向外国人介绍火把节的英语作文80以内

motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most

其实英语作文看的就是书写，还有有没有用到一些高级词汇，连词，当然单词一定要拼对，语法啥的老师都不仔细看

The Torch Festival is a traditional festival celebrated among some ethnic groups in southwestern China, such as the Yi, Bai, Hani, Lisu, Naxi, Pumi and Lahu etc. The festival features lighting up torches, hence its name. It usually falls in early June of the lunar calendar or on the 24th or 25th of the month, with three days of celebrations. The origin of the festival may have something to do with the worship of fire by ancestors, who believed fire had the power to repel insects, drive away evils and to protect crop growth. For some ethnic groups, it is a tradition in the festival for elders to share farming experience with young people and educate them on taking care of crops.

The Torch Festival or Fire Festival (Chinese: 火把节; pinyin: Huǒbǎ Jié) is one of the main holidays of the Yi people of southwest China, and is also celebrated by other ethnic groups of the region.[1] It is celebrated on the 24th or 25th day of the sixth month of the Yi calendar, corresponding to August in the Gregorian calendar.[2][3] It commemorates the legendary wrestler Atilaba, who drove away a plague oflocusts using torches made from pine trees.[4] Since 1993, the government of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan has sponsored a modernised celebration of the festival, featuring wrestling, horse racing, dance shows, and a beauty contest.[5] Different groups set the festival at different time.

During the festival, big torches tied up with dried pine wood and lightwood are erected in all villages, with small torches placed in front of the door of each household. When night falls, the torches are lit and the villages are as bright as daytime. At the same time, people walk around the fields and houses, holding small torches and placing the torches in the field corners. Inside the villages, young men and women are singing and dancing around the big torches that keep burning throughout the night.

Other activities like song and dance parties, horse races, bullfights, arrow shooting, wrestling, tugs-of-wars and swinging etc are also held during the festival. And there are trade fairs going on. In some areas, various religious rituals are performed to pray for a harvest.

In a horse race of the Yi people in Yunnan, torches are used to form multiple hurdles for riders to get through; the Hani people in Yunnan traditionally attach various fruits to torches with strings. When the strings are broken after the torches are ignited, people scramble for the fruits for good luck.

For the Lisu people in Sichuan, the festival is an occasion for holding grand torch parades. Big torches are carried by the procession, which is like a fire dragon. If several processions from different directions meet, it is a tradition to swap the big torches with one another.

Dubbed "the Carnival of the Orient", the Torch Festival is a traditional and age-old grand festival among some ethnic minorities in China.

The original Torch Festival, according to some scholars, was based on a calendar used by Bai and Yi people in ancient times. The calendar included 10 months, 36 days in a month, and two Star Returning Festivals in winter and summer respectively. The two Star Returning Festivals were both considered the New Year, and the one in summer was called the Torch Festival as people often lighted a torch on that day. There are also many other legends about the origin of the Torch Festival, yet all of them have the purpose of offering sacrifice to duties and dispelling ghosts, as a wish for a harvest.

人人都有尊严，但有些人因家穷而向别人卑躬屈膝，这样的人已经失去人生中最宝贵的东西，但丁也也说过走自己的路让别人去说吧！人要活就要活得有尊严，不劳而获的人往往都是一只寄生虫。穷也要穷得有志气。
一大早我就听见外面闹哄哄，有个老板穿着名牌西装，戴着砖石戒指一看就是个有钱人，他的秘书在台上拿着喇叭说：“谁要是在台上爬一圈在学狗叫3声，就给3千”3千在农民心目中已经是个大数目可是大家几十个月拼命赚钱的工资。可是怎能这样赚钱，就算赚了也不光彩。有些人正在犹豫，但是还是没有人上去。老板见没人上去就叫秘书加钱，又用喇叭向大家说：“对不起，3千太少了，我们老板要加钱，5千”这一出口大家心都痒痒的了让人蠢蠢欲动，5千啊许多人辛苦一年未必不能赚到5千。
就在大家纷纷议论的时候一个声音在人群中响起：“我们是人，而不是狗，是人的话就要活得有尊严，不可以为了钱，而出卖了自己的尊严”一个捡破烂的老太太的话，这句话像锁一样把一些见钱流口水的人给锁住了，但并没有人离去，反而越来