我的喜好的英文作文(汇总20篇)

I like to watch movie, I had watched many movies,Jackie Chen is my favorite male actor.

When I was small, I watched Jackie Chen’s actionmovie, he can beat many guys at the same time, heis many teenagers’ hero.

In the last ten years, Jackie Chen has aimed at the foreign market, he took many movies andcooperated with foreign stars, he has achieved great success.

Jackie’s success teaches us a lesson, the secret of achieving success is hard work.

Jackie got wounded when he shot films, he has many scars on his body.

Now he is over 50, but he is going on his playing, we are happy to see Jackie Chen’s movie.

How to learn English well

English is important and useful to us. How can we learn it well? Here are

my suggestions.

First, we should often listen to the tapes, English songs and programs.

Watching English movies is also helpful to us. Second, we should speak English

in class as much as possible. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. The more you

speak, the fewer mistakes you’ll make. Wed better join the English club and

practice with others. Third, we can read more English newspapers and magazines.

It’s good for us. At last, we should recite some good passages and keep

diaries.

In a word, as long as we do more listening, speaking, reading and writing,

we will learn English well.

As we all know， the environmentaround us is getting worse and worse . In

some places we can’t see fishswimming in the river or trees on the hills. Not

only does it affect our lives and health， but also has a great affection in the

future. So I thinkwe must do something to protect the environment. .But what can

we do?

Now green commuting and a low-carbon life are more and morepopular in the

society .For example，we can go to school on foot or by bike ， we can use

shopping baskets notplastic bags when we go shopping and we can use both sides

of the paper when wewrite .

In a word ，if everyonepays more attention to(makes a contribution to) our

environment ，there will be less pollution and our lives will be better.

Beautiful homeland A into my village, saw the ground covered with grass, is so tender and beautiful. Scan, like a green brocade. A breeze, grass, like we nodded approvingly at to welcome us. Modest willow with it that slightness green girls arm, and gently pat on the bank. In front of our house is a beautiful garden, the garden of lush trees and beautiful scenery, grass overgrown with all sorts of flowers and plants, like a big flower-bed, full of pigment beside a pool, pool of colorful fish swim to swim, clever! Our house is behind the building, neat flickering among the people, and street, car, a blast. Our home is beautiful! We love our home!

Hometown in autumn The autumn is the hometown of neither too hot nor too cold, although the air is fresh, leaves no previous also started withered, but one thing more and more mature, it is rice. Out of the door, scan, the first saw is rice, so much rice large full yes. Rice in imperceptible in gradually grow mature. The autumn is the hometown of golden, basically everything is yellow. The autumn, the hometown of rice mature into yellow. Hometown of autumn, withered grass became yellow. Hometown of autumn, the leaves on the trees grew up, r. will wither soon. In the field, and small roadside, entailed, no matter what the green plant basically are withered. Especially the grass, it is waiting for the coming of spring, again to add a green world. Home is a season of harvest in autumn, peach on the big peaches and pears on the big pear, JuShu within large orange on the rice field, and mature etc can eat lots of fruits are ripe. The wind was so soft, the water is so fluent, the sky is so blue, people are so active. The autumn is the hometown, and spring. The autumn of home town than in winter to much warmer than the autumn, the home more to cool in summer. Ah, the hometown of autumn, you how soft!

It is the duty of every citizen to make the country rich and powerful (To

make the country rich and strong is…)。 In order to accomplish this object one

must be patriotic (love his country)。 I consider this an unchangeable truth.

How can a student love his country (be patriotic)? I find my answer very

simple and clear. He must study hard and store up knowledge so as to serve his

(the) country in the future. If every student can do according to what I said,

the country will certainly be rich and powerful.

March 5th is my birthday. It`s also a special day to memorize a great person -- Lei Feng. This year I celebrated my birthday in a different way. In the morning, I got up early and cooked breakfast for my parents. At school, I helped my desk-mates to repair their broken chairs. After school, I took my birthday cake to the home for the aged. The old men were so happy to see me. All o~ them hoped that I would be back again.

I have a lovely bedroom. It is small but clean and beautiful. The wall is light green and the floor is white. There is a bed in my bedroom, it is really comfortable. I sleep with it every night. And there is a small sofa near my bed, I always read books on it. There is also a desk in my room, I do my homework on it every evening. Near the desk, there is a shelf. There are many books on the shelf. You can borrow books from me if you like reading.

My bedroom is so good that I like it very much.

for going on with my further studies， i took the entrance examination in a senior middle school last week。 i still remember there were more than three hundred candidates taking part in this examination。 for the first day， in the morning， chinese was easy。 we were required to write a composition of 250 words on "my home life"， and give definitions and illustrations to twenty phrases。 in the afterno on， we took an english examination。 there were dictation， sentence formation， and analysis for oral english。 in the oral examination， i was questioned about my home life， my experience in the junior middle school and my future prospects。

on the second day， we were examined on history and geography in the morning and physics and chemistry in the afternoon。

“我的入学考试”英语作文译文：

为了进一步学习，我上周在一所高中参加了入学考试。我还记得参加考试的有300多人，第一天上午，语文很简单，我们要写一篇250字的作文，关于“我的家庭生活”，并解释20个短语。下午，我们考英语，有听力，造句，分析口语。口语考试时，我被问道我的生活，中学经历以及未来的希望。

第二天，我们早上考历史、地理，下午考物理、化学。

候老师是我的英语老师，她28岁，我们都很喜欢她。我的英语一开始真的很不好，我怕上候老师的课，当她发现了，她并没有责备我，她告诉我唯一能学好英语的方法就是喜欢上英语，她叫我去看英语电影，这起作用了。候老师是我最喜欢的老师。

If ask me who my favorite teacher is, I will no doubt answer you that Miss Hou is my favorite teacher. She is an English teacher, she is kind to everyone, she is not like other teachers who are so strict to students. As Miss Hou is so popular among students, students learn English with high enthusiasm, that is what they return to her. Miss Hou is a good teacher.

如果你问我我最喜欢的老师是谁，我会毫无疑问回答你候老师是我最喜欢的老师。她是一位英语老师，对每个人都很好，她不想其他的老师那样对学生很严格。候老师很受学生的欢迎，学生怀着很高的热情学习英语，这是他们所能回报她的。候老师是一位好老师。

I remember the first time I see Miss Hou, she walks in class, and then talks with students about small things. She doesn’t talk about English in the first class, everyone feels Miss Hou is so amiable, we like her so much. Miss Hou is good at teaching us, she explain the question very patiently, when we understand, she will be move to the next topic, Miss Hou is a good teacher.

我记得我第一次见到候老师，她走进教室，然后和学生讨论一些小事情。她在第一次课上并不讲英语，大家都觉得候老师很和蔼，我们很喜欢她。候老师很擅长教我们，她很耐心地解释问题，当我们明白了，她才会讲下一个题目，候老师是一名好老师。

I want to be a doctor twenty years later, to help people.Even when not a doctor, I want to be an astronaut to space exploration. If you can be a doctor to do a good doctorfamous. There are a lot of good doctor, for example, can help oneself. There are advantages to do an astronaut, for example, can have a look at the space is how, can help mankind to prove that the world there are aliens. But dothese two jobs are not easy, also very dangerous, such asthe doctor may have infectious diseases, do astronautsrocket launching and landing could explode. It is not easy to do so this two job.

我想二十年以后当一名医生，帮助人们。即使当不了医生，我也想当一名宇航员去太空探险。如果能当一名医生就要做一位有名的好医生。做医生有很多好处，比如能帮自己治病。做一名宇航员也有好处，比如能看一看太空是怎样的，能帮助人类证明世界上有没有外星人。但是要做这两份工作是不容易的，还很危险的，比如做医生有可能感染传染病，做宇航员火箭发射和降落时有可能会爆炸。所以做这两份工作都是不容易的。

During May Day holiday, I went to my uncle’s home to meet my new little

bother and he is a baby.

My little bother has got big eyes, a small nose, and a small mouth that

looks like a cherry. But my little bother cant talk, and the only thing he can

do is crying.

My little bother is very lovely. He likes frown very much. When he frowns,

it looks like that he is just thinking some questions. When he falls to sleep,

it looks like swimming. When he cries, the sound is very interesting. It sounds

like he is counting numbers or he is singing. Maybe he wants to be a singer.

I love my little brother, Do you like him? I hope my little bother can be a

super star in the future. At that time I will be proud of him.

The Spring Festival is coming. I know that you must be very fond of the Spring Festival. Because everyone can stick to the spring festival couplet, see the Spring Festival Gala, visit friends and friends … …

I remember when the Spring Festival approached last year, I learned to write couplets at home. I stood aside and looked at the couplets written by adults. I saw that they dipped in a pen with ink, and then wrote several big words on the red paper. I cant remember the specific content. The couplet was very neat, and I said to my uncle, &ldquo, can you teach me to write a couplet? ” I remember clearly the uncle asked, "“ do you use a brush?" Do you know how to write a couplet? ” I shook my head and said, “ no. ” so he said, "“ you have grown up for one year again, and you cant even use a brush. Ill teach you a few tricks at this opportunity." ” after hearing the uncles words, I jumped up happily.

The uncle told me to sit straight while writing, not on the table. And then tell me in detail how to use the brush. After listening to my uncles words, I finally learned some of the most basic ways to use the brush. Then the uncle asked me to write a few words to show him. I wrote five words: “ I love Chinese &rdquo most; Written askew, probably just use a brush! The uncle saw a smile: “ the word was written well, but the pen was not straight. ”

So my uncle taught me: “ when writing every word, it is not to use the same strength to write every word, but the power should be changed with weight. The written words will be more varied and look more beautiful. The uncle finished the demonstration and wrote several words to imitate me. It is comfortable to look at the words written by the uncle. I tried to write a few words on my uncles look, and I really made progress. I was much happier than I had just written.

The uncle also told me that writing should be often trained to imitate the name. The more it is written, the more writing it is, the better it is.

In this Spring Festival, I have learned a little bit of writing brush writing skills, is really more happy than to get the money, but also more affordable.

A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight (P.B.Shelley, British poet)

伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。(英国诗人 雪莱 P B)

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. (Stendhcl,French writer)

一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子。(法国作家 司汤达)

A picture is a poem without words. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)

一幅画是一首没有文字的诗歌。(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (E.de Goncourt, French writer)

诗人是这样的人，他架起通向星星的梯子――一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。(法国作家 龚古尔 E)

A poet is born, not made. (L.A.Florus, Ancient Roman poet)

诗人靠天分，不是靠培养。(古罗马诗人 弗洛鲁 L A)

Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authourity is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. (Da Vinci, Italian painter)

一个借着引经据典来辩论的人，不是在运用自己的才智，他是在运用自己的记忆力。(意大利画家 达?芬奇)

Art is a lie that tells the truth. (Picasso, Spanish painter)

美术是揭示真理的谎言。(西班牙画家 毕加索)

Art is long, and time is fleeting. (Longfellow, American poet)

艺术是永恒的，时间则是瞬息即逝的。(美国诗人 朗费罗)

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it ! (Robert Motherwell, American painter)

艺术远没有生活重要，但是没有艺术生活是多么乏味呀！(美国画家 马赦韦尔 R)

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. (Len Tolstoy, Russian writer)

艺术不是手艺，它是艺术家的体验到的感情的传递。(俄国作家托尔斯泰。L)

Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought. (Susanne Langer, American philosopher)

艺术是感情的模制品，犹如语言是思想的模制品。(美国哲学家 兰格 S)

Art is the object of feeling, and the subject of nature. (S.K.langer, American philosopher and educator)

艺术是情感的客观表现。也是本性的主观反映。(美国哲学家、教育家 兰格 S K)

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. (Friedrich Schiller, German poet)

艺术是自然的右手。自然只让我们存在，而艺术创造我们的人类。(德国诗人 席勒 F)

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travel. (Theocore Dreser, American novelist)

好画犹如佳肴，只可意会，不可言传。(法国画家 弗拉曼克 M)

Good painting is like good cooking; it ca n be tasted, but not explained. (Maurice de vlaminck, French painter)

简单地说，伟大的文学就是包涵极其丰富意义的语言。(美国诗人 庞德 E)

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree (Ezra Poud, American poet)

幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表达感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。(美国诗人 庞德 E)

Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (Mark Twain, American novelist)

我写作只是为了增加自身的美。(美国作家 杰克?伦敦)

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. (Jack London, American writer)

音乐要用心灵去听，用头脑去感觉。(法国作家 雨果 V)

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the bra

[有关英文的名言警句

What a great forest! Today is the Spring Festival party in the forest, on the ground, flying in the sky all go to see the Spring Festival Gala.

The host is the thrush bird and the canary, which first speaks fluently about some blessings, and then please go to the singer &mdash in the forest; — the puppy.

When the puppy came to power, he said, “ what song do you love to hear me most? ” the animals say in a different voice: “ spring ”. The puppy sang, &ldquo, Wangwang, spring sprouts, spring flowers opened … … ” after listening to the puppy song, the animals applauded the puppy singer down.

The second play is the fox, the fox came on, he sang the song of the fox fox: “ squeak, our mouth is so sharp, so big eyes … … “, listening to the fox singing, we laugh together not so please clap down the fox mouth side. The third is the peacock. When the peacock comes to the stage, she starts to jump up &ldquo. The dance of Spring Festival &rdquo, her head is wearing gold crown, wearing bright clothes and graceful dancing. Animals cant help saying, &ldquo, they jump too well, &rdquo.

Two kids came, they came to power, to everyone bowed, then bleating for everyone to ask a good start to drop, some ball in their hands is very obedient, look at the dazzling animal.

Nbsp; after the end of the spring party, the animals walked out of the studio.

I like to surf the internet， fix puters， use smart phones and take photoes。

And I found my hobbies were popular with people around me。 If my co-workers have

trouble with puter or smart phone， they will ask me to help。 When I go out for a

trip， I will take many photoes for others。 Today I helped my friends nephew

install QQ messenger on his iphone4 and access to the internet through

Wi-fi。

I like to study， not to play Majiang。

关于元宵节的英文介绍

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.每年农历的正月十五日，春节刚过，迎来的就是中国的传统节日--元宵节。元宵主要的活动就是看灯。东汉明帝时期，明帝提倡佛教，听说佛教有正月十五日僧人观佛舍利，点灯敬佛的做法，就命令这一天夜晚在皇宫和寺庙里点灯敬佛，令士族庶民都挂灯。以后这种佛教礼仪节日逐渐形成民间盛大的节日。该节经历了由宫廷到民间，由中原到全国的发展过程。

till today, the lantern festival is still held each year around the country. lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited. "guessing lantern riddles"is an essential part of the festival.

lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. if visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. if they are right, they will get a little gift. the activity emerged

during peoples 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 strata.

直到今天，元宵点灯的习俗仍然在中国的各地流传的，各式各样美丽的花灯在这一天都会点亮，孩子们提着自制的灯笼走街串巷，非常高兴。猜灯谜也是元宵节的一项重要活动，花灯的主人会将谜面写在灯笼上，挂在门口，如果有人可以猜中，就能得到小小的礼物。这项活动最早起源于宋朝，因为谜语能启迪智慧又饶有兴趣，所以流传过程中深受社会各阶层的欢迎。

people will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "yuanxiao festival."yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. 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 filling. tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. it tastes sweet and delicious. what’s more, tangyuan in chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. so people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.

民间过元宵节吃元宵的习俗。元宵由糯米制成，或实心，或带馅。馅有豆沙、白糖、山楂、各类果料等，食用时煮、煎、蒸、炸皆可。起初，人们把这种食物叫“浮圆子”，后来又叫“汤团”或“汤圆”，这些名称“团圆”字音相近，取团圆之意，象征全家人团团圆圆，和睦幸福，人们也以此怀念离别的亲人,寄托了对未来生活的美好愿望。

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 staged. on the night, except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a

beautiful scene. most families spare some fireworks from the spring festival and let them off in the lantern festival. some local

December 27th, 2009

Dear Mr Pan:

It has been a long time since I wrote the last letter. Nowdays, people write letters less and less, instead, they make a call or send a SMS. However, it is still a good way for us to communicate with each other by sending a letter.

Its my honour to get the chance to write to you. "Approachable" is my first impression of you, because you always keeps smiling. Students may fear the teachers that are serious both in and out of class. Smile makes a teacher popular with his students, you are a teacher of this very kind.

You always arrive at the classroom ahead of any of the students, from which we could imply that you are a diligent man with regular habit. Before the class, you like to talk to us, at this very time, you are more a friend than a teacher. To be honest, I was surprised in the first class when I learned a teacher at your age could speak English in such a fluent way.(I didnt mean you are old, youre young at heart.) Moreover, you know well how to keep your class attractive. Youve got such an active mind that you can keep talking during the whole class without a pause. I always appreciated your ideas and enjoyed listening to you. In your class, I learned not only the writing skills but also the presentation skills as well as much knowledge of other areas. Thanks for your excellent teaching.

Ive got some suggestions for you. It seems that we students have got few chances to participate in discussion during the class time. Most of the time, we are listening. Seldom did we express our own ideas. I suggest that teachers should interact with students more frequently in the class. Besides, Id like to practice writing more, so would you please leave us more assignments?

Happy new year.

With every good wish.

Yours sincerely Dali Wang

[给英语老师的一封信,英文作文

Dear leaders and fellow students,

Everybody is good!

It is my great honor to stand here and participate in the election of the monitor. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you for your support. First of all, I would like to introduce myself to you: my name is tao league. As a freshman at the university, I am one of the leaders of the department of health.

As a child, my father once said to me: do things with your feet on the ground and do them one step at a time. Therefore, I went from a middle school student to the first year of the university to enter this sacred place, I deeply feel the opportunity is hard-won, need to cherish. It is this power that makes me feel confident when I stand here.

Of course, it is not enough to have confidence, but also to have certain ability. From childhood, I will not be able to plan activities independently. I will never come to the meeting, from bad to good, and I will complete each work with confidence and modesty.

In middle school, I served as monitor and President of the student union. At work, I consciously cultivate my ability of cooperation and coordination, can I have a sincere cooperation with others, and to coordinate the relationship between the good students, dare to bold to bad behavior management, never soft, therefore, won the praise of teachers and students. I often look at our class cadres from the perspective of my classmates. Talk with your classmates on Saturdays and Sundays. Learn about their personalities, thoughts and hobbies, listen to their voices, and listen to their Suggestions and opinions. I always try to organize activities from their point of view, so the class activities are always in full swing. But "man to err, to err is human." and I also made a mistake, but I dare to face their own errors, from the students and the teachers help humbly accept criticism, and correct the mistake, and never allowing yourself to fall for the second time in the same place.

Im running here today. I hope to become school leaders and students in our class between the bridge of the mind, as a bond between teachers and students, and become a real service for students, the students really love it, also want to exercise their abilities, give yourself a stage to show ability. Compared with others, I feel I have more self-confidence, because I am an unyielding person, I have a real sense of responsibility and enthusiasm for our class. Of course, if I am not elected, I will work as hard as I can and will do better to support the work of the new presidium. Because I love this group, because of love, I will do my best. If I am lucky enough to be elected, I will draw lessons from the previous and the experience of the presidium, further carry forward the glorious tradition of the he, seeking truth from facts of service for students, and will work with the young students, the unity cooperation, advancing with The Times, bold reform, give full play to our proper role in our class, let it become a veritable group.

Finally, I sincerely hope that you can believe me, support me and give me this opportunity to demonstrate my ability.

I will paint a beautiful blueprint for the college campus tomorrow, in which I will spend the spring sweat in our sky. Im sure our class will be better tomorrow...

Hello, nice to meet you.

My name is xxx. I am a sophomore studying in Beijing institute of petrochemical technology. My hobbies are varied from individual to group activities. Such as XXX XXX XXX XXX.

The main reason of applying to be Olympic volunteer of 2008 is that I think this will be my unforgettable and GREat experience in my whole life. This is the first time to hold Olympic Games in china, for every Chinese person, this Olympic game is very important and memorable. Besides, Olympic Games will be held in Beijing. As a citizen of Beijing, I feel very proud. Although I am only a graduate, I think that I must actively contribute to the Olympic Games. Unnumbered people want to be Olympic volunteers, but they have no opportunities.

I am so lucky that I am a graduate, and I have opportunity to work for Olympic. My heart tells me that I cannot lose this GREat opportunity. I have geographical conditions that I live in Beijing and I study in Beijing. I have no reason to give up this opportunity to be Olympic volunteer. Furthermore, I can learn and get exercises in many respects, for example, my language skills, communication skills, association skills and ability to deal with matters of sudden urgency. Of cause I may have opportunity to meet my dream sport stars who are XXX, XXX and XXX. (laughing).

All in all, this experience has great influence on my future life and I have a lot of confidence. ^-^ (laughing again)

感恩父母,感恩他们用十月怀胎,给予了我生命;感恩父母,感恩他们用辛勤汗水,哺育了我成长。下面小编整理关于写感恩父亲的英文作文，供大家参考！

Dear Dad:

You have worked hard!

In the past, I am always afraid to you and positive dialogue. Every time something was always afraid to tell you. Because when you face the total serious. Today to take this opportunity to say something to you whispering. Xiao network composition

Dad, every weekend, I was always the time you have to close the arrangement. Mathematical Olympiad morning composition class in the afternoon there are English classes in Cambridge. I would like to be able to dominate his time, eager to recognize friends, community awareness.

In addition, the father, you will recall that I am sick of it? That, when they travel to swim because a lot of times, the sublingual gland, where a number of issues, the doctors said an operation to be cured.

After the surgery, you work hard day and night for me, I‘m hungry, you always give me to bring food from home; in my sleep, you always watch my side, I fear what Thing; in my heart the cried, you always comfort and uncle along with me, encouraged me; at a time when I eat, you always looked at me quietly aside. But I know where you are busy at the time that I look at the ah! You can even to me, but gave up in the hands of a large business! I do, when the test of time is not actively cooperate so that you are concerned, here, an son tell you I am sorry.

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The Lantern Festival (元宵节) is the last day of the Chinese New Year celebration.

This day is for the last moment for setting off fireworks, the last excuse for eating a big feast and the last chance for family getting together before the “年” celebrations are over. (Latern Festival is also a traditional time of celebration for foreigners who live in China).

The Lantern Festival, the 15th of the first month of the lunar calendar, is the first full moon of the year.

Celebrations and traditions on this day date back to the Western Han Dynasty.

Traditions for this festival: as the name indicates, hanging and looking at lanterns is the main tradition.

Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are displayed on trees, or along river banks.

Parents often take their children to Lantern Fairs and sometimes lucky kids even get a mini toy lantern.

Another tradition is guessing lantern riddles. These are riddles that are hung on lanterns for people to shoot down and solve. The riddles are usually short, wise, and sometimes humorous.

The answer to a riddle can be a Chinese character, a famous persons name, a place name or a proverb. This tradition has become a popular game with serious staying power even as social development changes other traditions.

Other than that, the most important thing to do today is to eat sweet dumplings. In northern China, sweet dumplings made of glutinous rice flour are called “元宵” while in southern part they are called “汤圆”.

Typical sweet dumplings are filled with black sesame sauce, sweetened bean paste, or hawthorn. Making “元宵” today is like a game or an activity, so its seldom done without a reason and a group of friends or family present to help out.