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Traditional Culture in Life (Essay)

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

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

When we celebrate the Spring Festival everyone has to put up couplets and fortune words, but also upside down, which means happiness has come to us. Dumplings are eaten at Chinese New Year. Dumplings mean "handing over", which is the transition from the old year to the new 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, "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 on the first day of the New Year to put