关于春节英语作文初三(优秀20篇)

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday, is just as important as Christmas in foreign. The Spring Festival fireworks, eat family reunion dinner, paste couplets, happy New Year and receive lucky money. Among them, I like the fireworks!

That day, dad said to take me to fireworks, I jumped up excitedly. We found an empty place, take out the "purple diamond" on the ground, I carefully picked up cigarette lighters, give light line, and then run away quickly, just listen to "fire", and "purple diamond" was lit, flame emitted like diamonds, really beautiful! I took out "UFO flying saucer" again, I lit it, suddenly thrown into the sky, I saw it emitted a blue light, transfer a few laps in the sky, just like real mini UFO flying saucer. Will take "the peacock" and then, it emerged the colorful spark, I think you are more beautiful than real peacock train it. Exciting moment is coming, dad lit fireworks, "bang" sound, launched the first fireworks, the fireworks, flowery and clinking, colours are green, red, yellow, blue, some like a bursting flowers, like a lovely smile, and like a big red lantern, is so beautiful!

We all like the Spring Festival, is also looking forward to a happy Spring Festival!

春节是中国传统的节日，就像外国的圣诞节一样重要。春节还要放烟花、吃年夜饭、贴对联、拜年和收压岁钱。其中，我最喜欢放烟花了!

那天，爸爸说要带我去放烟花，我兴奋地跳了起来。我们找到了一个空旷的地方，拿出“紫钻石”放在地上，我小心翼翼地拿起打火机，把线给点燃，然后迅速地跑开，只听“劈啪”一声，“紫钻石”被点燃了，冒出像钻石一样的火焰，可真漂亮!我又拿出了“UFO飞碟”，我把它点燃，一下子扔到了天空中，只见它冒出了一道蓝光，在天空中转了几圈，真像真正的迷你UFO飞碟。接着就要看“孔雀开屏”了，它冒出了五颜六色的火花，我觉得它比真孔雀开屏还漂亮。激动人心的时刻就要来了，爸爸点燃了大烟花，“砰”一声，第一朵烟花成功发射，接下来的烟花五光十色、绚丽无比，有绿的、红的、黄的、蓝的，有的像一朵绽开的鲜花，有的像一张可爱的笑脸，还有的像红红的大灯笼，实在太漂亮了!

我们都喜欢春节，也都很盼望下一个快乐地春节!

I had a great Chinese New Year.On the first day of the Chinese New Year,my parents and I visited my grandparents.They own a large ranch in the countryside,surrounded by corn fields and green pastry.It’s a very beautiful ranch and the air is very clean.I helped my grandparents feed the chicken and groom the horses.I really like horses and I spent quite some time riding them along the river for several miles.I enjoyed a lot at my grandparents’home.

初三英语写信作文篇一：初中英语作文(回信)

Dearfriend,

Ihavereceivedyourletter.AboutyourproblemsinEnglishstudying,maybeIhavesomesuggestionstohelpyou.

AsforyourEnglishlisteningandspokenEnglish,IthinkyoucandosomelisteningpracticeorlistentoEnglishsongseveryday.Itwillimproveyourpronunciation.Besidesthat,you’dbettertrytotalkwithfriendsinEnglish.Don’tbeafraidoflosingface!Englishcanbeimprovedbylisteningandtalking.

AnotherproblemisthatyoucannotmakecompletesentencesandarenotgoodatEnglishgrammar，youshouldlistentoteachercarefully.What’smore,starttotakelotsofnotesineveryclass.“Romewasn’tbuildinaday.”Usingthegrammartomakesentencesasoftenaspossible.ThenyouwillfindstudyingEnglishisveryeasy.

IhopeyoucanimproveyourEnglishwell!Youcanmakeitbyyourhard-working.

Yours,

Beth 初三英语写信作文篇二：一封求助信

ALetterforHelp

ALetterforHelpDearUncle,Howareyou?NextweekanEnglishspeakingcontestwillbeheldinthecity.AclassmateofmineandIwilltakepartinitonbehalfofmyschool.Iamexcitedbutalsomervous,becauseitisagoodchancetoimprovemyEnglish.ButIhavenoexperience.AlthoughIhavebeenpreparingforthecontest,Iamstillnotconfident.AsanexpertinEnglish,whatwouldyouadvisemetoprepareforthecontest?IplantopayavisittoyouthisSaturdaymorning.Iwonderwhetheryouwillbefreethen.Ifnot,couldyoutellmethetimethatisconvenientforyou?Iameagertogetyourinstruction.Iwillappreciateanyofyourhelp.Yourniece,YangMei

标题：需要帮助的信，一封求助信

内容：一个HelpDear叔叔的信，你好吗？下周一会讲英语的比赛将在这个城市。我的一个同班同学，我会在它我代表学校的一部分。我很高兴，也mervous，因为这是一个很好的机会，提高我的英语。但我没有经验。虽然我已经为比赛做准备，我仍然没有信心。作为一个在英国的专家，你会告诉我准备比赛？我打算支付给你的访问星期六上午。我不知道你是否将是免费的，然后。如果没有，你能告诉我的时间，在你方便？我渴望得到您的指导。我会感谢你的帮助的。你的侄女，羊酶一封求助信亲爱的叔叔：您好！下周市里举办英语演讲比赛，我和一位同学将代表学校参加比赛。我感到既兴奋又紧张，因为这是一个提高英语的好机会。但我没有经验。我一直在为比赛做准备，可仍然没有把握。作为一个英语专家，您建议我为比赛准备些什么呢？我打算这周六上午去您家，我想知道到时您是否有空。如果没空，能告诉我您什么时候方便吗？我渴望得到您的指导，我会非常感激您的帮助。您的侄女杨梅

The Spring Festival is a big and grand festival, the Spring Festival represents the peace, happiness and reunion. I like the Spring Festival, because you can set off firecrackers, and wear new clothes, get lucky money.

The day before the Spring Festival is New Years eve, everybody cheerfully stick couplets on the Spring Festival, in front of his home in the kitchen making dumplings, have a meal before you set off firecrackers.

I put a lot of firecrackers, Spring Festival is "ZuanTianHou", "ZuanTianHou" fly to the sky, making sound, very nice. The second is the "big tanks", like real tanks rushed past, open to a half stopped, colorful light, beautiful! The third set is butterfly fireworks, firecrackers butterfly a fire like a rocket flying, fly far away. The fourth is cherry bomb, cherry bomb was thrown to the ground, one step also ring with their feet.

I like Spring Festival very much, want to wish every day is the Spring Festival!

春节是一个重大和隆重的节日，春节代表着平安、幸福、团圆。我最喜欢过春节，因为可以放鞭炮，穿新衣服，得到压岁钱。

春节前一天是除夕，大家高高兴兴地在自己家门前贴春联，在厨房包饺子，吃饭前要放鞭炮。

春节我放了很多很多的鞭炮，有“钻天猴”，“钻天猴”一放马上飞到天上，发出啪啪的声音，非常好听。第二个放的是“大坦克”，像真的坦克一样冲了过去，开到一半就停了下来，发出五颜六色的光芒，美丽极了!第三个放的是蝴蝶花炮，蝴蝶花炮一点火就像火箭一样飞了出去，飞的很远很远。第四个放的是摔炮，摔炮向地上一扔就响，用脚一踩也响。

我非常喜欢过春节，要天天都是春节那该多好呀!

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon（新月）on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon（满月）15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival（元宵节）, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.?

The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle（月运周期）is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year （闰年）. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.

New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth（万物）, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.?

The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals（仪式）, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.?

The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year’s Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove" or Weilu. It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations.

As the most important festival in China since ancient times, the Spring Festival is always being excepted by we kids. Because we dont need to do any homework during this time very year.Its really a precious holiday for us. And our parents are free from their work too. We go to our grandparents to get together with them to enjoy the moment when the new year comes.

I will priciate if the holiday to be longer.

作为一直以来中国最重要的节日，春节总是带给我们这些小孩美好的期待。首先，在这春节期间我们不用写作业了。这对我们来说真是弥足珍贵的假日。我们的父母也放假，所以我们能一起去爷爷奶奶家欢度新年，一起享受新年钟声敲响时的快乐。

当然，如果这假期长一点的话我们会更开心的。

盼望了整整一年的春节终于来到了，别提我心里有多高兴了。这天一早，我就和爸爸妈妈出去买年货。我们买年货里有的是吃的，有的是玩的，还有的是装饰品。回到家我们三人先把对联贴上。对联的上面写着“吉祥如意，”左边写着“锦龙迎春喜好运连连，”右面写着“玉兔送福来财源滚滚”，中间还有一个福字，可漂亮了。我们三人把家里装扮好，等着家人、亲戚到来。 “叮咚”一声，呀！哥哥、姐姐、爷爷、奶奶等全都来了。他们都说这房子装饰得有形有色，我们三人听到了心里很高兴。这个时候正是我们在吃团圆饭的时候。大家津津有味地吃着爷爷奶奶做的饭菜，此时此刻大家的心情都很开心。吃过团圆饭后，我和哥哥马上打开电视机，在家的注意力都集中在电视这来了。联欢晚会上有的是相声，有的是魔术，有的是唱歌，还有的是小品，可精彩了。大家的眼睛都目不转睛的盯着电视机一动不动。然而我最喜欢一个节目是唱歌，听着歌手那清亮圆润的歌喉，唱出多么美妙的歌曲，我的心里非常愉快。过后大家都把自己买的烟花拿了出来，我们手里都拿着各式各样的烟花。我先用火机点燃了我手中的烟花，哇！烟花飞上天，天空中马上出现了“新年快乐”这几个字，五颜六色真漂亮。我又和哥哥姐姐一起放，这次的烟花是放在地上的，那烟花点燃了就像喷泉一样的喷射出来。弟弟拿出蝴蝶形的烟花放在地上，烟花飞快的旋转，“嗡”的一声烟花飞上了天空，像小蝴蝶在天空中自由的飞翔。最后，我们拿出最大的礼花，把它点燃，礼花飞上天，“轰”的一声，礼花就像一朵朵盛开的花朵，景色十分美丽，烟花灿烂无比。今天真是难忘的一天，心里是多么快乐啊！

Tomorrow is the Spring Festival, I am very happy, thinking can eat delicious food, delicious snacks, but also get a lot of gift money, I feel more and more happy, I was so excited that night all night, the mind is full of food, snacks, gift money, and the beautiful new clothes. Lovely toy … …

The Spring Festival in the morning, I first jumped up from the bed to brace up, exercise, and then went to call my parents, my father to see me up so early, not to be outdone, from the bed turned and climbed up, mother and sister have to get up, wash a face to brush teeth, one thought is to eat up! The thought of eating, Im talking, busy parents suggested to do this and that, my mother is a chef, so do what the referee decided by her mother, said: “ for a long time did not eat dumplings, eat some dumplings package, the Spring Festival Spring Festival Spring Festival greetings "fun, fun". ” we all agree very much.

After deciding what to do, we did the division, dad made meat stuffing, mom rubbed noodles, and my sister and I burned water. We do are very strong, less than half an hour, meat stuffing ready, dumplings are ready, water fast boiling. My mother will skillfully wrap dumplings, my sister and I also learn to pack up, I managed to pack three, exhausted, its very difficult to learn! Mother said: “ I would be born to do it, not to eat bitterness, hard to study, how can I learn well? ” I was a little ashamed, and I learned the lesson, put up the sails again, and made it true, and it did a little faster. This makes me understand the truth: it should be hard to learn anything.

After about more than 20 minutes, rub the face have all made dumplings, my sister and I have boiled water in the pot brew storms on rivers and seas. Mother put the dumplings in the pot and boiled it. Mother in the middle also added some seasoning, make dumplings more delicious, after about more than 10 minutes, the mother put the dumplings out, divided into four bowls, each bowl also put some soup. My mother had just made the soup, and I had a bowl of relish. Because of eating too fast, the tongue is hot and spicy.

All of us were full of oil, and we were happy to watch the wonderful TV programs.

Ah, its a happy Spring Festival!

How to be Stronger

with the improvement of peoples material conditions, people have higher demands for living quality. everyone wants to have a strong body and good living habits. how can we do that?

first, get up early and keep doing exercises in the morning every day. its a good beginning of the day.

second, pay attention to daily diet and have balancedfood.it can ensure your health.

besides these, the most important thing is to be calm and good-natured. hope you will be happy forever.

with the improvement of peoples material conditions, people have higher demands for living quality. people wish to be in good health and to have good living habits. how shall we do?

first, keep going to bed and getting up early every clay. then do some exercises in the open air to breathe the fresh air in the morning, so we will have a pleasant mood in a day.

then have balanced food to ensure our health. eat more vegetables.

being calm and good-natured is most important for our health. hope you will be happy forever.

[How to be Stronger初三英语作文

A new year ,a new start,when I stand on the edge of a new year,I cant help thinking about my plan of next year.

Just as the old saying：“Well began is the half of the success.”So I decide that I should be at work while the others are still relaxing ,and then ,at the beginning ,Im quicker than the others and of course I will get better result than the others.

But ,what I really decide to do is that I must make good of anytime I can spare though it seems impossible. While,I will do my best to live up with what I have planned,and the result will prove it.

Prepare for the Chinese New Year

It’s about one and a half month away from the Chinese New Year, It is a festival celebrated by the Chinese people at the beginning of the lunar calendar year.

As of the Chinese traditional customs, our parents and grandparents will sweep every corner of the house and clean the windows until they gleam, and washing clothes, buying foods and goods for the new year’s future use and presents.

Children will be the most benefited group during this feast period. One month before that, they are expecting the new clothes, delicious foods. The firecrackers and the year’s allowance for their increased ages.

In recent years, with the rising of the standard of life, Chinese tend to make various holiday plans to spend a different and meaningful new year. Such as traveling abroad, or be absorbed in their hobbies, and even work.

Why today we try to spend our Chinese new year in such a different way? I think that’s because this is a era of free life and personality high-ranking. Though there are still something traditional, our young generation is attempting to make something new and suitable for ourselves. And we would like to take something really worth to be cherished in our memorable treasures. That’s amazing and wonderful!

I’ll always keep in mind that the Chinese new year is a great feast inherited from our ancestors, but if necessary, I would like to enjoy it by some ways personal.

The Spring Festival is a Chinese festival. It has a long history and splendid culture. And the Spring Festival many small rules superstition is that the man.

Everyone should know the Spring Festival is one of important thing is - is available. You dont look down upon this thing it is to have cultured. Able to use fruit cannot careless, for example, not all fruits are fit to worship ancestors and gods. To choose a good fruit. Such as: apple, go in peace, oranges, kumquat oh, oranges - horse. Like a pear, can not as a tribute because there are some who think the pear and "from" are homophones ghost word. So is not popular. There is a banana -. So some fruit can not be available.

Fruit is only part of the tribute and dumplings as a tribute must put cant alone in pairs. Put the sugar when it as a tribute for hard candy cant fudge. Because such sweet hard enough will not spread.

Able to have the red candle, touch paper, incense, and so on, but the most important thing is that touch paper, touch paper had been pressed to be real money to burn, and the head of the press, which may be felt more sincere.

Whether these are real or fake, but at least be ancestors had relished the reason why there must be it. The little common sense in the hope that the Spring Festival can let more after 80, 90 after they know the Spring Festival in our Chinese mind how important. If no taboo Spring Festival also means there is no so many people pay attention to it. Rules more can reflect the significance of the Spring Festival.

春节是中国人的重大节日。它有着悠久的历史和灿烂的文化底蕴。而春节的许多小规矩小迷信也那么那人探寻。

大家都应该知道春节很重要的一件事情就是——上供。大家可别小看了这件事情这可是有讲究的。例如，上供用的水果不能马虎，不是所有的水果都适合去供奉祖先和神灵的。要选着寓意好的水果。例如：苹果——平平安安，桔子——金桔满堂，橙子——心想事成。像梨，就不可以作为贡品因为有一部分人认为梨和“离”是同音别字。所以不受大家欢迎。还有就是香蕉——焦头烂额。所以有些水果不能上供。

水果只是一部分贡品还有就是饺子作为贡品一定要成双成对的放不能落单。把糖作为贡品上供的时候要放硬糖不能放软糖。因为这样的甜蜜够硬不会散。

上供还要有红烛，火纸，佛香等等，不过最重要的是火纸，火纸要被真钱压过才可以烧，而且要一家之主压，这可能是觉得更加真诚吧。

不管这些是真是假，但至少被老祖宗们津津乐道就一定有它的原因。希望这些春节中的小常识可以让更多的80后，90后们知道春节在我们中国人心目中有多么的举足轻重。如果春节没有任何禁忌那么也就代表没有那么多人关注它。规矩越多越能体现春节的重大意义。

The Yangzte River is the longest river in China. And it s important and helpful to us Chinese. But these days the Yangtze River is bringing us serious floods.

Many villages were destroyed by floods. The floods made hundreds of millions of people lose their homes, relatives and friends. Many children can t go to school as usual .

Now the foods have drawn the attention of the whole world. People from abroad have offered their help too.

In China, millions of soldiers are busy fighting against the floods. They are working very hard. Many of them have lost their lives in their attempt to save the villagers.

Though we can t help them to fight against floods, we should help them to rebuild their homeland. We can present them our pocketmoney and clothes. I believe most of the people will return to their homeland in the near future.

"Step along the way the spring breeze, and laughing all the way, to push vastness and green spring scenery with our feet..." Speaking of Arbor Day, everyone must be not strange, and in the Arbor Day afforestation is a very meaningful thing.

The annual Arbor Day is coming, early came to the classroom, students lined up we went outside to plant trees.

Students came to the outskirts, dashing, daring: see Sun Hu lun the shovel hard go toward outside digging, he was too tired to full head big sweat, sweat soaked his clothes he didnt care; Liu Xinzheng carried on this side of the water, the water splashed his clothes, he also not care; And students shouted loud song: "sex, sex, come on, come on!" ...... In a short time, under the joint efforts of the students, tree planted soon finished, looked at the line after line of green saplings, we seem to see the individual leafy trees...

Planting trees is a very meaningful thing, please later to plant trees, to take care of the earths a spend a grass!

The Lunar New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring . Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means year , was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.

One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said, I hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents? So, it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.

After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests, people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year s end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again, because red is the color the beast feared the most.

From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term Guo Nian , which may mean Survive the Nian becomes today Celebrate the Year as the word guo in Chinese having both the meaning of pass-over and observe . The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However, people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebratio

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 programs.

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

A persons life, there are many friends. If lost friends, will lose much fun! Now we are about to separate, and interactions of the two friends will also be less, so I want to write about them.

Huang Tinghui: when two years later, we have known each other for two years. Remember at the beginning, you turn to our class. Due to your poor eyesight to sit with me. The teacher write on the blackboard the word you couldnt see, you often ask me, I also tell you patient, so we established profound friendship. We laugh together, cry together, mad at a quarrelling, together to do according to evil. And you together of dribs and drabs, I will never forget.

Easy 媱 : in my mind your temper is very good, is also a name change most in our class. We will be together. Sometimes see the meat on your face, I will run to knead your face, you are always gentle smile, the smile has included in the friendship.

Along the way of the company of friends, no friends, no today of I, really thank you friends support, maybe well separate, but the fate.

一个人的一生，有许许多多的朋友。如果失去了朋友，将会失去多少生活乐趣呀!现在我们马上要分开了，和我俩个好友的交往也会少了，所以想写写她们。

黄婷慧：一晃俩年过去了，我们已经认识了俩年了。记得当初，你转到我们班。由于你视力不好跟我坐。老师写在黑板的字你看不清，你时常问我，我也耐心的告诉你，就这样我们建立深厚的友谊。我们一起笑过，一起哭过，吵过架生过气，还一起搞恶做据。和你在一起的点点滴滴，我永远也不回忘记。

易媱：在我的印象中你的脾气很好，也是我们班名字改的最多的一个。我们在一起中会闹脾气。有时候看到你脸上的肉，我就会跑过去捏你的脸，你总是温柔的一笑，这笑容中包括的有友谊。

一路上都有朋友的陪伴，没有朋友就没有今天的我，真的感谢朋友分支持，也许我们会分开，但是缘分。

The red lanterns hung, festive couplets pasted up, beautiful window cut up, capped Bai Xuepiao down, the delicious meal of the eve of the end of fireworks rushed out, God, we Chinese the most festive grand traditional festival - the Spring Festival is coming.

This years new years Eve, I spent my grandmothers home in Shaoxing. The twelfth lunar month 28 evening, on the way to Shaoxing, we were caught in a heavy snow. The car is everywhere flying snow white, but the yellow lights to illuminate the road ahead, but also the warmth of home peoples heart. The lamp of faint light, in the snow gave people the warmth of home.

The twelfth lunar month 29 morning, we came to the peak Temple Buddha, incense in the incense burner peak hillside, this is also a custom of Shaoxing new year. During the end of the beginning of the year, the temple incense, always many pilgrims, people have come here to pray for peace auspicious new year.

In the afternoon, I came to the famous garden of Shenyang in the Southern Song Dynasty. A glittering snow, a white carpet, silhouetted against a black tiles and white walls between red lanterns. The breeze carrying a piece of people the best wishes of the pledge card, brushed a blossoming bloom, only to hear the bells "methotrexate methotrexate" light sound, only smell bursts of fragrance lamei.

The reason why the Spring Festival is busy, fireworks and firecrackers can not be small. In ancient times, people set off firecrackers to evil blessing, pray for peace and happiness. And todays brilliant fireworks add gorgeous colors to the night sky.

The Spring Festival in my hometown is very lively, it is colorful, it is a red fire and it is warm. There is a good wish for a loved one there, where we are deeply attached to and stay in love.

My ambition is to be a teacher.Because I love the children. I want to stay with then. Then I feel happy and young. And the most important thing is I can teach them many thing. I will tell them love is very important. I will try to love others around you. Then others will be friendly to you.The world will be more and more interesting.Do you think so?

To make the goal ,come true,I will study hard.

我的梦想是成为一名教师。因为我喜欢孩子们。我想留在那。然后我感到快乐和年轻。最重要的是,我可以教他们许多事情。我将告诉他们爱是非常重要的。我将试着去爱周围的人。然后别人会对你友好。世界将变得越来越有趣。你这样认为吗?

目标,成真,我要努力学习。

People are very happy in Spring Festival. They often have large dinners and watch special programs on TV with the family on the Lunar New Years Eve. On the Lunar New Years Day, people pay visits to relatives and friends. Children are very happy, too. They are in new clothes, and usually get some money, which is put in a red paper envelope from elder people.

In Spring Festival, you can see a lot of traditional programs too, such as lion dancing or dragon dancing. They wish people a happy New year and a bright future. Its very interesting

It was the Eve of the Spring Festival.

Dusk was just falling as I slurped up the last bit of rice and laid down my chopsticks.

“Theyre starting!” cried my friend excitedly. “Quick! Quick!”

Outside, children were running everywhere. Their happy voices and faces made me warm inside, despite the cold wind that greeted me. My friend thrust a bundle of straw in my hands. “Come!” he cried. I giggled as I ran to catch up to him; the childrens excitement was a fever that spread to even the big kids like us.

I soon joined a rowdy bunch of children and teenagers who were building a bonfire in the middle of a path that ran through the wheat fields. “Here,”said my friend, handing me a long bamboo pole. “Put some of your straw in the fire. Then tie the rest onto your pole like this.” He demonstrated with his own materials, and I followed his example. Then he thrust both our torches into the fire and handed me mine. “Now run!”

And run I did----we all did. For miles and miles around, as far as I could see, there were small orange specks scattered about, and I could hear the distant screaming and laughing of other children running up and down the rice field path. For several hours into the night I helped build fires and keep an eye on the younger children. Occasionally I, too, lit a torch and ran around like a mad man, screaming and waving a flaming bamboo pole.

This festival, which occurred six days before Chinese New Year, was just one of the experiences during the visit to my friends over the Spring Festival. As it was explained to me, the purpose behind this festival was to allow the children to have fun burning up all the straw leftover after the harvest. Later, the ash is used for fertilizer.