中秋节英文介绍

　　中秋节是中华民族的传统节日，是每个中国人都引以为豪的文化遗产，但是很多外国人都不熟悉这个节日，那么我们应该怎样向外国友人介绍这样一个有趣而且经典的节日呢?今天出国留学网的小编就给大家带来几篇中秋节的英文介绍，希望大家喜欢。更多内容请访问出国留学网(www.liuxue86.com)

　　中秋节英文介绍

　　篇一

　　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.