关于学校举办庆祝中秋节的英语作文

关于学校举办庆祝中秋节的英语作文
A Shining Celebration at School!
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of my favorite times of the year! It's a special holiday when families get together to admire the beautiful full moon, eat delicious mooncakes, and celebrate the fall harvest. This year, our school organized a big celebration for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it was so much fun!
A few weeks before the festival, our teachers started telling us all about the traditions and the story behind the Mid-Autumn Festival. We learned that it dates back over 3,000 years to the Shang Dynasty in ancient China. Back then, the emperors would worship and make offerings to the moon because they believed it was a symbol of prosperity, peace, and family unity.
The most famous story we learned is the legend of Chang'e, the lady in the moon. The myth says that a long time ago, there were ten suns in the sky which made the Earth very hot. A skilled archer named Hou Yi shot down nine of the suns to help people survive. As a reward, he was given an immortality pill. However, his wife Chang'e drank it by accident before he could. The pill made her fly up to the moon, where she has lived ever since as the beautiful lady in the moon.
We also learned about all the fun traditions that come with the Mid-Autumn Festival. The biggest tradition is eating mooncakes – those yummy pastries filled with sweet lotus seed paste, egg yolks, and sometimes meat or other fillings. There are so many cool designs stamped on the tops of mooncakes too, like the image of Chang'e on the moon or flowers and vines.
Another big part of the festival is carrying lanterns and going on lantern parades. The lanterns can be all different shapes like bunnies, butterflies, dragons, or just simple round lanterns. Some are so colorful and bright, shining with different lights inside. The lanterns symbolize the full, bright moon in the night sky.
In class, we practiced writing poems, crafts like
lantern-making, and we even learned a play about the legend of Chang'e to perform for our parents. The teachers really went all out to make us get excited for the Mid-Autumn Festival!
Finally, the night of the festival arrived! Our whole school was decorated with bright lanterns hanging everywhere and red Chinese knots on the doors for good luck. When my parents dropped me off, I could already smell the mooncakes baking and the aroma filled the air.
First up was a big assembly where the 5th graders performed the story of Chang'e shooting out bright confetti
during the part when she takes the immortality pill. It was so cool! Then each class did performances of poems, songs, or little skits about the holiday while waving brightly lit lanterns. We had been practicing every day for weeks.
After the class performances, the lantern parade began. The whole school lined up with our lanterns and walked in a big loop around the campus grounds under the moonlight. My lantern was shaped like a cute panda bear. The teachers had strung up so many lanterns all over the trees and buildings too, making everything glow with warm colors. I felt like I was in a magical, sparkling world!
When we made it back to the courtyard, everyone got to go lantern riddle-solving. The teachers had hung up different riddles and poems written on pieces of paper all over the trees and courtyard. We had to read each one and guess the answer. If you got the answer right, they gave you a stamp on your hand. I got so many hand stamps from solving the riddles! Whoever got the most stamps at the end won a mooncake prize.
After the riddle game, it was finally time for the best part - the MOONCAKES! There were long tables set up loaded with plates and plates of every type of mooncake: lotus seed with egg yolk, red bean paste, taro, mixed nuts, and more. My favorite is
the lotus seed one with the bright yellow egg in the middle that looks like the full moon.
My parents and little sister came over and we sat together in the courtyard, admiring the beautiful lanterns and bright moon overhead while eating our mooncakes. We talked about all the fun things we did at the Mid-Autumn Festival at school. My sister kept getting crumbs all over her panda lantern from eating too many mooncakes!
After we ate our fill of delicious mooncakes, the parents all joined in a big square dance together to traditional Chinese music. It was so lively and fun watching them dance around with their bright lanterns swinging back and forth. A few daring parents even twirled fire dancers around while the rest of us cheered and clapped.
As the night wrapped up, everyone got to take home their lantern and a box of leftover mooncakes from the courtyard tables. I clutched my panda lantern tightly, already dreaming about next year's Mid-Autumn Festival at school and what exciting activities we would get to do. The warm glow of the lanterns, the smell of the mooncakes, and the tales of Chang'e will stay with me as shining memories until the moon is full and bright once again.。