This is a short first-person essay about a kid lighting firecrackers (放花炮 - [pinyin]fang4 hua1 pao4[/pinyin]) with his parents. I went back and forth on whether to classify this as "beginner" or "intermediate". It's easier than most of my intermediate stuff, but it's got a tighter density of higher-level words than my beginner stuff. But it's only a few sentences long. I finally settled on "Beginner", because it's short and nothing overly complicated happens, but you'll need to look up quite a few words, I think. 
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The weirdest part about this, I think, is the part where the kid says he smokes a cigarette his dad gave him. How old is this child? The rest of the piece makes it sound like he's about 7-10? Anyway... The Chinese title of this little story is 放花炮.

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今天晚上，我和爸爸妈妈一起<strong>放花炮</strong>。 爸爸用上打火机点上一根香烟，我拿着烟，吸了几口后就开始放花炮。我点了一个，花炮喷出五颜六色的火苗，真是太美丽了！冲天炮太危险了，我不敢放，爸爸帮我放，我只在旁边看。 不一会儿，花炮放完了，我们就高高兴兴地回家了。

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This evening, my mother father and I set off fireworks together. Father used a lighter to light a cigarette, I took the cigarette and after a few puffs we began lighting the fireworks. I light one, and the firework sprayed multicolor flames, so beautiful! Rockets are too dangerous, I don't dare light them, so father helped me do it, and I stood beside and watched. Soon after, the fireworks were all gone, and we happily returned home. 

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