1. An 800-word essay describing traditional festivals

China has a long history, and each of its basic necessities, food, clothing, housing, and transportation has its own distinctive culture. Among them, traditional festival culture is like the loess that has been continuously accumulated in the long river of history. Its history has its depth and is worth digging into.

Since ancient times, Chinese festivals have been extremely particular. Take the Spring Festival, which is currently the most important festival in China, as an example. The Spring Festival emerged as early as the Yao and Shun periods. After being passed down and developed from generation to generation, there are more and more Spring Festival customs, such as eating dumplings, pasting Spring Festival couplets, and setting off firecrackers. , sweeping dust, staying up late, paying New Year greetings, watching the Spring Festival Gala...it always keeps the whole family busy for more than ten days.

After the beginning of the 21st century, many traditional festivals from abroad have also begun to become popular in our "ancient oriental country". At Christmas, Chinese children also begin to look forward to Santa Claus quietly delivering Christmas gifts; at Halloween, various jack-o'-lanterns begin to appear in Chinese schools; at Valentine's Day, Chinese cinemas and restaurants also begin to offer half-price discounts for couples. Wait for promotions.

Many people say that we Chinese pay too much attention to traditional Western festivals and have forgotten many of our country’s traditional festival customs. In fact, I think the "culprit" is not Western festivals but the Chinese people's concept of Chinese festivals. For example, it is said that dumplings are eaten during the Spring Festival, but it does not mean that having dumplings means celebrating the Spring Festival. Most young people today find it difficult to make a dinner of three dishes and one soup for their family, let alone making dumplings. In order to continue the festival customs, when the Spring Festival comes, quick-frozen dumplings in supermarkets become a hot-selling item. Obviously, most people who cannot make dumplings choose quick-frozen dumplings to celebrate the "Spring Festival with dumplings." This goes against the original intention of celebrating the festival. The Spring Festival is originally a time for family reunions, and the same goes for the custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival. The emphasis is not on eating, but on the family sitting around making dumplings lively, and the old man making dumpling wrappers. The children get together with the dumplings, the women wash the vegetables, and the men cook the rice dumplings... What they wrap up is a lively meal, and what they eat is a reunion. However, the bags and bowls of dumplings in the supermarket can only be regarded as a lunch, and there is no Chinese New Year flavor at all.

Let’s talk about the fact that some old scholars are now very resistant to Western festivals and Chinese people celebrating Western festivals. I think Western festivals also have their essence and history. For example, at Christmas, many modern Western parents will invariably prepare a small gift for their sleeping children on Christmas night in order to fulfill the "big lie of the century" called "Santa Claus". Of course, their parents did the same thing when they were kids. This is just like the elders giving red envelopes to younger generations during the Chinese New Year. It is also a festival culture. It is not an exaggeration to say that Chinese young people celebrate Western festivals just like Westerners. On the contrary, I think this is a kind of learning and respect for Western culture. After all, Westerners will also put up lanterns during the Chinese New Year. They will also set off firecrackers during the festivities, watch the Spring Festival Gala and even try to make dumplings.

As the Spring Festival is approaching, I hope that everyone will truly devote themselves to holiday customs, use your own work to create reunions, and make the Spring Festival a success.

2. An 800-word essay describing traditional festivals

In the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, there are many traditional festivals, such as: New Year's Day, Qingming Festival, Spring Festival... But, I I think the most interesting festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in my country, and it is also the second largest traditional festival in my country after the Spring Festival. August 15th is right in the middle of autumn, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. Eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a custom during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Do you know when mooncakes became popular? In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was spread in the court and then spread to the people. At that time, it was commonly known as small cakes and moon altar. Since its development, it has become a completely unique dietary custom. Mooncakes have been integrated with the eating habits of various places, and have developed into Cantonese-style, Beijing-style, Soviet-style, Chaozhou-style, Hong Kong-style and other mooncakes, which are loved by people from all over the north and south of China.

One year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother and I went back to our hometown. Watching the moon and making moon cakes, I was still sleeping in the house early in the morning. But I already heard someone busy outside. I looked at the alarm clock and thought, OMG, it’s past seven o’clock. Without saying a word, I immediately put on my clothes, put on my shoes, and hurried out. I saw that my mother and grandma were already having sex. I immediately washed my hands and sat there and started doing it.

The first step in making mooncakes is to make the mooncake crust, first mix syrup and peanut oil. Stir the alkaline water and custard powder evenly.

The second step is to add flour. During the process of adding flour, I accidentally knocked over the flour, making my hands and face covered with flour, like a little snowman, which made the whole family laugh. I was so shy. If there was a hole here, I couldn't wait to get in right away. When I saw everyone like this, I quickly said I missed it. You go ahead and I'll clean up my things. Everyone stopped laughing after hearing my words. I breathed a sigh of relief. After cleaning the flour on my body, I continued to follow my grandma. Grandma taught me step by step. After dozens of minutes, I shouted happily: Finally One is ready. Looking back, I saw that everyone had already done a dozen. I was very anxious, so I continued to do it. I was not proficient at the first one but became very proficient the second time. The second time I did ten in one breath. In the evening we I was very happy watching the moon in the yard and eating the moon cakes I made.

As night falls, the watery moonlight shines through the windows into each house, illuminating people's hearts. At this time, how many people are reunited with their loved ones, eating moon cakes in the joy of reunion, and looking up at the round bright moon in the sweetness of the moon cakes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is happy, a symbol of reunion, and a symbol of joy. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for our family to be happy, a day for us to miss our relatives, and it is an indelible day for us. Travelers who are away from home will miss their hometown and relatives even more, so we must pass them on from generation to generation.

3. An 800-word essay describing traditional festivals

Speaking of traditional festivals, the lively and joyful scene of the Spring Festival slowly emerged in my mind.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival in China and the most important festival for the Chinese people. During the Spring Festival, travelers from all over the country reunite with their families. Spring Festival activities passed down from generation to generation can be seen everywhere, and there are plenty of delicious food with a New Year flavor. It also has everything.

What makes the Spring Festival very lively are naturally the Spring Festival activities decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, such as walking on stilts, attending temple fairs, lion dances, etc. What fascinates me the most and what excites me the most is watching the lanterns. It belongs! Every Spring Festival, those colorful lanterns always bring me into the ancient city and square. Everyone's faces were full of spring breeze. The adults smiled and praised the lanterns, and led the excited children in their hands. The children were like happy little sparrows, holding small lanterns in their hands, or holding a candied haws in their hands. Eat, jump and walk beside the adults. In places where there are lanterns, there are often lion dances and dragon dances. The performers are full of energy, and those of us who are watching are naturally driven by the joyful atmosphere, and we are also very excited to watch. Those who set up stalls nearby sold the most red Spring Festival couplets and window grilles. This is the unforgettable custom of the Spring Festival that I will introduce next - posting Spring Festival couplets.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Spring Festival custom of posting Spring Festival couplets is well known. During the Chinese New Year, every household has Spring Festival couplets and the word "Fu" posted on their doors. According to my understanding, these bright red Spring Festival couplets may be I guess it's a good start. Auspicious blessing verses are written on the Spring Festival couplets using unique Chinese calligraphy, wishing that the new year can be filled with people's good wishes just like the blessings in the verses. There is also a certain emphasis on pasting the word "福". People are accustomed to pasting the word "福" upside down, which corresponds to the homophonic sound of the Chinese character "arrive", which reads "福来了", which is still people's best wishes!

After the Spring Festival, people usually go door-to-door to pay New Year greetings and visit relatives. Children kowtow to their elders and say auspicious words. The elders will give their children lucky money, and they will be one year older after the New Year. This custom makes people The virtue of blessing each other also enhances the relationship between people.

Chinese festivals contain the beauty of China. The Spring Festival customs bring people closer to each other from generation to generation. However, with the development of science and technology, there are fewer people coming to visit to wish them well, and the relationship between relatives and friends has gradually become alienated. Our century-old culture If no one cares about it, let us take action to carry out the title of the land of etiquette of the Chinese nation and let our annual customs be passed down!

The beauty of China nourishes the descendants of the dragon, and five thousand years of culture is rooted in our hearts!

4. An 800-word essay describing traditional festivals

Long-standing, broad and profound, these are the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture. However, under the impact of today's various "mutated" cultures, people have begun to desecrate traditional culture and regard the accumulation of civilization as a tool for hype. How could this not be worrying? It is urgent to stick to the authenticity of traditional culture and protect the clear spring in our hearts.

Once upon a time, we quietly forgot about Li Bai and Du Fu, as well as their fresh, natural, melancholy temperament and style. In the era of Weibo, we have long been accustomed to the "Smurf Body" and the routine phrase: Protect traditional Chinese culture "Yuanfang, what do you think?" As we know, when we are joking and ridiculing, traditional culture is leaving us. Fading away. The half-literate and half-literate "Zhen Huan Body" became popular in society for a while, and the "Qiong Yao Body", which was painless and free of moans, actually claimed to be able to "heal spiritual trauma." At this time, we are so embarrassed!

How should we feel when "looking up at the bright moon, bowing down and thinking about my hometown" has been modified and transformed beyond recognition? What a sadness it is when a true feeling of homesickness is ridiculed in a boring way! Although we do not have the ability to fully understand China's long-standing culture, we have no reason not to maintain its natural beauty, nor are we qualified to make up random things to challenge the superb literary skills of our ancestors. Because we are born in a country with an ancient civilization, we must stick to our authenticity and not lose the respect and awe we should have for traditional culture, or lose our way forward in the ridicule of traditional culture.

In the information age where the Internet is highly developed, it is understandable that people pursue appropriate spiritual pleasure. But the emergence of various nondescript methods is a bad sign. If a country or a nation cannot even protect its own culture, what is the point of its existence? When we talk about "TVB body" and "gangster body" in catchy terms, can we hear the helpless wailing from the sky thousands of years ago?

Adhering to the authenticity of traditional culture does not require us to immutably copy the ideas of sages. Innovation and breakthroughs are necessary. After all, that is the source of motivation for people to move forward. Sticking to the authenticity means that the full moon in the sky is still a full moon. It is a moon of homesickness, not a moon that has been vulgarized by people; sticking to the authenticity of traditional culture means that what is melted in the wine is a true feeling , rather than a pool of sewage that has been modified beyond recognition. Stick to the authenticity of traditional culture, give respect and awe to the sages, and do not be pretentious, superfluous, or vulgarize the classics.

Maintain a heart of awe, adhere to the authenticity of traditional culture, let the natural and harmonious spring breeze blow to every corner, let the tree of traditional culture bloom with flowers, and nourish all things.

5. An 800-word essay describing traditional festivals

Among the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, in addition to the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also an important festival.

On the night of the full moon on August 15th, the bright moon "shines on my hometown and on the border. In the quiet night, you miss me and I miss you..." What do people miss? What I miss is my relatives far away. Although "people have joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes," no matter what, on August 15th, people always hope to reunite with their relatives far away.

This is an ancient tradition in China and a profound connotation of Eastern culture. This kind of family love cannot be stopped by any force. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a symbolic festival of "family reunion".

Under the watery moonlight, our whole family sat around the big round table to eat together again. The table was full of various dishes. I picked up a piece of hot fat and chewed it slowly. It tastes so fresh and tender! It's been a long time since I've had such a delicious meal.

Everyone ate very enthusiastically, gradually became more and more happy, and wished each other a toast. "It's bright and bright, and it's the Mid-Autumn Moon that has always been appreciated in ancient and modern times." So this year is no exception. After dinner, we sat in the yard together to enjoy the moon.

There are many mooncakes in front of you. When you take a bite, the sweet feeling is just like the feeling of having a happy gathering with your family today. "People are especially happy during happy events, and the moon is particularly bright during the Mid-Autumn Festival." The moon tonight is indeed different from the usual ones. Doesn't its round appearance look like our family sitting together?

"On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, the sky was clear, the stars and the moon were shining brightly, and lanterns were put out in the six streets and three markets." Looking outside the courtyard, the lively scene in the streets and markets was even more lively than in the past, and family reunions were everywhere. The happy atmosphere it brings.

However, I remembered a poem by Wang Jian: "Tonight, when the moon is bright and everyone looks at it, I don't know whose house the autumn silk has fallen."

Yes, just when people are reunited with their families, there must be people who are in other places and cannot be reunited with their families, so I send a blessing to the full moon tonight. I hope that you who are lonely will not be sad and look up at the moon. Look at the bright moon, maybe your family is looking at it too.