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For yiwu city the longest dark night is that holiday

Writing Ideas: The winter solstice is a traditional Chinese folk festival of ancestor worship, and this day has a deep meaning for the Chinese people, write an essay describing the winter solstice. Body: When snowflakes fall on the silent earth, have you already felt that a pure winter has come? Perhaps most people just resent that winter takes away the fiery passion and moves in the cold wind and drifting snow. However, who has ever paid attention to one of the important winter solstice? Winter Solstice, in our eyes, may just be a day noted in the geography book, a bland December 22nd. But in ancient China, our old ancestors attached great importance to this day. In ancient times, there is a winter solstice is as big as the year, which shows the importance of the winter solstice. People think: the winter solstice past, the day is longer than a day, Yang Qi back up, is an auspicious day, should be celebrated. In many places, on the day of the winter solstice, there is a tradition of nine-layer cakes for ancestors: that is, using glutinous rice flour to knead into the image of many animals, put into a steamer, and after steaming, place it in front of the ancestral ancestral ancestral tablets as a sign of worship. After the sacrifice, relatives will also raise a cup of wine and drink together, to contact feelings, known as eating ancestors. However, some of the customs of the winter solstice have not been completely preserved by the people, especially today, the winter solstice can be said to be nowhere to be found. The nine-layer cake mentioned above can only be seen in historical materials. This has to cause us to worry. Traditional festivals, as an important part of Chinese culture, have been highly valued by people in ancient times: from the New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, to the Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, to the Tanabata Festival and the Winter Solstice, each festival has its own customs and culture. Today, as the wave of globalization is sweeping China in the midst of reforms, the folk festivals inherited by China for thousands of years have also been subjected to the fierce impact of foreign festivals, and are gradually moving towards the edge of the society. More and more young people like to celebrate Christmas, Valentine's Day and other Western festivals, while the Spring Festival and Winter Solstice are fading out of young people's view. The winter solstice is the world's, looking for the winter solstice, looking for not only the winter solstice this holiday, but our Chinese nation's excellent traditional culture. Only if everyone always remembers the words, the national bloodline inherited for 5,000 years will not be interrupted.