英语作文关于节日的作文（经典20篇）

The Laba Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar Chinese calendar. "La" is the name given to the 12th lunar month and 8 is pronounced as "ba" in Chinese, which translated is "Laba." There are several legends about the origin of this festivity and we could not tell which one is true. But what we know today is that this festival started as a sacrificial offering to ancestors. It was also a time for the ancient Chinese to pray to heaven and earth that there would be a bountiful harvest. Many people hoped for good luck as well for the coming year.

农历十二月初八是中国的传统节日——腊八节，腊代表中国农历的十二月，而八是eight的发音，因此，这个节日被翻译成腊八。关于腊八起源的传说有很多，我们已经不能辨其真假。时至今日，我们确定的是这个节日起初是为了祭祀祖先，祈求丰收以及为即将来到的一年祈福。

Traditionally, the Laba rice porridge is the most important element of the festival. Generally, the porridge contains eight ingredients which can include glutinous rice, red beans, millet, Chinese sorghum, peas, dried lotus seeds and some other ingredients, such as dried dates, chestnut meat, walnut meat, almond, peanut, etc. The porridge must be boiled for many hours and then offered as a sacrifice to the ancestors. This must be done before noontime. Also, it is tradition that family members eat the porridge together. Then they leave some as a symbol of hope for a good harvest the coming year.

从传统上讲，腊八粥是腊八节最重要的元素。腊八粥通常由八种材料做成，这些材料可以是黏米，红豆，小米，高粱，豌豆，莲子和一些诸如红枣，栗子，核桃仁，杏仁，花生等谷物。粥要熬制数小时，然后作为祭品祭献给祖先。这个祭祀活动一定要在中午之前完成。之后，家人们坐在一起吃腊八粥也就成了传

Another custom is the soaking of Laba garlic. Garlic is soaked in vinegar for more than twenty days starting from Laba festival. Then when the Chinese New Year comes, the garlic and vinegar is used alongside jiaozi on the table.

腊八节的另一传统式腌制腊八蒜。从腊八节那天起，就将蒜泡在醋中二十多天，这样，到春节的时候，就可以在餐桌上与饺子同食了。

It is known to all that China has the history of more than 5,000 years and

the culture influences generations. No matter where people live, they keep the

traditional festivals. Such as the people who live in Chinatown. Though some of

them have been immigrants, they still celebrate the traditional festivals. So in

every corner of Chinatown, the Chinese traditional features can be seen

everywhere. The preservation of the traditional culture is the key to help the

country live so long. After the long period of time, the essence of the culture

part have been inherited while the negative part has been removed. Many culture

even influences the foreign country, such as Confucius Institution, where

foreigners learn Chinese culture and mandarin. Though we are facing the impact

of Hollywood culture, the traditional festivals provides an important way to

save local culture.

The Spring Festival is my most favorite festival, because it’s time for family gathering. And the Spring Festival is a new start of a year. It brings me hope and courage. On Spring Festival, my parents usually take me back to my hometown. My hometown is a small town. Many of my relatives move to the larger cities, but we usually go home when the Spring Festival comes. During the gathering, we share our lives with others and care about each other. Of course, big meals are necessary. Families prepare for the big meals together. They all cook their specialty dishes. Therefore, our meals are always delicious. We often stay at home for three days and then we leave with others’ wishes. I like the Spring Festival, because I like family gathering.

春节是我最喜欢的节日，因为它是家人团聚的日子。春节也是一年中新的开始，它带给我希望和勇气。在春节这一天，我父母经常带我回老家。我的老家是一个小镇。我很多亲戚都搬到大城市去了，但是春节的时候我们经常回老家。团聚之时，我们相互分享各自的生活，互相关心。当然，大餐是少不了的。全家人一起准备丰盛的晚餐。他们都煮自己擅长的菜。所以，我们的晚餐总是很美味。我们通常在家一起待上三天，然后带着各自的祝福离开。我喜欢春节，因为我喜欢家人团聚。

Dont Waste Water

A man is washing his clothes, regardless of the notice above "Save the Water Please."

As we see ,water is the source of life. But there is a very limited available water resource in our world. So we shouldnt waste it. Of course, we have to use it to drink, cook, wash, clean and etc. But we must remember not to use it extravagantly. If we didnt stop such wasteful habits, we would cut off the development of the world and the human life.

我们中国有许多传统节日，清明节就是其中之一。

We China has many traditional festival, Tomb Sweeping Day is one of them.

每年阳历4月5日就是清明节。清明节是我们缅怀和祭奠先辈的节日。今年清明节我和家人—起去祭奠了祖先。清明节当天—早，我和爸爸、妈妈、外公、外婆还有妹妹—起来到祖先的坟墓前给他们摆上饭菜，敬上酒，点上蜡烛。接着的我们还给先辈们烧了纸钱，放了火炮。然后，爸爸妈妈把清明纸标起来，妈妈告诉我用清明纸插起来或者放在上面用石头压上，就表示家人已经来过了。最后，我们大家站成一排站在先辈的坟墓前默默祈祷。之后，我们就依依不舍的离开了。

The solar calendar year April 5th is tomb sweeping day. Tomb Sweeping Day is our memory and hold a memorial ceremony for the festival. Ching Ming Festival this year my family and I have to hold a memorial ceremony for the ancestors. The day of the festival early, I and my father, mother, Grandpa, grandmother and sister - up to the tombs of their ancestors before them from food, wine, candles. Then we gave our ancestors burned paper money, put the gun. Then, mom and Dad took the paper standard, mom told me to use the paper to put or put pressure on top of stone, said the family had been. Finally, we stand in a row in the ancestor grave to pray silently. After that, we would be reluctant to part from.

这就是我们家乡的清明节。

This is the Ching Ming Festival in our hometown.

一、假如你叫李华，5月11日母亲节那天 你为母亲做了很多有意义的事情。请你根据表格中所给信息，用英语写一篇日记。

上午 你用零花钱给母亲买了些鲜花，放在花瓶内

下午 你去市场买菜，为全家人做了一顿简单可口的饭菜

完饭后 你送给母亲自己制作的贺卡，并祝她节日快乐；告诉母亲要多注意自己的健康，不要过度劳累；你还保证今后会帮助她做一些家务劳动；母亲感动得留下了眼泪

注意：

1. 词数80—100 个左右

2. 日记的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

3. 日记必须包括所有内容要点，但不要逐句翻译，可以假如适当细节和适当发挥，使其通顺、连贯。

参考词汇：pocket money 零花钱vase 花瓶overwork 过度劳累be moved to tears 感动得流泪

11th May Sunday

Today is Mother’s Day. I love mother so much that I’ve done many things for her.

In the morning, I bought …

….

Today is a special day, warm and meaningful.

Nowadays, some western holidays like Christmas Eve and Valentine’s Day have become so popular with Chinese people that they have been a part of some people’s life. On the contrary, some traditional Chinese festivals gradually are ignored by more and more people, especially young people. However, to our delight, some social groups have appealed to common people for more attention to our own national culture.

Although a few people once advocated that traditional festivals like the Spring Festival should be discarded because they have become obstacles to social progress. It can not be accepted and supported by the majority of Chinese people in reality. Indeed, the old way of spending festivals produces several disadvantages such as money wasting and transportation overloading. But we cannot disregard its other side: traditional festivals play an active role in our life. Traditional festivals not only bring joy but also bring the family together, which is so priceless in modern society.

What we should do is to preserve the positive things and make them flourish in the modern world. As for the negative aspects of it, we should not hesitate to abandon them and prevent them from affecting and troubling us and the next generation.

Today is the annual national holiday, is a happy day.

I and my father and mother go to the zoo to play. We entered the park, we saw where the sea of people, like a long queue, more like a happy ocean.

Animal in the zoo is so much! There are cute little bunny, there are bulky gorillas, and that beautiful peacock. There are mandarin ducks in the water play, I throw food to them, they immediately ran over to snatch, really too cute. The most interesting is the monkeys of the iron gate, where they jump and jump, there is a group of macaques in the grab bottle! As long as some people take the bottle to tease them to play, they are very flexible to come to grab. Some naughty little children handed them Coke, they are not polite, took a big mouth to drink up. This is really a group of naughty and smart monkeys!

Go all the way, from time to time the birds flew over my head, twitter, as if to welcome us to come. The river fish in the free to swim, so comfortable, how I hope that they can become a fish, and they can play with them. Today is a good day, I really want to sing, the motherland I love you!

今天是一年一度的国庆节，是个令人开心的日子。

我和爸爸妈妈去动物园玩。我们进了园，就看见那里人山人海，就像是一条长龙，更像是一片欢乐的海洋。

动物园里的动物可真多呀!有可爱的小兔子，有笨重的大猩猩，还有那美丽的孔雀。远处有鸳鸯在水中嬉戏，我扔了食物给它们，它们就立刻跑过来抢食，真是太可爱了。最有趣的就是铁门边的那些猴子，它们在那里跳来跳去，还有一群猕猴在抢瓶子呢!只要有人拿瓶子逗它们玩，它们就很灵活地过来抢。有些顽皮的小孩子递给它们可乐，它们毫不客气，接过就大口大口地喝了起来。这真是一群淘气又聪明的猴子呀!

一路走去，不时有鸟儿在我头上飞过，叽叽喳喳的，好像在欢迎我们的到来。河中鱼儿在自由自在地游着，那么惬意，我多么希望自己也能变成一条鱼儿，可以和它们一起嬉戏。今天真是个好日子，我好想放声歌唱，祖国祖国我爱您!

DragonBoatFestival, often known as Tuen Ng Festival or Duan Wu Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth.[citation needed] It has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of East Asia as well, most notably Korea.

The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fishes to prevent them from eating Qus body. They also sat on dragon boats, and tried to scare the fishes away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking dragon-head in the front of the boat.

In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu was also celebrated as "Poets Day", due to Qu Yuans status as Chinas first poet of personal renown.

Today, people eat zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fishes) and race dragon boats in memory of Qus dramatic death.

中文：

龙舟节，端午节经常或端午节，是一种传统的中国节日对中华历5月5日举行。它也被称为端五。[来源请求]它已经被庆祝，以各种方式在其他地区以及东亚，尤其是韩国。

端午确切的起源尚不清楚，但一种传统的观点认为，节日来源在中国诗人屈原的战国时期。他犯的河中溺死自己，因为他是由政府的腐败深恶痛绝楚自杀。当地群众，知道他是一个好人，决定投身到河里的鱼的食物，饲料，以防止吃屈原的尸体他们。他们还坐在龙舟，并试图吓唬由船上和激烈的寻找龙在船头头战鼓齐鸣声中的鱼了。

在中国民国初年，段坞也被“诗人节“庆祝，由于屈原作为中国的第一个著名的诗人的个人地位。

今天，人们吃粽子的曲的戏剧性死亡内存和龙舟比赛(原本打算饲料鱼类的食物)。

The working people are the greatest people in the world, they labor to create the world, created human beings, to create our happy life today. Today is labor, and built a tall building; labor, build modernization of information superhighway; labor, let the huge earth into a small village; labor, the vast wilderness into acres of farmland.

Labor is the magic, labor is great. Workers with hard-working hands and wisdom, weaving the class colorful world, creating human civilization. Let us on this special day, the workers pay tribute to the world!

In the full truth of May, due to labor and hold your hand full of callus, send my most sincere wishes, a listen to your work. "Outside the pavilion, road side, green lawn is a kind of life"; "a drizzly rain break," is a kind of life; "to stream water, waves Feizhou stop" is a kind of life; "unknown to the public, selfless dedication" is also a kind of life. All sorts of life, such as labor Coffee in sugar, our life adjustable flavorfully; a frame work such as roadside scenery, make our life beautiful and colorful dress.

In May May, the truth. In the outside of the building, building, pavilion in the pavilion, let us hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, lofty, full of SAP sing a song of the workers of the world The mighty river flows eastward., wishes to the distance, for tomorrow. Let us cheer for tomorrow, May to sing, clap for the workers!

劳动人民是世界上最伟大的人民，他们用劳动创造了世界，创造了人类，创造了我们今天的幸福生活。是劳动，建成了今天的万丈高楼;是劳动，筑就了现代化的信息高速公路;是劳动，让偌大的地球变成了一个小小的村落;是劳动，使浩翰的荒原变成了亩亩良田。

劳动是神奇的，劳动是伟大的。劳动者用勤劳的双手和智慧，编织了这个五彩班斓的世界，创造了人类的文明。让我们在这个特别的日子里，向全世界的劳动者致敬!

在充满真情的五月，紧握你因劳动而开满茧花的手，送上我最真心的祝福，聆听你劳动的赞歌。“长亭外，古道边，芳草碧连天”是一种人生;“凭栏处，潇潇雨歇”是一种人生;“到中流击水，浪遏飞舟”是一种人生;“默默无闻，无私奉献”也是一种人生。种种人生，劳动如咖啡里的方糖，把我们的人生调得有滋有味;劳动如路旁的一帧风景，把我们的人生装扮得亮丽多彩。

五月，真情五月。在楼外高楼，在亭外长亭，让我们手挽手，肩并肩，豪情万丈，血气方刚的唱一首大江东去，把全世界劳动者的心愿送给远方，送给明天。让我们为明天喝彩，为五月高歌，为劳动者击掌!

Gives to the life, the help of others more to be grateful. When one day we were nearby

Affection, love around, I just suddenly found that: we expect too much of life, grateful for too little.

Gratitude is a kind of good feelings, human is the virtues of the Chinese nation until now. We in the life, we should always have a grateful heart, I thank the parents for support; Thanks to the fire gives us all the happiness and joy...

In gratitude, a language, an action, a little care, can express the feelings of gratitude. Let us grateful in life, that make life more beautiful and wonderful.

对生活的给予,他人的帮助更要心怀感激.当我们有一天被身边

的亲情,关爱环绕的时候,我才突然发现：我们对生活奢求的太多,感恩的太少.

感恩是人类美好情感的一种,是我们中华名族传承至今的美德.在生活中,我们应该时时拥有一颗感恩的心：感谢父母对我的养育之恩;感谢生火给予了我们种种幸福与快乐……

感恩常在,一句语言,一个行动,一点关怀,都能表达出感恩的情怀.让我们在生活中感恩吧,这样让生活更加美好、精彩.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar (阴历)holiday, occurring (存正)on the fifth

day of the fifth lunar month (农历史五月第五天). Dragon Boat Festival is my favourite

festival.During the holiday of Dragon Boat Festival,I got together with my

family to have a big meal.We ofen ate the zongzi.It tasted very nice.And we saw

the Dragon Boat Races.I felt excited because the race was bustling with noise

and excitement.At Dragon Boat Festival,we also drank realgar wine.Some people

thought drank realgar wine can protect themselves from illness.Dragon Boat

Festival was interesting and I like it very much.

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant (有意义的)holiday celebrated

(庆祝)in China, and the one with the longest history (历史最悠久). The Dragon Boat

Festival is celebrated by boat races (龙舟赛) in the shape of dragons. Competing

teams (竞争团队) row their boats forward to a drumbeat (击古)racing to reach the

finish end first.

The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs

(传统习俗)to attempts to (试图)rescue (搭救) the patriotic poet (爱国诗人)Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan

drowned (溺死) on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese

citizens now throw bamboo leaves (竹叶) 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(棕子).

The celebrations is a time for protection (防护) from evil (邪恶) and disease

(疾病) 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 (营养品),

and displaying (展示) portraits (画像) of evils nemesis(邪恶报应), Chung Kuei. If one

manages to (成功做...) stand (直立)an egg on its end at exactly 12:00 noon, the

following year will be a lucky one.

Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous(粘的) rice dumplings

called zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fish) and race dragon

boats in memory of Qus dramatic death.

Chinese traditional festivals in various forms, rich in content, are our long history of the Chinese nation as an integral part of culture.

Holiday of the origin and development is a gradual formation, exerts a subtle sound, and slowly infiltrated into the proceof social life. It and social development, as are the development of human society to a certain stage of the product of our country these ancient holiday, most of them and astronomy, calendar, mathematics, and later carved out of the weather-related, at least on this from the literature can be traced back to "Summer is small" , "Book of History" to the Warring States period, the year the division of 24 solar terms, has been basically in place, then the traditional holiday, all closely related to these Terms.

Terms for the selection of holiday, subject to the conditions provided, the majority of holiday at the pre-Qin period, had been the horizon, but one of the custom content-rich and popular, but also has required a long proceof development. Activity are the earliest and original customs of worship, superstition, taboo-related; myth legend to add a few holiday romantic; have on the religious holiday of the impact and effects; some historical figures have been given the timeleholiday Memory infiltration, all of which are integration of the content of cohesion holiday, the holiday so that the Chinese have a deep sense of history.

To the Han Dynasty, Chinas major traditional festivals have been stereotyped, it is often said these holiday originated in the Han Dynasty, the Han are Chinas reunification after the first major period of development, political and economic stability, science and culture has developed greatly, and this holiday The final form provides a good social conditions.

Holiday developed to the Tang Dynasty, from the original worship, taboos mysterious atmosphere of liberation, to entertainment etiquette type, become really good time of the festive season. Since then, the holiday has become a lively celebration, colorful, many sports, pleasure-seeking activities of the contents of the scene and quickly became a popular fashion, these customs has continued the development of enduring.

It is worth mentioning that, in the long course of history, the ancient literati, poets of letters for a holiday to write a lot of famous through the ages, the poetry of well-known and was widely famous, so that our countrys traditional holiday of deep infiltration culture, wonderful romance, big vulgar shows of Taiga, tastes.

Chinese holiday there is a strong cohesion and a wide range of inclusive, one to the holidays, of national jubilation, which is a long history of our nations long history of same, is a valuable spiritual heritage.

The formation of traditional festivals, are a nation or countrys history and culture of long-term accumulation of condensation process, the following list of those festivals, all are coming from the ancient development, so far from these popular holiday custom, but also can clearly see the the people of ancient social life and wonderful pictures.

中国传统节日形式多样,内容丰富,是我们中华民族悠久的历史文化的一个组成部分。

节日的起源和发展是一个逐渐形成,产生一种微妙的声音,慢慢地渗透到社会生活的过程。和社会发展,是人类社会发展到一定阶段的产物,我国这些古老的节日,其中大部分是和天文、历法、数学,以及后来的雕刻与天气有关,至少在这个从文献可以追溯到“夏天是小”,“历史书”的战国时期,24节气的划分,已基本到位,传统节日,所有这些条件密切相关。

条件的选择假期,所提供的条件,在先秦时代,大多数的节日被地平线,但自定义内容丰富和受欢迎的,但也需要一个漫长的发展过程。活动最早的原始信仰习俗,迷信,taboo-related;神话传说添加一些节日浪漫;对宗教节日的冲击和影响;一些历史人物已经考虑到时间假期内存渗透,都是集成的内容凝聚力假期,假期,中国有一个深层次的历史。

到了汉代,中国的主要传统节日已经定型,人们常说这些节日起源于汉代,汉代是中国统一后第一个大发展时期,政治经济稳定,科学和文化发生了巨大的变化,这个假期最后的形式提供了一个良好的社会环境。

节日发展到唐代,从原始崇拜、禁忌神秘的气氛中解放,娱乐礼仪型,成为真正的节日期间。从那时起,这个节日已经成为一个活跃的庆典,五颜六色,许多体育、享乐的活动内容的现场,并迅速成为流行时尚,这些风俗延续持久的发展。

值得一提的是,在漫长的历史进程中,古代的文人,诗人的信件度假写很多著名的古往今来,著名的和被广泛著名的诗歌,这样我们国家的传统节日深层渗透文化,精彩浪漫,大俗的针叶林,口味。

中国的节日有很强的凝聚力和广泛的包容性,一到假期,国家庆祝,我们的国家是一个历史悠久的相同的悠久历史,是一个宝贵的精神遗产。

传统节日的形成,是一个民族或国家的历史文化长期积累凝结的过程,下面列举的这些节日,都是来自古代的发展,到目前为止从这些受欢迎的节日习俗,还可以清晰地看到古代人民社会生活和美妙的图片。

The August Moon Festival orMid-Autumn Festival (Chinese characters above) is one of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Chinese legends say that the moon is at its brightest and roundest on this day. Based on the Gregorian calendar, this years August Moon Festival will be held on September 19.

The August Moon Festival is often called the Womens Festival. The moon (Chinese character on right) symbolizes elegance and beauty. While Westerners worship the sun (yang or male) for its power, people in the Far East admire the moon. The moon is the yin or female principle and it is a trusted friend. Chinese parents often name their daughters after the moon, in hope that they will be as lovely as the moon.

导语：重阳节，又称重九节、晒秋节、“踏秋”，为每年的农历九月初九日，中国传统节日。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Chongyang,the traditional Chinese festival for the elderly,is coming around .We are planning to visit the Nursing Home to celebrate the speacial day,and we would like to invite students from your school to join us.We have planned several activities,When we get there,we will visit the elderly in their rooms in groups,prensenting them with flowers and self-made cards to show our respect and love.Then we will do some cleaning and washing for them with the help of the nurses.

As some old people feel lonely,We may chat with them about their old days.changes of our city,or anything they are interested in.We may also give them some performanees,singing ,dancing and so on.

I am sure we will both gain a better understanding of the olderly in China.If you have any suggestions, please let us know.

Looking forward to your early reply.

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重阳，中国传统的老人节来了。我们打算拜访养老院庆祝特别的日子，我们想邀请你们学校的学生加入到我们的行列，我们计划了一些活动，当我们到达那里，我们将参观团体在他们的房间里的老人，提出用鲜花和自制贺卡来表达我们的爱和尊重。然后我们会做一些清洗在护士的帮助下。

一些老年人感到孤独，我们可以聊聊他们的过去，城市的变化，或任何他们感兴趣的。我们也可以给他们一些特性，唱歌，跳舞等等。

我相信我们都会获得一个更好地了解在中国的老年人。如果你有任何建议，请让我们知道。

希望早日得到你的答复。

The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival， Chinese New Year，is the most important festival for all of us. All family members get together on New YearEve to have a big meal.At the same time， everyone celebrates to each other.At about 12 oclock，some parents and children light crackers.The whole sky is lighted brightly. We may watch the fireworks excitedly.How busy it is!

On the first early moring of one year， many senior citizen get up early and they stick the reversed Fu or hang some couplets on the front door. Some houses windows are sticked on red paper cutlings.

The Chinese New Year lasts fifteen days. So during the fifteen days， we always visit our relatives from door to door. At that time， children are the happiest because they can get many red packets form their parents，grandparents， uncles， aunts and so on. The last day of the Chinese New Year is another festival. It names the Lantern Festival.

So the Chinese New Year comes to the end.

When the festival comes, I will be very excited, because it is a good time

for my families to get together and we share our happiness. My favorite holiday

is Mid-autumn festival. I can have moon-cake. It is so delicious for me. The

moon looks so bright and big, and we can appreciate it while playing the cards

in the balcony.

There are many festivals in a year, I love Children’s day, because on that day, I can have many candies from school.

In the school, I will play many games, there will be no class on Children’s day, everybody will have fun.

Children’s day is my favorite day, the day belongs to me. I enjoy that day so much. My parents will also celebrate it for me.

Do you know Thanksgiving Day？ Do you know why human thank God？

Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November， a different date every year. The President must proclaim that date as the official celebration.

Thanksgiving is a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away， family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. All give thanks together for the good things that they have.

In this spirit of sharing， civic groups and charitable organizations offer a traditional meal to those in need， particularly the homeless. On most tables throughout the United States， foods eaten at the first thanksgiving have become traditional.

What should we thank？

The thankful great universe provides the environment of existence for us and give us sunlight， air， water and everything in keeping with we existence of space， bring storm to let us accept to toughen for us， bring to us mysterious let us look for.

The thankful parents give us the life， make us feel the merriment of the human life， feel the genuine feeling of the human life， feel the comity of the human life， feel happiness of the human life， also feel hardships and pain and sufferings of the human life！

The thankful teacher works with diligence and without fatigue everyday of teach， give us knowledge ability， put on the wing which flies toward the ideal for us.

The thankful classmate and friend grows up road of， let I no longer standing alone in the itinerary of life； The with gratitude is frustrated and let us become in a time the failure stronger.

Today, more and more young people are crazy about western festivals. When western festivals come, they usually go to restaurants or shopping malls to have fun.

如今，越来越多的年轻人都对西方的节日着迷。当西方节日到来的时候，他们常常去餐厅或是商场娱乐。

Why do the young enjoy western festivals so much? Since they worship everything new, and they can’t resist the temptation. In their opinions, western festivals symbolize the fashion, while our Chinese traditional festivals are out of date. No wonder we always feel so boring during our traditional holidays. If we still turn a blind eye to our traditional festivals, our culture and civilization will disappear someday. Accordingly, it is high time for us to pay close attention to our Chinese festivals.

为什么年轻人这么喜爱西方节日呢?大抵是因为他们喜爱新鲜事物，抗拒不了诱惑。在他们看来，西方节日代表着时尚，而中国传统节日则太土了。这也难怪我们也觉得我们的传统节日太过无聊了。如果我们对传统节日漠然置之，那么某天我们的文化文明终会消失。因此，我们该多多关注我们中国自己的节日了。

As a Chinese, we have the obligation to protect our culture and custom. So I think we should celebrate our Chinese festivals by doing some traditional activities. As for western festivals, we needn’t to be too excited about them. We can just send our best wishes to our best friends during those festivals.

作为一名中国人，我们有责任保护自己的文化习俗。所以我认为应当在庆祝中国传统节日时候举办一些传统活动。而对于西方节日，我们不需要太过激动。在这些节日里我们应该只需简单的送上祝福就好。

SomeHolidays are so much fun that they catch on outside of their culture. The most obvious exampleisprobably Christmas, which is celebrated around the world by people who aren’t even Christian. Similarly, in recent years, the Dragon Boat Festival has moved beyond China to become an international holiday celebrated by people who may know little about the holiday’s origins.

有些节日实在是很有趣，所以在本土文化以外的地方也很受欢迎。最明显的例子可能就是圣诞节，世界各地的人都会庆祝圣诞节，即使是非基督徒。同样，最近几年端午节已经不局限于中国，成为国际性节日，而庆祝的人可能对节日的由来并不太了解。

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of three majorChineseholidays, along with the Spring and Moon Festivals. Of the three, it is possibly the oldest, dating back to the Warring States Period in 227 B.C. The festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a minister in the service of the Chu Emperor. Despairing over corruption at court, Qu threw himself into a river. Townspeople jumped into their boats and tried in vain to save him. Then, hoping to distract hungry fish from his body, the people scattered rice on the water.

端午节与春节和中秋节并列为中国三大节日。这三个节日中，它可能是最古老的一个，可以追溯到公元前227年的战国时代。这个节日是为了纪念楚国的大夫屈原，他因为对朝廷的贪污腐败感到绝望而投河自尽。镇上的人纷纷冲上船去救他，却没有成功。后来大家把米撒到水里，希望把饥饿的鱼群从他的躯体边引开。

Over the years, the story of Qu’s demise transformed into the traditions of racing dragon boats and eating zongzi – a kind of rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. The races have certainly captured the imagination of people from all over the world. Every spring there are nearly 60 dragon boat races held outside of China in cities from Vancouver to Sydney, from Gdańsk, Poland to Cape Town, South Africa. Canada alone has nearly 50 dragon boat teams and Germany has nearly 30.

多年以后，屈原逝世的故事逐渐演变成赛龙舟和吃粽子(一种包在竹叶中的米食)的传统。这些竞赛显然激起了世界各地人们的想像，每年春天有将近60场龙舟赛在中国境外的城市举办，从温哥华到悉尼，从波兰的格但斯克到南非的开普敦。单单字加拿大就有将近50支龙舟队伍，德国则有近30个。

So what is it about the Dragon Boat Festival that appeals to foreigners? “It’s an unusual

sport,” says one racer from Germany. “It’s not like everybody’s doing it. That’s one of the reasons that there’s such great team spirit in a dragon boat team – everybody feels like we’re doing something special.” And what about the zongzi? “Ehhh, they’re not bad, I guess,” he says. “Something of an acquired taste. I just haven’t really acquired it yet.”

那么，为什么端午节赛龙舟会吸引外国人呢?“这是一项不寻常的运动。”一位来自德国的参赛者说，“这并不是所有的人都在从事的运动。这正是龙舟队的团队精神如此高昂的原因之一，每个人都觉得自己在做一件很特别的事。”那么粽子呢?“喔，我觉得它不难吃。”他说，“那是一种需要后天培养的品味。我只是还没培养出来罢了。”

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!