Traditional Culture in Life Essay

The `traditional culture in life-Customs of the Spring Festival

There are many traditional cultures in life, such as: firecrackers on New Year's Day, and ascending the heights on Chongyang Festival.

One of the traditional festivals that we Chinese value most ....... Yes, it is the Spring Festival.

When we celebrate the Spring Festival, we all have to put up couplets and fortune words, but also upside down, meaning that happiness comes to us. The Spring Festival is a time to eat dumplings. Dumplings are the meaning of the word "jiaozi", which is the transition from the old year to the new year and the alternation of the old year. Ancient people used to wrap a coin in the dumplings inside, who was the first to eat the money dumplings, who will be blessed in the new year, but modern people feel that the coin is too unhygienic, it was changed to wrap the sugar. ......

Why firecrackers for Chinese New Year? It turns out that a long, long time ago, there is a "New Year" beast every New Year's Eve to eat people, once can eat a village of people it! Everyone was afraid of it! One year, the "New Year" beast came to eat people again, everyone ran to the Kunlun Mountains. At this time, an old man but bring red paper to do spring couplets, bring straw to do firecrackers, but also to bring candles to do lanterns, "year" the beast saw these things scared out of their wits. From then on, the "year" no longer dare to come to earth, but people are afraid that it will come to earth to eat people, they will be on the first day of the New Year firecrackers.