文档介绍：July 1
Climbing Mount Fuji
(Opening Day)
攀登富士山节(首日)
The unmistakable silhouette of Mount Fuji has inspired countless poems, paintings, proverbs, and corporate logos. But this 12,395-foot, still active volcanic cone is no mere dreamy mountain-in-the-mist. It’s climbable, and tens of thousands grapple this hands-on landmark every summer.
July and prise the official climbing season, for only during these two months is the peak free of snow. For the average citizen, climbing Fuji is an outing, a workout, a rite of passage. There is an undertone of the pilgrimage about it, too. In the Edo period (1600~1876),Fuji emerged as the focus of a climbing cult. (According to Shinto principle, mountains are the homes of gods, whose permission must be secured before one dares to assail the peak.)White-clad pilgrims flocked to the trails-male pilgrims, that is. Until 1868, women were strictly forbidden to climb Fuji.
The town of Fuji-Yoshida is the main gateway to the mountain. There, the priests at Sengen Jinga shrine officially open the season. A straw rope, flanked by bonfires, spans the entrance to the trail. A crowd of climbers waits beside the rope while a Shinto priest invokes the mountain deity and prays for the climbers’ safety on the slope. The priest cuts the rope, and all march onto the trail together. (See August 26 for the climbing season’s closing ritual.)
1 silhouette 轮廓 1 Mount Fuji 富士山(日本) 2 logo 商标3 volcanic cone 火山锥 4 grapple 抓牢5 hands-on 亲身实践的 7 free of…没有…… 8 outing 锻炼 8 workout生进入8 rite of passage 标志人一个新阶段的重大事件 9 undertone 含意,内在性质 9 Edo period 江户时代(日本)10 cult 崇拜者 11 Shinto (日本) 12 assail 13 trail 15 Fuji-Youshida 16 Senngen Jinga 17 flank
位于……两侧
July 2
Palio of Siena
Polio di siena
Whole books have been written about the Palio of siena, Italy—about why and how an annual hose race that lasts about seventy seconds manages to reduce an entire city’s population to a ranting mob. On the one hand, the Palio is just a horse race between Sidna’s