# Today is a long summer # Does life need a sense of ceremony? Do you still celebrate the ancient festivals in China today?

Every important stage of life is made up of important ceremonies. When a child is born, there will be a grand banquet at home to entertain guests. When the children grow up slowly and reach the age of facing the college entrance examination, the school will organize all senior three candidates to hold a boiling 100-day swearing-in meeting. Later, when they fall in love, most people will hold weddings with their lovers according to local customs. When people are old, they will hold funerals for their elders. These are rituals, these are important stages in life, and you can't escape. However, such a ceremony is a reminder to oneself, but a sharing to others.

Today is Long Summer, one of the traditional 24 solar terms in China. Some places say that we should eat eggs in the long summer, but to be honest, our family has never cooked eggs specially because it is a long summer today, but the old people at home will sigh that it is another summer. What should we pay attention to? This reminder is the significance of solar terms for the existence of our family.

Although our family will not celebrate the solar term of Long Summer, like most families in China, our family attaches great importance to the four traditional festivals in China. The long summer has passed, and the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. My grandmother is over 70 years old, but every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, she still buys zongzi leaves, mixes them herself, and steams a large cage of zongzi, and the neighbors get a share. Her family also asked the children to take them to school to share with friends and classmates. It is a small ceremony to watch the Dragon Boat Festival party in the evening and tell the children at home the story of the Dragon Boat Festival.