800-word essay on national legal holidays

In 2008, Tomb-Sweeping Day was listed as a legal holiday in China for the first time. The establishment of this national holiday has given relatives time to pay homage to the grave and also given many citizens time to travel. However, what about our younger generation? Do they know the origin and date of Tomb-Sweeping Day? According to a survey of Guangzhou Children's Palace, more than 70% of students know Tomb-Sweeping Day, but they don't know much about the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Therefore, taking advantage of today's Tomb-Sweeping Day, I really want to talk about the topic of "Let children love national traditional festivals".

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Youth Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day is from April 4th to 6th every year, and the date is not fixed because Tomb-Sweeping Day is both a festival and a solar term. Twenty-four solar terms are 24 specific moments, not 24 specific days. The actual length of a tropical year is 365 years. 2422 days, the calendar year is 365 days, so there will be 0 more each year. 2422 days, 0 accumulated in 4 years. 9688 days, almost one day, so the Gregorian calendar has a "leap year" system, with one more day on February 29 every four years. The result of the extension is that the time of a solar term is advanced to the day before, so the date of the solar term will change, but the date difference will only be within 3 days. Therefore, Qingming is between April 4th and 6th every year. Qingming, China is a season of bright spring, lush vegetation and blooming flowers, so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming.

As a festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day is different from pure solar terms. Solar terms are symbols of phenological changes and seasonal order in China, while festivals contain certain customs and activities, which have certain commemorative significance. Tomb-Sweeping Day, one of the important traditional folk festivals in China, was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage last year.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some green branches and insert them in front of the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating and drinking. The poem Qingming written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village. " Write about the special atmosphere in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

After the reform and opening up in China, western festival culture "invaded" China, such as Christmas, Valentine's Day and April Fool's Day. Every Christmas comes, the streets are full of flowers, and countless Santas greet us with smiles in various commercial places. Hotels, restaurants, bars and karaoke bars are full because of Christmas, and businesses are also harvesting golden eggs and bulging. Look at Valentine's Day. Roses are fragrant and chocolate is tempting everywhere. ...

Unfortunately, at Christmas, when we pray for peace or revelry, our teenagers are moving away from traditional festivals. Therefore, the inheritance of our traditional culture should start from every festival: Lantern Festival, Arbor Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Teacher's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. And find a way to celebrate the festival suitable for children, and talk more about the origin and customs of the festival. I believe they will still like traditional festivals very much. Of course, this requires the joint efforts of parents and teachers.

Starting from Tomb-Sweeping Day, I don't want to totally deny or ban western festivals, but I don't like the invasion of western cultural festivals, which makes our younger generation forget the traditional culture left by our ancestors. This is by no means conservative. Advocating the spread and protection of festivals is a kind of inheritance and protection of our national history. Modern middle school students should bear the brunt, inherit and carry forward. Only by respecting and protecting traditional festivals can we learn more about China's 5,000-year history of civilization, establish a correct outlook on life, world outlook and values, be more patriotic, become a talent and make more contributions to the country.