1春节(农历一月一日) Spring Festival 除夕(农历十二月三十日)New Year's Eve
在除夕夜吃年夜饭、祭祀和守岁等，大年三天，也要要拜访至亲和尊贵的亲戚，各地还举行各种庙会、社火、乡戏。
Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar ‘s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune .
The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”. People enjoy the Spring Festival ,during this time they can have a good rest .
2元宵节(农历一月十五日) Lantern Festival
农历正月十五为元宵节，节日里有吃元宵、观花灯、耍社火、猜灯谜等习俗。
Till today, the lantern festival is still held each year around the country. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited. \riddles\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. The activity emerged during people's enjoyment of lanterns in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). As riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all social strata. People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the \Festival.\rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What’s more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with \reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.
In the daytime of the Festival, performances such as a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged. On the night, except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a beautiful scene. Most families spare some fireworks from the Spring Festival and let them off in the Lantern Festival. Some local governments will even organize a fireworks party. On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky.
3二月二Dragon Heads-raising Day
俗称\龙抬头\，也叫青龙节，是一年农业生产开始的标志。活动有撒灰引龙、熏虫、挑菜、忌针线（以防\扎坏龙眼\）等。关于此节风俗的记载唐代就有。要动素食。
Today, it's a little less agriculturally-inclined, and ways to celebrate in style include eating pancakes and noodles, and, believe it or not, getting a haircut or an entirely new hairstyle.
So start making pancakes, and book that hair appointment today - you'll want to make sure you're ready for Long Tai Tou!
4清明节(4月5日)Tomb-Sweeping Day 祭扫祖坟、踏青游春，忌动烟火。
Qing Ming is a time to remember the dead and the dearly departed. More important, it is a period to honour and to pay respect to one's deceased ancestors and family members. Because it reinforces the ethic of filial piety, Qing Ming is a major Chinese festival.
Literally meaning \on the 106th day after the winter solstice. It is a \whole family to leave the home and to sweep the graves of their forebears. Chinese being practical people this sweeping of the graves is given an extended period, that is, 10 days before and after Qing Ming day. Among some dialect groups a whole month is allocated. 5端午节(农历五月初五) Dragon Boat Festival
也叫端阳节，相传是为纪念屈原而来。主要有吃粽子、赛龙舟的活动，
The Dragon Boat Festival ,also called the Duanwu Festival ,is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar.People always eat rice dumplings and watch dragon boat races to celebrate it.
The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races,especially in the southern places where there are many rivers and lakes. It's very popular.
The rice dumpling is made of glutinous rice,meat and so on. You can eat different kinds of rice dumplings.They are very delicious.And Dragon Boat Festival is for Qu Yuan. He is an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river. Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting 6七巧节
也叫乞巧节，传说是牛郎织女鹊桥相会的日子。也称为中国的爱情节。
The Double Seventh Festival refers to the seventh night of the seventh lunar month. It is a traditional folk festival of the Han people. This night is not only the time when the legendary Cowherd and the Girl Weaver are supposed to have their annual meeting, but also a good opportunity for women to pray for the Girl Weaver for the purpose of seeking dexterity. Therefore, this festival is also named \7中秋节(农历八月十五) Mid-Autumn (Moon)Festival
这一天全家团圆赏月、吃月饼，原来还有“烧斗香”、“走月亮”、“放天灯”、“树中秋”、“点塔灯”、“舞火龙”、“曳石”、“卖兔儿爷”等节庆活动。此节被海外游子更为重视。
The Midautumn Festival is the traditional festival in China.In this day,people ,espically family members will have a happy get-together.So Chinese people vaule this festival for its important meaning of \like the full moon.
8 重阳节(农历九月九日) Double-ninth Day
取九九重阳之意。主要活动为登高、赏菊、饮酒等，颇受老年人喜爱。
The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double 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 \feminine or negative, while number \positive. So the number nine in both month and day create the Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival. Chong in Chinese means \the same as the word to signify \it an auspicious day worth celebration. That's why ancient Chinese began to celebrate this festival long time ago. 9腊八节
人们习惯上把农历的十二月称为腊月，把腊月的初八称为腊日或腊八，并将其当作一个传统节日即腊八节来对待。许多与腊月或腊八有关的习俗也往往都被冠以“腊”字。这天，许多地方都吃腊八粥，腊八其实也是春节准备工作的开始。
the Laba Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar Chinese calendar. \pronounced as \origin of this festivity and we could not tell which one is true. But what we know today is that this festival started as a sacrificial offering to ancestors. It was also a time for the ancient Chinese to pray to heaven and earth that there would be a bountiful harvest. Many people hoped for good luck as well for the coming year 过年 celebrate the spring festival 春联 spring festival couplets
剪纸 paper-cuts 年画 new year paintings
买年货 do shopping for the spring festival；dospring festival shopping 敬酒 propose a toast 灯笼 lantern 烟花 fireworks 爆竹 firecrackers 红包 red packets 舞狮 lion dance
舞龙 dragon dance 戏曲 traditional opera 杂耍 variety show
灯谜 riddles written on lanterns 灯会 exhibit of lanterns 守岁 staying-up
拜年 pay new year's call；givenew year's greetings；pay new year's visit 去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune
祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one's ancestors 压岁钱 gift money；
辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year
扫房 spring cleaning; generalhouse-cleaning 年糕 nian-gao; rise cake; new year cake 团圆饭 family reunion dinner 年夜饭 the dinner on new year's eve 饺子 jiao-zi/dumpling; chinese meatravioli 粽子 rice dumpling
It is festivals that make us reunite .
People all enjoy ourselves.。 I can have a rest,and put trouble aside.
Celebrating festivals is a good way to hand down the tradition .
传统节日介绍(高中英语作文)
