Essay: traditional culture in life

From ancient times to the present, a traditional festival that we human beings still keep ....... Yes, it is the Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival everyone has to put up couplets and fortune words, but also sticking stickers, meaning that happiness comes to us. The Spring Festival is also a time to set off firecrackers and eat dumplings. Dumplings is the meaning of "cross", is the transition from the old year to the new year and alternation. Ancient people used to wrap a coin in the dumplings inside, who is 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. ......

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

Why firecrackers on New Year's Day? It turns out that a long time ago, there is a "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, "year" no longer dare to come to earth, but people are afraid that it will come back to earth to eat people, it will be in the first day of the New Year firecrackers