元宵节又叫上元节，是春节之后的第一个重要节日，也是中国的传统节日，在2000多年前的西汉就有了。
正月是农历的“元月”，古人把“夜”称为“宵”，所以一年中第一个正月十五“月圆之夜”叫“元宵节”。
这一天的传统习俗是赏月、放烟花、猜灯谜、吃汤圆、舞龙舞狮等。
祝大家元宵节快乐！
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 元宵节 | Yuán xiāo jié | Lantern Festival |
| 又 | yòu | also |
| 叫 | jiào | to be called |
| 上元节 | shàng yuán jié | the Lantern Festival; the 15th day of the first lunar month |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 春节 | Chūn jié | Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) |
| 之后 | zhī hòu | after; behind / (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 重要 | zhòng yào | important; significant; major |
| 节日 | jié rì | holiday / festival |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 中国 | Zhōng guó | China |
| 传统 | chuán tǒng | traditional / conventional |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 多 | duō | (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 年 | nián | year |
| 前 | qián | ago / before / BC / former / formerly |
| 西汉 | Xī Hàn | Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-8 AD) |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 正月 | Zhēng yuè | first month of the lunar year |
| 农历 | nóng lì | the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar |
| 元月 | Yuán yuè | first month (of either lunar or Western calendars) |
| 古人 | gǔ rén | people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 夜 | yè | night |
| 称为 | chēng wéi | to be called; to be known as; to call it "..." |
| 宵 | xiāo | night |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in |
| 十五 | shí wǔ | fifteen / 15 |
| 月 | yuè | moon |
| 圆 | yuán | round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / tactful |
| 之 | zhī | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 习俗 | xí sú | custom / tradition / local tradition / convention |
| 赏 | shǎng | to bestow (a reward) / to give (to an inferior) / to hand down / to appreciate (beauty) |
| 放 | fàng | to set off (fireworks) |
| 烟花 | yān huā | fireworks / prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater) |
| 猜 | cāi | to guess |
| 灯 | dēng | lamp / light / lantern |
| 谜 | mí | riddle |
| 吃 | chī | to eat; to consume / to eat at |
| 汤圆 | tāng yuán | boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival |
| 舞龙 | wǔ lóng | dragon dance |
| 舞狮 | wǔ shī | lion dance (traditional Chinese dance form) |
| 等 | děng | and so on; etc.; et al. / (used to end an enumeration) |
| 祝 | zhù | to pray for / to wish |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone |
| 快乐 | kuài lè | happy; joyful |