Essay on Promoting the Spirit of Chinese Tradition

China has five thousand years of civilization history, continues to this day, everywhere showing a rich and colorful Chinese traditional culture. There are exquisite folk crafts. Such as: paper-cutting, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, woodcutting, dyeing and weaving, tiger shoes, wheatgrass paintings, branding paintings, Tang Sancai, noodle people; there are ancient folk art, such as: drama, commentary, shadow, painting, embroidery, kites, garden architecture, clothing and jewelry; there are also unique customs, such as: Spring Festival posting Spring Festival couplets, lanterns at the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Racing at Dragon Boat Races, mid-autumn mooncakes, the Tujia's "walking marriage", the Dai "Water Festival". There are many traditional festivals in China: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival. Among them, the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival are the most solemn ones, and the Dragon Boat Festival is the most memorable one. The Spring Festival is the grandest festival of the Chinese people, and it is celebrated wherever there are Chinese people in the world. No matter how far away from home they are, no matter where they go, they have to rush back to their mothers on this day of the Spring Festival. For this day, every family will clean their homes early, put up window decorations, buy New Year's goods, put up couplets, set off firecrackers, wear new clothes, eat dumplings, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and for the new year key to health and prosperity, a smooth sailing.　　

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival of reunion. After spring planting and summer sowing, people come to the fall harvest. This season, high and clear, grains, fruits, people work for a year, the harvest is expected. That's why every family makes mooncakes, eats mooncakes, enjoys mooncakes, and symbolizes a year of reunion.　　　

In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival was passed down in honor of a patriotic poet ---- Qu Yuan. The poet Qu Yuan was dissatisfied with the government at the time and was relegated to the Chu River area. Feeling that his future was bleak, the poet threw himself into the river and died on the fifth day of the fifth month. Local people to commemorate him, in this day every year, wrapped zongzi, eat zongzi, and some places held a dragon boat race activities.　　　　Life, we can feel everywhere in China's rich and colorful traditional culture, these traditional things are the treasure of the motherland, is the need for us to pass from generation to generation, has been inherited.