英语作文关于元宵节（1）
Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, but also the last day of Chinese New Year, the first month 15 downtown lantern, every day, people are to eat Lantern Festival and stroll through the flower market, flowers light, the ceremony flowers, guess riddles, dragon and lion dances, to sustenance of the spring, best wishes.
We have just finished a family dinner, Dad took me to see the lantern say that I am very happy. In the evening, a moon had been up early on in the sky. A few stars naughty wink to me. Silver-white on children with me to stroll along lantern. We are a lively crowd came as the flower market. My father wearing a red jacket. Face with a happy smile.
The streets, everywhere decorated, a variety of e-lantern, Jiao Ren simply dazzle with wavesof percussion show of sound, two dragon, flying cross the middle of the crowd. At this time,several more loud, beautiful fireworks in the air, opening up one after another, and some, like chrysanthemums, and some like snow in June, and some, like a sky full of stars, and some, like colorful flowers.
Late at night, people in the face of light flowers are filled with satisfaction, happiness, pleasant look and left.
英语作文关于元宵节（2）
The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance.
This days important activity is watching lanterns. Throughout the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), Buddhism flourished in China. One emperor heard that Buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of Buddhas body, and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to Buddha on this day. Later, the Buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people and its influence expanded from the Central Plains to the whole of China.
英语作文关于元宵节（3）
New Year is the biggest festival for Chinese After about half a month, there is a traditional festival, it is the Lantern Festival, which is also The first round moon day in the New Year is People continue to celebrate the New Year and enjoy the time with their
The coming of Lantern Festival is Some people said that it is related with When the Buddhas meditated, they need light in front of them, so the light can drive away monster for Today, in some areas, people light up lanterns to beg for a son from No matter what the story is, the traditional festival is favored by people and the government pays special attention to remind this
There are many activities on Lantern Festival, and the most traditional game is the People can read some riddles that are written in the They can get prizes if they know the I love riddle so much, because when I figure out the answers, I will be very proud of myself, at the same time, I can learn some funny
英语作文关于元宵节（4）
The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Gregorian As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great
This day's important activity is watching Throughout the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), Buddhism flourished in One emperor heard that Buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of Buddha's body, and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to Buddha on this Later, the Buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people and its influence expanded from the Central Plains to the whole of
Till today, the lantern festival is still held each year around the Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely "Guessing lantern riddles"is an essential part of the
Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their If they are right, they will get a little The activity emerged during people's enjoyment of lanterns in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). As riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all social
People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "Yuanxiao "Yuanxiao also has another name, It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or It tastes sweet and What’s more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan”, meaning So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the
In the daytime of the Festival, performances such as a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be On the night, except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a beautiful Most families spare some fireworks from the Spring Festival and let them off in the Lantern Some local governments will even organize a fireworks On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the
英语作文关于元宵节（5）
There are many different beliefs about the origin of the Lantern But one thing for sure is that it had something to do with celebrating and cultivating positive relationship between people, families, nature and the higher beings they believed were responsible for bringing/returning the light each
One legend tells us that it was a time to worship Taiyi, the God of Heaven in ancient The belief was that the God of Heaven controlled the destiny of the human He had sixteen dragons at his beck and call and he decided when to inflict drought, storms, famine or pestilence upon human Beginning with Qinshihuang, the first emperor to unite the country, all the emperors ordered splendid ceremonies each The emperor would ask Taiyi to bring favorable weather and good health to him and his Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty directed special attention to this In 104 BC, he proclaimed it as one of the most important celebrations and the ceremony would last throughout the They clean it all up in the
Another legend associates the Lantern Festival with Tianguan is the Taoist god responsible for good His birthday falls on the 15th day of the first lunar It is said that Tianguan likes all types of entertainment, so followers prepare various kinds of activities during which they pray for good
Yet another common legend dealing with the origins of the Lantern Festival speaks of a beautiful bird that flew down to earth from heaven, which was hunted and killed by some This angered the Jade Emperor in Heaven because the bird was his favorite Therefore, he planned a storm of fire to destroy the village on the 15th lunar The Jade Emperor's daughter heard of this plan, and warned the villagers of her father’s plan to destroy their The village was in turmoil because nobody knew how should they escape their imminent
However, a wise man from another village suggested that every family should hang red lanterns around their houses, set up bonfires on the streets, and explode firecrackers on the 14th, 15th, and 16th lunar This would give the village the appearance of being on fire to the Jade On the 15th lunar day, troops sent down from heaven whose mission was to destroy the village saw that the village was already ablaze, and returned to heaven to report to the Jade Satisfied, the Jade Emperor decided not to burn down the From that day on, people celebrate the anniversary on the 15th lunar day every year by carrying red lanterns on the streets and exploding firecrackers and
There are many stories on how this festival was One other story is about a In the Han Dynasty, Eastern was a favorite advisor of the One winter day, he went to the garden and heard a little girl crying and getting ready to jump into a well to commit Eastern stopped her and asked She said she was a maid in the emperor's palace and her name was
She never had the chance to meet her family after she started worked at the She missed them so much every 12th lunar If she couldn't have the chance to show her filial piety in this life, she would rather Eastern promised her to find a way so she could reunion with her Eastern left the palace and set up a fortune-telling stall on the street and disguised himself as a Because of his reputation, many people asked for their
But every one got the same prediction - a severe fire accident on the 15th lunar The rumor spread Everyone was worried about the future and asked Eastern for Eastern said, "On the 13th lunar day, the God of Fire will send a fairy lady in red to burn down the If you see a lady in red wearing green pants riding a black horse on that day, you should ask for her " On that day, Yuan-Xiao pretended to be the red fairy When people asked for her help, she said, "I'm the messenger of the God of Fire and came to check on the city and I'm going to set up fire on This is an order from Jade He will watch from the
I will give you a copy of the imperial decree from the God of You should go to ask your emperor to find a way " After she left, people went to the palace to show the emperor the decree which reads "The capital city is in Fire burns on the palace, and fire from Heaven burns all night long on the " The emperor of Han Dynasty was very He called and asked Eastern for After pondering for a while, Eastern said, "I heard that the God of Fire likes to eat Tang-Yuan (Sweet dumpling). Does Yuan-Xiao often cook Tang-Yuan for you? On the 15th lunar day, let Yuan-Xiao make
Your Majesty will take charge of the worshipping ceremony and you will give an order to every house to prepare Tang-Yuan to worship the God of Fire at the same Also, deliver another order to ask every house in the city to hang red lantern and explode fire Lastly, everyone in the palace and people outside the city should carry their lanterns on the street to watch the lantern decoration and If everything goes this way, the Jade Emperor would be
Then everyone can avoid the fire " The emperor happily followed the Lanterns were everywhere in the capital city on the night of the 15th lunar People were walking on the Fire crackers kept making lots of It looked like the entire city was on Yuan-Xiao's parents went into the palace to watch the lantern decorations, and Yuan-Xiao made a big lantern and wrote her name on the They happily reunited together after her parents called her Everybody was safe during the The emperor of Han Dynasty had a new order that people should do the same thing every Since Yuan-Xiao cooked the best Tan-Yuan, people called the day Yuan-Xiao
Young people were chaperoned in the streets in hopes of finding Matchmakers acted busily in hopes of pairing The brightest lanterns were symbolic of good luck and As time has passed, the festival no longer has such
Those who do not carry lanterns often enjoy watching informal lantern In addition to eating tangyuan (simplified Chinese: 汤圆; traditional Chinese: 湯圓; pinyin: tāngyuán), another popular activity at this festival is guessing lantern riddles (which became part of the festival during the Tang Dynasty), which often contain messages of good fortune, family reunion, abundant harvest, prosperity and
英语作文关于元宵节（6）
Lantern Festival The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night The 15th day is the first night to see a full So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to At this time, people will try to solve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) and get all their families united in the joyful
英语作文关于元宵节（7）
According to the Chinese tradition，at the very beginning of a new year， when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky， there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung
During the Lantern Festival， people will try to solve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball)。
In the Sui Dynasty in the sixth century， Emperor Yangdi invited envoys from other countries to China to see the colorful lighted lanterns and enjoy the gala
By the beginning of the Tang Dynasty in the seventh century， the lantern displays would last three The emperor also lifted the curfew， allowing the people to enjoy the festive lanterns day and
In the Song Dynasty， the festival was celebrated for five days and the activities began to spread to many of the big cities in
Today，3the displaying of lanterns is still a big event on the 15th day of the first lunar month throughout
The fillings inside the dumplings or Yuansiao are either sweet or Sweet fillings are made of sugar，Walnuts，sesame，osmanthus flowers，rose petals，or jujube paste A single ingredient or any combination can be used as the filling . The salty variety is filled with minced meat，vegetables
英语作文关于元宵节（8）
元宵节(又名上元节)是中国的一个传统节日。她意味着中国农历新年的结束。正月十五闹元宵期间，人们吃元宵(汤圆)，逛花市、赏花灯，猜灯谜，舞龙、舞狮，以此来寄托来年好运。
We have just finished a family dinner, Dad took me to see the lantern say that I am very happy. In the evening, a moon had been up early on in the sky. A few stars naughty wink to me. Silver-white on children with me to stroll along lantern. We are a lively crowd came as the flower market. My father wearing a red jacket. Face with a happy smile.
我们全家刚吃过晚饭，父亲就带我去看花灯，为此我很高兴。在晚上，月亮早早的升起在半空，小星星调皮的冲我眨眼(作文地带提示:此处拟人应用相当巧妙)。雪白的明月照着我，伴我一起赏花灯。我们随着热闹的人群 来到了花市。我父亲身穿一件红色夹克，面带微笑。
The streets, everywhere decorated, a variety of e-lantern, Jiao Ren simply dazzle with waves of percussion show of sound, two dragon, flying cross the middle of the crowd. At this time, several more loud, beautiful fireworks in the air, opening up one after another, and some, like chrysanthemums, and some like snow in June, and some, like a sky full of stars, and some, like colorful flowers.
大街上到处布满了各式各样的灯笼装饰，锣鼓声中两个舞龙队从路中间穿插而过。
Late at night, people in the face of light flowers are filled with satisfaction, happiness, pleasant look and left.
转眼间已是深夜，人们带着观花灯后的满足感，兴致勃勃的离去。