How to write an essay on traditional festivals

Essay on Traditional Festivals I

Today is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. On the day of the Lantern Festival, people will get together to wrap and eat Yuanxiao. The names of Lantern Festival and Tangyuan are different in the north and the south, but the significance of celebrating the festival together is the same, which signifies the reunion of everyone.

On this day, my father taught me how to make soup dumplings. We first washed our hands and took out a bowl. Started and the noodles, only to see my father in the bowl poured most of the glutinous rice flour, put a little water little by little into it, and then hand twisted a few times and put some water. Dad told me: pay attention to each time you put not too much water, less can be added, too much will stick to your hands. When there was enough water, my dad and I split the dough in half, and we kneaded it back and forth with our hands until it stopped sticking to our hands, and the kneading process was complete.

Starting to wrap the soup dumplings, I followed my father's example, took a small ball of dough, put it in the middle of the palm of my hand to set back a small ball, then put my right thumb into the kneaded dough, and then use chopsticks to pinch a little sesame seed filling to put in the holes I just made, and then use my four fingers to match my thumb and press it in the center, and then knead it and then turn it into a round shape. When I was about to put this "semi-finished product" on top of the plate, my dad stopped me and said, "Son, it may stick if you put it on the plate like this, just roll it in glutinous rice flour and it won't stick anymore." I followed my dad's advice and it didn't stick. I made several more in a row, and in a short while twenty of them were finished, each as white as jade, making people's mouths water.

In the evening, my father and I went for a walk outside, when the street was brightly lit, surrounded by red lanterns. The sky glittered with colorful fireworks, some fireworks in the sky like a sky full of stars a flash, some like a meteor shower, a moment to disappear in the sky. The ground crackles with the crackling of a hundred guns. Children holding fireworks sticks fluttered and laughed.

I love to wrap soup dumplings, but I love the Lantern Festival even more.