介绍敦煌英语作文经典20篇

My parents work in a shoe factory. They get up at five thirty. They first get breakfast ready. Then they go to work by bus. They work there from eight to five. They come home at about six and prepare super for us. Mother washes clothes in the evening, Father often makes toys for toys for us. They are busy all day.

导语：随着雾霾天气的增加，我们慢慢的开始关注环境保护话题了，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Haze is air pollution in which is mixed up with dust, smoke and other dry particles ,and it obscure the clarity of the sky and interacts with the natural environment.

This kind of air pollutant come from a variety of natural and manmade sources. Natural sources can include windblown dust, and soot from wildfires. Manmade sources can include motor vehicles, and industrial fuel burning, and manufacturing operations. The one of the main cause that touches off haze is manufacturing operations. Many factories were over measure produced the smog that had over the standard and the smog seriously influence the air become air pollution.

The components that make up haze may have negative effect on peoples health especially that of the children and the elderly. Also not excluded are those who have certain diseases such as asthma, allergy, and pneumonia and lung disease. Workers working in the open air have a high risk in their health.

One of effective solutions to help eliminate haze is to make some chemistry changes during the manufacturing process,so it could reduce harmful emissions which are produced by manufacturing operations.

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霾是空气污染，它与灰尘、烟雾和其他干粒子混合在一起，使天空的清晰度模糊，与自然环境相互作用。

这种空气污染物来自各种自然和人为的来源。自然源包括风吹灰尘，煤烟，野火。人造资源可以包括汽车，工业燃料燃烧和制造业务。造成雾霾的主要原因之一是制造业经营。许多工厂过度测量产生的烟雾超过标准，烟雾严重影响空气成为空气污染。

构成雾霾的成分可能对人们的健康产生负面影响，尤其是儿童和老年人。也不排除那些有某些疾病，如哮喘，过敏，肺炎和肺部疾病。在户外工作的工人在健康方面有很高的风险。

帮助消除雾霾的有效方法之一是在制造过程中进行一些化学变化，从而减少制造过程中产生的有害排放物。

Good morning/afternoon， teachers and classmates.

Im XXX from class 1. I am a girl/boy of 13. My family including my father, mother and me. I like basketball best. In addition, I also like table tennis. My favorite food is carrots. Im also very interested in snacks. What, Im good at computer. Using the computer E-mail, shopping and even solve my problems in the study and the life is so convenient. So I put my computer as my good helper. As for reading, Ive read about magic novel. Are these. Nice to meet you! I sincerely hope to make friends with you.

老师同学早上/下午好。我是XXX。我现年13岁(女生或男生)。我的家庭包括我爸爸，妈妈和我。我最喜欢篮球。除此以外，我也喜欢乒乓球。我最喜欢的食物是胡萝卜。我也对小吃很感兴趣。还有什么，我很擅长电脑。用电脑发邮件、购物甚至是解决我学习和生活中的问题是如此的方便。所以我把我的电脑视为我的好帮手。至于阅读，我以前读过一些关于魔法的小说。就这些。很高兴认识你们!我真诚地希望与你们做朋友。

Good morning, everyone! I am glad to be here to introduce myself. 各位早上好，很高兴在这里介绍自己。 Although this is my first time to introduce myself in English, but I believe that I can make a good

performance . and hope that through this simple introduction, you can

remember my name ，remember my face and i believe that we will become friends in no distant future。 虽然这是我第一次用这种方式介绍自己，但是我相信我会有个良好的表现。希望通过这 个简单的介绍，更多的人们能认识我，记住我的样子。也同样相信我们不久有机会会成为朋 友。 My name is TB and I am 24 years old, born in HEBEI province. I graduated from QinGdao University. My major is Hotel Managerment. I spend most of my time on study and I’ve acquired basic knowledge of my major. It is my long cherished dream to be an manager in hotel and I am eager to get an opportunity to fully play my ability. 我叫 tb，24 岁。河北人。毕业于青岛岛大学。所学的专业是旅游管理。上学期间努力 学习专业知识，现在我同样希望能有机会实现我做酒店管理的愿望，充分发挥自己的专业能 力。 In addition to the above-mentioned , in my spare time I like playing badminton, listening to pop music and surfing the Internet. Playing badminton can exercise my body, let me have more perseverance. Listen to music can make me relax, make me more confident. Internet can eich my knowledge, so that I have more experience. 除了上面说到的，在我的业余时间，我喜欢打羽毛球， 听流行音乐和上网冲浪。打羽毛球可以锻炼我的身体，让我有更多的毅力。听音乐可以让我 放松，让我更有信心。互联网可以丰富我的知识，扩充更多的知识。 ok .Thats a little about myself，thank you 好，那就是关于我的简单介绍。谢谢。

my dear teachers,my dear professors.i am very glad to be here for your interview.my name is song yonghao,i am 22 years old .i come from luoyang,a very beautiful aicent city.my undergratuade period will be accomplished in changan university in july ,2004;and now,i am trying my best for obtaining a key to tongji university.

generally speaking ,i am a hard working student especially do the thing i am interested in. i will try my best to finish it no matter how difficult it is. when i was sophomore, i found web design very interesting, so i learned it very hard . to weaver a homepage for myself, i stayed with my pesonel computer for half a month.,and i am the first one in my class who own his homepage. forthermore,i am a person with great perserverence. during the days preparing for the first examination,i insist on running every day, no matter what the weather was like.and just owning to this,i could concentrate on my study and succeeded in the end.

well ,in my spare time ,i like basketball, tennis and chinese chess. also english is my favorate.i often go to english corner to practise my oral english on every thursday,and write compositions to improve my witten ability .but i know my english is not good enough ,i will continue studying.

ok, that is all,thank you for your attention

My hometown is in shanghu lake village. Hometown is so beautiful, so natural, I love my hometown.

My hometown is picturesque scenery, I love it very much. The clear water like a huge mirror. The wind blows, the water ripples, sipping on the like many scales. The fish swimming in the water, kept blowing bubble, bubble colorful, landed like grapes. The shore flowers with the wind girl with out of graceful dance. Beautiful flowers nodded to the river, like to make friends with the stream. The grass foil the floret, far look like a picture. Draw water, flowers, grass, and green mountain. Such as pine trees, plum trees, peach trees on the hill. Pine trees tall and big, like falling warrior in protecting our country. The plum tree is not afraid of wind pressure deceives snow; Not afraid of the cold. In the cold winter, proudly stand on snow. This is not the spirit of the Chinese nation?

Our hometown is not only beautiful scenery, but the hometown people industrious guileless. He sunrise and make, whether every day. Facing the loess back down. Home now people want to get up early on, under the sun shine to pick a eggplant grain of grain sweat from the forehead to the ground, put the eggplant at noon sold, hurried back home to eat lunch. A meal again to pick, the end of the day they are busy. Hometown people break water bamboo, even to break in the morning, the sun to go home.

The hometown people industrious, I and many of the children at home! I and children play together, study together, to the stream to play, every day to go out for a walk. In winter, we together make a snowman in the snow snowball fights, the wonderful memory always in my mind.

Ah! I love my hometown. My hometown is beautiful, natural, I want to stay at home forever.

我的家乡在尚湖村。家乡是那么美，那么自然，我爱我的家乡。

我的家乡山清水秀，我非常爱它。清澈的湖水像一面巨大的镜子。风一吹，水面泛起粼粼波纹，像有许多鱼鳞一样。水中的鱼儿游来游去，不停地吹着泡泡，泡泡五彩缤纷，像一颗颗葡萄。岸边的小花随着风姑娘的伴托跳出优美的舞姿。美丽的小花向小河点头，像是要和小河交朋友。小草衬托着小花，远看就像一幅画。画上有水、小花、小草，还有翠绿的山。山上有松树、梅树、桃树等。松树又高又大，像一位位战士在保护祖国。梅树不怕风欺雪压;不怕寒冷。在寒冷的冬天里，傲然雪立。这不是中华民族的精神吗?

我们的家乡不仅风景美，而且家乡人们勤劳朴实。他每天日出而作、日落而息。还要面朝黄土背朝天。现在家乡人们要早早地起床，在太阳照耀下摘茄子一粒一粒的汗珠从额头流到地上，中午又要把茄子卖出去，急匆匆地赶回家吃午饭。吃完饭又要去摘，一天下来他们可忙了。家乡人们还要掰茭白，早上去掰，太阳落山才能回家。

家乡人们勤劳，我在家还有许多小朋友呢!我和小朋友一起玩，一起学习，每天要到小溪边玩，还要出去散步。冬天，我们一起在雪地上堆雪人，打雪仗，那美好的回忆一直在我脑海里。

啊!我爱我的家乡。我的家乡美丽、自然，我要永远留在家乡。

There are three people in my family.They are my father,my mother and I.

My father is an engineer,he is forty years old.He works hard.My mother is a nurse,she is 36 years old.She is kind.I am a student.I study hard.

I love my family.

London and Tower Bridge

Not much is known about the earliest London Bridge although it’s location is thought to be near the present one. The second bridge a wooden one existing in Saxon times seems to have given rise to the nursery rhyme ‘London Bridge is falling down’ which it did in 1014. In 1176 the first stone bridge was constructed. Houses sprung up on both sides of the bridge and stood until it was pulled down in 1831, making way for a more elegant, classic structure. This bridge was replaced in 1967 as it could no longer cope with the amount of traffic. The present London Bridge is more 100 feet wide.

The London Bridge preceding the current one was bought by the McCulloch Oil Corporation of California, which reconstructed it at Lake Havasu City, in a corner of America’s Arizona Desert. Rumour has it that McCulloch’s thought they were buying the much more spectacular Tower Bridge.

The Construction of Tower Bridge began in 1885 and it was opened 9yrs later by Edward VII the then Prince of Wales, Amidst pomp and ceremony. It is the only bridge in London that can be raised to allow ships to pass. Since the Thames is no longer used much as a trade and shipping route, the complex lifting mechanism is only used 4 or 5 times a week. The Tower bridge is often mistaken for London Bridge which is dull in comparison.

[伦敦塔桥介绍英语作文

University culture 大学传统

Singles Day was first celebrated at various universities in Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province during the 1990s. It got the name Singles Day because the date is comprised of four "ones". These college students have since graduated, and carried their university tradition into society. Singles Day is now a special day for all fashionable youths.

The main way to celebrate Singles Day is to have dinner with your single friends, but its important that each person pay their own way to show their independence. People also hold blind date parties in an attempt to bid goodbye to their single lives.

光棍节最先在90年代的江苏南京各大高校兴起。之所以叫“光棍节”是因为这一天的日子有四个光棍一样的“1”。大学生们毕业了，把这个传统带到了社会上，光棍节就成了时尚青年们的一个特殊节日。

主流的庆祝方式就是和光棍朋友们一起搓一顿，而且一定要实行AA制。为了脱离单身，人们也会举办相亲会，介绍单身男女认识。

Creative celebration 新奇庆祝

For breakfast on Singles Day, singles often eat four youtiao (deep-fried dough sticks) representing the four "ones" in "11.11" and one baozi (steamed stuffed buns) representing the middle dot.

Many singles also choose to say goodbye to their single lives on this day. Many attend blind date parties and many people choose to marry on this day. In addition to meaning single the four ones of the date can also mean only one as in the only one for me. Some people will use this date and this meaning to tell their special someone that they are the only one in their heart.

光棍节的早上，单身青年们会吃四根油条，代表11.11的四个“1”，再吃一个包子，代表11和11之间的那个点。

很多单身朋友选择在这一天告别单身，一些人参加相亲会，一些人则在今天结婚。四个“1”不仅可以代表单身，还可以代表“唯一”，这也成了一些人的爱情告白日。

Good morning, distinguished the examiner. Can be here for an interview today, the chance to ask you the examiner and learning, I feel very honored to, at the same time, through this interview can also show myself to you, hope you can remember me, here to introduce my basic situation.

My name is * * *, * *, *, college culture, usually I like reading books and Internet browsing information, lively, cheerful personality, can care about the people and things around, and get along with relatives and friends, and can understand and forgive me, I have confidence in life. I used to work in * *, successively worked in different jobs in the company, I started to work in the * *, then because companies need to * *, has certain social practice experience, on the job to make some progress, but also received the recognition from the company.

Through years of work I learned a lot of knowledge, but also cultivate my perseverance will and an indomitable spirit, that I can work in constantly to overcome difficulties and aggressive. Join PE teachers is a strong desire of me over the years, at the same time I realize that the relationship between work and is established on the basis of self-awareness, and I feel my work enthusiasm has not been aroused to the highest, I love my job, but everyone is constantly looking for better results, my self-awareness to make physical education teachers, I think, is a right choice, it strengthened my enter oneself for an examination the confidence and determination of physical education teachers.

So I took part in the sports teachers examinations and enter oneself for an examination the * *, if this can get in, I believe that we can get exercise in * * and have the chance to grow. PE teacher is a sacred and noble profession, it is pursuing the maximization of public interest, so require physical education teachers should, for the people in the nations service and LeiFengCeng said: a mans life is limited, but serving the people is unlimited, I want to put the limited life into the unlimited service for the people, this is my the best interpretation of the cognition of physical education teachers. So, this position can let I fully realize my social ideals and reflect their own value.

导语：英国是一个丰富多彩、充满国际和多元文化的国家，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Britain is a rich and varied, with international and multi-cultural society, to welcome students from all over the world come here to learn and to value their contributions.

Britain is a tolerant, democratic society, where different political views and beliefs are respected. You will find many people wearing and eating habits and you do not have their own different major cities around the world have sales of snack food, meat from an Islamic shop, the Islamic meat from the shop. Asia to sell fruit and rice kind of Jewish food store to store, everything.

In different towns and cities, the year has a variety of activities to celebrate the worlds major religious festivals and activities, for example, in the city of Leicester at the Stradivari outside the Indian sub-section is the most spectacular Festival of Lights.

Britain itself from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, they have different characteristics and personality.

Britain from all over the world to accept immigrants and refugees has a long history, many people have been here for permanent settlement. London may be the largest gathering of minority British city, other cities also have a large number of minority residents.

All the worlds major religions are British. Mosques, Sikh temples, synagogues, churches and India Fodou together with a variety of Christian churches (Anglican and Roman Catholic from the Protestant and Orthodox) co-exist.

This diversity means that you will come to Britain is easy to integrate into Britains multi-ethnic society. You will also come from different religious and ethnic groups and people contacts, enhance understanding of different cultures.

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英国是一个丰富多彩、充满国际和多元文化的国家，欢迎来自世界各地的学生来这里学习和珍惜他们的贡献。

英国是一个宽容、民主的社会，不同的政治观点和信仰受到尊重。你会发现很多人的穿着和饮食习惯和你没有自己不同的大城市在世界各地有销售的零食，从伊斯兰商店的肉，从商店的清真肉。亚洲卖水果和大米的犹太食品店，所有的东西。

在不同的城市，每年都有各种各样的活动来庆祝世界主要宗教节日和活动，例如，在莱斯特市在斯特拉迪瓦里在印度部分是光的最壮观的节日。

英国本身来自英国、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰，具有不同的特点和个性。

来自世界各地的英国接受移民和难民有着悠久的历史，许多人在此定居。伦敦可能是英国少数民族最大的聚集城市，其他城市也有大量的少数民族居民。

世界上所有主要的宗教都是英国的。锡克教寺庙，教堂，清真寺，教堂和印度Fodou与各种基督教教会(圣公会和天主教一起从新教和东正教)并存。

这种多样性意味着你来到英国很容易融入英国的多民族社会。您还将来自不同的宗教和族裔群体和人们接触，增进不同文化的理解。

一篇好的自我介绍能给大家留下好的印象，下面请看语文迷为大家提供的英语自我介绍范文，希望对你有帮助。

自我介绍英语作文篇1

Hello,every one!(大家好)

My name is **** . (我叫****)

Im a 15 years old boy. (我是一个15岁的男孩)(具体情况自己改)

I live in the beautiful city of Rizhao.(我住在美丽的Rizhao城)(你可以把Rizhao改成自己家乡的城市的名称的拼音)

Im an active ,lovely and clever boy.(我是一个活跃的可爱的聪明的男孩)

In the school , my favourite subject is maths . (在学校，我最喜欢数学)

Perhaps someone thinks its difficult to study well .(也许有些人认为这很难学)

But I like it.(但我喜欢他)

I belive that if you try your best, everything can be done well.(我相信每件事付出努力就会有害结果)

I also like sports very much.(我也很喜欢运动)

Such as,running,volleyball and so on. (像跑步、排球等等)

Im kind-hearted.(我很热心)

If you need help ,please come to me .(如果你需要帮助，就来找我)

I hope we can be good friends!(我希望我们能成为好朋友)

OK.This is me .A sunny boy.(好了，这就是我，一个阳光男孩)

自我介绍英语作文篇2

Hello,everyone.My mane is Owen. I am fourteen years old. I cone from Quanzhou. I am a good students. I am in No.1 high school. I am a tell boy. I have a wide mouth,big eyes,short hair and small ear.I am in a white T-shirt and a black pants. My favorite actor is ZhouXingchi. Thank you.

自我介绍英语作文篇3

I study Chinese、English、maths and History and some other subject at school.I study hard. My favorite subject is English.I often find chance to practice English.China has joined WTO and Beijing will host the 2010 Olympics,English is more and more important .I will study hard and be dedicate to my homeland.

自我介绍英语作文篇4

My name is TYW.I am a boy.I was born in nanjing.I was born in September 2000 .

I have a happy family.l live in NanJing,too.Now l am in the XC Middle school.l like talking.So I cant to talk all day. After class,l always play tennis with my good classmates.I am good at table tennis.So I often play it.But I never show off.

I think that I am a good boy.

I have spent fifteen years in my life. So, this is my ninth year to study. By the way, my name is WengJingru. My father thought hard about my name. He consulted the dictionary two times to find how to name me. Of course, this name is very good and I like it very much.

Sometimes I think I am a little strange. Because I often think the world isn’t full of happiness. And I want to be different from others. I hate superficial people. But always I am very out-going and kind to others. I can’t say ‘no’ to others. So I don’t know how to refuse.

I can’t see I am a pretty girl, but I am not an ugly person, either. I am very general. I can’t say too much about my appearance.

In this term, I make a little progress in my study. In my life, I have my parents’ love, and many, many people’s love. I am happy. I achieved so much, and I also lost so much.   My star sign is Aquarius. It represents kindness and wisdom. But I don’t think I am such a clever person. Maybe I am modest. Aquarius has many friends. It also says that some people think I am strange because I hate to be like others. I try to do everything differently.

I like yellow the most. Yellow is the color of the sun, it can remind me of a warm, sunny day. Yellow is also the color of wisdom. And I like it because it is one of the colors that are vivid.

Of course, most students have problems in their study. I don’t know how to make progress. I think I should work harder. That is the only way.

I like reading very much. My favorite writer is GuoJingming. And now I am reading a book called ‘Gone with Wind’. I keep reading half an hour every day.

I like English and Chinese best. I want to establish an English club. I want everyone to speak English in the daily life.

All above are my real things. I hope everyone will like me.

My name is xxx. I am graduate from ________ senior high school and major in ________. There are ________ people in my family. My father works in a computer company. And my mother is a housewife. I am the youngest one in my family.

In my spare time, I like to read novels. I think reading could enlarge my knowledge. As for novels, I could imagine whatever I like such as a well-known scientist or a kung-fu master. In addition to reading, I also like to play PC games. A lot of grownups think playing PC games hinders the students from learning. But I think PC games could motivate me to learn something such as English or Japanese.

My favorite course is English because I think it is interesting to say one thing via different sounds. I wish my English could be improved in the next four years and be able to speak fluent English in the future.

My name is "Zhou Kunren". It is called Kun Ren because my parents want me to become a strong, brave and helpful man through my efforts.

I study in grade four of XX primary school. I am lively and cheerful, and I like making friends. I have many hobbies. Swimming, playing basketball and playing football are all my favorites.

My academic record is very good, and I get more than 90 points in every subject, and I speak actively in class. After class, I am still a teachers assistant, helping teachers distribute their homework and organize activities.

The reason why I came to the eloquence class of young leaders is to improve their eloquence and make more friends. My ambition is to be a brave SWAT to protect our country and people. Lets make friends together. My name is Zhou Kunren.

Last Monday, we had a monitor election. At the beginning the two candidates, LiuDong and Wang Hong gave us a speech introducing themselves and telling us their plans in the future. Then we had a vote. We wrote down the name of the better one in our mind and put the paper in a box. Then the exciting time came that our teacher counted the number and wrote it on the blackboard. The result was that 28 students who voted Wang Hong, 13 more than the number of students who voted LiuDong, which meaned WangHong was elected as our monitor. Wang is really pretty good. I believe she will be a good monitor.

My name is xxx, masters graduate. Worked for three years before the marketing and management, two-year teacher; I always believe that "gold, no matter where will sparkle." In the three years of marketing, I market planning and development, marketing, administration, personnel training and so forth have been a profound exercise, accumulated a lot of valuable experience in a lifetime.

I always believe that "gold, no matter where will sparkle." I could on its own intelligence and hard work in the field of non-professional to obtain gratifying results, in their own areas of expertise naturally not far behind, "perfect" the goal of my life chasing. Six months and two years of teaching assistant experience in training me confident calm, graceful temperament; as undergraduate research design experiment of the counselors, participation in aquatic Key Laboratory of pilot projects, such as tutoring not only the exercise of my independent research and development capabilities, and further reinforces my knowledge, experimental skills. As always uphold the "Learning" criteria, so I pay attention to social development and security grip pulse, based on reality, and strive to cultivate themselves into the market economic system needs both education and scientific research, market development and management generalists.

[外企英语面试的自我介绍

Please allow me to introduce myself fou you. My name is xx, I am as born in Qinghai Province. Very honored to have this opportunity to come here to interview. Now I will briefly introduce themselves.

I graduated from the Qinghai first vocational schools.

My specialty is computer software applications.

In the past year I have the basic expertise. I like reading books, watching movies, listening to music, and so on. I think I am an honest and optimistic, can also work under great pressure. This is probably, thank you.

My Hometown

No matter where I am, I find it hard to resist the tempting call of my hometown. Situated at the northern tip of Anhui province, my hometown, Dangshan county, is the junction of four provinces. They are respectively in Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan.

My hometown is the northern gate of Anhui province, located in the southern end of the Huanghuai plain, and also a bridgehead for the Eurasia continental bridge.

Dangshan has a long history. During the warring states period, it is called Dang city. With the migration of history, in 1950, with the establishment of people’s government, it would not have been the size of the now.

Profit from rich natural humanities landscape, my hometown have been gave birth to the large number of historical figures, such as Zhuwen, who is the Ming emperor, famous military Xuexian, famous painter Qibaishi, and so on. At the same time, many people are attracted by the unique scenery in my hometown; one of the most distinguished is Libai.

Today, my hometown has also a lot of very beautiful scenery, the most famous is the beautiful Yellow River old river way. This beautiful scenic area is the best place for a holiday in summer. Mention my hometown, have to mention is a pear. The pear in my hometown is well-known throughout the country. Here has the world’s largest pear flower sea. There is a poem that as if the vernal breeze had come back overnight, adorning thousands of pear trees with white blossoms, exception is the pear flower here.

I love my hometown. She is where I have lived for 18 years with my patents, my good friends, and my teachers who have supported me. She has almost all my memories. No matter where I would go I will never forget her. Yes, everything that it gave me could be given by other places, but my love won’t be changed, because it is my hometown.

Today is Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve that eating apple a day is also a kind of custom. On Christmas Eve to eat the apple, because apple has a cavity, in peace. On this day, on Christmas Eve Santa Claus will sit sleigh, presents for the children. The next day, the children were present, will be very happy, I am really looking forward to Santa Claus gave me a gift!

今天是平安夜，平安夜这一天吃苹果也是一种习俗。之所以在平安夜吃苹果，是因为苹果里有一个苹字，代表平平安安。平安夜这一天，圣诞老人会坐着雪橇，给孩子们分发礼物。第二天孩子们受到礼物，就会很高兴，我也很盼望圣诞老人给我送一个礼物呀！

The Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival is one rich in poetic(诗意的) significance. Ancient legends(古代的传说) that became interwoven with this festival‘s celebration further contribute to the warm regard in which it has always been held by the Chinese people. According to the lunar calendar(农历)， the seventh， eighth， and ninth months constitute the autumn season. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month， precisely in the middle of this season， when the heat of the summer has given way to cool autumn weather， marked by blue skies and gentle breezes. On this day the moon is at its greatest distance from the earth; at no other time is it so luminous. Then， as the Chinese say， “The moon is perfectly round.” In the villages the heavy work involved in the summer harvest has already been completed but the autumn harvest has not yet arrived.

The actual origins of the Mid-Autumn Festival are still very unclear. The earliest records are from the time of the great Han dynasty emperor Wu Di， who initiated celebrations lasting three days， including banquets and “Viewing the Moon” evenings on the Toad Terrace. We know that people during the Jin dynasty (265-420 A.D.) continued the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations， and similar accounts have come down to us from the time of the Tang dynasty. During the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) houses and gardens were decorated with numerous lanterns and the sound of gongs and drums filled the air.