初一元宵节英语作文实用20篇

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。 joozone。com

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。

Today is the Lantern Festival, also called the Lantern Festival. Everywhere permeated with a festival festival, people have hung up the all kinds of lanterns, such as watermelon lamp, silk lamp, kongmin light.

Lantern Festival, people will eat yuanxiao, yuanxiao is a lot of more phyletic, red bean paste, sesame seed -- -- -- -- -- - look at that fat yuanxiao in vain, let a person appetite. The most happy thing is to watch the fireworks in the evening, my father and I came to the square early on, gathered a lot of people here, they are holding all kinds of fireworks, in an uncles advice, you put the fireworks display in rows on the ground, then firing together, just a ignition, see all kinds of fireworks hatched, let out a loud noise, the sky, as if the sky blasted a hole, the yellow blossoms of colourful fireworks decorate the deep blue sky, open fireworks like a ball, like snowflakes, like the meteor out, drag strips, like contend in fragance and fascination with each other in spring flowers, pleasing, like the day, the dark night with the lantern night is so beautiful, I can be charmed.

This years Lantern Festival is happy.

今天是元宵节，也叫灯节。到处都洋溢着节日的喜庆，人们都纷纷挂上了各式各样的灯笼，有西瓜灯、绢灯、孔明灯等。

元宵节人们都要吃元宵，元宵种类很多，有豆沙馅的、有芝麻的------看那白白胖胖的元宵，让人胃口大开。最让人高兴的事情就是晚上看烟花，我和爸爸早早地来到广场，这里聚集了很多人，他们手里拿着各式各样的烟花，在一个叔叔的建议下，大家把烟花一排一排地摆放在地上，然后一起点火，刚一点火，只见各式各样的烟花破壳而出，发出一声巨响，从天而降，仿佛把天空炸了一个洞，那一朵朵绽放的礼花把深蓝色的天空布置的五彩斑斓，开放的礼花像一个彩球，像一朵朵雪花，像一颗颗拖着彩带的流星，像春天里互相争芳斗艳的鲜花一样，令人赏心悦目，把漆黑的夜晚照的如同白昼一样，把元宵之夜变得如此美丽，我简直被迷住了。

今年的元宵节真快乐。

Me Hello，everybody!My name`s Kevin Bill。I am a 15-year-old boy and I am from China。My favorite movie are Rush Hour and Mr。Bean。Do you know them?I think they are exciting action movie and interesting comedy 。My English teacher is a beautiful teacher and she`s always friendly to us。Her favorite sport is basketball and we always play basketball together。My favorite music is pop and my favorite fruits are apples and grapes。And Sunday is my favorite day。How about you ?What`s your name?

My Day Today is sunny. I get up early and read some English. Then I have breakfast and go to school. In the morning we have four lessons, they’re two Enlish lessons, one Chinese lesson and one history lesson. I like English best. At noon we have lunch at school, we have rice and vegetables, but we don’t like them very much. In the afternoon we have two math lessons and one music lesson. Math is difficult, but I study hard. And we sing a beautiful song. We finish school at a quarter to five. I play basketball with my friends on the playground. It’s fun! Then I go home and do my homework, next I have dinner with my parents and watch TV. I go to bed at nine o’clock.

There are many different beliefs about the origin of the Lantern Festival.

But one thing for sure is that it had something to do with celebrating and

cultivating positive relationship between people, families, nature and the

higher beings they believed were responsible for bringing/returning the light

each year.

One legend tells us that it was a time to worship Taiyi, the God of Heaven

in ancient times. The belief was that the God of Heaven controlled the destiny

of the human world. He had sixteen dragons at his beck and call and he decided

when to inflict drought, storms, famine or pestilence upon human beings.

Beginning with Qinshihuang, the first emperor to unite the country, all the

emperors ordered splendid ceremonies each year. The emperor would ask Taiyi to

bring favorable weather and good health to him and his people. Emperor Wudi of

the Han Dynasty directed special attention to this event. In 104 BC, he

proclaimed it as one of the most important celebrations and the ceremony would

last throughout the night. They clean it all up in the morning.

Another legend associates the Lantern Festival with Taoism. Tianguan is the

Taoist god responsible for good fortune. His birthday falls on the 15th day of

the first lunar month. It is said that Tianguan likes all types of

entertainment, so followers prepare various kinds of activities during which

they pray for good fortune.

Yet another common legend dealing with the origins of the Lantern Festival

speaks of a beautiful bird that flew down to earth from heaven, which was hunted

and killed by some villagers. This angered the Jade Emperor in Heaven because

the bird was his favorite one. Therefore, he planned a storm of fire to destroy

the village on the 15th lunar day. The Jade Emperors daughter heard of this

plan, and warned the villagers of her father’s plan to destroy their village.

The village was in turmoil because nobody knew how should they escape their

imminent destruction.

However, a wise man from another village suggested that every family should

hang red lanterns around their houses, set up bonfires on the streets, and

explode firecrackers on the 14th, 15th, and 16th lunar days. This would give the

village the appearance of being on fire to the Jade Emperor. On the 15th lunar

day, troops sent down from heaven whose mission was to destroy the village saw

that the village was already ablaze, and returned to heaven to report to the

Jade Emperor. Satisfied, the Jade Emperor decided not to burn down the village.

From that day on, people celebrate the anniversary on the 15th lunar day every

year by carrying red lanterns on the streets and exploding firecrackers and

fireworks.

There are many stories on how this festival was created. One other story is

about a maid. In the Han Dynasty, Mr. Eastern was a favorite advisor of the

emperor. One winter day, he went to the garden and heard a little girl crying

and getting ready to jump into a well to commit suicide. Mr. Eastern stopped her

and asked why. She said she was a maid in the emperors palace and her name was

Yuan-Xiao.

She never had the chance to meet her family after she started worked at the

palace. She missed them so much every 12th lunar month. If she couldnt have the

chance to show her filial piety in this life, she would rather die. Mr. Eastern

promised her to find a way so she could reunion with her family. Mr. Eastern

left the palace and set up a fortune-telling stall on the street and disguised

himself as a fortuneteller. Because of his reputation, many people asked for

their fortunes.

But every one got the same prediction - a severe fire accident on the 15th

lunar day. The rumor spread quickly. Everyone was worried about the future and

asked Mr. Eastern for help. Mr. Eastern said, "On the 13th lunar day, the God of

Fire will send a fairy lady in red to burn down the city. If you see a lady in

red wearing green pants riding a black horse on that day, you should ask for her

mercy." On that day, Yuan-Xiao pretended to be the red fairy lady. When people

asked for her help, she said, "Im the messenger of the God of Fire and came to

check on the city and Im going to set up fire on 15th. This is an order from

Jade Emperor. He will watch from the heavens.

I will give you a copy of the imperial decree from the God of Fire. You

should go to ask your emperor to find a way out." After she left, people went to

the palace to show the emperor the decree which reads "The capital city is in

trouble. Fire burns on the palace, and fire from Heaven burns all night long on

the 15th." The emperor of Han Dynasty was very shocked. He called and asked Mr.

Eastern for advice. After pondering for a while, Mr. Eastern said, "I heard that

the God of Fire likes to eat Tang-Yuan (Sweet dumpling). Does Yuan-Xiao often

cook Tang-Yuan for you? On the 15th lunar day, let Yuan-Xiao make Tang-Yuan.

Your Majesty will take charge of the worshipping ceremony and you will give

an order to every house to prepare Tang-Yuan to worship the God of Fire at the

same time. Also, deliver another order to ask every house in the city to hang

red lantern and explode fire crackers. Lastly, everyone in the palace and people

outside the city should carry their lanterns on the street to watch the lantern

decoration and fireworks. If everything goes this way, the Jade Emperor would be

deceived.

Then everyone can avoid the fire accident." The emperor happily followed

the plan. Lanterns were everywhere in the capital city on the night of the 15th

lunar day. People were walking on the street. Fire crackers kept making lots of

noise. It looked like the entire city was on fire. Yuan-Xiaos parents went into

the palace to watch the lantern decorations, and Yuan-Xiao made a big lantern

and wrote her name on the lantern. They happily reunited together after her

parents called her name. Everybody was safe during the night. The emperor of Han

Dynasty had a new order that people should do the same thing every year. Since

Yuan-Xiao cooked the best Tan-Yuan, people called the day Yuan-Xiao

Festival.

Young people were chaperoned in the streets in hopes of finding love.

Matchmakers acted busily in hopes of pairing couples. The brightest lanterns

were symbolic of good luck and hope. As time has passed, the festival no longer

has such implications.

Those who do not carry lanterns often enjoy watching informal lantern

parades. In addition to eating tangyuan (simplified Chinese: 汤圆; traditional

Chinese: 湯圓; pinyin: tāngyuán), another popular activity at this festival is

guessing lantern riddles (which became part of the festival during the Tang

Dynasty), which often contain messages of good fortune, family reunion, abundant

harvest, prosperity and love.

Gratitude blossoms like a colorful flowers on earth.

Try to dead silk, ended.candles burn. Our teacher is the first to be grateful. Her to work day and night, the day so spectacular, so we can better absorption. A minute on stage, the audience ten years work. Teacher, and spent a lot of energy, night, we really worry for the teacher canthus wrinkles, and to the health of the tire hit the teacher concerned.

On one occasion, in our homework, the teacher in correcting a composition. After a while, there are things out of the teacher, a bold classmate see composition, on him a long time, and come down, eyes well up with tears. He told us that the teacher on the composition, word for word reading, write typo circle, beside write correct. Changes in our unidiomatic written statements, write a good sentence is modified, let us remember. Finally still behind the composition writing comments, point out our shortcomings and advantages. The teacher cared more about us! Many care for us!

People around everywhere need to thank, the teacher on how deep our kindness, this seemingly ordinary things, but on the teachers hope. We grew up under the cultivation of teacher, the teacher is not anything in return, it doesnt take our gratitude?

Let us learn to Thanksgiving, with excellent grades to repay teachers kindness to us!

感恩像一朵绽放在人间的五彩的花。

春蚕到死丝方尽，蜡炬成灰泪始干。我们的老师就是第一个要感恩的人。她日夜操劳，白天讲的如此引人入胜，是为了让我们更好的吸收。台上一分钟，台下十年功。老师呕心沥血，耗费了许多精力，通宵达旦，我们真为老师眼角的皱纹而担心，为劳累侵袭老师的健康而担心。

有一次，我们在写作业，老师在批改作文。过了一会儿，老师出去有事情，一个大胆的同学上去看作文，他看了很久，下来的时候，热泪盈眶。他告诉我们，老师在作文上一字一字的审阅，写错字就圈起来，在旁边写正确的。在我们写的不通顺的语句里修改，写的好的句子就修饰，让我们记住。最后还在作文的后面写评语，指出我们的缺点与优点。老师多关心我们呀!多呵护我们呀!

人身边处处需要感恩，老师对我们的恩情多么深厚，这看似平常的事情，却寄托着老师的希望。我们在老师的培育下成长，老师却不求任何回报，这不需要我们去感恩吗?

让我们学会感恩，以出色的成绩来报答老师对我们的恩情吧!

An unforgettable thing during Summer vacation

暑期难忘的一件事

It was a sunny day today,when I got up in the morning, I decided to see my grandparents. So I took the bus and got there at noon,they were happy to see me, and I was very happy, too.

今天天气不错,太阳天.当我早上醒来,我决定去看看爷爷奶奶,所以我乘巴士中午到了那里,爷爷奶奶看到我很开心,而且我也很开心。

In the afternoon, my farther asked me to help him water the plant, and I was happy to see the flowers smiling in the wind.

下午爸爸叫我帮他给植物浇水,看到那些在风中微笑的花儿我很开心。

In a word, today is a unforgetive day. because I saw my relatives and helped people.

总的说来,今天是难忘的一天.因为我去看了亲戚也帮助了他人。

Hello, everyone!My name is Winnie. Im a 15 years old girl. I live in the beautiful city of Beihai.

你好,每个人!我的名字是温妮。我是一个15岁的女孩。我住在美丽的城市北海。

Im an active, lovely, and clever girl. In the school my favorite subject is math. Perhaps someone thinks its difficult to study well. But I like it. I believe that if you try your best, everything can be done well.

我是一个活跃的，可爱的,聪明的女孩。在学校我最喜欢的科目是数学。也许有人认为很难学好。但我喜欢它。我相信如果你尽你最大的努力，一切都可以做得很好。

also like sports very much. Such as, running, volleyball and so on. Im kind-hearted. If you need help, please come to me.I hope we can be good friends!

也很喜欢运动。例如,跑步、排球等等。我是善良的。如果你需要帮助,请到我这里来。我希望我们能成为好朋友!

OK. This is me. A sunny girl.

好吧。这就是我。一个阳光明媚的女孩。

The bell rang and the class was over. Many classmates jumped up from the seat. The classroom became noisy. Some students went out of the classroom while talking and laughing. Two girls were singing a song on their seats. Some boys were telling a joke loudly. They were laughing together. I was chatting with some classmates when Li Hong came to me. She joined us. Our class break was often full of fun and laughter. We often have a pleasant break.

No sooner had the summer vacation begun than I returned to my native town.

Of course I must make good use of it; otherwise I would incur the displeasure of

my parents.

In the morning I reviewed my lessons and read newspapers or magazines. In

the afternoon I played ball games with my friends or went fishing in the river.

At night (In the night) I watched television with my family (the members of my

family). hardly had the clock on the wall struck ten when I went to bed.

今天一大早，我就风风火火的赶到少年宫。这是为什么呢？因为我今天要参加英语剧表演。

刚进会场，哈，我们已经迟了里面早已热闹非凡。第一个上场的表演的节目是狮子觅食。一个同学头戴狮子面具威风凛凛的出场了。只见他伸伸懒腰说道：“I  am   hungry，What’s  for  dinner 。”说完就出去觅食了。这时一只小兔子拿着一个红萝卜蹦蹦跳跳的走了过来，狮子一见就上前去威严地说：“把食物给我吃吧。”小兔子一看是狮子，连忙把手中的红萝卜送给了狮子，狮子吃了一口觉得不好吃，发了狮威恶狠狠的把红萝卜砸向小兔子还大声的骂着，小兔子吓得飞快的逃跑了。他们精彩的表演赢得了一片掌声。狮子表演者熟练的英语对话、惟妙惟肖的动作，仿佛把我们带进了一个动物园。

接下来的节目是皇帝的新装、狼来了和拔萝卜，各班的表演都很精彩，让我觉得心里不踏实起来，怕自己表演不好。

终于轮到我们上场了，我的心怦怦直跳怕我们班会输给其他的班级。当音乐一响起来，我们每个人都很快进了状态。我那颗怦怦直跳的心也平静了下来。大家各自表演者自己的角色，十分认真。突然电脑出问题了，把我们出场的顺序都打乱了，弄得我们几个团团转转都不知道怎么去表演了。这是老师在后面打着手势让我们跟着幻灯片来表演，我们手忙脚乱的的样子把评委都逗笑了。最后我们的成绩只有76.365分。

虽然这次我们没有取得好的成绩，但是我们却收获了快乐。

Today, the New Year.Everybody in new clothes, with new hats.Each family affixed to the couplet.When the sky was just fainted, people crackled with firecrackers.Today, every family eats jiaozi and tangyuan, which symbolizes the circle and happiness of the group.After breakfast, I went to the New Year with the adults, and the adults always gave the children a lot of candy and lucky money, and I couldnt fit in my pocket.

When we finished, my mother took us to the park. The park was busy and crowded.We had a great time.If only on the New Years day, how nice would it be?

今天，过新年。大家穿新衣，带新帽。每家每户贴对联。天刚朦朦亮，人们就噼里啪啦地放起了鞭炮。今天的早饭家家户户都吃饺子和汤圆，象征着团团圆圆，美满幸福。吃完早饭，我和大人一起去拜年，大人们总是给孩子们很多的糖果和压岁钱，我的口袋都装不下了。

我们拜完年，妈妈带我们去公园里玩，公园里人来人往，十分拥挤。我们玩的很开心。要是在新年的这一天过生日，那该多好呀?

On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets are full of people, the lights are bright, there are so many lanterns in the streets! The rabbit lamp on the ground run, the butterfly lamp fly... The most funny is fish lamp, I saw a carp tail swinging, Zhang Kaiyu ridge, whole body scales glittering, kept swinging the tail of the fish, the children cant help Shouting: "fish lives!"

There are many people in the street who are watching the lights, and some are dragging cute rabbit lights, which seem to be a real rabbit. With long ears and white fur...

The song, the laughter become a piece, the night sky, happy people ushered in another Lantern Festival.

"Tangyuan dumplings dumplings, sweet sweet dumpling is round and round..." And this is a sing "tangyuan" yuanxiao. Because, we all said to eat dumplings, the dream is round, so the aunt to sing, sing uncle, uncle sing, we sing.

In a few days off, I am the most happy day, is the Lantern Festival. That day, uncle came to my house to have a meal, uncle had just sat down and asked me: "whoever, you pass the fireworks?" I replied, "let one or two." Uncle went on to say: "that you still want to put a?" I said: "of course! But mother partial about fireworks are dangerous! Dont let me more." Uncle said: "dont be afraid, I told your mother, she will agree!" I jumped for joy "three thousand feet", I shouted: "can fireworks again! Can fireworks again!" I turned to uncle said: "or uncle loves me!" Uncle smiled to me, looking back at his newspaper again.

After dinner, uncle gave me a big bag of fireworks, and three incense sticks, let my mother and I went downstairs to put. Stone chair beside the downstairs, I put the fireworks pipe on the ground first, then the fireworks near the tube with a lit incense probe, lighting, before long, the fireworks "sou" sound like a rocket, fly in the sky, then, "touch" scattered in the sky, just like a flower! Later, I took a look, there are red, have yellow, with purple, with green and various different variety, really good-looking!

Later, I got home, my mother brought me a bowl of dumplings to eat, ah! I really like your Lantern Festival!

“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。

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!

因为人的记忆力有选择啊，有的人天生对语言天生敏感，所以记得就快，有的人对历史敏感，记忆历史就比别人快。所以人的记忆力不能一概而论，这是我多年学习的经验，和个人理解。

第一，你不要把英语单词当成中文的象形文字来记，中文的记忆有形象关系，但是单词时无意义的字母排序，背得时候一定要理解英语的发音规律，先要记没个单词的发音，有的发音如tioneror什么的你一定发现了几个字母组合法特定的音，按发音记！

有时候宁肯先记发音！

因为有时候，你甚至能根据发音，你自己就能写出来，何必要背。其实英语的字母单词，不是很规律的，不想拼音的，但还是有一定的规律。

其实背英语单词，不能死记是真的，但是一定要持之以恒，首先要有心理准备，要有自信。

你背英语单词的时候可以边默读便用笔在一张纸上写，就是随便写一些，主要是加深印象。

我的习惯是第一次背时先写5遍/单词，隔天写3遍/单词。过一段时间再重复。这样记虽然慢，但是很扎实。

而且还要注意，背单词应该背词典，就是你背一个词的形式，比如名词，最好翻阅词典，把其他的形式也给背过。这样看起来，似乎比较费脑子，实际上我认为，这样无形中很快，因为你背单词就是要用在阅读上，这样背的话既实用又能无形中体会出英语的变形规律，以后就会背的很快乐。

英语背单词，实际取决于你已经背的单词量。

不是英语专业的人，但是愿意分享我的经验，希望你能背得越来越轻松。

随着年纪的增长，每个人都会发生一些变化。下面请看语文迷整理的英语作文My Changes，希望对你有帮助。

英语作文1：My Changes

I have changed a lot. I used to be short and had a large build. But now I am much taller and thinner. I was lazy before and I didnt like doing housework. But now I am a hardworking person and I often help my parents do some housework, such as, cleaning the room, washing the dishes, doing the shopping and so on. I think doing the housework can help me grow up and to be indepent. I work hard at my study so I can get better grade than before. I think I am becoming lovely, energetic and easy-going.

英语作文2：My Changes

How time flies !One years passed by .Im 12 years old .I think i change a lot in these years .For example ,i begin to like studying math .And my hair was long and blank .What is the most ,i put on weight .Sometimes ,i think i look like a panda .In all ,i begin to understand my parents why they always ask me to do more homework .In fact ,they hope me have a good future.

hello, everyone! my name is i’m a student in a very beautiful school called liangbing middle school and i am in class 1 grade 7.my hometown liangbing is also a beautiful town. i’m very happy and i like to make friends with others. i  also like singing but traveling is my favorite, i have been to  many interesting places in china but i haven’t been to other  countries. what a pity!

at school, i study chinese,math, english, history, politics  and so on. i like all of them. i often help my teacher takecare of my class and i think i am a good helper. i live with my parents and we go home on time every day.

when i am at home, i often help my mother do some housework and my

mother said i am a good helper, too. my mother is a barber.she cuts hair very well.she is kind.many people like her. she often teaches me the way of

learning well, if you want to learn english well, here is some of my advice. at first , you must read many articles and know many words, if you meet up with some new words, you can look them up in the dictionary, you should know their meanings, how to read them and spell them. if you keep working hard, you will be successful. then, you ought to speak english as much as possible. remember an old saying, nothing is impossible in the world if you put your heart into it.  that’s all, thank you.

The annual Lantern Festival finally arrived, on this day, every family hangs red lanterns and set off firecrackers before they can eat, of course, dinner is different also, want to eat yuanxiao.

About the continuing, "how could still not dinner." I said on the side. At this time, the father said to the floor devolved firecrackers, I will go and have a look. Dad hang off firecrackers on the branches, picked up the cigarette lighter. "Villager, firecrackers sound. "Dinner, dinner." Mother cried. I set up a bowl of yuanxiao, taste, a kind of let me delicious smell delicious. After eating yuanxiao, I came to the LiShan park to watch the fireworks, came to the scene, has yet to start, we waited a while again, fireworks are finally starting to put, because too far away, cant see clearly, I also crammed into the crowd, suddenly, a child said a word, to see. I looked up to, I saw there are a lot of stars twinkle in the sky, oh, no, the stars which have so many colors, this is the fireworks, about five to six seconds past, sings the fireworks down like a meteor. Wow, thats really too realistic. Look at the street, it is very lively, traffic.

Ten o clock, I also should go home, but look at the dazzling fireworks, or dont have the heart to go, again over the past five or six minutes, I must be off just unwilling LiShan park.

一年一度的元宵节终于到了，每到这一天家家户户门前都挂着红灯笼，而且吃饭之前还要放鞭炮，当然，晚饭也和以前不一样，要吃元宵。

大约五六点了，“怎没还不开饭呀。”在一旁的我说道。这时，爸爸说到楼下放鞭炮去，我便去看一看。爸爸把鞭炮挂到树枝上，拿起了打火机。“噼里啪啦”，鞭炮声响了起来。“开饭了，开饭了。”妈妈喊道。我端起了一碗元宵，品尝了一个，那种香喷喷的气味让我回味无穷。吃完元宵后，我便来到了厉山公园去看烟花，来到现场，还没有开始，我们又等了一会儿，烟花终于开始放了，因为离得太远了，看不清楚，我也挤进了人群之中，忽然，一位小孩子说了一个字，看。我仰起头来，只见天空中有很多一闪一闪的星星，噢，不对，星星哪有那么多颜色，这是烟花，大约五六秒过去了，颗颗流星般的烟花落了下来。哇，真是太逼真了。再看看大街上，真是好不热闹，车水马龙。

十点了，我也该回家了，但看着耀眼的烟花，还是不忍心走，又过去了五六分钟，我才依依不舍得离开了厉山公园。

The 15-Day Celebration of Chinese New Year.

The first day of the Lunar New Year is "the welcoming of the gods of the heavens and earth."Many people abstain from meat on the first day of the new year because it is believed that this will ensure long and happy lives for them.

On the second day, the Chinese pray to their ancestors as well as to all the gods. They are extra kind to dogs and feed them well as it is believed that the second day is the birthday of all dogs.

The third and fourth days are for the sons-in-laws to pay respect to their parents-in-law.

The fifth day is called Po Woo. On that day people stay home to welcome the God of Wealth. No one visits families and friends on the fifth day because it will bring both parties bad luck.

On the sixth to the 10th day, the Chinese visit their relatives and friends freely. They also visit the temples to pray for good fortune and health.

The seventh day of the New Year is the day for farmers to display their produce. These farmers make a drink from seven types of vegetables to celebrate the occasion. The seventh day is also considered the birthday of human beings. Noodles are eaten to promote longevity and raw fish for success.

On the eighth day the Fujian people have another family reunion dinner, and at midnight they pray to Tian Gong, the God of Heaven.

The ninth day is to make offerings to the Jade Emperor.

The 10th through the 12th are days that friends and relatives should be invited for dinner. After so much rich food, on the 13th day you should have simple rice congee and mustard greens (choi sum) to cleanse the system.

The 14th day should be for preparations to celebrate the Lantern Festival which is to be held on the 15th night.

Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China.

According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate. At this time, people will try to solve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) and get all their families united in the joyful atmosphere.

There is no doubt that traffic congestion becomes a growing worry for the

residents of most urban areas. Some major roads are regularly choked with

traffic in rush hours. The limited transport capacity contributes largely to the

vexing problem. How to solve the headache?

The existing solutions to traffic jam mainly aim at creating metro bus

systems and broadening major roads. Widening the existing roads can solve

traffic snarls on some level. Soaring car ownership compounds the chronic

annoying problem, so we must sharply reduce the heavy reliance on cars and drive

a shift to the mass transportation. It is a cheap and good way. We can create a

system of customized bus routes and highlight the development of subways,

trolleys and light rail. The effective combination of these solutions will

enable the urban areas to possess a smooth traffic.