Talk about the Festival

Many countries have their own and unique festival, in Thailand; Songkran festival day is their New Year, like Chinese New Year. In that day, people have to splash the water to everyone, whether the man you know or not. It’s a very traditional custom, and a symbol of driving out the disease and prey for the good harvest. It’s a unique festival in Thailand; more and more tourists feel like to attend this activity at New Year. In America, Halloween has come to be one of the most recent trends festivals. Many people decorate their home and courtyard with plenty of pumpkins and scarecrows. At night, every adults and children are parading the road with many odd and fearful masks. Trick or treat is the most favorite game for the children, they may bag for candies and allowance from door to door, you need to give it, or they’ll casting a curse to you. It’s so funny, right?!


Therefore, the festivals are vary from country to country. In Taiwan, for example, the most important festival is Chinese New Year. In the day, people can get together from everywhere and they have a family reunion on New Year Eve. Children are very happy because they can receive many red envelopes and wear new clothes. Adults can gamble, chat and watch the variety shows. Mid-Autumn festival is also an important day; people can get together with their family or friends, the most important thing we ought to do in this festival is eat the moon cakes, barbeque and go along with the romantic story about the festival. Tomb sweeping day is a characteristic of festival in Taiwan; we have to go to the cemetery to sweep the tomb, worship the ancestors respectably, and we can eat the delicious spring rolls on Tomb sweeping day. The last but not least, I introduce the Dragon Boat festival. In this day, we have a conventional food to eat, sticky-rice dumplings. My grandmother is good at making it. She always makes many tasty sticky-rice dumplings in relatives. There are another custom in Dragon Boat festival, we also can watch a dragon boat race on the sea or the canal, stand an egg at noon and wear the sachet.


As far as I’m concerned, festivals have their own symbol and custom; we need to learn the different custom and passed it down to your children and grandchildren for good. For this reason, the world can realize the unique festival and beautiful Chinese culture, and we can study the special and exotic festivals from the other foreign countries, too.
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