节日介绍

中国节日：

1、中秋节;

The Mid-Autumn is a very important Chinese festival. It falls on the 15th day of August. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family will help to make the house clean and beautiful. Lanterns will be hung in front of the house.

On the evening there will be a big family dinner. People who work far away from their homes will try to come back for the union. After dinner, people will light the lanterns which are usually red and round. Children will play with their own toy lanterns happily.

At night the moon is usually round and bright. People can enjoy the moon while eating moon-cakes which are the special food for this festival. They can look back on the past and look forward to the future together. It is said that there was a dragon in the sky. The dragon wanted to swallow up the moon. To protect the frighten the dragon away.

I think Mid-Autumn Day is an old traditional festival in Chi-na. Everybody likes it because it's a family get-together. You see> it is called"Mid-Autumn Day", so it often comes in September or October. It is on the 15th of the 8th of the lunar month. Now, let's say something about this interesting festival.

2、国庆节：

It is known to everyone:Oct,1st is our National Day.At this day I went to street and saw something.Now I will tell you!

At 8:00 I got up and went bus station with my mother .O my god there were so many people!With difficult we got up the bus and felt very crowed.The traffic was so bad too!I cost nearly 1 hour that we arrived the center of street.

What were worse there were even more people!In my opinion it was not very interesting to come out at this day!Nest time I prefer to stay at home and study! The night of SThe National Day hanghai has never appealed to me. City born and city bred, I've got tired of the brightness of neon signs and the grandeur of skyscrapers in Shanghai.

But on this year's National Day, I spent a whole night roaming Nanjing Road and the

Bund the symbol of the modern material Shanghai, with my roommates. It's the first time that I went out with them. With the huge amount of tourists, we could only wander with the cluster of people, having no destination. In the crowd, we entertained ourselves singing, joking and chatting, leaving all the worries, pressures and unhappiness behind,until mid night. Tired as we were, we still felt very happy. My roommates were quite impressed by the beauty, prosperity and the liveliness of Shanghai. But for me, all these were none of my business. What I treasured

was the time I shared with them though that night Shanghai was so charming that she seemed to be one of the leading cities in the world.

3、重阳节：

The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Doubl e Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number 6 was thought to be of Yin c haracter, meaning feminine or negative, while number 9 was thought to be Yang, meani ng masculine or positive. So the number nine in both month and day create the Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival. Chong in Chinese means double. Also, as double ninth was pronounced the same as the word to signify forever, both are Jiu Jiu, the Chi nese ancestors considered it an auspicious day worth celebration. That‘s why ancient Chi nese began to celebrate this festival long time ago.

The custom of ascending a height to avoid epidemics was passed down from long t ime ago. Therefore, the Double Ninth Festival is also called Height Ascending Festival. Th e height people will reach is usually a mountain or a tower. Ancient literary figures hav e left many poems depicting the activity. Even today, people still swarm to famous or li ttle known mountains on this day.

On this day, people will eat Double Ninth Gao (or Cake). In Chinese, gao (cake) has the same pronunciation with gao (height). People do so just to hope progress in everyth ing they are engaged in. There is no fixed ways for the Double Ninth Cake, but super c akes will have as many as nine layers, looking like a tower.

The Double Ninth Festival is also a time when chrysanthemum blooms. China boasts diversified species of chrysanthemum and people have loved them since ancient times.