跟老外介紹中元節

要跟老外介紹中元節，有幾件事要跟特別說名清楚，外國人才能聽懂。是哪些事情要說明清楚呢？

農曆七月，叫做the seventh month of the lunar year，農曆七月十五，叫做the fifteenth of the seventh month of the lunar year。

因為人與鬼是生活在不同的世界，每年七月一日鬼門開，鬼會在人的世界裡徘徊。因此人們在農曆7/15會準備大餐，放在屋子外面，讓鬼可以飽餐一頓。這就是中元節。

活人(指整體): the living

死者(指整體): the dead

鬼門開: The gate between the ghosts’ world and our world opens.

準備大餐: prepare big feasts

Ghost Festival is an important day in Chinese culture. It is on the fifteenth of the seventh month of the lunar year. Chinese people believe that the living and the dead live in two different world. Every year, on the first day of the seventh month of the lunar year, the gate between the ghosts’ world and our world opens. Ghosts visit our world for a month. On the fifteenth of the seventh month of the lunar year, people prepare big feasts outside their houses for these ghosts. When these ghosts go back into the gate, people want them to feel happy and full. This is Ghost Festival.

中元節是中國文化裡面的一個重要節日。它是在農曆七月十五日。中國人相信，活人與死者是生活在兩個不同的世界。每年，在農曆七月一日時，介於死者世界和活人世界的大門會打開。那些鬼會用一個月的時間拜訪我們的世界。在農曆七月十五日，人們替這些鬼，在屋外準備大餐。當這些鬼回到門內去的時候，人們希望它們趕到開心而且吃飽。這就是中元節。

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