中秋节英语作文：Mid-Autumn Festival

中秋节英语作文：Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival The 15th day of the 8th lunar month 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 Moon".

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（柚子） might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes， cooked taro（芋头）and water

caltrope（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 the moonlight. Of all these foods， it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.

l love Mid-autumn Festival very much！

第二篇：Mid-autumn festival 中秋英语作文

Have you enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival? Mid-Autumn Festival is Chinese traditional festival , and it’s very important to Chinese people ,it’s the time that every family member come together and share happiness. We will feel lonely if we can not enjoy the festival with families. We have this festival since ancient time , it really have long history. I always spend the festival with my families before I come to university. But now , I can only spend it with my friends in kunming ,because my home is far away . we should eat the mooncake in that day , and we can have a big meal for dinner, some delicious meat and fish, and some local food,there are 10 chinese food on our table at least. I always spend it with my grandparents,parents, brothers , sisters and uncles, it’s really a big family ,just like a family meeting. We eat together and talk with happiness. After we finish our dinner , about eight o’clock, we prepare another important event. My mom put some fruits and moomcakes on the table , old people like some tea ,we children like juice. Family member come together again and watch the beautiful moon and enjoy the fantastic mooncake. Moon is the symbol for pureness and goodness . and there is a famous song in China named The Moon Can Express My Heart. So you can understand how Chinese people love the moon from this song, then at ten or eleven o’clock we go to the bed and pray for a good wish next year. This my Mid-Autumn Featival ,I love the festival and I love my family too!