關(guān)于元宵節(jié)的英文介紹

1、關(guān)于元宵節(jié)的英文介紹the lantern festival falls on the 15th day of the1st 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 afestival with great significance. this days important activity is watchinglanterns. throughout the han

2、 dynasty (206 bc-ad 220), buddhismflourished in china. one emperor heard that buddhist monks would watchsarira, or remains from the cremation of buddhas body, and lightlanterns to worship buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so heordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples

3、 to showrespect to buddha on this day. later, the buddhist rite developed into agrand festival among common people and its influence expanded fromthe central plains to the whole of china.每年農(nóng)歷的正月十五日，春節(jié)剛過，迎來的就是中國的傳 統(tǒng)節(jié)日-元宵節(jié)。元宵主要的活動就是看燈。東漢明帝時期，明帝 提倡佛教，聽說佛教有正月十五日僧人觀佛舍利，點(diǎn)燈敬佛的做 法，就命令這一天夜晚在皇宮和寺廟里點(diǎn)燈敬佛，令士族庶民都

4、掛 燈。以后這種佛教禮儀節(jié)日逐漸形成民間盛大的節(jié)日。該節(jié)經(jīng)歷了 由宮廷到民間，由中原到全國的發(fā)展過程。till today, the lantern festival is still held each year around thecountry. lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets,attracting countless visitors. children will hold self-made or boughtlanterns to stroll with on the streets, ext

5、remely excited. guessing lanternriddlesis an essential part of the festival. lantern owners write riddles ona piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. if visitors have solutionsto the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners tocheck their answer. if they are right, they

6、 will get a little gift. the activityemerged during peoples enjoyment of lanterns in the song dynasty(960-1279). as riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it hasbecome popular among all social strata.直到今天，元宵點(diǎn)燈的習(xí)俗仍然在中國的各地流傳的，各 式各樣美麗的花燈在這一天都會點(diǎn)亮，孩子們提著自制的燈籠走街 串巷，非常高興。猜燈謎也是元宵節(jié)的一項重要活動，花燈的主人 會將

7、謎面寫在燈籠上，掛在門口，如果有人可以猜中，就能得到小 小的禮物。這項活動最早起源于宋朝，因?yàn)橹i語能啟迪智慧又饒有 興趣，所以流傳過程中深受社會各階層的歡迎。people will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it isalso called the yuanxiaofestival.yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. it is small dumplingballs made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame,

8、 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.whats more, tangyuan in chinese has a similar pronunciation withtuanyuan”, meaning reunion. so peopleeat them to denote union, harmony and happi

9、ness for the family.民間過元宵節(jié)吃元宵的習(xí)俗。元宵由糯米制成，或?qū)嵭模?或帶餡。餡有豆沙、白糖、山楂、各類果料等，食用時煮、煎、 蒸、炸皆可。 起初， 人們把這種食物叫“浮圓子”， 后來又叫“湯 團(tuán)”或“湯圓”，這些名稱“團(tuán)圓”字音相近，取團(tuán)圓之意，象征 全家人團(tuán)團(tuán)圓圓，和睦幸福，人們也以此懷念離別的親人,寄托了對 未來生活的美好愿望。in the daytime of the festival, performances such as a dragonlantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dan

10、ce, walkingon stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged. on the night,except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a beautiful scene. mostfamilies spare some fireworks from the spring festival and let them off inthe lantern festival. some localgovernments will even organize a firework

11、s party. on the night when thefirst full moon enters the new year, people become really intoxicated bythe imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky.隨著時間的推移，元宵節(jié)的活動越來越多，白天有耍龍 燈、耍獅子、踩高蹺、劃旱船扭秧歌、打太平鼓等傳統(tǒng)民俗表演。 到了夜晚，除了五顏六色的美花燈之外，還有艷麗多姿的煙火。大 多數(shù)家庭會在春節(jié)時留下一些煙花等到元宵節(jié)這天燃放，而一些地 方政府也會舉辦煙花大會，當(dāng)新年的第一個月圓之夜在盛大的煙火 表演中

12、來臨時，人們都陶醉在這令人難忘了煙花與皎潔的明月中。元宵節(jié)詞匯元宵節(jié)：festival of lanterns，lantern festivaldumplings元宵：the rice glue ball燈謎：riddles written on lanterns燈具：lamps and lanterns燈花snuff燈籠褲bloomers galligaskins knickers pantalettesplus fours燈籠lantern scaldfish燈塔beacon lighthouse pharos燈語lamp signal燈油kerosene lamp oil燈心蜻蜓dams

13、elfly元宵節(jié)的由來lantern festivalthe 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the chinese lanternfestival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in theancient times people called night xiao. the 15th day is the first night tosee a full moon. so the day is also called yuan xiao festival in china.according to the chinese tradition, at the very beginning of anew year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, thereshould be thousands of co