初三优秀作文英语(优秀20篇)

How to get happyness 如何获得快乐

there is no doubt that happiness is the most precious thing in the world. Without it, life will be empty and meaningless. If you wish to know how to get happiness, you must pay attention to the following two points.

First, health is the secret of happiness (the key to happiness). Only a strong man can enjoy the pleasure of life.

Secondly, happiness consists in contentment. A man who is dissatisfied with his present condition is always in distress.

无疑的快乐是世界上最宝贵的东西。没有它，人生将是空虚的而且毫无意义的。如果你希望知道如何获得快乐，你须注意下面两点。

健康是快乐的要诀。唯有身体强壮的人才能享受人生的乐趣。

快乐在于知足。一个不满于现状的人终是处在痛苦之中。

Hi，boys and girls. I’m a Chinese girl. My Chinese name is Chen Jinrun. Chen

is my first name. Jinrun is my last name. My English name is Helen. I’m 12 years

old. My favorite color is black white and red. I like sports、computer game and

go shopping. And I like French fries、ice cream and bananas. My QQ number is

1047850027.

I have a friend. Her name is Song Yihan. Song is her first name. Yihan is

her last name. She is 12 years old. She is very pretty. Her favorite color is

blue. She is my good friend.

There was a sad music in the church, a parting song, and the children in front of the Jesus prayers were praying silently... At this point, what are the children praying for? Why are they so serious? Because its a graduation ceremony, because its their last day here...

Look at these kids pious face, listening to this copy from rolia song, tears blurred, I cant help remember three years ago, our graduation......

In the scorching summer, cicada son calls became the only tune, and we in the classroom, only the hearts of the coming of the senior high school entrance examination is full of infinite tension and anxiety.

Every day, after a hurry to do what everyone needs to do, immediately turn into a stressful study. A white paper in our hands is constantly checking, instead of the past summer, our hands those cute little fan; an English listening test repeatedly play, instead of the past, we listened to pop music; one to ask, instead of the old days in the classroom frequently heard the sound of the dozen...... Everything was insignificant in the face of the coming exam.

It seemed to be a long time in the past, and suddenly, at that time, like a page that had been turned over, it had not been carefully read, and it was in a hurry. The sound of the June alarm sounded, and our atmosphere was more tense. All the years, anyhow, graduation ceremony will be open, always a day to let us present ah, write the students... But we didnt do anything at that time, the reason was very simple, and everyone thought it was not necessary.

In this way, we have a graduation exam, and we just want a good result on the exam. At the end of the last exam, we gathered together, and the teacher just said something about the exam results, and hurriedly took a photo of graduation, didnt say goodbye, didnt do many other things like other graduates, and graduated.

After the mid-term examination, I found that the so-called "victory" didnt bring much joy to me. I thought that if theres a good result, there will be a happy summer vacation. But in those days, I found that it was too boring, even though I wrote a lot of homework every day, but there was always less...

Once, I walked into a gift shop close to our school. The boss asked me if I was too dull to graduate this time. He said he led a lot of gifts, such as the gift of graduation, but there were not many people in our school. He also jokes that the people we are now are getting less and more human.

After that, I thought seriously about what the boss said, and I had to admit that he was right. At that time, we only care about the results of the exam, but we have ignored the classmates and teachers feelings so long that only those scores are the only ones we want to pursue. If we were able to take a day to open a graduation ceremony and write to each other a communication address and contact, then our summer vacation would not be so boring. Its a pity that we didnt understand it at that time...

Maybe years later, when we turn over this page, we will find a blank place, a place that will never be filled out...

We didnt make mistakes three years ago. Today, we face the college entrance examination in an unhurried way, attend the graduation ceremony actively, and draw a successful conclusion for our senior high school life.

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.

I have a beautiful house. my parents and i live in our house now. it is near the lake. we all like our house. we are very happy.

our house is not very big, but i think it is very good. look! here is the door. it is open. let us go and visit our house.

welcome to our house. there are three bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a large sitting room in our house. let us look at my small room first. there is a bookcase in my room. there are many books in the bookcase. on the right of the bookcase, there is a bed. there is a doll and some clothes on the bed. there are a lot of posters on the wall. near the bookcase, there is a desk. i study at it every day. on the desk, there is a computer. i often play computer games on it. there are two lamps and a clock in my small room, too.

look at our parents’ room, there is a tv and a sofa. there is a big bed in it, too. there are lots of pictures and two lamps on the wall.

then look at our sitting room, there is a tv and two sofas in it. there are two tables and chairs in the sitting room, too.

we like our house very much. do you like it?

The girl is not my hobbies, even rarely play games online. However, Im weibo, there have been a fan for nearly two hundred people, but a lot of people envy.

On Saturday night, as usual, I open the weibo, find incredibly direct messages was written to me! May be I take "I to help you" the net, people often ask me for help, but I was the first received the letter! I am open on see, what is this:

"I was in primary school grade three, three years has always been the same deskmate, recently he always affect me, because I should to do?"

See this letter, I cant help himself a slight quiver, so ah! Deskmate always affect me, even though my grades didnt drop, but listening to lectures efficiency obviously is not good enough.

I with a sincere heart, with their own feelings, reply to her:

"First of all thank you for your trust me, so I can see from your letter you must be a clever child, your deskmate may learn bad, and naughty, but would you please more inclusive. Also, do you know why the teacher always let him be your deskmate? Thats because the teacher trust you, we cant live up to the expectations of the teacher, are you? You can help your neighbor, let he also experience the fun of learning, let him fall in love with learning, you said right?"

Looked at her and sending a smiling face, I seem to have also been infected, involuntarily smiled. Yes, ready to help others, this is the real "weibos got talent"!

I looked out the window, thinking: that star tonight, must be sunny tomorrow.

我这个女孩没什么爱好，即使上网也很少玩游戏。不过，我可是微博达人，现在已经有粉丝将近两百人了，可是有不少人羡慕呢。

星期六晚上，我照例打开微博，发现居然有人给我写私信!也许是我取“我来帮助你”的网名的缘故，经常有人找我帮忙，但我还是第一次收到信!我打开一看，大致内容是这样的：

“我上小学三年级了，三年以来一直都是同一个同桌，最近他老是影响我，我因该怎么办呢?”

看到这封信，我不禁微微一颤——自己也是这样的呀!同桌总是影响我，虽然我的学习成绩没有下降，但听课效率明显不够好。

我怀着一颗真挚的心，带着自己的感情，回复给了她：

“首先感谢你如此信任我，从你的信中我可以看出你一定是个乖巧的孩子，你的同桌可能学习不好，而且调皮，但请你多多包容。还有，你知道老师为什么一直让他做你的同桌吗?那是因为老师信任你，我们不能辜负老师的期望，是吗?你可以多帮助同桌，让他也体会到学习的乐趣，让他爱上学习，你说对吗?”

看着她发过来的笑脸，我仿佛也被传染了，不由自主地笑了。是啊，乐于助人，这才是真正的“微博达人”!

我望着窗外，心想：今夜星光灿烂，想必明天阳光明媚。

Now a lot of people pay attention to a piece of new on the Internet. A teacher calledZhang Lili was hurt by a car, because she wanted to save her students. People call her “Hemost beartiful teacher”. She is only 29 years old , but she can do so great thing. I think it isdifficult for other people to do this. It’s the love for the students , she is one of the bestteachers in China.As a student, I think the most beautiful teacher must be good to students. And she alwayshelps her stduents with all kinds of problems. The teacher must have many ideas to keep thestudents healthy and happy. I think if a teacher do these, she must be a good teacher, and herstudents will be good too. And if all teachers can do these, the world will be more beautifulbecause of them .

I like traveling on foot With my brother in holidays.

At the very beginning, I felt very tired. I got out of breath so easily.Then my brother started to tell me some interesting stories.We walked and walked while he didnt stop telling stories. We walked a long way without knowing.

Then my brother asked me, "Are you still feeling tired?" The feelings of tiredness were already out of my mind.

我喜欢在假期跟哥哥一起徒步旅行。刚开始的时候，我还真有点吃不消，没走多远就累得上气不接下气。

于是哥哥就给我讲动听的故事。他一边讲我们一边走，不知不觉走了很远。哥哥问我：“你还累吗?”呵呵，我早把“累”这回事忘到九霄云外去了。

外籍教师Richard想了解一下你所在班级学生的到校方式。假如你是李华，请以The way I go to school为题，写一篇英语短文，想Richard介绍自己的到校方式。

提示：

1. How do you go to school?

2. Why do you prefer to go in that way?

注意：

1. 短文必须包括所有提示内容，并围绕你所选择的某种交通方式，写出二至三个理由，可适当发挥。

2. 文中不得出现真实的人名，校名和地名。

3. 词数60-80个。(短文开头已给出，不计入总词数)

The way I go to school

I’m Li Hua.

参考样文：

I’m Li Hua. I go to school on foot. I have several reasons for that.

First, my home is not very far from my school, it is just about two kilometers away from school. It takes me about 20 minutes to get there. Second, walking to school is a kind of exercise. It is good for my health. Third, it’s pretty safe to walk to school because there is a lot of traffic on the road at this time of a day. So I prefer going to school on foot. It’s really a good choice.

Hello, everyone! Let me tell you something about "clear up our plates". In our sholl, we have lunch in the dinning hall every day. We usually can see that some students dont eat up their food in the plates. Why? Because they take much more food than they need or the food isnt delicious. I think its very bad because that is a very big of waste food. In this month, our school asks us to clear up our plates. Everyone should eat up our food and say no to wasting. If we all follow the rules, the school will be better and better.

how to learn english well

First of all, reading is very important if we want to learn English well. When we are reading English articles we not only get to know a lot of English words and expressions, but also get a sound sense of English language (英语语感).

Then reciting english words is also necessary because without enough vocabulary we can not understand well.

Lastly, grammar is also improtant for us because if we dont know the basic knowledge about English grammar we may not understand the sentence structures. It will cause us a lot of problems.

Of course, we will also try hard to listen more and try to talk with people in English. In this way, we can learn English well.

[初三以how to be learn为题写英语作文

Today is Womens Day. I think it would be one of the most beautiful memories in my mothers life.

今天是妇女节。我觉得它会是我妈妈人生中最重要的记忆之一。

After school, I head to the supermarket which is not far from my home. Yes, you are right! I intend to cook a simple meal for my mother. It takes me an hour and a half to cook two dishes and a soup. It is not until my mom comes back that I finish my cooking. There is a sweet smile on her face. At that moment, there’s nothing could be better than her smile. Everything I do is worthy. With an air of warmth, I say, Mom, Happy Womens Day. Then she smiles.

放学后，我去了离家不远的超市。是啊，你猜对了。我想为妈妈做一顿简单的饭菜。我花了一个半小时，煮了两菜一汤。我妈妈回来前，我就煮好了。她脸上露出了甜美的微笑。在那一刻，没有什么能比她的微笑更美好的了。我所做的一切都是值得的。在温暖的气氛中，我说， 妈妈，妇女节快乐。”然后她微笑了。

How wonderful today is! I sincerely hope that my mother is happy every day.

今天是多么美妙啊!我真诚的希望我的母亲每天都是快乐的。

there are 4 members in my warm family, my father, my mother my grendmother and i. My father is a worker, he works hard every day and makes the decision of the family. My mother is a teacher, she has many students which a lot of them have great achievement. My grendmother only stays at home every day , And I am a student reading in XX school, I worked hard on my study, and I have many friends.

In my family, we love each other. We are living in a happy life.

导语：也许我们不可以改变自己的容貌,但我们的心灵可以提升,我们的心灵在受到一次次洗礼当中醒悟、净化……下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Today, I saw an very interesting movie. The story was about a boy met a girl who lived next to him since he was very small. The girl was so active and the boy was very shy. The boy was scared by the girl’s passion. When they were middle school students, the boy tried to get rid of the girl, but the boy started to realize the girl was very special. Though she was not as beautiful as the girl he once liked at school, he was attracted by her feature. The girl had a beautiful soul. She was not skin-deep and she has her own thinking. The boy realized that she was the best.

【参考翻译】

今天，我看了一部非常有趣的电影。这个故事是关于一个男孩在他很小的时候就遇到一个住在他隔壁的女孩。女孩非常活跃活泼，而男孩却很害羞。男孩被女孩的热情给吓着了。当他们上初中时，男孩试图摆脱这个女孩，不过他也开始慢慢意识到这个女孩是非常特别的。虽然她没有他在学校曾经喜欢过的那个女孩子那么漂亮，但是他被她的性格所吸引。这个女孩有着美丽的心灵，一点都不肤浅。她有自己的想法。男孩发现这个女孩才是最好的。

whether teen should make their own decision

Whether teen should make their own decisions?I think we can talk about this question from two ways. On the one hand ,Although teen are young ,they have to make many important choices by themselves .such like making fiends ,wearing what kinds of clothes…… ,Teen should learn to plan things for themselves ,they need some skills to make a living in the future.many parents care about their children too much. This gives their children a lot of pressure .that is not good for teen. One the other hand ,although teen can make their decisions by them selves,but as for some serous things ,teen should also accept advice from their parents .because parents have more experience and they can tell you what is right and wrong.

点评：文章观点明确，能通过一分为二的辩证的观点看问题，非常好。思路清晰，句子前后连贯，过渡自然，句子结构正确，能够使用一些重要的短语和句型，简单句和复合句的并用增强了文章的色彩，提高了文章的档次。文章写得非常成功！继续努力哦！

美中不足： 只要注意一下个别单词的使用和字母的大小写就可以了。

[初三英语作文-whether teen should make their

This years summer vacation, my whole family went to a lot of fun and interesting places to play, we went to purdue village, Beijing amusement park, military museum... Such fun and interesting place, I feel happy time always soon, this years summer vacation I had a very happy, so happy I will feel light always pass quickly.

This year our whole family to the military museum, the summer vacation to a museum, saw three soldiers made of wax, they look like special spirit, navy, air force, army land. Beside a few dark green, tanks, tank in front of a plane. The floor has a pistol, torpedoes, knife, etc.

Although the father goes on a business trip now but the good memories still remain in my heart.

今年的暑假，我们全家人去了好多好玩又有趣的地方玩，我们去了普渡山庄，北京游乐园，军事博物馆……等好玩又有趣的地方，我觉得快乐的时光总是过的很快，今年的暑假我过得很快乐，所以我才会觉得快乐光总是过得很快。

今年的暑假我们全家有去军事博物馆，进了博物馆之后，就看到三个用蜡做的军人，他们的样子特别精神，分别是海军、空军、陆地军。旁边有几辆深绿色的坦克，坦克的前面有一架飞机。上面的几楼都有手枪、鱼雷、刀等。

虽然现在爸爸出差了但那美好的回忆还是留在我心里。

In the past twenty years, China has faced three American presidents, but till coming to Yale today, I never realized that China really just faced one university. Although, through these three presidents, I understand that the quality of Yale graduates is not so even.

在过去的二十年中，中国一直在跟美国的三任总统，但是今天到了耶鲁，我从来没有意识到，中国真的面临一个大学。虽然，透过这三位总统，我的理解是，耶鲁大学的毕业生的质量甚至是不。

Let me begin my main subject and let me give it a title, called “My Story and the Chinese Dream Behind It”. I want to talk about five particular years. The first is 1968. That year I was born. But it was also a chaotic year for the world. In France, there was this huge street disturbance, and in America, too. Then President Kennedy was assassinated. However, I really did not cause all of these! But that year what we remember more was the assassination of Mr. Martin Luther King. Although he fell that year, his words “I have a dream” stood up, not only stood up in America, but across the whole world.

让我开始我的主题，让我给它一个名称，叫《我的故事以及背后的中国梦”。我想谈五年份。第一个是1968。那年我出世。但它也是一个混乱的一年中为世界。在法国，有巨大的街头的骚乱，在美国，太。然后美国的总统甘乃迪遇刺。然而，我真的没有造成所有这些!但是那一年我们更应该记住的是马丁先生路德金遇刺。虽然那一年他倒下了，他说“我有一个梦想”的站了起来，不仅在美国，而且在全世界。

But sadly, not only for me, but for almost all Chinese, we did not know such a dream. It was hard to describe each Chinese as having his or her own dream. China and America were so far apart, no less far apart than the Moon and the Earth. But I didn’t care about any of that. All I cared about was could I have a full meal. Clearly, I was born at a very inconvenient time, not only for China, but even for the world, there were problems.

但可悲的是，不仅是我，但几乎所有的中国人，我们不知道这样一个梦想。很难描述每一个中国人拥有自己的梦想。中国和美国是到目前为止分开，没有比月球与地球相距远不如。但我不在乎那些。我关心的是我能吃上一顿饱饭。显然，我是出世在不方便的时间，不仅对中国，而且对世界，有问题。

What will our world be like in 20 years.I can’t imagine. It must change a lot. If I meet myself who comes from the future, I will ask her whether my dream comes true or not.

My dream is to become an excellent interpreter. When I was in Grade 1, I began to study English. At that time, I was so excited for learning a new language. Because of English, I know that America is a beautiful and polite country. From then on, I hope I can speak English very well and have chance travel to America some day.

Nowadays, English is widely spoken throughout the world. What’s more, plenty of people have realized its importance. In order to make my dream come true, I try my best and work much harder. I start to watch America drama to practice my English. And I also read some English books now. I talk with others to practice my oral English as possible as I can. But the path to the success isn’t smooth. Sometimes I want to give up. But it’s my dream, I can’t give up easily. Shelley said” if winter comes, can spring be far behind”

On the other hand, with the development of China, more and more people are interested in our culture. Some enjoy Beijing Opera, some study Chinese Kongfu, some even learn to speak Chinese, etc. As a Chinese, of course I will help them to know more about Chinese culture. I want to be an envoy of cultural exchange between China and America. So if I am an interpreter, I will introduce China to the world. I believe if I work hard enough, my dream will come true.

语文课上，老师让同学们列两张清单，一张是自己抱怨的事，一张是自己感恩的事。

我将这两张清单罗列完之后又重新逐条看了一遍。抱怨的事中第一件就是快中考了。是啊，中考，在我的想法里早已被压力、担心、紧张等等等等里三层外三层地围了个水泄不通。而不可否认的是，在感恩清单上的第一件事也是中考，因为中考过后可以升到高一级学府，而且还有近两个月的长假，那是很令人期待的事啊。

可见，无论是抱怨还是感激，都有内在的联系。我憎恨考试，它让我时时刻刻都那么紧张;我厌恶父母永无休止的唠叨，使我不得尽事随意“开心颜”。但我感激一次又一次的考试，让我认清自己的不足，更感谢父母的唠叨，这些唠叨句句都是关爱，让我不会迷失，更不会在无垠的人生旷野上走丢。

我们之所以抱怨那么多的事情，是因为它们令我们身心俱疲，打击在我们的最软弱处最悲哀处。然而，我们是否想过正是这些磨练使我们的脆弱处变得坚忍，从而提升了自己。

所以，我们抱怨的那些事情，也正是我们最应该感激的啊!

感激不如意的成绩，感激令人疲惫的体能训练，感激父母的唠唠叨叨，感激即将到来的中考……这些曾经都是“抱怨清单”的住户，如今却在我的“感恩清单”上居住，并且是永驻!

同那么多的抱怨，挥手作别吧，让它们成为我们的感恩基石，感激它们的历练使我们得到了真真正正彻彻底底的成长。

In the language class, teacher lets schoolmates arrange in order two detailed lists, one matter which is complained, one matter which is feels grateful.after I displayed these two detailed lists, one by one looked again. In the complaint matter first was quick tests. Yes, tests, in mine idea by the pressure, the worry, anxious and so on and so on with huge crowds of people have already been encircled watertight. What but is undeniable, in feels grateful in the detailed list first matter is also tests, because will test might rise from now on to the high first-level school, will also have nearly two month-long long vacations, that will be makes the matter which very much one anticipated. is obvious, regardless of being the complaint or feels grateful, has the intrinsic relation. I hate the test, it lets me so be all the time anxious; I will loathe the parents forever endless talking incessantly, will cause me not to the completely matter be optional “the happy face”. But I feel grateful the test time and time again, lets me clearly recognize that own insufficiency, thank parents#39; talking incessantly, these will talk incessantly are show loving concern, let me not lose, will not walk in the boundless life wilderness loses.the reason that we complained that many matters, are because they make our body and mind to be all weary, attacks weakly in us place most sorrowful place. However, we whether to have thought is precisely these disciplines causes us frail place becomes endures, thus has promoted itself.therefore , we complained these matters, is also precisely we most should feel grateful! the gratitude unpleasant result, feels grateful the fatiguesome physical ability training, grateful parents#39; chattering, the gratitude soon arrives tests ......These once were “the complaint detailed list” inhabitant, now actually in I “feel grateful the detailed list” on to live, and will be will forever be stationed! with that many complaints, waves the hand makes farewell speech, enables them to become us to feel grateful the cornerstone, felt grateful they to enable us to grow true thorough informed and experienced.

Fifth lunar month, is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, it is one of the oldest traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival is also called terminal five, duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival and many nickname, such as: the midday, weighs five, may festival, bath festival, dolls, days of the holiday, to wax, poets section, dragon, etc. Although the name is different, but in general, around the custom of the peoples holiday or the same than different.

The Dragon Boat Festival, is Chinese two thousand years of tradition, because the region vast, many nationalities, with many stories, so not only produced many different section name, and also have different customs. Its content mainly has: the daughter back, hanging doors, like to meet a ghost ship, noon, afternoon Ye Fu, hanging calamus and wormwood, swam out, her sweet bursa, for he feels ashamed, dragon boat racing, duration, the shots, swing, for children with realgar, drinking realgar wine, sweet wine, bread eaten ruling, salted egg, zongzi and seasonal fruit, etc., in addition to the superstition color activities gradually disappeared, the rest has spread all over China and neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, has been a new development, broke through the time and geographical boundaries, become an international sporting event.

About the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, very much, such as: to commemorate qu yuan said. Commemorating wu zixu said. Mark Cao E said. Up to three generations of the summer solstice festival said. Ward off evil, evil month, said wu said month national totem and so on. Above all, said all this down. According to Mr Scholar wen yiduos "dragon boat test" and "dragon-boat festival history education" article lists hundreds of ancient recordation and expert archaeological research, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, is Chinas ancient southern wu yue festival held national totem, earlier than qu yuan. But in one thousand, qu yuans patriotic spirit and moving poem phrase has been widely popular, so people "pity and sorrow, the theory of the speech, to how" legend has it, therefore, to commemorate qu yuan said, the deepest, widest influence occupy the mainstream status. In the field of folk culture, the Chinese people, such as the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat boatrace and eat rice dumplings are linked to commemorate qu yuan.

Today, Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular among the Chinese peoples grand festival

农历五月初五，是中国民间的传统节日——端午节，它是中华民族古老的传统节日之一。端午也称端五，端阳。此外，端午节还有许多别称，如：午日节、重五节，五月节、浴兰节、女儿节，天中节、地腊、诗人节、龙日等等。虽然名称不同，但总体上说，各地人民过节的习俗还是同多于异的。

过端午节，是中国人二千多年来的传统习惯，由于地域广大，民族众多，加上许多故事传说，于是不仅产生了众多相异的节名，而且各地也有着不尽相同的习俗。其内容主要有：女儿回娘家，挂钟馗像，迎鬼船、躲午，帖午叶符，悬挂菖蒲、艾草，游百病，佩香囊，备牲醴,赛龙舟，比武，击球，荡秋千，给小孩涂雄黄，饮用雄黄酒、菖蒲酒，吃五毒饼、咸蛋、粽子和时令鲜果等，除了有迷信色彩的活动渐已消失外，其余至今流传中国各地及邻近诸国。有些活动，如赛龙舟等，已得到新的发展，突破了时间、地域界线，成为了国际性的体育赛事。

关于端午节的由来，说法甚多，诸如：纪念屈原说;纪念伍子胥说 ;纪念曹娥说;起于三代夏至节说;恶月恶日驱避说，吴月民族图腾祭说等等。以上各说，各本其源。据学者闻一多先生的《端午考》和《端午的历史教育》列举的百余条古籍记载及专家考古考证，端午的起源，是中国古代南方吴越民族举行图腾祭的节日，比屈原更早。但千百年来，屈原的爱国精神和感人诗辞，已广泛深入人心，故人们“惜而哀之，世论其辞，以相传焉”，因此，纪念屈原之说，影响最广最深，占据主流地位。在民俗文化领域，中国民众把端午节的龙舟竞渡和吃粽子等，都与纪念屈原联系在一起。

时至今日，端午节仍是中国人民中一个十分盛行的隆重节日