The Lantern Festival元宵节英语介绍

1、The Lantern Festival,General Introduction,The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. This is the first full moon of the new year, symbolizing unity and perfection. The Lantern Festival is an important part of Spring Festival , and marks the official end of the long holiday.

2、,What do people do in Lantern Festival?,Watching lanterns,The most important activity is watching lanterns. Diffierent kinds of lanterns are hung in the streets. Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns.,There are many other performances , such as a dragon dance, a lion dance, long dragon lan

3、terns and fireworks.,Performances in the street,Blessing,Visiting each other,People do something in memory of their ancestors.,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

4、owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift.,Guessing Lantern riddles,Eating rice dumplings (yuanxiao) .,People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings on this day. Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. Tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with “tuanyuan”

5、, meaning reunion. It tastes sweet and delicious.,Chinese people also eat those things in the Lantern Festival,niangao,noodles,Setting off fireworks,Most families spare some fireworks from the Spring Festival and let them off in the Lantern Festival. On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really excited by the fireworks and bright moon in the sky.,Lets get to know more abo