proclaimed an intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2009.