元宵节是中国的传统节日之一，请你用英语写一篇日记，讲述今年你是如何度过元宵节的。

正月十五已经过了好几天了，但我还回忆着那段包元宵吃元宵的经历。

那一天我和妈妈去商店买做雨花石元宵需要准备的东西，有面粉、可乐粉、芝麻陷，先把一团面把它和好，为了不让面粘，可以把面粉洒在面里，然后再把面从中间切开，把可乐粉放到一边的面里，再把两团面做好，再把褐色的面放到白面上，把面分成四份，然后取出其中的一份做一个小饼，然后把芝麻馅放进去，然后把口封好再团圆来就可以了，元宵可以有大有小，有粗有细，这样才像真正的雨花石元宵了。

煮时用下面漏的勺子把雨花石元宵慢慢地把放到锅里，煮时要用热水煮，煮的时间要半个小时，因为皮有点厚，等了10分钟、5分钟、3分钟……我很想快点吃上雨花石元宵。

不一会元宵出锅了，我先把元宵用漏勺盛起来，再用勺子盛一碗水，把雨花石元宵放到碗里，想用筷子夹起来吃，可是妈妈看到了，拦住我，说：“现在雨花石元宵很烫要用勺子慢慢的吃，”我忍着，我拿起小勺子，轻轻地盛一个，然后慢慢地吹了一下，再小心翼翼地把雨花石元宵放到嘴里，吃了一下，真是太好吃了，真是美味呀，看着这既漂亮又好吃的雨花石元宵，我又想再吃一个，我又慢慢地品尝这“神奇”的元宵，这元宵是我自己包的，我吃着元宵不禁笑了起来。

经历了这一次包元宵、煮元宵、吃元宵的过程。我觉得第一次包元宵我很有收获，知道了妈妈以前是那么辛苦地为我们做饭是多么不易，我们做孩子的要帮父母做家务。

The fifteenth day of the first several days have passed, but I also recalled that package yuanxiao yuanxiao.

That day my mother and I went to the store to buy things do yuanxiao bai maji stone need to prepare, have flour, coke powder, sesame, a first surface and it, in order not to let the surface glue, can sprinkle flour on the surface, then cut from the middle and the coke powder on the side of the face, put two surface, again put brown face on white flour, put the noodles into four pieces and then take out a to do a small cake, and then put in the sesame paste, and then transfer sealed together to, yuanxiao can have big and small, have thick have thin, so just like a real of rain flower stones yuanxiao.

Yuanxiao bai maji stone cooking with the following when a spoon slowly in the pan, cook to use hot water to boil, cook for half an hour, because the skin is a little thick, waited for 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 3 minutes... I really want to hurry up and eat yuanxiao bai maji stone.

Soon yuanxiao out of the pot, I'll put the dumplings in a colander, and then with a spoon filled a bowl of water and put yuanxiao bai maji stone bowl, want to use chopsticks to eat, but mother saw, stopped me and said: \"now yuanxiao bai maji stone is very hot to eat with a spoon slowly,\" I endure, I took a small spoon, gently a, then slowly blowing, and then carefully put yuanxiao bai maji stone in his mouth, eat, and it's very delicious, really delicious ah, look at this is both beautiful and delicious of rain flower stones yuanxiao, I want to eat a again, and I slowly taste this \"magic\" yuanxiao, this is my own package yuanxiao, eating yuanxiao, I can not help but laugh.

Experienced this time package yuanxiao, boiling process of yuanxiao, and eat yuanxiao. I think the first bag yuanxiao I have a lot of harvest, know my mother used to be so hard to cook for us is how not easy, we do the children want to help parents with the housework.

The Lantern Festival, I early in the morning, think of today is the lantern, go to the supermarket to buy some yuanxiao, yuanxiao white skin, a see let people appetite is big, then I go to the park, park festive atmosphere inside, feel in a good mood, stroll through the park, I went to the supermarket to buy some articles for daily use and some adornment, let the home also have the feeling of happiness, after selling, I returned home to buy decorations into the home, and sure enough, the quiet home has the flavor of the feast, in the evening, I cook the remaining yuanxiao, gave parents a big surprise, today is really very happy, every day I hope I can keep happy mood as it is today

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, so all over the country, in most of the custom is almost, but will still have their own characteristics.

yuanxiao

The fifteenth day of the first to eat yuanxiao, "yuanxiao" as food, also has a long history in our country. The song dynasty, the folk popular a kind of novel of the food for the Lantern Festival. This kind of food, the first name is called the "yuanxiao" after the "floating YuanZi", businessmen also known as the "wing". Yuanxiao namely "tangyuan" with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, Huang Gui, walnut meat, nuts and jujube paste filling, glutinous rice powder bag into a round shape, can be meat, different flavor. Steam can be boiled soup, Fried, and have a happy happy reunion. Shaanxi tangyuan not package, but the "roll" in glutinous rice powder, or boiled or Fried, hot fire fire, reunion.

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Han Ming emperor yongping years (58-75 AD), hetuvidya emperor advocated the dharma, comes at a time when CAI Yin for dharma return from India, said India "on the fifteenth day of the first drink tuo countries, monks gathered in Buddha sarira, is the auspicious day of Buddha. Han Ming emperor in order to carry forward the dharma, ordered the fifteenth day of the first night in the palace and the temple "randeng table Buddha". Since then, are the customs of yuanxiao put lights from only held in the palace and circulated to the folk. Per to the fifteenth day, regardless of the cremation or subaltern hanging lamp, urban and rural illuminated all night.

Yuanxiao put the custom of the lamp, lantern fair in the tang dynasty developed into pomp, when the city of changan is already the world's metropolis with a population of millions, and prosperous society. Under the emperor personally advocated, the Lantern Festival does more and more luxury. In the tang dynasty, has developed into a national carnival. Tang dynasty (A.D. 685-762) of the kaiyuan prosperity, changan lantern fair scale is large, randeng fifty thousand lamps, lanterns great variety, the emperor ordered the giant lamp floor, quanta between 20, 150 feet high, shimmering, very spectacular

Also called yuanxiao dumplings, northern eat yuanxiao is the annual Lantern Festival, 15 "to eat yuanxiao to go out. Chinese New Year eat dumplings have a plenty of old chengdu on the night of the year, a lot of attention to the somebody else is on the fifteenth day of the first to eat dumplings. In the past many people home is poor, but no matter how poor, is must eat dumplings. Chinese New Year when I was young, listen to the old life Chinese New Year is the most important three things: set off firecrackers, wash feet, to eat dumplings. Set off firecrackers to evil, drive away evil "years" of god. Thirty evening wash feet that is has already eaten to ensure that in the coming year. Can be a dinner party, at any time in chengdu words called: baseboard is clean. The third thing to eat dumplings, usually in the morning on the first or the fifteenth day of the first to eat dumplings, New Year, the figure is a good heat