元宵节英语手抄报内容

元宵节英语手抄报内容


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 day's 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 Buddha's 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 people's 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
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。


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