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会计学 1 The Lantern Festival元宵节英语介绍 General Introduction The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. This is the first full moon of the new year, symbolizing unity and perfection. The Lantern Festival is an important part of Spring Festival , and marks the official end of the long holiday. 第1页/共12页 第2页/共12页 The most important activity is watching lanterns. Diffierent kinds of lanterns are hung in the streets. Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns. 第3页/共12页 There are many other performances , such as a dragon dance, a lion dance, long dragon lanterns and fireworks. 第4页/共12页 第5页/共12页 第6页/共12页 Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift. 第7页/共12页 Eating rice dumplings (yuanxiao) . People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings on this day. Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. Tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with “tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. It tastes sweet and delicious. 第8页/共12页 Chinese people also eat those things in the Lantern Festival 第9页/共12页 Setting off fireworks Most families spare some fireworks from the Spring Festival and let them off in the Lantern Festival. On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really excited by the fireworks and bright moon in the sky. 第10页/共12页 Let’s get to know more about Chinese traditional culture, because it is the symbols of our nation! Thank you! 第11页/共12页 感谢您的观看。 第12页/共12页