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Hello，Lantern Festival is a China’s 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.
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In ancient times, every Lantern Festival, people have to divide Caoshefu, cited as laughter. The riddles were first developed from riddles and originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is a kind of literary game that is full of ridicule, discipline, humor, and laughter.
Riddles hang in the light for people to guess and start in the Southern Song Dynasty. "Wulin Old Things and Lighting Products" records: "Cut poems with lanterns, laugh at them, and draw characters, hidden words, and old Beijing Proverbs, teasing pedestrians. "
"The Lantern Festival, the imperial city is not night, the spring festival is not night, the people are mixed, the poetry mystery book is reflected in the lamp, reflected in the candle, listed in the Tongyu, let people guess", so it is called "lantern mystery." Riddles turn into riddles, and there's an interesting story.
According to legend, a long time ago, there was a rich man, known as the smiling Tiger. When he saw a man in decent clothes, he went to great lengths to flatter him; Seeing the poor man in rough clothes, he blew his beard and stared.
A young man named Wangshao was driven out of the gate once when he went to borrow food because of his rags. The more Wangshao went back, the more he wanted to get angry. On the night of Yuanxiao, he put on a large lantern and came to the smiling Tiger house. There is a poem inscribed on the lantern. Smiling Tiger came forward to look, and saw that it read:
The tip of the head is as white as silver.It is said that there is no half a millimeter;Eyes on the ass,He who knows only his clothes does not recognize others.
Smiling Tiger looked away, angry and red, furious, shouted: "Good boy, dare to curse the master. "The family ordered Ding to grab the lantern. Wangshao was busy picking up the lantern and smiled and said:" Hey, the old man is not guilty of suspicion. My four poems are a mystery. The answer is "needle".
Think about it. How can this needle be for you? How else would you know it was you? "A smiling Tiger thought, but it was not, but he was so angry that he stared and the ash slipped away. The people around him were laughing with joy.
After the news spread, it spread farther and farther. In the second year of Lantern Festival, people followed suit and wrote riddles on lanterns for people to guess and shoot for fun. So it's called a lantern puzzle.
魔法袋的礼物
元宵节，又称上元节、小正月、元夕或灯节，是春节之后的第一个重要节日，是中国亦是汉字文化圈的地区和海外华人的传统节日之一。你知道怎么用英文介绍元宵节吗?现在我就带你来看看。
关于元宵节及相关习俗的英语介绍
Popular Chinese name: 元宵节 'first night festival'
Alternative Chinese name: 上元节 'first first festival'
Date: Lunar calendar month 1 day 15 (February 22, 2016)
Importance: ends China's most important festival, Spring Festival
Celebrations: enjoying lanterns, lantern riddles, eating tangyuan a.k.a. yuanxiao (ball dumplings in soup), lion dances, dragon dances, et.
History: about 2,000 years
Greeting: Happy Lantern Festival! 元宵节快乐!
The Lantern Festival is Very Important
The Lantern Festival is the last day (traditionally) of China's most important festival, Spring Festival (春节 Chūnjié /chwn-jyeah/ a.k.a. the Chinese New Year festival). After the Lantern Festival, Chinese New Year taboos are no longer in effect, and all New Year decorations are taken down.
The Lantern Festival is also the first full moon night in the Chinese calendar, marking the return of spring and symbolizing the reunion of family. However, most people cannot celebrate it with their families, because there is no public holiday for this festival.
When Did the Lantern Festival Begin?
The Lantern Festival can be traced back to 2,000 years ago.
In the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220), Emperor Hanmingdi was an advocate of Buddhism. He heard that some monks lit lanterns in the temples to show respect to Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Therefore, he ordered that all the temples, households, and royal palaces should light lanterns on that evening.
This Buddhist custom gradually became a grand festival among the people.
How Do Chinese Celebrate the Lantern Festival?
According to China's various folk customs, people get together on the night of the Lantern Festival to celebrate with different activities.
As China is a vast country with a long history and diverse cultures, Lantern Festival customs and activities vary regionally, including lighting and enjoying (floating, fixed, held, and flying) lanterns, appreciating the bright full moon, setting off fireworks, guessing riddles written on lanterns, eating tangyuan, lion dances, dragon dances, and walking on stilts.
The most important and prevalent customs are enjoying lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, eating tangyuan, and lion dances.
Lighting and Watching Lanterns放花灯、看花灯
Lighting and appreciating lanterns is the main activity of the festival. When the festival comes, lanterns of various shapes and sizes (traditional globes, fish, dragons, goats! — in 2015, up to stories high!) are seen everywhere including households, shopping malls, parks, and streets, attracting numerous viewers. Children may hold small lanterns while walking the streets.
The lanterns' artwork vividly demonstrates traditional Chinese images, such as fruits, flowers, birds, animals, people, and buildings.
In the Taiwanese dialect, the Chinese word for lantern (灯 dēng) is pronounced similarly to (丁 dīng), which means 'a new-born baby boy'. Therefore lighting lanterns means illuminating the future and giving birth.
Lighting lanterns is a way for people to pray that they will have smooth futures and express their best wishes for their families. Women who want to be pregnant would walk under a hanging lantern praying for a child.
Guessing Lantern Riddles 猜灯谜
Guessing (solving) lantern riddles, starting in the Song Dynasty (960–1279), is one of the most important and popular activities of the Lantern Festival. Lantern owners write riddles on paper notes and pasted them upon the colorful lanterns. People crowd round to guess the riddles.
If someone thinks they have the right answer, they can pull the riddle off and go to the lantern owner to check their answer. If the answer is right, there is usually a small gift as a prize.
As riddle guessing is interesting and informative, it has become popular among all social strata.
Lion Dances舞狮子
The lion dance is one of the most outstanding traditional folk dances in China. It can be dated back to the Three Kingdoms Period (220–280).
Ancient people regarded the lion as a symbol of bravery and strength, and thought that it could drive away evil and protect people and their livestock. Therefore, lion dances are performed at important events, especially the Lantern Festival, to ward off evil and pray for good fortune and safety.
The lion dance requires two highly-trained performers in a lion suit. One acts as the head and forelegs, and the other the back and rear legs. Under the guidance of a choreographer, the "lion" dances to the beat of a drum, gong, and cymbals. Sometimes they jump, roll, and do difficult acts such as walking on stilts.
In one lion dance, the "lion" moves from place to place looking for some green vegetables, in which red envelopes with money inside are hidden. The acting is very amusing and spectators enjoy it very much.
Nowadays, the lion dance has spread to many other countries with overseas Chinese, and it is quite popular in countries like Malaysia and Singapore. In many Chinese communities of Europe and America, Chinese people use lion dances or dragon dances to celebrate every Spring Festival and other important events.
Eating Tangyuan (Yuanxiao) 吃汤圆(元宵)
Eating Tangyuan is a very important custom of the Lantern Festival.
Eating tangyuan is an important custom of the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan (汤圆 tāngyuán /tung-ywen/ 'soup round') are also called yuanxiao when eaten for the Lantern Festival, after the festival.
These ball-shaped dumplings made of glutinous rice flour, with different fillings are stuffed inside, usually sweet, such as white sugar, brown sugar, sesame seeds, peanuts, walnuts, rose petals, bean paste, and jujube paste, or any combination of two or three ingredients. Yuanxiao can be boiled, fried, or steamed, and are customarily served in fermented rice soup, called tianjiu (甜酒 tián jiǔ /tyen-jyoh/ 'sweet liquor').
As tangyuan is pronounced similarly to tuanyuan (团圆 /twan-ywen/ 'group round'), which means the whole family gathering together happily, Chinese people believe that the round shape of the balls and their bowls symbolize wholeness and togetherness. Therefore, eating tangyuan on the Lantern Festival is a way for Chinese people to express their best wishes for their family and their future lives.
It is believed that the custom of eating tangyuan originated during the Song Dynasty, and became popular during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods.
关于元宵节，英语怎么说?
正月是农历的元月，古人称夜为“宵”，所以称正月十五为元宵节。
正月十五日是一年中第一个月圆之夜，也是一元复始，在这个大地回春的夜晚，人们对此加以庆祝，也是庆贺新春的延续。
元宵节又称为“上元节”。按中国民间的传统，在这天上皓月高悬的夜晚，人们要点起彩灯万盏，以示庆贺。出门赏月、燃灯放焰、喜猜灯谜、共吃元宵，合家团聚、同庆佳节，其乐融融。
下面就向大家介绍一些元宵节常用词语的英文说法：
the Lantern Festival 元宵节
rice glue ball 元宵
glutinous rice 糯米
lions/dragons dancing 舞龙/舞狮
guess lantern riddles 猜灯谜
play couplets game 对对联
enjoy beautiful lanterns 赏花灯
snuff 灯花
exhibit of lanterns 灯会
dragon lantern dancing 耍龙灯
walking on stilts 踩高跷
land boat dancing 划旱船
yangko/yangge dance 扭秧歌
beating drums while dancing 打太平鼓
drum dance 腰鼓舞
fireworks party 焰火大会
traditional opera 戏曲
variety show/vaudeville 杂耍
Lantern Festival's temple fair 元宵庙会
吸血鬼小呆
猜灯谜的来历：“猜灯谜”又叫“打灯谜”，是元宵节后增的一项活动，出现在宋朝。南宋时，首都临安每逢元宵节时制迷，猜谜的人众多。开始时是好事者把谜语写在纸条上，贴在五光十色的彩灯上供人猜。因为谜语能启迪智慧又饶有兴趣，所以流传过程中深受社会各阶层的欢迎。
英文："Guessing lantern riddles", also known as "playing lantern riddles", is an added activity after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the song dynasty. During the southern song dynasty, the capital of Lin 'an during the Lantern Festival riddle system, a large number of people guess. At the beginning of the riddles are good to write on a note, posted on the colorful lights for people to guess. Because the riddle can enlighten wisdom and interest, so spread in the process of popular social strata.
