What is the Lantern Festival?（什么是元宵节？）

Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival.（元宵节是中国的传统节日）

Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This is the first full moon of the new year, symbolizing unity and perfection. Lantern Festival is an important part of Spring Festival , and marks the official end of the long holiday.

元宵节是农历正月的第十五天，这是新年的第一次满月，象征着和睦和团圆。元宵节是春节的一个重要组成部分，也象征着春节长假的正式结束。

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What does the lantern festival do, just eat yuanxiao?（那你们在元宵节那天都干什么呢？只是吃元宵吗？）

NONONO! On Lantern Festival, we eat sweet dumpling soup. At night, we go to the fair to see beautiful lanterns and solve lantern riddles. (在元宵节这一天，我们吃汤圆。晚上，我们去庙会赏灯，猜灯谜。）

Eat yuanxiao

People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "Yuanxiao Festival."Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinousrice 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 "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.

人们在元宵节的时候会吃元宵，因此这个节日也就叫做元宵节。“元宵”还有另外一个名字—汤圆，用糯米粉做皮，玫瑰花瓣、芝麻、豆酱、枣泥、胡桃肉、干果、糖和食用油做馅，做成的小面球团。汤圆可以煮、炸或者蒸来吃。吃起来甜甜的，很美味。而且，汤圆在中国和“团圆”这个词的发音相似，代表着团团圆圆。因此人们吃汤圆会象征着家庭的团圆、和谐和快乐。

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Guessing lantern riddles

"Guessing lantern riddles"is an essential part of the Festival. 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. 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.

“猜灯谜”是节日的核心部分。灯笼的主人会将谜语写在一张纸条上并贴在灯笼上。如果游客能解开灯谜，他们就能将纸条拿下来去灯笼的主人那看答案是否正确。如果答案是对的，他们将会得到一份小礼物。这项活动最早在宋朝（公元960-1279）出现，当人们在赏灯的时候开始。由于猜灯谜极具趣味性，又需要动脑筋，所以后来在全社会各阶层中收到普遍欢迎。

Lantern Festival

wow! That sounds interesting.I also want to try.（猜灯谜听起来很有趣，我也想试试）

All right, listen up（ok，请听题）

conundrum

What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?（什么东西黑色的时候是干净的，白色的时候是脏的?）

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Blackboard

conundrum

What is big and bright during the day and we can’t see it at night?（什么东西白天又大又亮，晚上却看不见?）

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Sun

conundrum

Which letter is a drink?（哪个字母是一种饮料?）

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T(Tea)

conundrum

Which letter is an animal?（哪个字母是一种动物?）

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B (Bee)

conundrum

What is the smallest room in the world?（世界上最小的房间是什么?）

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Mushroom

I like it on the Lantern Festival.so funny.（我喜欢元宵节，它太有趣了）

Let me tell you something more interesting（哈哈哈，我告诉你一个更有趣的事）

Chinese Valentine's Day

Lantern Festival is also called Chinese Valentine's day.In feudal society, young girls were not allowed to go out freely.But on the night of the Lantern Festival, they were allowed to view the lantern lights in groups.Sometimes couples would go on dates strolling down the streets lit with lantern lights.

元宵节也叫做中国情人节。在古时候，年轻女孩不允许出外自由活动。但在元宵节晚上，她们却可以结伴出游观赏花灯。未婚男女也常借着赏花灯与情人相会。

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How romantic!（好浪漫）

Today people still invite others to view lanterns together.Across China, the Lantern Festival is celebrated in many different styles.SO so so beautiful.（如今人们依然会在元宵夜相邀一起去赏花灯。在中国南北各地都有风格不同的元宵灯会，特别美！）

Chinese culture

is broad and profound

I love China

Wishing you peace

happiness and happiness

in the Lantern Festival

Everything goes well

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