Oktoberfest，一看这个词，大家就能猜出是十月节，可是具体是什么节日呢？

Oktoberfest是世界著名的最盛大慕尼黑啤酒节，每年的九月底到10月初的长达16天的啤酒盛会。今天我们就一起看看这个第176次举行的充满巴伐利亚文化的啤酒盛会。

首先我们先用图片展现下慕尼黑啤酒节的盛况：

慕尼黑市长：Christian Ude在啤酒节的第一天，打开了第一桶啤酒。Sept. 19, 2009.

特蕾莎广场（Theresienwiese）上游人蜂拥，灯火通明。September 19, 2009.

在特蕾莎广场演奏的传统巴伐利亚乐队，身着传统服饰紧身连衣裙（dirndls）皮短裤（lederhosen） September 20, 2009.

游人们为第176届慕尼黑啤酒节举杯庆祝 September 20, 2009.

现在是不是更加好奇这是什么样的一个节日？那么我们就通过下面的雅思阅读材料，了解更多的oktoberfest文化吧。

Oktoberfest, the world’s largest beer festival, is held annually in Munich, Germany. The 16-day party attracts over 6 million people every year who consume 1.5 million gallons of beer, 200,000 pairs of pork sausage, and 480,000 spit-roasted chickens during the two-week extravaganza. While the event reinforces stereotypical images of beer-loving, meat-loving Germans dressed in dirndls and lederhosen, visitors to the annual event come from all over the world. Oktoberfest is in fact one of Munich’s largest and most profitable tourist attractions. It brings over 450 million euros to the city’s coffers each year. The folk festival has given its name to similar festivals worldwide that are at least in part modeled after the original Bavarian Oktoberfest. The largest Oktoberfest held outside of Germany takes place each year in the twin cities of Kitchener-Waterloo in Canada, where a large ethnic German population resides. The largest such event in the United States is Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati in Ohio, which boasts half a million visitors each year.

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