【正文】 od followed in southern provinces is to shape the dough of rice flour into balls, make a hole, insert the filling, then close the hole and smooth out the dumpling by rolling it between your hands. In North China,
sweet or nonmeat stuffing is the usual ingredient. The fillings are pressed into hardened cores, dipped lightly in water and rolled in a flat basket containing dry glutinous rice flour. A layer of the flour sticks to the filling, which is then
again dipped in water and rolled a second time in the rice flour. And so it goes, like rolling a snowball, until the dumpling is the desired size.
The custom of eating Yuanxiao dumplings remains. This tradition
encourages both old and new stores to promote their Yuanxiao products. They all try their best to improve the taste and quality of the dumplings to attract more customers.
漢文帝時為紀念“平呂”而設
另一個傳說是元宵節(jié)是漢文帝時為紀念“平呂”而設。漢高祖劉邦死后，呂后之子劉盈登基為漢惠帝。惠帝生性懦弱，優(yōu)柔寡斷，大權(quán)漸漸落再呂后手中。漢惠帝病死后呂后獨攬朝政把劉氏天下變成了呂氏天下，朝中老臣，劉氏宗室深感憤慨，但都懼怕呂后殘暴而敢怒不敢言。
呂后病死后，諸呂惶惶不安害怕遭到傷害和排擠。于是，在上將軍呂祿家中秘密集合，共謀作亂之事，以便徹底奪取劉氏江山。
此事傳至劉氏宗室齊王劉囊耳中，劉囊為保劉氏江山，決定起兵討伐諸呂隨后與開國老臣周勃，陳平取得聯(lián)系，設計解除了呂祿，“諸呂之亂”終于被徹底平定。
平亂之后，眾臣擁立劉邦的第二個兒子劉恒登基，稱漢文帝。文帝深感太平盛世來之不易，便把平息“諸呂之亂”的正月十五，定為與民同樂日，京城里家家張燈結(jié)彩，以示慶祝。從此，正月十五便成了一個普天同慶的民間節(jié)日——“鬧元宵”。
元宵節(jié)英語(論壇)詞匯
元宵節(jié)：festival of lanterns，lantern festival dumplings
元宵： the rice glue ball
燈謎：riddles written on lanterns
燈具：lamps and lanterns
燈花 snuff
燈籠褲 bloomers galligaskins knickers pantalettes plus fours
燈籠 lantern scaldfish
燈塔 beacon lighthouse pharos
燈語 lamp signal
燈油 kerosene lamp oil
燈心蜻蜓 damselfly
篇三：元宵節(jié)英文介紹
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.
元宵節(jié)是農(nóng)歷正月的第十五天，這是新年的第一次滿月，象征著和睦和團圓。元宵節(jié)是春節(jié)的一個重要組成部分，也象征著春節(jié)長假的正式結(jié)束。
元宵節(jié)習俗英文介紹：Eating Yuanxiao吃元宵
Yuanxiao is the special food for the Lantern Festival. It is believed that Yuanxiao is named after a palace maid, Yuanxiao, of Emperor Wu Di of the Han Dynasty. Yuanxiao is a kind of sweet dumpling, which is made with sticky rice flour filled with sweet stuffing. And the Festival is named after the famous dumpling. It is very easy to cook simply dump them in a pot of boiling water for a few minutes and eaten as a dessert.
元宵是元宵節(jié)的特色食品。據(jù)說，元宵是因漢武帝時期的一位名叫元宵的宮女而得名。元宵是一種帶餡兒的甜食，是由糯米粉加上甜的餡料制成。元宵節(jié)就是因此食品得名。元宵的烹制方法非常簡單，將元宵倒入裝滿沸水的鍋中煮幾分鐘就可以了。
Guessing lantern riddles元宵節(jié)習俗：猜燈謎
“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 (9601279). As riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has bee popular among all social strata.
猜燈謎也是元宵節(jié)活動的一個基本組成部分。燈籠的所有者將謎語寫在一張紙條上，然后將紙條展示在燈籠上。如果賞燈者猜出謎語，就將紙條取出，然后找燈籠所有者確認答案。打?qū)Φ脑?，他們就可以領取一份小禮品。這個活動起源于宋朝（960——1279）。猜燈謎活動極富情趣和智慧，因此在全社會廣受歡迎。
Watch fireworks 元宵節(jié)習俗：看煙火
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 bee really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky.
元宵節(jié)的白天會有舞龍舞獅、劃旱船、扭秧歌、踩高蹺。而在晚上，除了各種大型燈會，燦爛的焰火也是一幅美麗的畫卷。很多家庭在春節(jié)時會留下一部分煙花等著元宵節(jié)放。有的地方政府甚至會組織焰火晚會。當新年的第一輪圓月升上夜空時，人們都會因燃放的煙火和空中的明月而興奮。
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