写一篇向外国人介绍春节的英语作文

写一篇向外国人介绍春节的英语作文
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篇1
My Favorite Holiday: Chinese New Year!
Hi there! My name is Xiaoming and I'm 10 years old. I go to Bright Star Elementary School in Beijing, China. Today I want to tell you all about my absolute favorite holiday - Chinese New Year! It's also called the Spring Festival. This holiday is the biggest and most important celebration in China. I look forward to it every year!
Chinese New Year is a very old tradition, going back over 4,000 years to ancient times. It celebrates the start of a new year on the lunar calendar. This holiday usually falls sometime in late January or early February. In 2024, Chinese New Year will be on January 22nd. The celebration actually starts on New Year's Eve and continues for 16 days until the Lantern Festival.
There are so many fun traditions and activities during this festive time! Let me tell you about some of my favorite parts:
New Year's Eve Family Reunion Dinner
On the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve, my whole family gets together for a huge feast. We make special dishes like dumplings, whole steamed fish, longevity noodles, and niangao (sticky rice cakes). The dumplings have lucky meanings - their shape looks like ancient Chinese money. The fish represents surplus or wealth. The long noodles are for longevity and the sticky rice cakes for a sticky/close family bond. Yum!
After our big meal, my siblings and I receive red envelopes filled with "lucky money" from our parents and grandparents. The red color symbolizes happiness and good luck. I love getting lucky money! I save it up to buy new toys, books or clothes.
Once it's midnight on New Year's Day, we set off firecrackers and fireworks. The loud popping noises are supposed to scare away any evil spirits and welcome in the new year with excitement. My dad is an expert at lighting the firecrackers - I'm not allowed to do it myself yet because it's pretty dangerous!
House Cleaning and Decorations
For weeks before the New Year, my mom makes sure our entire house is spotlessly clean. She has me help with chores like sweeping, dusting, scrubbing and more. We want to get rid of any huihai (bad luck) from the old year. Once the house is clean, we decorate with bright red lanterns, upside-down fu symbols
for luck, papercuttings of characters like horses or dragons, and living bright flowers and oranges (symbols of wealth). Everything is so vibrant and full of hope for the year ahead!
Special Holiday Food
In addition to the big reunion dinner, there are lots of special foods and snacks we eat during the 16-day celebration period. Some of my favorites are tang yuan (sweet rice balls in hot broth), jidangao (extremely soft and fluffy egg c
篇2
My Favorite Holiday - The Spring Festival
Hi there! My name is Li Ming and I'm a 10-year-old boy from Beijing, China. I love my country and our rich culture and traditions. Today I want to tell you all about my absolute favorite holiday - the Spring Festival! It's also called Chinese New Year.
The Spring Festival is the most important celebration in Chinese culture. It marks the start of the new year on the Chinese calendar. The date changes every year but it's always sometime in late January or early February based on the lunar cycle. This year it fell on January 22nd.
There are so many fun traditions and activities around the Spring Festival! Let me tell you about some of my favorites:
New Year's Eve Dinner
On the night before New Year's Day, my whole family gets together for a huge feast called the Reunion Dinner. My grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins all come over. We have a massive meal with lots of different dishes like dumplings, noodles, fish, chicken and so much more! Eating dumplings is especially important as the shape looks like ancient Chinese money. Fish is also a must as the Chinese word for it sounds like the word for "surplus".
After dinner, we kids receive lucky red envelopes stuffed with money from our parents and grandparents. How cool is that? The red color symbolizes good luck. I usually get at least a couple hundred yuan which is like 30 US dollars or so. Then we stay up late setting off firecrackers and fireworks to scare away evil spirits! It's so fun but very noisy.
Decorations Everywhere
Weeks before the festival, homes and buildings get decorated with paper cuts, lanterns, banners and couplets with messages of good luck and fortune. My favorites are the upside
down fu signs which mean happiness and good luck. Also, everything is red - the most lucky color!
We also do a thorough cleaning of the house to sweep away any bad luck and make way for incoming good luck. Then on New Year's Day, you're not supposed to sweep or take out trash to make sure you don't sweep or take the good luck away!
Fun Activities
There are tons of festive activities and traditions during the 16 days of the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, we children are not allowed to use scissors, knives or any sharp utensils so we don't cut off the incoming luck and prosperity. Staying up late togreet the new year is a must. According to tradition, the way you start the new year is how you'll spend the rest of the year. So we try to laugh a lot, wear new clothes and avoid crying, breaking things or saying unlucky words.
On New Year's Day, we watch the New Year's Day parade and shows on TV featuring dances, comedy acts and the iconic lion and dragon dances which scare away evil spirits. At night, we light more fireworks and firecrackers.
Other activities include giving gifts like foods that symbolize wealth and prosperity like seeds, nuts and candies. Visiting
friends and family is very important too. We kids get more red envelopes with cash which is the best! There are also big temple fairs with carnival rides, games and snack stalls.
My Favorite Part
My most favorite Spring Festival tradition is on the 15th and final day - the Lantern Festival! On this night, there are huge displays of colorful lanterns everywhere. From simple handheld lanterns to massive elaborate lantern exhibits, it's just magical. My parents take me to see all the lanterns around the city. Some of them even have riddles to solve inside. If you get the riddle right, you might win a prize or treat!
At night, we go to the park to watch incredible dragon dances performed with flickering lanterns attached to the body of the dragon. There are also lion dances too where the performers are inside the lion costume walking on just their feet! After the performances, kids like me get to join in and try walking with a small lion costume. It's incredibly hard but so much fun.
We also eat special foods like tang yuan (sweet rice balls) and observe traditions like solving lantern riddles and guessing lantern weights. Everywhere is just bursting with festive sights, sounds and smells on Lantern Festival night. I always have the best time.
Well, that's a bit about how my family and I celebrate the Spring Festival holiday! As you can see, it's a really special and meaningful time full of rich traditions, symbols, foods and activities. Behind all the fun is a spirit of new beginnings, gratitude, togetherness and passing down cultural heritage. I hope you enjoyed learning about this amazing Chinese celebration! Let me know if you have any other questions.
篇3
Celebrating the Spring Festival
Hi everyone! My name is Xiaoming and I'm 10 years old. Today I want to tell you all about the Spring Festival, which is the biggest celebration in China. It's also called Chinese New Year. I love the Spring Festival because it's a time for families to get together, eat lots of delicious food, and have fun!
The Spring Festival happens at the start of the new year based on the lunar calendar. This means the date changes every year, but it's usually in late January or early February. The celebrations last for 15 days, from New Year's Eve until the Lantern Festival.
On New Year's Eve, my whole family gathers at my grandparents' house for a huge reunion dinner. My grandma
spends days cooking amazing dishes like dumplings, noodles, fish, and chicken. We kids get lucky money in red envelopes from the adults. After dinner, we stay up late watching the New Year's Gala on TV. It's a really fun variety show with singing, dancing, comedy sketches, and more! When midnight comes, we light firecrackers and fireworks to welcome the new year.
New Year's Day is the biggest celebration. In the morning, my sister and I wear our new clothes and my dad gives us more lucky money. Then we visit our relatives and friends, giving them our best wishes for the year ahead. Some families hang up paper cuts or couplets with messages of good luck on their doors.
During the Spring Festival holiday, there are lots of fun activities and entertainments everywhere! Parks, malls, and public squares are decorated with colorful lanterns. There are dragon and lion dances, acrobatic shows, and people dressing up in cool costumes. And you can't miss the amazing fireworks lighting up the sky at night!
My favorite part is eating all the delicious Spring Festival foods! Restaurants and bakeries sell special treats and snacks you can only get this time of year. I love the cute rabbit-shaped tangyuan (sweet rice balls) and the yummy niangao (sticky rice cakes). Other popular snacks are jidangao (egg cakes), yusheng
(raw fish salad), and jiaozi (boiled dumplings). Of course, my mom insists we can't have a Spring Festival meal without fish, because the Chinese word for fish (yu) sounds like the word for surplus or abundance. So eating fish is supposed to bring prosperity in the new year.
For 15 days, everyone is off from school and work. People visit temples to pray for good luck. On day 15, the Lantern Festival marks the end of the Spring Festival season. Children carry bright lanterns in the evening and solve riddles written on them. Families eat sticky rice balls called tangyuan and watch incredible lantern shows and fireworks displays.
The Spring Festival is the longest holiday in China and the most important celebration for Chinese people all over the world. It's an extremely special time centered on the values of family, good fortune, and new beginnings. Even though it's rooted in ancient traditions, it's celebrated in fun, modern ways too. I hope you enjoyed learning about this amazing festival! Let me know if you have any other questions.
篇4
My Favorite Holiday - Chinese New Year
Hi friends! I want to tell you about my very favorite holiday. It's called Chinese New Year and it's the biggest celebration in China. Get ready to learn all about this awesome festival!
Chinese New Year isn't on the same day every year like Christmas or your birthday. The date changes based on the lunar calendar. But it always falls sometime in January or February during the winter season. This year it was on January 22nd.
The New Year celebrations actually start on New Year's Eve and last for about 2 weeks until the Lantern Festival. We call it the "Spring Festival" because it marks the end of the cold winter months. Everybody gets relaxed and looks forward to the warm spring coming.
There are so many fun traditions for Chinese New Year! Let me tell you about some of the cool things we do.
Hanging Up Red Decorations
A few days before New Year's Eve, my whole family helps decorate our home. We put up red paper lanterns, red scrolls with lucky sayings, and red couplets on the doors and windows. Red is the luckiest color and is supposed to scare away any evil spirits and bring good luck for the new year.
There's a funny story about why red is so lucky. A looong time ago, there was this scary beast called the "Year Monster" that would come out every New Year's Eve. The beast was scared of the color red though. So people started decorating with red to keep the monster away. Pretty clever, right?
Big Family Reunion Dinner
The biggest event is the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. This is when all the family members get together to celebrate, kind of like Thanksgiving dinner. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all come over. We have a huge feast with lots of delicious dishes like dumplings, fish, chicken, and sweet desserts.
When the New Year arrives at midnight, we watch amazing firework shows light up the sky. Fireworks are supposed to scare away any leftover evil spirits and celebrate the fresh start of a new year. We even get red envelopes with "lucky money" inside from our parents and grandparents. So cool!
Fun Games and Activities
After New Year's Day, there are lots of entertaining activities. My dad gets a week off from work, so we go to festivals, temple fairs, and events in the park or downtown. There are dragon and
lion dances, acrobats, musicians, and street vendors selling yummy snacks.
At home, we play fun games like chess, cards, and watc
篇5
My Favorite Holiday - Chinese New Year
Hi friends! My name is Xiaoming and I'm 10 years old. I live in Beijing, China with my mom, dad, little sister, and grandparents. Today I want to tell you all about my absolute favorite holiday - Chinese New Year! We call it Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. It's the biggest and most important celebration in China.
Chinese New Year is a very old tradition going back thousands of years. It marks the start of a brand new year on the lunisolar calendar. The date changes every year but it's always sometime in late January or early February based on the cycles of the moon. This year it fell on January 22nd.
For Chinese New Year, we get almost an entire month off from school! The celebrations actually begin on New Year's Eve and continue for 15 more days until the Lantern Festival. I love having so much free time to spend with my family.
There are lots of fun traditions and activities we do to get ready for the new year. A few weeks before, my mom starts cleaning our whole house from top to bottom. She says it's to sweep away any bad luck and make room for incoming good fortune. My dad puts up red decorations like lanterns, "Fu" upside-down luck characters, and papercuttings of animals. Red is considered a very lucky color in China.
On New Year's Eve, we all gather together for a huge feast called the Reunion Dinner. My grandma makes amazing dumplings, noodles for long life, whole steamed fish for surplus, and so many other delicious foods. After dinner, the kids receive red envelopes filled with money from our parents and grandparents. Getting lucky money is my favorite part! We're supposed to stay up late to welcome the new year at midnight. My little sister and I can never make it that long though and end up falling asleep on the couch.
When I wake up on New Year's Day, the first thing I do is put on my new clothes that my grandma bought for me. Wearing new stuff symbolizes a fresh start for the year ahead. Then our whole family watches the amazing New Year's television specials together with singing, dancing, comedy shows, and lots of fireworks!
One of the best things about the holiday is getting to eat so many yummy foods that we only have once a year. My favorites are nian gao (sweet sticky rice cakes), tang yuan (sweet rice ball soup), and jidangao (egg custard tarts). We're supposed to eat dumplings at every meal because they look like gold ingots and will bring us wealth. I don't mind eating dumplings all the time though because they're so yummy, especially with a few drops of vinegar inside.
Another fun tradition is giving gifts of fruit. Different fruits have lucky meanings based on their names. For example, oranges symbolize wealth since the word for "orange" sounds like the word for "wealth" in Chinese. My grandparents always give me a few oranges for good luck. Families also give presents like new clothes, toys, and cash in red envelopes.
For the first few days of the new year, we're not supposed to sweep or take out the garbage so we don't sweep away our good luck. We also can't wash our hair, curse, or say any unlucky words. It's considered very bad manner to fight or break things during this time. Everyone wants to start the year off right!
After a couple days of resting at home, we start going out to visit our relatives and friends for house calls. We bring along small gifts like snacks or chocolates. The person visiting is usually
given red envelopes with money by the host family as well. Kids are really excited for this part because we get even more lucky money! When people visit us, my mom puts out a huge spread of candies, melon seeds, peanuts, and other snacks.
The most exciting part of Chinese New Year is all of the festivals, performances, and events happening around the city. There are incredible acrobatic shows, dragon dances, lantern lighting ceremonies, firework displays, and temple fairs. The temple fairs have lots of yummy street food, games, rides, and vendors selling New Year's goods. I love watching the traditional lion dances for good luck and prosperity.
On the 15th day of the new year, we celebrate the Lantern Festival. My grandparents take my sister and me out for the evening to see all the beautiful lanterns lit up and eat tang yuan soup and Yuanxiao dumplings by the light of the lanterns. Some of the fanciest lanterns are
篇6
My Favorite Holiday: Chinese New Year
Hi, my name is Xiaoming and I'm 10 years old. I love the Spring Festival, which you might know as Chinese New Year! It's
the most fun and exciting holiday we celebrate in China. I'm going to tell you all about it.
The Spring Festival happens at the start of the new year on the lunar calendar. That means the date changes every year compared to the regular January 1st calendar. But it's always somewhere between late January and mid February. This year it fell on January 22nd.
Weeks before the big day, my whole family starts getting ready. My mom goes shopping for lots of special holiday foods like dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, nian gao (a sticky sweet rice cake), seeds, and nuts. We leave out a tray of different seeds and candies as offerings to the Kitchen God, who keeps an eye on each family.
At school, we practice making paper cut-outs of the words for luck and happiness to hang around our homes. We also fold ang pao, the little red envelopes that parents put money in to hand out on New Year's Day.
In the days just before New Year's Eve, my dad gets busy cleaning the house from top to bottom. It has to be totally clean to sweep away any bad luck from the old year and make room for good luck in the new year. My grandma will come over to help too.
On New Year's Eve, we have a huge reunion dinner with all my aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. We make dumplings together, which is my favorite part! Everyone crowds around the table and we stuff the little dough circles with meat and veggies. My uncle always makes a joke by stuffing one dumpling with something weird like a coin or candy.
After dinner, my cousins and I get dressed up in new red clothes or pajamas. Red is the luckiest color. We're not allowed to take baths or showers that evening though, because we don't want to wash away our good luck!
At midnight, we watch the national New Year's broadcast on TV and set off firecrackers and fireworks to scare away evil spirits. It's so loud and smoky, but I love all the colors exploding in the sky! My grandpa gives me, my brother, and my cousins little red envelopes with money inside, called ya sui qian.
The next two weeks are vacation from school, so we get to sleep in late and relax. On New Year's Day, we watch the amazing Beijing opera performance on TV in the morning and eat another big feast with my family.
We spend the first few days visiting the houses of all our relatives to wish them health and fortune in the new year. The doorways are decorated with paper cut-outs, upside-down fu
symbols for luck, and hanging lanterns. Every family leaves out a big tray of sweets for visitors to snack on. My favorite is the tender coconut ribbon candy!
Those first few days, kids get dressed in their new red clothes and shoes. We run around collecting hong bao, the lucky red envelopes with cash from parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. The envelopes always have cute decorations of zodiac animals or other symbols on them. This year was the Year of the Rabbit.
On the fifth day of the new year, we celebrate the Birthday of the Wealth God. We leave out plates of five different types of fried snacks shaped like coins and ingots, which represent wealth and prosperity. Shops and businesses re-open on this day after being closed for the first few days.
One of the most fun traditions is on the fifteenth and final day called the Lantern Festival. We go out at night to watch incredible displays of hanging lanterns in the parks and on the streets. Some are solid lanterns with riddles written on them, and some are hollow lanterns glowing from inside. My brother and I love carrying our own little paper lanterns on sticks and singing songs.
The air smells like a mix of firecrackers, street food like tangyuan (sweet dumplings) and nian gao from the vendors. There are also dragon dances, lion dances, and acrobats putting on shows. At the end of the night, we release our paper lanterns into the sky with a wish for luck and good fortune.
After two full weeks of fun, food, family time and traditions, it's time to go back to school. But I always feel happy and refreshed, ready to start the new year! Chinese New Year is my favorite holiday because it brings my whole family together to celebrate our heritage. I hope you can come experience it with us in China someday!。