In Quanzhou city, southeast China’s Fujian Province, the lantern shows began on Thursday night. Xinmen Street was decorated by 805 traditional hand-made lanterns embroidered with beautiful patterns.在中国东南部福建省的泉州市，灯笼秀在周四晚上就开始了。新门街上装点了805个图案各异的手工灯笼。
“While enjoying the shows, some people walk around with a small lantern in hand, making the atmosphere especially festive,” Mai Binbin, a local resident, said.当地市民马彬彬说：“很多人一边看灯，一边手里拿着小灯笼，非常有过节氛围。”
At the Confucius Temple, a tourist spot in Nanjing city, in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, tens of thousands of colorful lanterns for a grand lantern show are creating a sea of lights to attract tourists.在华东的江苏省，南京的旅游景点孔庙，举行了宏大的灯笼秀，元宵灯笼的海洋吸引了大批游客前来观赏。
Local resident Mao Mingjuan took her son to the temple to watch the lanterns on Thursday evening, saying she hoped her son would now better understand the history of the festival and the temple.当地市民茂明娟周四晚上带着儿子来看灯，她说希望通过这样的活动，让儿子理解元宵节和孔庙的文化历史。
Dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), the Lantern Festival is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month to mark the first full moon of the lunar new year.元宵节始于西汉（公元前206年-公元25年），与每年正月十五月圆时举行。
You Guoqing, a folk custom expert in Tianjin Municipality, said the Lantern Festival was about going out for a colorful celebration rather than a family get together.天津市民俗研究专家由国庆说，元宵节并不是家庭聚会，而是出门看展。
Besides watching lanterns, it is also a day to appreciate the full moon, solve lantern riddles, watch art performances and eat tang yuan, dumpling balls made of glutinous rice, usually with sweet fillings.除了看灯，元宵节也是赏月、猜灯谜、看艺术表演、吃汤圆/元宵的好时候。
The festival was once also a time for romantic encounters. In feudal times, young women were not allowed to go out freely, but Lantern Festival was an exception, when young men and women could meet up.元宵节也曾是恋人相聚的时候。在封建时期，年轻女子不能随便出门，但元宵节可以出门看灯，这也就成为青年男女相会的好时机。
Some aspects of the festival, such as its romantic atmosphere, are fading, but people still see the Lantern Festival as a day to rejoice and a chance to wish for happiness.虽然元宵节的一些元素（比如浪漫气息）已经渐渐淡化，但人们仍然把它当做庆祝、祈福的节日。
Childhood memories of Lantern Festival are still vivid for Yu Le’an, an elderly man from Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province.余乐安是湖南省会长沙的一位老人，对他来说童年的元宵节记忆犹新。
“It would be a time when we could have new clothes and good things to eat,” he said.他说：“每到元宵节，我们就有新衣服穿、有好吃的可以吃。”
The Lantern Festival is a now a mixture of the traditional and modern.当代元宵节已经成为传统和现代的结合。
The workshop of lantern craftsman Lu Xiezhuang in Shanghai is especially busy, as flocks of people visit to appreciate and buy his lanterns on the eve of the festival.上海手艺人鲁谢庄的工作室最近非常忙碌，因为在元宵节前夜有很多人前来赏灯、买灯笼。
Lu, 63, is glad to see people’s love for the lanterns, but she believes that there is still much to do to ensure the traditional craftsmanship survives.鲁谢庄今年63岁，她看到人们对灯笼的热爱感到非常新闻。但她认为，要想让这门传统手工艺流传下去，还需要付出很多努力。
She says “innovation” is key to keep the ancient art alive, and has been exploring the creation of lanterns of different patterns and colors catering for modern day aesthetics.她说，“创新”是让这一传统艺术活下去的关键。并且她一直在探索和创造现代审美下不同图案、不同样式的灯笼。
1. 元宵节之际，祝你心中有首快乐的歌，新年快乐!
Wishing you a merry song in your heart at Lantern Festival and blessings all year long!
2. 在元宵节来临之际，祝你平安，快乐，幸福。万事圆!
Wishing you peace, joy and happiness and everything all the best through Lantern !
3. 致以热烈的祝贺和良好的`祝福，元宵节快乐!
Warm greetings and best wishes for Lantern Festival!
4. 快乐的元宵之际，谨致我的想念与祝福。
Thinking of you and wish you a Happy Lantern Festival.
5. 元宵节转眼又到，快乐也到!我们向你及你的亲人们致以最美好的圣诞祝福，愿你在接下来的日子里事业兴旺，幸福美满!
It seems that Lantern Festival is here once again, and it is time again to bring in happiness. We wish the merriest of Lantern Festival to you and your loved ones, and we wish you happiness and prosperity in the days ahead!
6. 愿你元宵节幸福无尽。
May Lantern Festival be filled with happiness for you.
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元宵节英语作文1
Lantern Festival is a Chinas traditional festival. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year.
I,antern Festival is one of the biggest holidays in China. Several days before Lantern Festival, people begin to make lanterns.
Lanterns are made in the shape of different animals, vegetables, fruits and many, other things. While making lanterns people usually write riddles on lanterns.
On the eve of Lantern Festival, all the lanterns are hung up.
On Lantern Festival people go outside to have a look at the lanterns and guess the riddles on the lanterns.
Perhaps you call see some wonderful folk performances,Dragon Dance and Yangko. Everything is very interesting and everyone is very happy.
Our life is rich and varied.
元宵节英语作文2
It is the Lantern Festival. My grandfather, grandmother and father are all in shanxi. There are only my mother, my aunt, my sister and me. My mother and aunt are looking at the computer. I teach my sister to skateboard.
First, I asked my sister to step on the skateboard with her left foot and gently push her right foot to jump. But she jumped several times and couldnt jump. So I asked her to stand on a skateboard with her right foot on the board. But she could not walk two steps and fell, but she fell several times without losing heart. Once, when she slipped more than two meters, I was happy to give her a hand. She was also a brave and persistent person. My sister jumped up too.
This day, although my grandpa, grandma, and father are not at home, but this Lantern Festival I have a very happy！
元宵节英语作文3
After the Spring Festival, here comes the Lantern Festival. In China, people celebrate it on the lunar calendar fifteen. It symbolizes the short rest has come to an end after the spring festival; people need to get back to work with their best wishes in the brand-new year. We all celebrated this festival with plenty of food and fun. The most important and traditional food on the Lantern Festival is Tang-yuan. With sweet and soft rice outside and peanuts or sesame inside, this little rice ball stand for the happy reunion, and the best wish for the whole families. Apart from having dinner with parents and relatives, there are also lots of activities on that day. The Lantern shows as well as guessing riddles are part of the Lantern Festival; and the most interesting part of the show is that the riddles are written on the Lantern. After dinner, the whole families go to the lantern fair, to enjoy the happiness in this moment.
In every city, there are always a main street known for its lantern fair, on that special day, thestreet will become as bright as daylight in the night with myriads of lanterns and streams ofspectators. At this moment, the happiness in the heart is beyond all description. By watching various lanterns, eating sweet Tang Yuan, and hanging out with the people we love, thinking of the bright future in front of us. It’s worth everything.
Happy Lantern Festival!
春节过后，就迎来了元宵节。在中国，人们在正月十五庆祝元宵节。这一天意味着短暂的新年假日结束了。在这新的一年，人们会带着最好的祝愿回到他们的工作岗位上。在这个节日里，吃的玩的都是十分丰富而且有趣的。汤圆，是最重要也是最传统的食品——外面包裹着甜软的糯米皮，而里面填满了花生或芝麻馅料。这个小小的糯米球象征着阖家团圆，及对家庭最美好的祝愿。除了和父母亲戚一起吃饭之外，还有许许多多的活动等着你。看花灯、猜谜语是元宵节的传统组成部分。最有趣的是谜语都写在花灯上。晚饭过后，一家人就高高兴兴的去大街上看花灯，猜谜语，享受着这幸福的时光。
在每个城市，都有条大街作为花灯展的主会场。在这个特别的`日子，各式各样的巨大花灯发出像白昼一样的光芒，照亮了赏灯的人们，也照亮了漆黑的夜。在这一刻，任何言语都不能表达心中的喜悦之情。赏花灯，猜谜语，吃汤圆，和我们爱的人在一起，想着美好的未来，所有的一切，都值得了。
元宵节快乐！
元宵节英语作文4
The chinese new year is now popularly known as the spring festival because it starts from the begining of spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of nature). its origin is too old to be traced.
Several explanations are hanging around.
All agree, however, that the word nian, which in modern chinese solely means year, wasoriginally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.
One legend goes that the beast nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared.
One day, an old man came to their rescue, offering to subdue nian.
To nian he said, i hear say that you are very capable, but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents? so, it didswallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harrassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.
元宵节英语作文5
Today, is the traditional Chinese festival - Lantern Festival. Eating yuanxiao, the meaning of the lanterns is tuan tuan yuan yuan, harmony and beauty. After dinner, my mother and I went to the square to see the lantern show.
Come to the square, ho, people many ah, really lively! These lights are vivid and lifelike, with 12 zodiac lanterns, corn lights, jack-o-lanterns, lotus lanterns, lei yue lanterns... Its beautiful. There was a lamp that impressed me the most, it was the moon, and there were some lovely twinkling stars.
I hope the next Lantern Festival will come soon.
元宵节英语作文6
If you ask me what my favorite holiday is, I will not hesitate to tell you it is the Lantern Festival. I remember the Lantern Festival last year.
That day I was out of the house, and I was happy. Our family gathered together to make gnocchi. My mother has a good dumpling. The dumplings were white and round, and they looked delicious. How did the name tang yuan come from? My mother told me that it was round and soup, so it was called tangyuan.
At this moment, we can begin to eat dumplings, I like to eat bean paste filling of dumplings, taste sweet, sticky taste good. As soon as I ate, I ate a dozen. Tangyuan, like its name, is round and round. This is a fun day! After dinner, we went home. On the way home, I saw a group of kindergarten children, carrying only a variety of small lanterns, row tidy team in the parade, the lights of the small lantern, the light of the earth as the street was radiant.
元宵节英语作文7
今天是元宵节，本来打算去椒江看闹花灯，可是老天不作美，断断续续地下着雨，我们只好改变计划，经过讨论，我们决定在家隆重举行才艺大比拼活动，三场比赛都由爸爸来当裁判。
Today is the Lantern Festival, originally planned to go to Jiaojiang to see the lantern show, but God does not help, and it rained, we had to change the plan after discussion, we decided at home held a talent competition, all three games by the father when the referee.
第一场是打乒乓球比赛。首先是我发球，我左手拿乒乓，向上一抛，右手用乒乓板用力一拍，球就凌空飞起，只见妈妈向它发出了‘驱逐令’，乒乓球如同流星似的向我飞来，我轻而易举地接住了，来了个‘大反攻’，球又向妈妈那里飞去。眼看就要落地了，没想到妈妈眼疾手快，来了个‘井底捞月’，把乒乓球勾了上来……最后，我还是输给了妈妈。
The first game is playing table tennis. The first is to serve me, my left hand table tennis, throw up a right hand with a table tennis board hit the ball on the fly up, I saw my mother gave it to &lsquo, ’ deportation; table tennis as a meteor like flying to me, I have to catch an easy job to do, a big ‘ counterattack ’ ball to fly there, mom. Soon fell to the ground, thought mother eye, a ‘ &rsquo, the bottom of table tennis; hook up … … finally, I lost to her mother.
第二场是轮滑大比拼。本场的规则是：在60米的场地上，看谁用的时间短。于是，我穿上轮滑鞋，我暗暗自喜：我一定把你输得落花流水。爸爸隆重地宣布：“预备，开始！”我像一支离开了弓的箭一样滑向终点。妈妈看了，竖起大拇指说：“你可真行，滑得那么快！”接下来，妈妈换上轮滑鞋，摇摇晃晃地，眼看就要到终点了，却摔个四脚朝天，我笑得前俯后仰，不容置疑，这场比赛我赢了。
The second scene is the roller skating competition. The rule of the court is: on the 60 meter field, see who uses the time is short. So, I put on skates, I am pleased: I will take you to lose Petals drop and waters flow. Dad solemnly announced: "&ldquo, ready, start."! ” I fell to the finish line like an arrow that left the bow. Mom looked at it and said, "&ldquo, you can do it, and youre going to slip so fast."! ” next, mom put on skates, staggered, right before the end point, but fell on his back, Im laughing, I allow all doubt won the game.
第三场是做元宵比赛。我趁爸爸不注意，与妈妈商量，我们决定一起来做，很快，一碗碗热气腾腾的元宵端上了餐桌。你看看我，我看看他，大家都笑了。
The third scene is to do the Lantern festival. I took advantage of my fathers attention and talked to my mother, and we decided to do it together. Soon, a bowl of steaming hot dumplings came to the table. You look at me, I look at him, everybody laughs.
我觉得，今晚的元宵节吃得特别香，过得特别快乐。
I think tonights Lantern Festival is very delicious and very happy.
元宵节英语作文8
After the Spring Festival, the children will look forward to the Lantern Festival.
We will eat dumplings and wontons for the Lantern Festival, symbolizing the circle and happiness. After dinner, you will find the ridge of the field, the little roadside, everywhere is the spot of the torch, the children are jumping, Shouting, running... It is also our custom here: to tie up wood on a bamboo stick, to set fire to it, to throw a torch on the head of our own field, and sing a song in the mouth: "a little wood, a great fortune... Burning the flames, swimming in the fields like dragons. The adults will be in the village head, at the edge of the field watching us play "little firewood", the face is brimming with happiness and happy smile. It may seem to you that this is nothing more than a rustic trick played by the wild children of the countryside, but it contains the farmers hopes for a New Years harvest, and is a kind of blessing that is not unique to the countryside.
One by one. No, just from the fields back to the village, there was a sound of gongs and drums from the village center. The dragon lantern has started！
Only a dozen of the able-bodied young men with long dragon lantern, dragon body bright, dragon ball lead, bead dragon with, dragon body winding away. This can all depend on the ability of the dancers, see, they along with the sound of gong and drum, a simple and powerful, with tacit cooperation. Flowers bloom in the sky, colorful, beautiful and beautiful, the whole village fire tree! Wow, a beautiful night. The dark blue sky is colorful, and the flowers are like a snowflake, like a meteor shower... The sky is dazzling!
The simple song, the wandering torch, the noise of the gong and drum, dancing dragon lantern, the gorgeous fireworks, the Lantern Festival "noisy" a jubilation！
