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1000高中英语作文:终身学习
全文共 1035 字
+ 加入清单Once Chairman Mao said one is never too old to learn, his famous words inspire people to keep learning all their lives. Since we are small, we study at school, then we have to learn until we are at college, after graduate from college, we finish our education in the school.
Then the new stage comes, we start to work, making money, learning knowledge seems unnecessary to us.
This is totally wrong, we learn all the time, even we are out of school, we have lessons from life.
Life is a big topic, we have to learn it all the time. We have to deal with trouble, learning to make friends and accept fail.
All these things we will not learn at school, we have to learn by ourselves, we are students and teachers. If you think you finish learning after school, you are narrow minded.
毛主席曾经说过“一个人要活到老学到老”,他的著名话语激励着人们终身学习。
当我们还小的时候,我们在学校学习,然后直到大学前,我们都要学习,大学毕业后,我们完成了在学校的学习。然后新的阶段到来,我们开始工作,挣钱,学习知识似乎不必要了。
这是完全错误的,我们一直学习,即使不在学校,我们学习生活。生活是一个大主题,我们不得不一直学习。我们要处理麻烦,学着交朋友和接受失败。所有的这些东西我们都不会在学校学到,我们必须自己学习,即是学生也是老师。如果你觉得你出了学校后就完成了学习,你的思想就很狭隘了。
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篇1:重阳节的习俗英语高中
全文共 1558 字
+ 加入清单In ancient times, people called the six Yin number, nine known as Yang number。 September 9 this day, two together called "Double Ninth Festival", the day also called "festival for the elderly", is our country a long history of the festival。
After this afternoon, I and my classmates are on duty, 43 bus ride home。 The car is very crowded, I can not easily find a seat, a bottom seat, you can have a good rest for a while。
However, the car just after a stop, there is a old man on the train, he probably slightly hunched, over sixty。 I immediately thought to give seats to the old, but thought, he managed to sit down, let the pity。
How do ah? In the end is to let do not let? I think, as a young pioneer, if lets me not, then how to the front of my red scarf?? cant think, I must let。 So I stood up and said: "Grandpa, you come to sit!" I saw my grandfather smiled, then slowly sat down, and said to me: "really good boy!"。
Although I lost a seat for me to rest, but I got the words of praise and happy mood, which is how happy ah!
Care for the young is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, we must continue to carry forward the spirit of this!
在古代,人们把六称为阴数,九称为阳数。九月九这一天,两阳相聚称之为“重阳”,这一天又叫做“老人节”,是我国一个历史悠久的节日。
今天下午,值勤过后,我就和同学一起坐43路车回家。车上很挤,我好不容易才找到一个座位,就一屁股坐下了,可以好好的休息一会了。
可是,车刚过了一站地,有一位老爷爷上车了,他微微驼背,大概六十多岁的 样子。我马上就想到了要给老人让座,但又转念一想,自己好不容易才坐下,让了怪可惜的。
怎么办啊?到底是 让还是不让?我想,身为一个少先队员,如果我不让的话,那又怎么对得起我胸前的红领巾呢?不能再想了,我一定要让。于是,我站起来,说:“爷爷,您来坐吧!”只见爷爷笑了笑,然后慢慢地坐下,并对我说:“真是好孩子!”我听了以后,心里也乐了,因为我做到了。
虽然我失去了一个供我休息的座位,但是,我却得到了表扬的话语和愉快的心情,这是多么快乐呀!
尊老爱幼是我们中华民族的传统美德,我们一定要让这种精神继续发扬光大!
篇2:英语满分优秀作文
全文共 665 字
+ 加入清单dear dick,
how time flies! i’m very glad to hear from you again. you want to know what is going on in schools in china? in a word, everything has changed. every school takes part in the campaign of reducing learning load. in the past, i used to study until 11:30 on weekends. but now i can arrange things on my own, such as reading books, visiting museums, or taking computer lessons in my weekend days. in the evening i can watch news on tv or read newspapers. what’s more, my parents support me. they said although i was a student, i didn’t have to work all day long. i think the idea of reducing learning load is well accepted by everyone.
best wishes,
yours,
li hua
篇3:万圣节英语作文
全文共 1429 字
+ 加入清单when we think of halloween, we think of "trick or treat", pumpkins, jack o lanterns, vampires and haunted houses.
but do you know the origin of halloween? why does it fall on 31 october? what kind of festival is it? why is it so creepy?
halloween dates back to a celtic festival called samhain. november 1 is the new year of the celts, who lived in europe more than a thousand years ago. this is the day which marked the end of summer and harvest.
the celts believed that on the night of october 31, ghosts of the dead would return to earth. the celts celebrated samhain by dressing up in costumes with animal heads and having bonfires.
many celts settled in britain and ireland, where the festival became popular. those who moved to america took the tradition with them.
nowadays, most people celebrate halloween but only for fun. they are not worried about ghosts.
kids in america will dress up as devils or angels and will go from house to house calling "trick or treat", playing mischievous tricks and getting sweets.
americans spend more money on halloween than christmas! in xx, more than hk$45 billion was spent on halloween. and hk$15 billion of that was spent on candy alone!!!
kids in britain also dress up at halloween. they visit houses, sing songs or tell a joke to get sweets. many go to halloween parties and play games like "ducking for apples". you must pick up an apple in water but you can only use your mouth. try it!
篇4:以成功为话题的高一英语
全文共 1046 字
+ 加入清单We are always trying to find the way to success, which stands for power,
pride and glory. There have been strings of stories of success I was told since
I was a child. From then on, I have been fascinated with being successful.
Whatsuccess? Different people have different opinions towards this
question. To start with, some people, such as accountants, workers and so on,
are longing for being rich, which allows them buy what they want, and enjoy
luxury. They treat it as success. Furthermore, some contestants, such as boxers,
are always trying their best to defeat their rivals for success. And once they
win, they confirm that they are stronger than others. The last but not the
least, there are some other people who enjoy helping others. As a good saying
goes, the roses in her hand, the flavor in mine. With helping others, we can
also feel satisfactory.
As far as I am concerned, life is short, and we must achieve something
during our life. So I regard striving and working hard important. When comes to
we reap what we sow, it’s the time of success.
篇5:关于戒烟英语
全文共 1113 字
+ 加入清单We can see such signs as “No Smoking” in some public places, which is a
kind of measure taken to ban smoking in public places. However, concerning about
this measures, different people hold divergent opinions. The smokers protest
against that it is a kind of action to deprive of their free right, while the
non-smokers are in favor of banning smoking in public places.
In my opinion, I am inclined to support the latter one—smoking should be
banned in public places. There are reasons accounting for my point. For one
thing, people will be harmed by the second-hand smoking if someone smokes in
public places, especially the infants and children. For another, banning smoking
in public places is also beneficial to the smokers. If they are banned to smoke
in public places, they will restrain themselves from smoking and smoke less. In
the meantime, it is a contribution to reduce the air pollution.
Therefore, I advocate that smoking in public places should be banned so
that we can breathe the fresh air and suffer less from the second-hand smoking.
Let’s work together to create and sustain out green and fresh environment.
篇6:我的母亲英语作文高一100词
全文共 832 字
+ 加入清单Orginate in America in the Mothers Festival.May 9,1906, American
consumingcity Jia-Wei the mother misfortune of silk dies , her grief
extremely.AvoidJapan in annual mother death anniversary, Miss An Na organizes
catch up thecampaign of Sai mother, encourage other person to also express the
gratitude forown loving mother with similar way.
Hereafter, she convinces people everywhere and establishes the
MothersFestival to the appeal of all sectors of society and call.Her appeal gets
warmresponse.
Through draft resolution, on May 10,1913, American Senate and House
ofRepresentatives signs by president Wilson second that announces and decides
eachyears May for Sunday, is the Mothers Festival.
This measure arouses world countries, is imitated one after another,install
to 1948 Na pass away , 43 countries have established the MothersFestival.
篇7:高二关于学习的英语作文
全文共 2679 字
+ 加入清单Learning a foreign language is an enriching undertaking. To make the most of your experience, you may need to develop some specialized strategies. Here are some principles to keep in mind.
1. Language is more than a set of grammar rules. Although structural accuracy is an important component of communication, you must also learn how to communicate in a manner that is appropriate to the situation. Likewise, in addition to building a large vocabulary, you will also need to learn ways of paraphrasing so that you will be able to communicate effectively when you don’t know an expression or it has slipped your mind. Body language and gestures are also important communicative strategies.
2. Active language use is far more important than talking about language. The ability to recite the rules of English grammar does not guarantee that you will actually be able to communicate in the language. Spend your time communicating in the language, creating messages, obtaining information, listening for details and so on.
3. Don’t be afraid of making errors. Errors are a natural part of the language learning process and no one can avoid them. Do not let fear of making an error prevent you from communicating. Even if your language ability is not perfect, your message may be understood. Of course, accurate use of language is an appropriate goal of language study.
4. Language learning is a long-time process. Therefore you must have realistic expectations of your performance after one semester, one year, or several years of language learning. Advanced proficiency is often best achieved after long period of practice and residence in a country where the target language is spoken.
5. Be an active language learner. Study models, look for patterns, and make informed guesses, study idioms. If you do not entirely understand a passage, do not ask for a translation immediately. Make use of the language you already know or words that may be related to other words you know. Although language learning can be hard work, your efforts will be rewarded with a deeper understanding of yourself and the global village of which you are a citizen.
学习一门外语是一个丰富的任务。充分利用你的经验,你可能需要开发一些专门的策略。这里有一些原则要牢记。
1。语言不仅仅是一套语法规则。虽然结构精度是通信的一个重要组成部分,你还必须学会如何沟通的方式是适当的。同样,在构建大型词汇表之外,您还需要学习的方法套用,这样你将能够有效沟通当你不知道一个表达式或溜你的头脑。肢体语言和手势也很重要的交际策略。
2。积极的语言使用比谈论语言更为重要。背诵英语语法规则的能力并不能保证你会可以用语言交流。花费你的时间在语言交流,创建信息,获取信息,听细节等等。
3。不要害怕犯错误。错误是语言学习过程的一部分,没有人能避免他们。不要让害怕出错阻止你交流。即使你的语言能力并不完美,你的信息可能会被理解。当然,准确的使用语言是语言学习的一个适当的目标。
4。语言学习是一个长期的过程。因此你必须有现实的期望的性能在一个学期之后,一年或几年的语言学习。先进水平通常是最好的实现经过长期的实践和居住在中国,目标语言是口头的。
5。是一个积极的语言学习者。研究模型,寻找规律,作出明智的猜测,研究习语。如果你不完全理解一段,不要求立即翻译。利用语言的你已经知道或者单词,可能与其他单词你知道的。虽然语言学习是艰苦的工作,你的付出会得到回报,更深入地理解自己和地球村的公民。
篇8:关于生活英语作文高5
全文共 600 字
+ 加入清单Everyone has their own habit. I have some living habits. I will take off my
shoes and put on the slippers when I arrive home. And I get used to drink some
soup before having dinner. What’s more, I have to keep my room light on until I
fall asleep. If I am forced to change anything about this, I will be very
uncomfortable. For example, if I don’t wear slipper at home, I will be very
uncomfortable. If I can’t drink soup before dinner, I can’t eat anything. And I
can’t fall asleep if the light is off. This is my living habit. Maybe I will
change it one day, but now I can’t receive any change about them.
篇9:海洋英语作文初中
全文共 1763 字
+ 加入清单Marine biological environment is a complex system including sea water, sea
water, soluble matter and suspended matter, seabed sediments and marine
organisms. The rich biological resources, mineral resources, chemical resources
and power resources in the sea are indispensable human resources treasure
houses, which are closely related to the survival and development of
mankind.
At present, the main objective of marine conservation is to protect marine
biological resources so that they can not be exhausted for sustainable use by
mankind. In particular, priority should be given to the conservation of marine
animals that are valuable and endangered. According to the UN investigation, due
to overfishing, mangrove accidental killing of non target to allow the killing
of marine organisms, the coastal engineering construction, deforestation,
pollution of the marine environment in general, at least 25 of the worlds most
valuable fisheries resources consumed, whales, sea turtles, manatees and many
other marine animal faces the danger of extinction. It is expected that with the
expansion of marine development, it is possible to cause more damage to marine
biological resources.
Marine protection task should first stop on the marine biological resources
excessive use, secondly to protect the marine biological habitat or habitat,
especially their migration, spawning, feeding, avoid Huahai coastline, beaches,
estuaries, coral reefs, to prevent heavy metals, pesticides, oil, organic
produce and eutrophication. Nutrients such as marine pollution. Maintain the
ability of regeneration of marine biological resources and the natural
purification ability of the sea water, maintain the marine ecological balance,
and ensure the sustainable development and utilization of the marine.
篇10:除夕夜高一英语词左右
全文共 771 字
+ 加入清单Today is New Years Eve morning, firecrackers sounding snap snap away. As
long as you take a look at the outside, red firecrackers everywhere, come
together to form a Red Sea. The family have their own homes going up in the
beautiful, it seems like in the match. My family is no exception, sweeping,
glass, cabinets, such as rubbing. Prepare the arrival of the New Year.
Afternoon, we posted in accordance with the custom of the Chinese New Year
couplets, father and a good paste, and then said to me: "I paste you posted, I
looked at the high level you say rich, said that if the lower rising good
you ", I asked my father why? Dad said: "The plan is a lucky," "Oh, I
understand," We posted on the Alliance are: evil Hongfu family happy is: wang
gas people to come into everything.
篇11:关于跑步的英语
全文共 558 字
+ 加入清单I like running because I think it’s a funny and easy sport. I can do it by myself. I was not very healthy when I was a little child. So my father took me running with him. He said it’s good for me. At first I didn’t like it at all. But after a few weeks I felt great when I was running. Therefore I go to running every three days. Now some of my classmates run with me. We always talk to each other. I like this sport.
我喜欢跑步,因为我认为这是一个有趣和容易的运动。我可以自己做。我是不是很健康,当我还是个小孩子。所以,我的父亲带我和他一起跑。他说,这是为我好。起初,我不喜欢它。但几个星期后,我感觉棒极了,当我跑。所以,我去跑,每三天。现在,我的一些同学跑了我。我们总是互相交谈。我喜欢这项运动。
篇12:寒假英语作文初中
全文共 981 字
+ 加入清单As the drawing presents, there is a man walking across the street
absorbedly focusing on his cell phone without noticing the surroundings. This
sort of phenomenon is not uncommon and rare in some metropolis, especially among
the youngsters.
What the picture illustrates is the prevailing situation that has long
existed in todays China. That is the mobile phone obsession. With the advent of
information age, people are becoming
increasingly fascinated on the electronic products, especially the cell
phones. Not surprisingly, you could easily notice that most of us are obsessed
in sending messages, playing online games with their mobile phones. It cannot be
denied that this phenomenon may negatively impact the relationship among people,
and therefore they will become estranged and isolated.
Personally, in view of the overuse of mobile phones, I hold that we
individuals should raise the necessary awareness that good relationships are
reinforced by sincere and face-to-face communication.
篇13:有关音乐英语作文高中
全文共 1950 字
+ 加入清单I have to say that music really has a strong attractiveness to me.
Naturally, everyone can choose suitable music to listen to. However, when you
find a kind of music which can bring happiness to you, you will be surprised and
become excited. Music has a magical energy, and it can help people gain good
mood in a great extent.
When you feel sad, you can have a try to listen to soothing music. At
first, soothing music will let you calm down. You will find that you will play
much attention to the music, and then your sadness can be decreased. You will
enter music ocean. You can experience a baptism of your heart. It does not
matter that when you listen to soothing music and you want to cry, you should
just follow yourself feeling to have a thorough release. Music will give you
enough encourage to overcome difficulties.
Music also can double your happiness and arouse the fighting. For instance,
when you solve some very difficult situations and gain success eventually, you
will have a great mood. At this time, exciting music will witness your success.
You will feel satisfied. Music lets you remember the glorious moment and cherish
your success. Music can give you unlimited motivation to achieve goals,because
you still want to listen to glorious music.
In addition, music includes a lot of useful knowledge. People can learn
precious knowledge from music. Because there is different music, we can find out
that different nations have different music thoughts to express. And from music,
we can listen to music culture. Music culture will give you a deeper
understanding to learn foreign culture, such as foreign language, foreign
history and foreign traditional customs and so on. In a word, music has an
important effect on promoting society development.
Music indeed has a magical power to help people and society develop. I
believe that music will still continue to bring us many surprises. As the
development of society, great music will become more important.
篇14:高中英语作文关于成功的建议
全文共 1241 字
+ 加入清单I have some good advice for your work。 If you can do the following things, you will succeed in doing everything。
Firstly, whatever you do, you must be punctual and hard—working。 If you sow a good seed, you will get a good harvest。 If the seed is in poor quality, the harvest will also be very bad。 And if you sow nothing, you will get nothing at all。 Nothing。
Secondly, you must be honest。 As honesty is the moral tuition that everyone should have。 If you treat other people friendly and sincerely, others will also respect you。
Thirdly, you must be tolerant to others, since no one is perfect in the world。 Everyone has his own faults, but if you can see everything on other persons perspective, there will be no problem at all。
Whats more, when you are in a big company, you should not only respect the leaders, but also get on well with the colleagues。 Sometimes, you should try to please your boss, so that you could have more chances to be promoted。
Last but not the least, dont ignore the little things, because such a little thing will have a great effect on your life。 So you should start yourselves at the bottom, in order to get enough working experience。 As you have enough working experience, nothing you will be afraid。
篇15:有关老师的英语
全文共 730 字
+ 加入清单Hello! I’m Jessie. I like English very much, because of my English teacher,
Nettie. Today, I’ll introduce her to you.
In my eyes, she’s not a teacher, but a lovely girl and a good friend of
mine. She is not tall. She is thin. She has the long hair. Her face is round.
There are two small eyes on her face. She likes smiling. When she smiles, her
eyes just like the moon at the beginning of the month. I think she is very
beautiful girl.
She’s very kind, like an old friend. She can sing. She can draw. She can
dance. She can speak very good English. She can tell us stories. She can play
games with us. When we have an English lesson, we feel very happy. All of us are
interested in her lesson.
I have a good teacher. I think I’m very lucky.
篇16:关于游泳的英语作文高3
全文共 821 字
+ 加入清单I’m neither interested in sports nor good at it. But except swimming. I can
swim since I was a baby. My mother tells me that she let me swim in the water
with a life-buoy when I was 20 days old. And then I can swim gradually. When I
grow up, I like swimming very much. I swim all the year round. Swimming in
summer makes me feel comfortable to lower my temperature. While winter swimming
makes me feel excited and achievability. In general, swimming keeps me fit in
both physical and mental. Whenever I feel upset, I would go swimming and then I
would be full of energy and feel relax. Besides I believe it is due to swimming
that I’m so thin. Who wants to lose weight, join me. We can make more friends in
swimming. Oh, I couldn’t wait to swim now. But it is ten o’clock in the evening.
I have to go to sleep. Good night everyone.
篇17:高三英语作文假期100词
全文共 2544 字
+ 加入清单How can we live a full and meaningful holiday when we are getting closer
and closer to our colorful summer vacation? Let me tell you about my ideal
summer vacation.
Golgi once said: "books are the ladder of human progress". Reading, not
only enriches knowledge, but also makes people understand the philosophy of
life. Yes, there are good, evil, ugly, beautiful in the book, and there are many
wonderful stories. I am a "bookworm", long holidays of course this book friends!
Im going to go to the Xinhua Bookstore to read every day, the campus story, the
name of the world, the Confucian classics, the fairy tales, the detective
stories... I like them all。 Haha, summer vacation packages can treat. I read
"scream", and I was reading "Kong Yi." Although it had been read earlier, in the
atmosphere created by "cry", the sad and ridiculous Kong Yi seemed to have added
a lot of misery. Also read "naughty bag horse small jump", humorous humor only
smile to the stomach pain. The book is really spiritual food!
Voltaire said, "life lies in movement." The long summer vacation, in order
to make my health is good, we must do some exercise. A sport that I love most is
to play table tennis, I cant miss this chance to go to the gym during the
summer vacation, "kill" on a back, and the real "Table Tennis Master blows, they
learn to play ping-pong essentials, and find out the deficiencies of their own
efforts to learn for table tennis, a qualitative leap. I looked at the little
yellow ball jumping up and down, while the sweat, but in the heart of the
emergence of unspeakable joy.
Holiday is at home, on the Internet. Of course I this "netheads" to a
chain. Open the "composition", look at the composition, pack a bag, and then go
to the BBS irrigation, send post, understanding the novel interesting. Play
tired, close your eyes and listen to the melodious music, let your mind rest,
melodious music ups and downs, I feel the people are immersed in the music, is
really a kind of enjoyment! Since the said: listen to music at any time, its
nuts. Point open "Baidu", hot news reports immediately appear in front of, hey,
really many ah! The whole country and the big and small things are immediately
present, really countless ah! There is a lot of encyclopedia knowledge on the
Internet. I suck the nutrition of knowledge in the ocean of knowledge, and add
some extracurricular knowledge. It is: the Internet, a good holiday partner.
My ideal summer vacation, perhaps not the richest, is the most suitable for
me, and I believe I will have a fullest and most meaningful holiday.
篇18:学习计划的英语
全文共 430 字
+ 加入清单My winner vacation is coming soon .I am so happy I decide to make a winter vacation plan .First, I will do my homework carefully Second ,I am going to help my mother with housework .Then,I want to play with my best friend.I will also visit my grangparents with my parents .We will spend Spring Festival with them.I think every day during my winter vacation will be happy.
I am sure I will have a wonderful vacation. I can not wait.
篇19:除夕夜高一英语词左右
全文共 1247 字
+ 加入清单The end of the year, on New Years eve is the reunion night, every
household is decorated, celebrate the end of a year of peace, a good start in
the New Year.
On New Years eve, every family is busy to stick couplets on the Spring
Festival, our family is no exception, and each year couplet still stick by me at
home.Actually this stick couplet learning also pretty big, when you last as long
as a look at this couplet you will know the family in the New Years hope and
plan, also know that in the past year what has happened to the family home
wedding, you look at the couplet is not god.
On this day the most happy or children, they cried to early adult years,
because after taking the year can fireworks.Fireworks, several children beside,
hopping, forget about the overjoyed when, even adults were infected with the
following.After the fireworks family around the table to eat the family reunion
dinner, the most interesting is to eat dumplings, and it can eat dumplings eat
money, who eat money the luck in the New Year will be the best, so everyone
scrambled to eat, who also rob to that rich of dumplings, but whether to eat or
not to eat, the atmosphere of rob to eat the dumpling is the most
unforgettable...
On New Years eve is the most unforgettable night!
篇20:关于元宵节英语
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+ 加入清单There are many different beliefs about the origin of the Lantern Festival.
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 year.
One legend tells us that it was a time to worship Taiyi, the God of Heaven
in ancient times. The belief was that the God of Heaven controlled the destiny
of the human world. He had sixteen dragons at his beck and call and he decided
when to inflict drought, storms, famine or pestilence upon human beings.
Beginning with Qinshihuang, the first emperor to unite the country, all the
emperors ordered splendid ceremonies each year. The emperor would ask Taiyi to
bring favorable weather and good health to him and his people. Emperor Wudi of
the Han Dynasty directed special attention to this event. In 104 BC, he
proclaimed it as one of the most important celebrations and the ceremony would
last throughout the night. They clean it all up in the morning.
Another legend associates the Lantern Festival with Taoism. Tianguan is the
Taoist god responsible for good fortune. His birthday falls on the 15th day of
the first lunar month. It is said that Tianguan likes all types of
entertainment, so followers prepare various kinds of activities during which
they pray for good fortune.
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 villagers. This angered the Jade Emperor in Heaven because
the bird was his favorite one. Therefore, he planned a storm of fire to destroy
the village on the 15th lunar day. The Jade Emperors daughter heard of this
plan, and warned the villagers of her father’s plan to destroy their village.
The village was in turmoil because nobody knew how should they escape their
imminent destruction.
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 days. This would give the
village the appearance of being on fire to the Jade Emperor. 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 Emperor. Satisfied, the Jade Emperor decided not to burn down the village.
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
fireworks.
There are many stories on how this festival was created. One other story is
about a maid. In the Han Dynasty, Mr. Eastern was a favorite advisor of the
emperor. One winter day, he went to the garden and heard a little girl crying
and getting ready to jump into a well to commit suicide. Mr. Eastern stopped her
and asked why. She said she was a maid in the emperors palace and her name was
Yuan-Xiao.
She never had the chance to meet her family after she started worked at the
palace. She missed them so much every 12th lunar month. If she couldnt have the
chance to show her filial piety in this life, she would rather die. Mr. Eastern
promised her to find a way so she could reunion with her family. Mr. Eastern
left the palace and set up a fortune-telling stall on the street and disguised
himself as a fortuneteller. Because of his reputation, many people asked for
their fortunes.
But every one got the same prediction - a severe fire accident on the 15th
lunar day. The rumor spread quickly. Everyone was worried about the future and
asked Mr. Eastern for help. Mr. Eastern said, "On the 13th lunar day, the God of
Fire will send a fairy lady in red to burn down the city. If you see a lady in
red wearing green pants riding a black horse on that day, you should ask for her
mercy." On that day, Yuan-Xiao pretended to be the red fairy lady. When people
asked for her help, she said, "Im the messenger of the God of Fire and came to
check on the city and Im going to set up fire on 15th. This is an order from
Jade Emperor. He will watch from the heavens.
I will give you a copy of the imperial decree from the God of Fire. You
should go to ask your emperor to find a way out." After she left, people went to
the palace to show the emperor the decree which reads "The capital city is in
trouble. Fire burns on the palace, and fire from Heaven burns all night long on
the 15th." The emperor of Han Dynasty was very shocked. He called and asked Mr.
Eastern for advice. After pondering for a while, Mr. 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 Tang-Yuan.
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 time. Also, deliver another order to ask every house in the city to hang
red lantern and explode fire crackers. Lastly, everyone in the palace and people
outside the city should carry their lanterns on the street to watch the lantern
decoration and fireworks. If everything goes this way, the Jade Emperor would be
deceived.
Then everyone can avoid the fire accident." The emperor happily followed
the plan. Lanterns were everywhere in the capital city on the night of the 15th
lunar day. People were walking on the street. Fire crackers kept making lots of
noise. It looked like the entire city was on fire. Yuan-Xiaos parents went into
the palace to watch the lantern decorations, and Yuan-Xiao made a big lantern
and wrote her name on the lantern. They happily reunited together after her
parents called her name. Everybody was safe during the night. The emperor of Han
Dynasty had a new order that people should do the same thing every year. Since
Yuan-Xiao cooked the best Tan-Yuan, people called the day Yuan-Xiao
Festival.
Young people were chaperoned in the streets in hopes of finding love.
Matchmakers acted busily in hopes of pairing couples. The brightest lanterns
were symbolic of good luck and hope. As time has passed, the festival no longer
has such implications.
Those who do not carry lanterns often enjoy watching informal lantern
parades. 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 love.