美国学生来中国过中秋节英语作文
My Amazing Trip to China for the Mid-Autumn Festival Hi, my name is Timmy and I'm 10 years old. This past year, I got to go on the most awesome trip ever - I went to China with my parents to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival! It was so much fun and I learned a ton about a really cool cultural tradition. The Mid-Autumn Festival is kind of like Thanksgiving and Halloween combined into one big celebration in China. It's a harvest festival where families get together to give thanks for a good harvest season. But it also involves carrying lanterns, eating special foods called mooncakes, and celebrating the full moon. How neat is that?
We arrived in Beijing a few days before the festival began. Beijing is the capital of China and it's a massive, bustling city with over 21 million people! The streets were packed with cars, bikes, and people everywhere we went. My parents said it was a bit overwhelming at first, but I thought it was so exciting to be in such an energetic place.
Our hotel was right in the heart of downtown near the famous Forbidden City palace. From our room, we could see the huge red walls and iconic towers with their golden roofs. I
couldn't wait to go explore it! On our first day, we walked through Tiananmen Square, which is this enormous open plaza that can fit over a million people. My dad tried to put it in perspective for me - he said you could fit around 200 football fields in there. Insane!
After passing through the Gate of Heavenly Peace, we entered the Forbidden City grounds. This was the imperial palace for 24 different emperors over almost 500 years until 1912. It's called the Forbidden City because regular people weren't allowed inside back in those days. But now it's a world-famous museum and UNESCO World Heritage site that gets over 16 million visitors per year.
The scale of the place just blew me away. It's made up of nearly 1,000 buildings with almost 9,000 rooms! We spent hours wandering through the different halls, gardens, and plazas. Everything was built and decorated so ornately and vibrantly. I'd never seen such elaborate traditional architecture before. My favorite part was the imperial gardens with the pools, bridges, pagodas, and sculpted pines and cypress trees. I felt like I had stepped back in time or into one of the ancient Chinese tales my grandma used to read to me.
After a couple days exploring Beijing, the Mid-Autumn Festival was finally upon us! As we walked around the city, we saw so many displays and decorations going up. Colorful lanterns of all shapes and sizes were being hung everywhere - in parks, along streets, outside homes and businesses. My parents got me a little rabbit lantern that I carried around proudly. Shops were stocked full of beautifully packaged mooncakes in all sorts of delicious flavors like lotus seed, red bean, and even savory options with meats and vegetables.
On the night of the full harvest moon, we headed over to one of Beijing's biggest parks to join in the festivities. The scene was like something straight out of a movie! The entire park was illuminated by countless lanterns of different colors, sizes, and designs like dragons, fish, butterflies, you name it. People were carrying lanterns, singing songs, dancing, and eating mooncakes. Several stages had been set up with dancers and acrobats putting on amazing shows in traditional costumes.
My favorite part was getting to release a fire lantern up into the night sky along with hundreds of others. We wrote our names on the side and made a wish as we lit it. Watching it slowly rise up and join the bright full moon with the sea of other
fiery specks was such a magical moment that gave me goosebumps.
After the park, we went to join some of my parents' friends from the university where they were research scholars for a traditional Mid-Autumn Festival dinner. We gathered around a huge round table loaded with all sorts of delicious Chinese dishes like Peking duck, dumplings, noodles, vegetables, and of course more mooncakes for dessert! The adults talked about the festival's history and traditions as we ate, like how it celebrates the autumn harvest and the full moon's role in Chinese culture. Several of the kids at the dinner taught me how to solve riddles that are commonly exchanged during the festival. You have to read the clever rhymes and phrases to figure out what object or food they're describing. I wasn't very good at first, but I caught on after a while and it was fun pitting my riddle skills against the other children. At the end, we went outside and the grownups let us kids play with sparklers and wand crackers which felt like a mini-fireworks show just for us.
Overall, experiencing the Mid-Autumn Festival in China was one of the most incredible cultural adventures I've ever had. It opened my eyes to such a rich, ancient tradition of celebrating the beauty of the full moon, the fall harvest, and bringing loved
ones together. I'll never forget the sights, sounds, and tastes - from the dazzling lantern displays to the mouthwatering mooncakes to the lion dances under
