中国节日英语作文

中国节日英语作文篇一

大学英语作文--中国三个节日.doc

Dao Ying He

Prof. John Gill

ENG 101

Classification Revision

The main Chinese traditional festivals

Different countries have different festivals. China is deemed to be a a mysterious country for its cultures. Generally, the main Chinese

traditional festivals are the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-autumn Festival. No matter how busy people will be with work or study, they still find time to celebrate those important holidays. The

Chinese believe that the traditional festivals are not only festivals, but also are a time for people to rest.

Different from the western New Year, the Chinese New Year, starting on the first day of the spring festival, it is based on its lunar

calendar. This festival usually lasts for a week or more from its beginning on the first day of the first month. However, some places in china celebrate the Spring Festival during the whole month. There is no doubt that the Chinese New Year is the most jubilant and jolly festival among all festivals in Chinese culture. Like Christmas to the westerner, Chinese people also get together with each other and then cook the best special food like a delicious rice cake called the New Year Cake to share. One interesting custom is that the elderly give lucky to children in a red envelope. At this time, the happiest people must be the children even though some of whom are too young to understand what money is about and how to use it.

Maybe they just feel happy because everyone is immersed in the delightful atmosphere.

Four months later on the lunar calendar, another significant

festival called the Dragon Boat Festival takes place. In fact, this festival is in order to commemorate an ancient Chinese poet—Qu yuan. Qu yuan is the first well known great poet in China; he has been called the father of Chinese poetry and has become, in some way, a national culture hero. In history, Qu yuan was an idealist of his kingdom, he always gave a lot of his own political ideas to the king precisely and also offended the others unconsciously. Therefore some of other fellow ministers slandered and intrigued against him. In consequence Qu yuan lost the king’s favor and was dismissed from the government. Before long, his kingdom was invaded by another kingdom—Qing because his king never pays attention to his

opinions. When the capital of his Kingdom was plundered and ruined by the enemy, Qu yuan had been already an old man of over sixty. Unfortunately, the ruins capital was the last hope of his life eventually he jumped into the river, committing suicide. People missed him and were afraid that he would be eaten by the fish. For this reason, they threw a great number of roll rice into the river from the Dragon Boat because they guessed the Dragon can scare the fish and let them just eat the roll rice. Nowadays, people called this rolls rice Zongzi (Chinese) or Dragon boat dumpling. Dragon boat dumpling, pyramidal leaf-wrapped packages filled with glutinous rice, meats, beans, salted egg yolks, and also peanuts or other exciting things and so on. Every time the Dragon Boat Festival comes,

people are willing to enjoy this food and tell their children about the story.

The historical activity has been celebrated for more than 1000 years so that this festival is as important just as the other two festivals.

The month is the subject of many poems. One of the famous

myths is about the moon. In ancient China, a myth described that there was a fairy living in the moon with a rabbit. She was punished and forced to stay there forever because she fell in love with a human being, breaking the rules of the heavenly world and never been seen by the human. With this story, people like to gather together outside or sitting on a balcony to share moon cakes with the others, and they watch the moon, meanwhile they sing songs or read poems. This day, people call it the Mid-autumn festival, which has the most beautiful and also the full moon in a year appeared. The Mid-autumn festival is like the Spring Festival and the Dragon Boat

Festival as well. People around the world may be some are too busy to have leisure time, but on this day, even if they are busy, they rest from their work and join the celebration.

Every country in the world has Chinese people. They celebrate these traditional festivals wherever they reside. These festivals are warm and happy and they are still popular today. What is more, China has a long history of these festivals, they provide people everywhere opportunities to explore and discover China’s culture and tradition.

中国节日英语作文篇二

Chinese Traditional Festivals中国传统节日短文中英翻译

1.春节是中国最最重要的节日.2.春节前一天的晚上,一家人都聚在一起吃晚饭.3.许多人

都喜欢(在这时候)放炮竹.4.饺子是传统的食物. 5.小孩子非常喜欢这个节日,因为他们能吃到

很多美味的食物,穿漂亮的衣服.6.他们还能收到父母给的压岁钱.7这些钱能给孩子带来好

运.8人民也会把新年的画挂在墙上,为了来年的好运.

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .In the evening before the

Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to

set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very

much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get

some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People put

New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune .

【翻译练习】

与大多数中国节日一样，元宵节同样有自己的特色小吃，成为“汤圆”(也叫“元宵”)。汤圆

外形圆圆的，外皮由糯米制成，内陷或甜或辣。人们都说汤圆有两个象征之意，一为农历的

第一个月圆，二为家庭团聚圆满。元宵节传统习俗中还有一部分是关于猜灯谜的游戏。在过

去，这些谜语大多出自于模糊的文学典故和中国古典文学之中，所以猜灯谜以前多为知识份

子的“领地”。踩高跷，敲大鼓和舞龙狮也是元宵节主要的娱乐活动。

【词汇突破】 元宵节：the Lantern Festival

特色小吃：special food

糯米：glutinous rice

内陷：fillings

家庭团聚圆满：family unity and completeness

猜灯谜：guess riddles attached to the lanterns

文学典故：literary allusions

知识份子：educated class

踩高跷：stilt-walking

敲鼓：drumming

舞龙狮：dragon and lion dancing

【参考译文】

Like most Chinese festivals, the Lantern Festival has its own special food, called

“tang yuan”. These are round, glutinous rice dumplings with sweet or spicy fillings. The

dumplings are said to symbolize both the first full moon and family utility and

completeness. Part of the lantern festival tradition involves a game to guess riddles

attached to the lanterns. In the old days the riddles were obscure literary allusions to the

Chinese classics and so were mainly the preserve of the educated classes. Stilt-walking,

drumming and dragon and lion dancing are the main entertainment forms of the Lantern

Festival.

请将下面的内容翻译成英文：

端午节，又叫龙舟节，是为了纪念爱国诗人屈原。屈原是一位忠诚和受人敬仰的大臣

(minister),他给国家带来了和平和繁荣。但最后因为受到诽谤(vilify)而最终投河自尽。人们

撑船到他自尽的地方，抛下粽子，希望鱼儿吃粽子，不要吃屈原的身躯。几千年来，端午节的特色在于吃粽子(glutinous dumplings)和赛龙舟，尤其是在一些河湖密布的南方省份。 参考译文：

The Duanwu Festival, also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan was a loyal and highly esteemed minister, who brought peace and prosperity to the state but ended up drowning himself in a river as a result of being vilified.People got to the spot by boat and cast glutinous dumplings into the water,hoping that the fishes ate the dumplings instead of Qu Yuan's body. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by glutinous dumplings and dragon boat races, especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes.

“七夕节”， 农历七月七日，是一个充满浪漫色彩的传统节日，是庆祝牛郎和织女一年一度相会的日子。他们的爱情不被允许，因此他们被驱逐而分隔于银河两岸。每年的农历七月七日，喜鹊会来搭桥使这对情侣来相会。如今，一些传统的中国风俗仍在农村奉行，在城市却已经削弱。然而，牛郎和织女的传说已经深入人心。近些年来，尤其是城市的年轻人把它当作中国的情人节来庆祝。因此，花店、酒吧和商店的老板非常高兴，因为他们可以卖出更多的商品。

【翻译词汇】

七夕节 The Double Seventh Festival

浪漫色彩 romance

牛郎 Niu Lang (Cowherd)

织女 Zhi nü (Weaver Maid)

一年一度 annual

驱逐 banish

银河 the Milky Way

喜鹊 magpie

使相会 reunite

奉行 observe

削弱 weaken

情人节 Valentine’s Day

商品 commodity

【精彩译文】

The Double Seventh Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, is a traditional festival full of romance. It celebrates the annual meeting of Niu Lang (Cowherd) and Zhi nü (Weaver Maid). Their love was not allowed, and thus they were banished to opposite sides of the Milky Way. Once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, a flock of magpies would form a bridge to reunite the lovers for one day. Today some traditional customs are still observed in rural areas of China, but have been weakened in urban cities. However, the legend of the Cowhand and Weaver Maid has taken root in the hearts of people. In recent years, in particular, urban youths have celebrated it as Valentine’s Day in China. As a result, owners of flower shops, bars and stores are full of joy as they can

sell more commodities.

中秋节(the Mid-Autumn Festival)对中国汉族和少数民族来说都是个传统的节日。拜月的习俗可以追溯到古代夏商时期(the Xia and Shang Dynasties)。按照中国的农历，八月为秋季的第二个月，古时称为中秋。农历八月十五这天，月亮满圆，于是中国人将这天定为中秋节。圆形对中国人来说意味着家庭团聚，因此中秋节也是个家庭团聚的节日。这天，儿女们会带着自己的家人到父母家团聚。已经定居海外的人有时会回来探望父母。

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a conventional festival for both the Han and minority nationalities in China. The custom of worshipping the moon can be traced back to the ancient Xia and Shang Dynasties. According to Chinese lunar calendar,the 8th month is the second month in autumn and ancient people called it Mid-Autumn (Zhongqiu in Chinese). On the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, the moon is extremely round and the Chinese people mark it Mid-Autumn Festival. The round shape to Chinese means family reunion, therefore the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a holiday for members of a family to get together. On that day, sons and daughters will bring their family members back to their parents'home for a reunion, and people who have already settled overseas sometimes will come back to visit their parents.

每年农历九月初九，人们会庆祝重阳节（the Double Ninth Festival)。《易经》 (The Book of Changes)认为数字“九”是阳数，故重九也叫重阳。登高是最受欢迎的重阳节传统之一。九月天空高远，空气新鲜，在这样的日子登高有助于保持身体健康。吃重阳糕(double-ninth cake)跟登高有关。重阳糕作为节日食品最初用来庆祝秋收，后来发展成登高、吃重阳糕的习俗，寓意是我们的生活将越来越好。由于“九九”谐音“久久”，重阳节如今已被赋予新涵义—老人节。

On the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, people celebrate the Double Ninth Festival. Nine is a yang number (a traditional Chinese spiritual concept) in The Book of Changes, so Double Ninth is called Chongyang.Climbing the mountains is one of the most popular traditions on that day. In September the sky is high and the air is fresh, and climbing the mountains is helpful to keep physical fitness. The tradition of eating double-ninth cakes is associated with climbing the mountains. As a kind of festival foods, the double-ninth cake was first used to celebrate the autumn harvest. Later, it developed into the custom of climbing the mountains and eating double-ninth cakes, which means that our life will become better and better. Because double ninth sounds like longevity (jiujiu in Chinese), the Double Ninth Festival nowadays has been given a new meaning-Seniors' Day.

中国节日英语作文篇三

中国传统节日英语作文

The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. People always eat rice dumplings and watch dragon boat races to celebrate it. The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races, especially in the southern places where there are many rivers and lakes. It’s very popular. The rice dumpling is made of glutinous rice, meat and so on. You can eat different kinds of rice dumplings. They are very delicious. And Dragon Boat Festival is for Qu Yuan. He is an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river. Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting! the Middle-Autumn Festival The Middle-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, it is often held in September or October. During the festival, family members get united and have moon cakes together. There are various kinds of moon cakes, such as bean paste, egg-yolk or meat. The shape of a moon cake is round as it symbolizes a big moon. Moreover, in the evening of the Middle-Autumn Festival, people get together in a vacant place, eating delicious moon cakes while appreciating the beautiful moon hanging in the dark sky. To conclude, the Middle-Autumn Festival is a very nice festival for Chinese people. Last Qing Ming Festival, I return home to worship my grandfather. Qing Ming Festival is a folk Festival. In the past, In the past, the Qing Ming Festival was called "Arbor Day". But Today, Chinese visit their family graves to tend to any underbrush that has grown. Weeds are pulled, and dirt swept away, and the family will set out offerings of food and spirit money. Unlike the sacrifices at a family's home altar, the offerings at the tomb usually consist of dry, bland food. One theory is that since any number of ghosts roomed around a grave area, the less appealing food will be consumed by the ancestors, and not be plundered by strangers. With the passing of time, this celebration of life became a day to the honor past ancestors. Following folk religion, the Chinese believed that the spirits of deceased ancestors looked after the family. Sacrifices of food and spirit money could keep them happy, and the family would prosper through good harvests and more children. Chinese Spring Festival celebrating the end of winter and the warmth of spring. It began in the last day of the lunar year, ends in the 15th day of lunar New Year, and also is the Lantern Festival. During the Spring Festival, people use red lantern and Spring Festival couplets decorate a house, put on all kinds of colored clothes, often visit friendsand relatives or together eat dumplings, fish, meat and other delicious food. The children are looking forward to receiving red envelope money, and together they play each other the fireworks, with happy. Street with dragonand lion dance and some other carnival activities，CCTV will held the grand Spring Festival gala. Lantern Festival is a China’s traditional festival. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year. Lantern Festival is one of the biggest holidays in China. Several days before Lantern Festival, people begin to make lanterns. Lanterns are made in the shape of different animals, vegetables, fruits and many, other things. While making lanterns people usually write riddles on lanterns. On the eve of Lantern Festival, all the lanterns are hung up. On Lantern Festival people go outside to have a look at the lanterns and guess the riddles on the lanterns. Perhaps you call see some wonderful folk performances, Dragon Dance and New Younger. Everything is very interesting and everyone is very happy. Our life is rich and varied.

生活就像海洋，只有意志坚定的人才能到达彼岸。

This is an apple. I like apples. Apples are good for our health.

中国节日英语作文篇四

英语作文-传统节日

假设你是王平，你的英国朋友harry正在学习汉语，想通过你了解中国的传统节日，请你根据所给的图画和提示，给harry写一封E-mail，向他介绍我国主要传统节日的情况，并告诉他你最喜欢的节日及理由。

提示：

1. 内容要点：以上两个节日的时间，含义（家人团聚的日子）及主要活动。

2. 参考词汇：lunar, play fireworks, lucky money, moon cake

3. 词数：不少于80，开头和结尾已经写出，不计入总词数

4. 春节和中秋节

Dear Harry,

How are you? I’m really glad that you are interested in Chinese traditional festivals. So,I’d like to tell you something about these festivals. Spring Festival is the most important festival in my country.It is to celebrate the lunar calendar’s new year. Before the festival,we clean our homes and sweep away all the bad luck. On the evening before Spring Festival we have a big family dinner. We eat jiaozi—a kind of dumpling and other delicious food. After dinner, we will go outside to play fireworks.

In China, another important festival is Mid-autumn Day.It is on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.It is time for family getting together. On that night the moon is brighter and fuller than any other night. .I love it very much. Because on that day ,our families will stay outside in the open air to eat a big dinner and moon cakes. The most important thing is looking at the moon, the moon looks brighter and rounder. We call this moon the full moon.

What great festivals ! I love them . I am sure you will love them too.

Write and tell me something about your festivals.{中国节日英语作文}.

Moon Festival The Moon Festival or Mid -autumn Festival is one of the three major traditional festivals celebrated by Chinese people. Like harvest time in other countries, the Mid-autumn Festival actually began as a thanksgiving celebration, honoring the Soil God and the Crop God. This is also a time for family reunions. Chinese people enjoy moon cakes during this feast just as they eat rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival. It is quite appropriate to bring moon cakes with you in token of festival greetings when calling on people during this season.

The Mid-Autumn Day

August 15th in Chinese Lunar Calendar is the Mid-Autumn Day. It is one of the most important traditional festivals in China.

On that day people usually go back home to have family reunion. Each family will have the members get together to have a big dinner. The most popular food is moon cakes. They are round and look like the moon.

The moon is the brightest this night. People ate the delicious food while they were enjoying a beautiful full moon in their yard. At this time, some old people would like to tell many past events and tell the children a story about the rabbit. The children really believed that there was a rabbit on the moon. They wanted to go to the moon and have a look one day{中国节日英语作文}.

中秋：

Mid-autumn Day falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month（农历）.On that night the moon is

brighter and fuller than any other night.In China,Mid-autumn Day is a time for family reunions (团圆). 端午： The Dragon Boat Festival,also called the Duanwu Festival,is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar.For thousands of years,the festival has been marked by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats. Mid-autumn Day is a Chinese festival.It usually comes in September or October .On that day we usually eat a big dinner and mooncakes.It is said "Hou Yi" missed his wife,so he made mooncakes.It looks like the moon.There are many kinds of mooncakes.They are small round cakes with meat,nuts or something sweet inside .eating mooncakes has been our custom.Families stay outside in the open air eat a big dinner and mooncakes.The most important thing is looking at the moon,On that day,the moon kooks brighter and rounder.We call this moon the full moon.On that day,families get together,so we call this day getting –together.This is Mid –autumn Day.I love it very much.Because on that day I can eat mooncakes.And my brother comes back home.He works outside all year.Only that day and the Spring Festival.He comes back.So that day I am especially happy.On that day my family gets together.

春节：

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar‘s new year.In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food Mid-Autumn Festival is the first festival after the beginning of autumn,the day people celebrate the harvest,Because the full moon is round and symbolizes reunion,the festival is also known as the festival of reunion.In this harvest and the reunion of the day,people will reunite with their families under the full moon,enjoy the results of hard work; when the full moon rises at the right time,people will put on the table in a rich tribute fruits and mooncakes,Thank god gives people to harvest the fruit,the other to pray for good weather next year.Just as turkeys symbolize Thanksgiving Day,mooncakes symbolize China's Mid-Autumn Festival.

中秋节是立秋以后的第一个节日,是人们庆祝丰收的日子,洽逢十五月圆人团圆,因此中秋节对于华人来讲也象征着团圆.在这个丰收与团圆的日子里,人们会与家人团聚在满月下,享用辛勤劳动的成果;当满月升起的时侯,人们会在在贡桌上摆上丰盛的水果和月饼,一方面感恩上天赐予人们丰收的果实,另一方面祈祷来年风调雨顺.就像火鸡象征西方感恩节一样,月饼象征着中国中秋节.

中国节日英语作文篇五

中国传统节日英语作文

My Favorite Festival

What is the name of the festival? Spring Festival

When is it? First day of the Chinese lunar calendar

What do people eat? A big dinner niangao jiaozi meat fish What do people do?

• Clean the house several days before the festival

• Buy new clothes

• Have a reunion dinner with the family on the eve

• Visit relatives after the festival{中国节日英语作文}.{中国节日英语作文}.

• Give “lucky” money to children

Why do you like it so much?

I think I can meet relatives.

I know receiving “lucky” money makes me happy.

I think that setting off fire crackers is interesting.

I wonder if I can do these things next year.

用下列句式造句，谈谈对不同节日的看法：

I think„ He thinks„ She thinks„

I believe„ He thinks„ She thinks„

I wonder„ He wonders„ She wonders„

Spring Festival

I know that Spring Festival is the most important festival for Chinese people. It comes in January or February. People usually clean their houses before the Spring Festival. People have a big family dinner on the eve of the Spring Festival. Young people bow to old people and wish them a happy new year. Old people give children “lucky money”. The next morning people put on their new clothes, go to see their friends and relatives and say “Happy New Year” to each other. I think that Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals in China. I love it very much.

Middle-Autumn Festival

People believe that the Middle-Autumn Festival is one of the most traditional Chinese festivals, it is often celebrated in September or October. During the festival, family members get together and eat moon cakes. There are many kinds of delicious moon cakes. I think they are very delicious. On the evening of the Middle-Autumn Festival, people can enjoy the full moon in the dark sky. I like Mid-Autumn Festival because it makes me happy.

Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. There’s a folk story about this festival. Many years ago, There was a poet called Qu Yuan. He loved his country very much. However, the king asked him to leave the country. He felt very sad. When he learned that another country had seized his country, he didn’t want to live any more.On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, he jumped into Miluo River. The local people rowed the boat to save him, but it was too late. They didn’t want the fish to eat his body, So they dropped rice balls into the river. Nowadays, on this day, we watch dragon boat races and eat ZONGZI in memory of Qu Yuan.

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范文一：Spring Festival（春节）

The Spring Festival is very important to Chinese people. In the past，people could not often have meat，rice or other delicious food. They could only eat these during the Spring festival. So every year they hoped that the Spring Festival would come soon. Now， although people‘s life is much better，and we can eat the delicious foods everyday. People still like the festival. Because most people can have a long holiday，and we are free to go on a trip or visit our friends or have parties with our family. In the evenings，we can have a big meal in the restaurant or stay at home with family and watch the TV programmes.

I like the Spring Festival very much. How wonderful the Spring Festival is！

范文二：Qingming Festival（清明节）

Last Qingming Festival,i return home to worship my grandfather.Qingming Festival is a folk Festival.In the past,In the past, the Qingming Festival was called "Arbor Day". But Today, Chinese visit their family graves to tend to any underbrush that has grown. Weeds are pulled, and dirt swept away, and the family will set out offerings of food and spirit money. Unlike the sacrifices at a family's home altar, the offerings at the tomb usually consist of dry, bland food. One theory is that since any number of ghosts rome around a grave area, the less appealing food will be consumed by the ancestors, and not be plundered by strangers.

With the passing of time, this celebration of life became a day to the honor past ancestors. Following folk religion, the Chinese believed that the spirits of deceased ancestors looked after the family. Sacrifices of food and spirit money could keep them happy, and the family would prosper through good harvests and more children.

范文三：On Mother's Day （母亲节）

In the early morning, my sister went out and brought home a bunch of pretty flowers. Right after my mother got up out of bed, we said "Happy Mother's Day"! to her and gave her the flowers. My mother was very happy; she smiled and said, 'How wonderful the flowers look! Thank you! Also, we told her we were going to do all the housework for our beloved mother, and she could take a rest for a day. In the beginning, we were excited about all the work we can do at home. Before long, we found that the housework seemed to be endless, There was cooking and washing, and cleaning to do, and there was shopping to do, too . During the dinner hour, the kitchen seemed so busy. My father was making a salad, my sister was baking a pie for dessert, and I was washing rice and vegetables, and there were many other things to do. Finally, the dinner was ready; it was two hours behind the usual schedule. The food was not as delicious as

my mother's. Nevertheless, my mother and father enjoyed it, and felt very proud of their daughter and son.ter and son.

范文四：The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival ,also called the Duanwu Festival ,is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar.People always eat rice dumplings and watch dragon boat races to celebrate it.

The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races,especially in the southern places where there are many rivers and lakes. Ití?s very popular.

The rice dumpling is made of glutinous rice,meat and so on. You can eat different kinds of rice dumplings.They are very delicious.

And Dragon Boat Festival is for Qu Yuan. He is an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.

Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting!

The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar holiday, occurring on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.{中国节日英语作文}.

The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277

B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings.

The celebration's is a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying portraits of evil's nemesis, Chung Kuei. If one manages to stand an egg on it's end at exactly 12:00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.

范文五：Teacher'Day（教师节）

It is Teachers＇ Day on September 10th every year. Teachers are the greatest people in the

world, I think, because they teach us how to write and read. The most important is that they teach us how to be a real man. They are also kind to everybody and they don＇t want anyone to fall behind others. They always get on very well with their students, and they are our best friends. When students are in trouble, they can help them in time.＇ I will be a teacher when I grow up.

范文六：The Mid-Autumn Festival（中秋节）

The Mid-Autumn is a very important Chinese festival. It falls on the 15th day of August. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family will help to make the house clean and beautiful. Lanterns will be hung in front of the house.

On the evening there will be a big family dinner. People who work far away from their homes will try to come back for the union. After dinner, people will light the lanterns which are usually red and round. Children will play with their own toy lanterns happily.

At night the moon is usually round and bright. People can enjoy the moon while eating moon-cakes which are the special food for this festival. They can look back on the past and look forward to the future together. It is said that there was a dragon in the sky. The dragon wanted to swallow up the moon. To protect the frighten the dragon away.

范文七：Lantern Festival（元宵节）

Lantern Festival is a China’s traditional festival. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year.

I,antern Festival is one of the biggest holidays in China. Several days before Lantern Festival, people begin to make lanterns. Lanterns are made in the shape of different animals, vegetables, fruits and many, other things. While making lanterns people usually write riddles on lanterns. On the eve of Lantern Festival, all the lanterns are hung up.

On Lantern Festival people go outside to have a look at the lanterns and guess the riddles on the lanterns. Perhaps you call see some wonderful folk performances,Dragon Dance and Yangko. Everything is very interesting and everyone is very happy. Our life is rich and varied.

范文八：Father＇s Day（父亲节）

Yesterday was Father＇s Day. I had planned to give my father a present. But I didn＇t remember it until in the morning.It was too late to post a card to him. So I decided to buy something. When I was in the department store. I found it was not easy for me to choose something right for him. Suddenly I

got an idea. I ran home and opened my computer. I made a beautiful card and mailed him through the Internet. then I began to make supper. When father came home, he was very glad to find a big meal on the table. then I asked him to check his e-mail. He was amazed to find a beautiful card in his e-mail-box.

What a wonderful surprise!

范文九：National Day

National Day is coming,and we can have a seven-day.My family are going to Hainan.It's a good seaside city.We are staying there for a week. We are going to the beach and going swimming in the sea.We're visiting Tianya Haijiao,Wanquan River and many other beautiful places.I think we'll have a good time there.