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1、中秋节的由来英语作文关于中秋节的由来英语作文3篇英文版中秋节怎么写？有什么具体的邀请？下面DL为大家收集了 关于中秋节的由来英语作文，供大家阅读借鉴！The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox（秋分）.Many referred to it simply as the Fifteenth of the Eighth Moonn.农历8月15日是中国的中秋节，接近秋分时节。很多人将中秋 节简单
2、的理解为与“8月15的月亮”相关。This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates （石榴）,melons, oranges and pomelos
3、（柚子）might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro （芋头）and water cal trope （菱角）,a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in t
4、he moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-AutumnFestival.The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds（西瓜子），lotus seeds（
5、莲籽），almonds（杏 仁），minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard（猪油）.A golden yolk（蛋黄）from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirt
6、een moons of a ,rplete year,H that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary （闰 月的）moon. uUlsda EThe Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festivity for both the Han and minority national ities. The custom of worshipping the moon can be traced back as far as the ancient Xia and Shang Dynasties （2000 B.C.
7、 -1066 B. C.）. In the Zhou Dynasty（1066 B.C.-221 B.C.）, people hold ceremonies to greet winter and worship the moon whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival sets in. It bees very prevalent in the Tang Dynasty（618-907 A.D.） that people enjoy and worship the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty （1127-1279
8、A. D.）, however, people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. When it bees dark, they look up at the full silver moon or go sightseeing on lakes to celebrate the festival.Since the Ming (1368-1644 A. D. ) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911
9、A. D.), the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration bees unprecedented popular. Together with the celebration there appear some special customs in different parts of the country, such as burning incense (熏 香)，planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances. However, t
10、he custom of playing under the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays, but it is not less popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. Whenever the festival sets in, people will look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate their happy life or thinking of their relatives and frie
11、nds far from home, and extending all of their best wishes to them. Moon Cakes月饼There is this story about the moon-cake, during the Yuan dynasty (A. D. 1280-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A. D. 960-1280) were unhappy at submitting to the foreig
12、n rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon cake was a message with the outline of the attack. On the nightof the Moon Festival, the
13、 rebels suessfully attached and overthrew the government. Today, moon cakes are eaten to memorate this legend and was called the Moon Cake.For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates（枣子），wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a
14、cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. People pare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the English holiday seasons.Duanwu Festival （端午节，Du a nw u Ji 6 ） is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the C
15、hinese calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth. citation（弓| 用；弓| 证）needed It has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of East Asia as well. In the West, its monly known as Dragon Boat Festival.The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the
16、festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan （c. 340 BC-278 BC） of the Warring States Period. He mitted suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to f
17、eed the fish so they would not eat Qus body. They also sat on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, and tried to scare the fish away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking carved dragon head on the boat1 s prow （船头）.In the early years of the Chinese Republ i
18、c, Duan Wu was also celebrated as Poets Day, * due to Qu Yuan1 s status as China* s first poet of personal renown （名 声名 望）.Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous（粘的） rice dumplings called zongzi （the food originally intended to feed the fish） and race dragon boats in memory of Qus dramat
19、ic death.Mooncakes are to Mid-Autumn Festival what mince pies are to Christmas. The seasonal round cakes traditionally have a sweet filling of lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often have one or more salted duck eggs in the center to represent the moon. And the moon is what this celebration is
20、all about. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th month, it is the time when the moon is said to be at its brightest and fullest.There are two legends which claim to explain the tradition of eating mooncakes. One Tang Dynasty myth holds that the Earth once had 10 suns circling it. One
21、day all 10 suns appeared at once, scorching the pla with their heat. It was thanks to a skillful archer named Hou Yi that the Earth was saved. He shot down all but one of the suns. As his reward, the Heavenly Queen Mother gave Hou Yi the Elixir of Immortality, but she warned him that he must use it
22、wisely. Hou Yi ignored her advice and, corrupted by fame and fortune, became a tyrannical leader. Chang-Er, his beautiful wife, could no longer stand by and watch him abuse his power so she stole his Elixir and fled to the moon to escape his angry wrath. And thus began the legend of the beautiful wo
23、man in the moon, the Moon Fairy.The second legend has it that during the Yuan Dynasty, an underground group led by Zhu Yuan Zang was determined to rid the country of Mongolian dominance. The moon cake was created to carry a secret message. When the cake was opened and the message read, an uprising w
24、as unleashed which suessfully routed the Mongolians. It happened at the time of the full moon, which, some say, explains why mooncakes are eaten at this time. Mooncakes are usually stamped with Chinese characters indicating the name of the bakery and the type of filling used. Some bakeries wi 11 eve
25、n stamp them with your family name so that you can give personalised ones to friends and family. They are usually presented in boxes of four which indicate the four phases of the moon. Traditional mooncakes are made with melted lard, but today vegetable oil is more often used in the interests of hea
26、lth. Mooncakes are not for the diet-conscious as they are loaded with calories. The best way to wash down one of these sticky cakes is with a cup of Chinese tea, especially Jasmine or Chrysanthemum tea, which aids the digestion.中秋节吃月饼就像西方人圣诞节吃百果馅饼一样，是必不可少的。 圆圆的月饼中通常包有香甜的莲子馅或是红豆馅，馅的中央还会加上 一个金黄的咸鸭蛋黄来代
27、表月亮。而月亮正是中秋节庆祝的主题。每 年农历8月15日人们一起庆祝中秋，据说这一天的月亮是一年中最 亮最圆的。关于吃月饼这个传统的来历有两个传说。一个是唐朝的神话故事, 说的是当时地球被10个太阳包围着。有一天10个太阳同时出现在天 空中，巨大的热量几乎把地球烤焦了。多亏一位名叫后羿的.神箭手 射下了 9个太阳，地球才被保住。为了奖励后羿，王母娘娘赐给后羿 一种长生不老药，但是王母警告他必须正当使用。然而后羿没有理会 王母娘娘的警告，他被名利冲昏了头脑，变成了一个暴君。后羿美丽 的妻子嫦娥对他的暴行再也不能袖手旁观，于是她偷走了后羿的长生 不老药，飞到月亮上逃避后羿的狂怒。从此就有了关于月宫仙子嫦娥， 这个月亮上的美丽女人的传说。第二个传说讲的是在元朝，朱元璋领导的起义军方案起义来摆脱 蒙古族的统治。他们用月饼来传递密信。掰开月饼就可以找到里面的 密信，起义军通过这种方式成功的发动了起义，赶走了元朝的统治者。 这场起义发生在八月十五之时，于是中秋节吃月饼的习俗便在民间传 开来。