英语记叙文6
Legend has it that on this evening, Niulang, or the Cowherd, and Zhinu, or the Weaving Maid, meet each other for their annual tryst on a bridge formed by sympathetic magpies over the Milky Way. If it happens to rain that night, a Chinese elder might say it is Zhinu weeping after meeting her husband Niulang on the Milky Way.
传说每年农历7月7日的'晚上，牛郎(牧牛人)和织女(编织女工)会在由喜鹊搭建在银河之上的桥上重逢。如果那天下雨，中国的老人就会告诉你，牛郎织女在银河两岸流泪。
This day used to be commemorated as a festival for girls and also for young people in love. As the story goes, there was once a cowherd, Niulang, who lived with his elder brother and sister-in-law. But his sister-in-law disliked and abused him, and the boy was forced to leave home with only an old cow for company.
The cow, however, was a former god who had violated celestial rules and had been sent to earth in bovine form. One day he led Niulang to a lake where fairies came bathe on earth; among them was Zhinu, the most beautiful girl and a skilled seamstress. The two fell in love at first sight and were soon married. They had a son and a daughter, and their happy life was held up as an example for hundreds of years in China.
Yet in the eyes of the Jade Emperor, the Supreme Deity in Taoism, marriage between a mortal and a fairy was strictly forbidden. He sent his empress to fetch Zhinu. Niulang grew desperate when he discovered Zhinu had been taken back to heaven. Driven by Niulang's misery, the cow told him to turn its hide into a pair of shoes after it died.
The magic shoes whisked off Niulang, who carried his two children in baskets strung from a shoulder pole, off on a chase after the empress. The pursuit enraged the empress, who took her hairpin and slashed it across the sky, creating the Milky Way which separated husband from wife. But all was not lost. An army of magpies, moved by their love and devotion, formed a bridge across the Milky Way to reunite the family. Even the Jade Emperor was touchhed and allowed Niulang and Zhinu to meet once a year on the seventh night of the seventh month. It is said that at that night, children can hear the private conversation between the Weaving Maid and the Cowherd under the grape trellis. This is how Qixi came to be.
In actuality, the festival can be traced back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). People would traditionally look up at the sky and spot a bright star in the constellation Aquila, as well as the star Vega, identified as Niulang and Zhinu. The two stars shine on opposite sides of the Milky Way.
Qixi is also known as the "Begging for Skills Festival" or "Daughters' Festival." In the past, girls would hold ceremonies on the day and pray to Zhinu for wisdom, dexterity and a satisfying marriage. In some parts of Shandong Province, young women would offer fruit and pastries to her in return for a blessing of intelligence. If spiders were seen to weave webs on sacrificial objects, it was believed that Zhinu was offering positive feedback. In other parts of China, the custom was for seven close friends to gather to make dumplings. They would put into three separate dumplings a needle, a copper coin and a red date, which represented perfect needlework skills, good fortune and an early marriage respectively.
Young women in southern China wove small handicrafts with colored paper, grass and thread. Weaving and needlework competitions would be held to see who had the best hands and the brightest mind, prerequisites for being a good wife and mother.
However, these ancient traditions and customs have been slowly dying out. Fewer people than ever gaze at the heaven on that day to pick out the two stars shining bright on either side of the Milky Way -- that is, if they even know on which day Qixi falls.
七夕坐看牵牛织女星，是民间的习俗，相传，在每年的这个夜晚，是天上织女与牛郎在鹊桥相会之时。织女是一个美丽聪明、心灵手巧的仙女，凡间的妇女便在这一天晚上向她乞求智慧和巧艺，也少不了向她求赐美满姻缘，所以七月初七也被称为乞巧节。
人们传说在七夕的夜晚，抬头可以看到牛郎织女的银河相会，或在瓜果架下可偷听到两人在天上相会时的脉脉情话。
女孩们在这个充满浪漫气息的晚上，对着天空的朗朗明月，摆上时令瓜果，朝天祭拜，乞求天上的女神能赋予她们聪慧的心灵和灵巧的双手，让自己的针织女红技法娴熟，更乞求爱情婚姻的姻缘巧配。过去婚姻对于女性来说是决定一生幸福与否的终身大事，所以，世间无数的有情男女都会在这个晚上，夜静人深时刻，对着星空祈祷自己的姻缘美满。
英语记叙文7
The story of an ugly swan becomes beautiful as it grows up telling people not to judge others by appearance. Most kids especially girls look homely but they turn to be beauties as they become adults. But some people are exceptions, because they look beautiful all the time. For the celebrities, they like to show the audience with their pictures as they are small, which proves that they are naturally beautiful, instead of doing the plastic surgery. Like Natalie Portman, the famous actress and winning the Oscar Award for Black Swan, became famous in her 13. The audience grew up with her and watched her became more and more beautiful. But what makes people surprised is that Portman studied at the top university. She is a smart girl with beautiful face. Only the talent can help a person shinning all the time.
丑小丫变天鹅的故事告诉我们不要单凭外表来判断一个人。大多数孩子尤其是女孩看起来普通，但他们长大成人后就会变美。但有些人是例外，因为他们一直看起来都很漂亮。对于名人，他们喜欢给观众展示他们小时候的照片来证明他们是自然美，而不是做整形手术。像娜塔莉·波特曼，著名女演员，凭借《黑天鹅》赢得了奥斯卡奖，,在她13岁的时候就出名了。观众伴随着她长大，看着她越来越漂亮。但是让人惊讶的是，波特曼是在名校上学。她是一个有着漂亮的脸的聪明女孩。只有才华才能让一个人一直闪闪发亮。
英语记叙文8
As the Autumn Festival came, my family decided to asked my uncle and his families to come to my house and spent this day together. I was so happy. Early in the morning, my cousins came, then we played around the house. Our parents were busy in the kitchen. There must be delicious food for us to share. When it got dark, all the people stood in the balcony. We talked and played the game, waiting for the biggest moon. It was such a beautiful moment. We did not do this often, because the parents were busy with their work all the time. At about eight o’clock, the moon became very clean, and it lighted up the whole world. I ate the moon-cake and saw people celebrated in their ways. Some people made a wish by lighting a Kongming lantern, making the sky look wonderful.
随着中秋节的到来，我的家人邀请我叔叔他们一家来我家共度这个节日。我很高兴。早上，我的老表们就来了，我们就在家里边玩。我爸爸妈妈在厨房里忙活，一定在做美味的食物给我们。天黑了，所有的人站在阳台上，一边玩游戏，一边等待着最圆的月亮。这是一个美妙的时刻，因为父母工作忙碌，我们并没有经常聚会。大约8点钟的时候，月亮变得非常皎洁，它点亮了整个世界。我吃着月饼，看着人们各种庆祝方式。有些人通过点明孔灯来许愿，让天空看起来很美丽。