小学生元宵节英语作文（推荐20篇）

导语：写日记可以提高文学素养，完善文学功底，帮助写一手好文章。希望同学们以后也养成用英语写日记的习惯。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语日记作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

I have rested for a week. I began to feel bored. So I went out with my friends. They are my best friends in the middle school. We didn’t go to someplace special. We just saw the other. We had lunch together. While we were having lunch, we were still talking about the new school and new friends. Yes! A year later, we have grown riper. And we learned much more things and got new life. We haven’t enough time to play, to waste and to lose the way. We only have two years. Two years to go, we will get the real life which belongs to us.

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我已经休息了一个星期。我开始觉得无聊。所以，我和我的朋友一起出去。他们是我中学最好的朋友。我们没有去的地方特别。我们刚才看到的。我们共进午餐。虽然我们吃午饭，我们仍然谈论新学校和新朋友。是!一年后，我们已经发展成熟。我们学到了很多东西，得到更多的新生活。我们还没有足够的时间来浪费。我们只有两年。两年来的时候，我们将得到真正的属于我们的生活。

The chinese new year is now popularly known as the spring festival because it starts from the begining of spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of nature). 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, wasoriginally 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 didswallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.

The first thing I did was I made a plan for my study. I assigned my

homework equally according to the holidays so that I can finish all of them in

time. And during my winter vacation, we welcome the most important festival in

China—Spring Festival, it’s also called Chinese New Year by lots of

foreigners.

At that night, our family came together and had a big meal. Of course we

had dumplings that night, because that is our Chinese traditional. We then watch

the CCTV spring festival evening party together and watch the beautiful

fireworks. That’s the happiest time in this world! The winter vacation I had

dreamed all year around was finally coming. And I really enjoyed a lot from

it.

The first thing I did was I made a plan for my study. I assigned my

homework equally according to the holidays so that I can finish all of them in

time. I also arranged myself the books and words I need to read and recite.

Secondly, I took some extracurricular activities and read some English original

reading. My favorite book is , written by Sherlock Holmes. Among all the

classical movies, the Sound of Music was the most exciting one. During my

holidays I also made some assistance for my physical class teacher, surely I met

lots of difficulties in this stage and from which I knew what perseverance

really was. Lastly, I went to the temple fair and was lucky to taste several

Chinese traditional dishes; “Jiaohua chicken” is one of them. It is said it

originated from Hangzhou centuries ago, made by a famous beggar Hong Qi Gong,

the senior leader of Beggar Gang.Steamed with fresh lotus leaf wrapped up,it is

famous for its special aroma and taste. Now that the holiday is ending and a new

semester is coming, I need to fresh up and get started to embrace the upcoming

challenges.

今天是 五月初五

——端午节，也就是人们常说的重五。我问爷爷：“端午节是怎么来的?”爷爷说：“端午节是为了纪念我国古代的爱国人士屈原而来的。当时屈原还是楚国的朝廷命官，但是小人当道，朝廷昏庸。屈原不愿亲眼见着国家的覆没，就怀抱石头，投进了汨罗江。楚国的百姓闻讯后，纷纷划船营救。从此，便有了端午节的说法。

Today is the fifth day of May -- the Dragon Boat Festival, it is often said

that the weight of five. I asked grandpa: "the Dragon Boat Festival is how

come?" Grandpa said: "the Dragon Boat Festival is in memory of the ancient

Chinese patriot Qu Yuan. When Qu Yuan was in court officials, but the villains

in power, and the court. Qu Yuan did not want to see a country annihilated, arms

stone, cast into the Miluo river. The people in the state after hearing the

news, their boat rescue. From then on, there will be the festival of the Dragon

Boat Festival.

“世杰，过来。”这时，妈妈下令了。我走进厨房问：“妈妈，干什么?”“包粽子啊!”妈妈说。“这活儿，我哪行啊?”我难为情的说。妈妈说：“让你包，你就包，有妈妈这个老师在呢!”我答应着：“好吧!”我拿起竹叶，学着妈妈的样子，把竹叶卷成筒状，再用小勺挖米装进筒里，用竹叶把馅儿包好，用彩线捆起来。我和妈妈合伙把粽子包完了，然后就上锅蒸。不久粽子出锅了，吃着自己亲手包的粽子，心里比吃了蜜还甜。

"Shijie,." At this time, the mother ordered. I went to the kitchen and

asked, "Mom, what do you do?" "wrap the rice dumplings!" mom said.. "This work,

which I do?" I said. Mother said: let your bag, you pack, mother the teacher in!

"I promised:" OK! "I pick up the bamboo leaves, study like a mother, bamboo

rolled into a cylindrical shape, and then a small spoon dig meters installed in

the cylinder, wrap the dumplings with bamboo, tied with colored thread. My

mother and I have a partnership to wrap up the rice dumplings, and then we have

to steam it.. Soon the rice dumplings out of the pot, eating the dumplings

wrapped in their own hands, heart than eating honey sweet.

我喜欢过端午节，更喜欢包粽子、吃粽子。

I like the Dragon Boat Festival, but also like to wrap the rice dumplings,

eat rice dumplings.

Today is a fine day.And I am very lucky.

In the morning,I’m go fishing in a river with my parents.As time goes by,I am fishing a big fish.I am very happy,but my parents have no one fish.Next,I am fishing a small fish,but I still happy.Because my parents still have no one fish.It’s time to go home,I am fishing ten fishs,but my parents are only fishing a small fish.In the afternoon,I am playing football with my buddies.MingMing has the ball,he is kicking it to me.I am kicking the ball.It’s a beautiful goal. Next, PingPing has the ball,he is kicking to Mike.Now,Mike has the ball,he is kicking it.It’s a goal.Now,we are winning.

Today I am very lucky.And I am so happy.

今天是晴朗的一天。我很幸运。

在早上,我去钓鱼和我的父母在河里。随着时间的流逝,我钓一条大鱼。我很高兴,但我父母没有一条鱼。接下来,我钓鱼的小鱼,但我仍然高兴。因为我的父母还没有一条鱼。是时候回家了,我钓鱼十条鱼,但我的父母只是捕捞小鱼。在下午,我和我的朋友踢足球。明明有球,他是踢我。我踢球。那是一个美丽的目标。接下来,记者拿球,他是迈克踢。现在,迈克拿球,他是踢它。这是一个目标。现在,我们正在赢得。

今天我很幸运。和我很高兴。

今天是元宵节。晚上吃过饭，我和爸爸妈妈兴高采烈地去看灯会。

街上人头攒动，行人陆续走向灯会会场。街道两旁的路灯闪烁着美丽的光芒，汽车在公路上来来往往，川流不息。街上的花炮、礼炮各自燃放，有的像狂舞的银蛇；有的像闪烁的流星；有的一下子爆发出五颜六色的光芒，像盛开的花朵。人群中不时爆发出一阵阵欢呼声。

来到灯会会场，更是人山人海，把道路围了个水泄不通，我们费了好大力气才挤到了会场中心。终于看到参展的灯了。它们五颜六色，生动活泼，有龙灯、宫灯、莲花灯、鲤鱼灯等。灯光照亮了整个天空。在所有的灯中我觉得最有创意的是第三中学做的灯了，一枚火箭腾空而起，发躲架上的雷达飞速旋转，象征了我国航天以及其他各项事业正在蒸蒸日上。

难忘这次灯会，明年的灯会会是什么样的呢？我期待着。

正月十五那天，我们一家到煤河旁边看花灯。看花灯时可热闹了，这些花灯也让我大开眼界。

我们出了院向南走去，大街上的人群熙熙攘攘。到了看花灯的地点，更是人山人海，到处都是杂乱的喧闹声。再往前走一点，各式各样的花灯映入眼帘。所有的花灯都围绕着两个主题：一是迎奥运，二是庆虎年。每一个花灯都有它独特的风格，颜色、形状、大小各不相同。有的花灯是一个漂亮的大轮船；有的花灯上摆放着小朋友们最喜欢的福娃；有的十分简单，是几个图形摆在一起成为一个漂亮的花灯；有的非常美，上面画着或贴着各种好看的图案，这些花灯可真是形态各异，五光十色。我最喜欢的是一个千手观音的花灯。它的手臂可以慢慢展开，活灵活现，好像真人一样。

这些花灯都带着浓郁地喜庆气氛，让人赏心悦目，我喜欢这些花灯。这个夜晚让人难忘！

There is a person, she is like the sun in the family, forever care of my tree "seedlings", she is - my mother.

Mother has a round face, inlaid with a pair of watery eyes. This pair of big eyes seem to speak, whenever I took Miyoshi students certificate, my mother will reveal the joy of eyes, smiling at me, I read the mothers eyes said: do well, to continue to work hard. Whenever I do the subject careless, made a mistake, my mother frowned, her eyes seemed to say: what should be careful, every job is like a small test.

Mother is particularly concerned about my study and life. I participated in the mental arithmetic, Go, etiquette and other games, my mother will support me, accompany me, encourage me. Win, she will say: "Do not be proud, not after the game will be smooth sailing." Lost, she would say: "Do not be happy, win or lose is commonplace, there are opportunities." Every time I was sick, my mother Particularly anxious, and quickly give me medicine, afraid of my illness more and more serious. Every summer, my mother will take me out to travel, increase my knowledge.

This is my mother, I love my dear mother.

Hello, my name is_______. I am_______  years old. Now I am studying in_______Primary School. I am in Grade _______, Class_______.

I live in_______. There are _______ members in my family—father, mother and me. My father is a_______ but my mother is working in _______. I love both of them.

In my spare time, I like  _______, and my favorite colour is_______. Also I love__________very much, such as ________________.

I hope I can learn English well, because I think it very important. But_______ is favorite subject, because it is very interesting.

I wish I can become a_______in the future.

I think all of them have a dream! Maybe this dream is not big, but always give yourself a decision, that is, to complete the dream.

My dream is not for me, for my family. Because in my small time total people in front of my parents always say that their sons and daughters how powerful, a long time. Gradually I in the heart under the seed is my must grew up to buy a luxury car, live in luxury real, I want to let everyone envious of my parents.

I want all the people to envy my parents and my brother, these two children. This seed has been buried in the heart of my slowly germination, I know that it is difficult to achieve this dream, but I must make a lot of money.

Maybe someone said I only care about money $$, money is worldly possessions, in my eye, for fear of parents with their own life to protect our, we care about and care for us! Every time I see parents very hard, always wanted to help, but also humiliating.

But I always want to realize this dream, I also want to let their parents when old to live an extravagant life.

For this dream, for me refueling bar!

我想所有的人都有一个梦想吧！可能这个梦想不大，但是总是给自己一个决定，就是一定要完成这个梦想。

我的梦想 不是为了我自己，是为了我的家。因为在我小的时候总有人在我父母面前总是说自己的儿女多么多么的厉害，时间久了，渐渐渐渐我在心里种下了一粒种子___就是我一定要长大买豪车，住豪房，我要让所有人都羡慕我的父母。

我要让所有的人都羡慕父母有我和哥哥这两个孩子。这颗种子一直埋在我的心里慢慢的发芽，我知道想要实现这个梦想很难实现，但我一定要赚大钱。

可能会有人说我只在乎钱$_$，钱是身外之物，在我眼里父母们用自己的一辈子去守护我们，关心我们，在乎我们！每次看到父母很辛苦，总想去帮忙，可是又拉不下脸。

但是我不仅一直想实现这个梦想，我还想等父母们老的时候让他们锦衣玉食。

为了这个梦想，为我加油吧！

[我的梦想小学生优秀英语作文

“汤圆汤圆送汤圆，香香的汤圆是圆又圆……”，这是一首过元宵时唱的《汤圆》。因为，大伙儿都说吃汤圆，梦也圆，所以，阿姨唱，叔叔唱，伯伯唱，大伙儿唱。 "The dumplings dumplings are given dumplings, the fragrant dumplings are round and round ...", this is a "dumplings" sung by the Lantern Festival.Because everyone said that eating dumplings, dreams are also round, so aunt sings, uncle sings, uncle sings, and everyone sings.

在放假的几天中，我最快乐的一天，要属元宵节了。那天，伯伯来我家吃饭，伯伯刚坐下就问我：“凡琪，你放过烟花吗”我回答道：“放过一两次。”伯伯接着说：“那你还想放一次吗”我说道：“当然想啦!可是妈妈偏说说放烟花有危险!不让我多放。”伯伯说：“不用怕，我跟你妈说，她会同意的!”我高兴得蹦了“三千尺”，我大喊道：“又可以放烟花了!又可以放烟花了!”我扭过头对伯伯说：“还是伯伯最爱我!”伯伯对我笑了笑，又回头看他的报纸去了。

吃过饭后，伯伯给了我一大袋烟花，和三根香，就让我和妈妈下楼去放。到了楼下的石头椅子旁，我先把烟花管放在地上放好后，然后用点燃的香将烟花管旁的引子点燃，没过多久，烟花像火箭一样“嗖”的一声，飞上了天空，然后，“碰”的一声在天空散开了，真像一朵花开了!后来，我看了看，有红的，有黄的，有紫的，有绿的，各种各样，各色各异，真好看!

后来，我回家后，妈妈端上了一碗汤圆给我吃，啊!元宵节我真喜欢你!

正月十五是元宵佳节，满天的烟花令人眼花缭乱，目不暇接。烟花虽然很美丽，但是非常短暂，可以说它来也匆匆，去也匆匆；烟花姹紫嫣红 ,转瞬即逝犹如昙花一现。我一直想要看一场盛大又不短暂的烟花表演，2月5日晚上，我的愿望终于要实现了。

到了晚上七点半，烟花表演准时拉开了序幕。让人们期盼许久的烟花随着一声巨响在天空中绽放，把整个广场照得犹如白昼，人们纷纷欢呼雀跃，五彩缤纷的烟花各式各样，让人应接不暇：有的犹如流星，轻轻地划过天际；有的又像一棵拨地而起的巨树，伫立在空中，四周的枝干上长着繁密的叶子，一群群蝴蝶围绕着这棵巨树翩翩起舞，真是一副火树银花的美丽景象……烟花表演总是让人意犹未尽，紧接着，最有特色、最吸引人的是“金龙飞天”跃入人们眼中：两条金黄色的巨龙，相互缠绵着飞向天际，让人进入无限的遐想……

诗人瞿佑在《烟火戏》中写道：“天花无数月中开,五采祥云绕绛台。堕地忽惊星彩散,飞空旋作雨声来。怒撞玉斗翻晴雪,勇踏金轮起疾雷。更漏已深人渐散,闹竿挑得彩灯回。”短短几句诗，就让人仿佛看到了烟花的美丽，但是今晚的烟花表演无法用语言来形容，最美丽的一幕莫过于银河瀑布了。

就在那一刹那、一瞬间，成千成百颗金色“流星”飞入空中，环绕在月亮四周，停留了几秒钟后，成千成百颗金色“流星”同时绽放，分散开来，优美又整齐地在深蓝色的银幕中落下……

金色瀑布把在场的每一个人都惊呆了，纷纷用相机留住这美丽时刻。

此刻，深蓝的夜空中，星星正调皮地眨着眼睛，月亮也在偷偷地观赏烟花表演，天空绽放出的一朵朵美丽的菊花，把夜空装点得无比美丽。

[元宵节观烟花小学作文

Last year I have been to the Sanya to travel.I was seen the beautiful beach，and I was skined in the sea is very large and it looked blue and I am not good at swimming，so I hadnt to swim for a long Iwent to Wuzhi

e was a forest，so beautiful.I was bought some presons for my uncle and aunt.

At the last，I had to take furry to get to Zhanjiang and took a plane to go home.

What a happy day!

Last week, my parents told me the good news that my family would go camping

with my uncle’s family. I felt so excited about it, because I could spend the

whole night outside, which never happened before. When the day came, we brought

the equipment and bought some food. In the afternoon, the two families settled

down, then we started to walked around. My cousins and I rushed to the forest

and went to the highest point, where we can appreciate the whole sight. Standing

on the highest place, I felt so great. The world was in front of my eyes and I

thought of the old poets’ description. At night, we set the the fire and talked

happily. The parents were talking about the family chores and the kids were

playing games. It was such a happy moment for me.

过元宵节当然少不了吃元宵.元宵又叫汤圆，它的名子还有个故事呢!很久以前人们把汤圆叫元宵。袁世凯知道了觉得很不吉利。"元宵"不就是"袁消"吗?于是他下令把元宵改做汤圆.从此元宵又名汤圆。元宵的馅有很多.有红豆的.芝麻的.还有绿豆的……

汤圆煮好了，我迫不及待的夹起一个放在嘴里，妈妈大叫;"小心点，别烫着。"咬上一口馅慢慢地流了出来，粘粘的.甜甜的味道好极了!

元宵节可少不了观花灯。吃完元宵，我和老爸来到天一广场.这里的花灯可真多啊!有"奔跑"的老虎."吃草"的兔子.还有在"游动"的鱼儿.真是五花八门!都成了灯的海洋.光的世界!爸爸给我买了一个兔子花灯.只要一按按纽.兔儿便会唱起欢乐的歌。我连忙拿起我的兔子灯加入闹花灯的行列。

My winter vocation Winter holidays are coming. I am going to get up very

late at about half past nine because I feel litter tired. now I am on

vacation.

I don’t have to go to school. How wonderful ! During this vacation I can do

lots of interesting things. For example, I am going to play basketball ,

computer games and some other games. But of course, I must always remember that

I am still a student .

I am going to read a lot of books and finish my homework On New Year’s Eve

, my family will gather together eating , talking and watching TV for almost the

whole night . And there is going to be some interesting programmers on TV .

I think I am going to be very happy in this winter holiday.

我的寒假寒假。我要起床很晚九点半左右因为我觉得垃圾累。我现在在度假。

我不必去上学。多么美妙!在这个假期我可以做很多有趣的事情。例如,我要打篮球、电脑游戏和其他游戏。当然,我必须永远记住,我还是一个学生。

我要阅读大量的书籍和完成我的作业在新年前夕,家人会聚集在一起吃饭,聊天,几乎整个晚上看电视。,会有一些有趣的程序员在电视上。

我想我要在这个寒假很开心。

家乡的元宵节，是名符其实的“灯笼节”，或许是农村人对吃不是太感兴趣吧，吃元宵只是这一天的一个小插曲而已，正月十二开始，孩子便开始准备灯笼，有的家里有心灵手巧的大人，就用手工制作一个，买些彩纸。 The Lantern Festival in my hometown is a versatile "Lantern Festival", maybe rural people are not too interested in eating. Eating Lantern Festival is just a small little on this dayJust the episode. Starting at the twelfth month, the child began to prepare for the lantern. Some of the families in the family made a hand -made one and bought some colorful paper.

再准备些竹子或木棍一类，可以制作各种各样的灯笼，如莲花型，兔子型，鼓形等各种各样的灯笼，的便是仿照宫灯制的转灯，蜡烛一点，便可随着烟旋转起来。也有图方便的在市场上购买灯笼，有纸糊的，多斗是点蜡烛，如西瓜灯笼、火罐灯笼，也有塑料的，轻巧耐用，多半可以安装上电池。

城里的正月十五，主要是灯谜晚会，猜猜灯谜，而乡里的正月十五便是村里的灯展，“正月十五雪打灯”，预示着今年肯定会有好收成，每年的正月十四到十六是孩子们挑灯笼的时候，孩子们把灯笼选好，雀跃着等天黑，不到天黑孩子们便把灯笼提好。

点上蜡烛或是打开灯笼开关，提着在村庄里转悠，等孩子的灯笼都挑出来后，便自发的挑在一起，互相比比看看，看谁的形状好看，谁的结实，也有搞怪的孩子，故意互相碰撞灯笼，有用纸糊的点蜡烛的孩子，不小心把灯笼碰着，便使劲的在地上摔，火熄了。

可是灯笼没了，便哭着跑回家再找一个灯笼。更有好事者，会因一个灯笼和伙伴们打起来，管你是什么辈份，是否亲戚，这会灯笼是最体面最代表尊严的东西。村庄里随处可见的是红彤彤的灯笼，孩子的喧闹声、哭喊声和喧哗声，村庄里不再安稳，因灯笼而红火起来。

说起正月十五吃的东西，家乡还有一种东西，便是“灯盏”，用荞面做成的圆形食品，中间还可以点上蜡烛，有一种怀旧的感觉，吃了以后可以保平安健康之意吧?

Today, as I have nothing to do, my father decides to take me to the gym. There are people playing all kinds of sports. I see my father play badminton and he teaches me how to play. It is so easy for me to learn, after a while, I can play with my father. I fall in love with this sport, I will play it on the weekend.

今天,当我无事可做的时候, 爸爸决定带我去健身房。人们在玩各种各样的运动。我看到我的父亲在打羽毛球,他教我怎么玩。这对我来说很容易学习,过了一会后,我可以和父亲一起打。我爱上了这项运动,我会在周末去玩。

Spring

Oh! Spring in coming.

Look! All the things are reviving. The world is colorful. The trees and grass are green. Flowers are beautiful. Some are red. Some are yellow. Some are purple. The birds are flying in the blue sky. The bees are singing. They are very busy. They are making honey. The butterflies are dancing in the garden. The children are playing games.

I like spring.

介绍元宵节风俗的英语作文

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.

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.

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.

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 governments will even organize a fireworks party. On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky.

元宵节英文介绍译文:

元宵节

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。

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。

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。

随着时间的推移，元宵节的活动越来越多，白天有耍龙灯、耍狮子、踩高跷、划旱船扭秧歌、打太平鼓等传统民俗表演。到了夜晚，除了五颜六色的美花灯之外，还有艳丽多姿的烟火。大多数家庭会在春节时留下一些烟花等到元宵节这天燃放，而一些地方政府也会举办烟花大会，当新年的第一个月圆之夜在盛大的烟火表演中来临时，人们都陶醉在这令人难忘了烟花与皎洁的明月中。

Moonquakes are to Mid-Autumn Festival what mince pies are to Christmas. The seasonal round cakes traditionally have a sweet filling of lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often have one or more salted duck eggs in the center to represent the moon. And the moon is what this celebration is all about. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th month，it is the time when the moon is said to be at its brightest and fullest.

There are two legends which claim to explain the tradition of eating moonquakes. One Tang Dynasty myth holds that the Earth once had 10 suns circling it. One day all 10 suns appeared at once，scorching the planet with their heat.

It was thanks to a skillful archer named Hour Yi that the Earth was saved. He shot down all but one of the suns. As his reward，the Heavenly Queen Mother gave Hour Yi the Elixir of Immortality，but she warned him that he must use it wisely.

Hour Yi ignored her advice and，corrupted by fame and fortune，became a tyrannical leader. Chang-Err，his beautiful wife， could no longer stand by and watch him abuse his power so she stole his Elixir and fled to the moon to escape his angry wrath. And thus began the legend of the beautiful woman in the moon，the Moon Fairy.

The second legend has it that during the Yuan Dynasty，an underground group led by Zhu Yuan Zing was determined to rid the country of Mongolian dominance. The moon cake was created to carry a secret message.

When the cake was opened and the message read，an uprising was unleashed which successfully routed the Mongolians. It happened at the time of the full moon，which，some say，explains why moonquakes are eaten at this time.

Moonquakes are usually stamped with Chinese characters indicating the name of the ry and the type of filling used. Some ries will even stamp them with your family name so that you can give personalized ones to friends and family.

They are usually presented in boxes of four which indicate the four phases of the moon. Traditional moonquakes are made with melted lard，but today vegetable oil is more often used in the interests of health.

Moonquakes are not for the diet-conscious as they are loaded with calories. The best way to wash down one of these sticky cakes is with a cup of Chinese tea，especially Jasmine or Chrysanthemum tea，which aids the digestion.