1. An 800-word essay describing traditional festivals. China has a long history, and each has its own distinctive culture in terms of clothing, food, housing, and transportation. Among them, traditional festival culture is like the loess accumulated in the long river of history. It has its own history and depth, and is worth digging into.

Since ancient times, Chinese festivals have been celebrated with great care.

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.

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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 nowadays find it difficult to cook 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 everyone will truly devote themselves to holiday customs, use your own labor to make reunions and celebrate the Spring Festival.

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... However, 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, Chaozhou 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 and made flour on my hands and face, 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 into it immediately. When I saw everyone like this, I quickly said that 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.