Watching social fire essay 400 words (Tianshui)

In my hometown, Shaanxi, every year in the first month time, each village will organize social fire to celebrate the new year. You have to ask me what is called social fire, I also heard from my grandmother. Folk social fire, which is a self-performance and self-entertainment activity during the Spring Festival, comes from the ancient worship of land and fire. She, that is, the land god; fire, fire ancestor, is the legendary god of fire. In the middle of the famous agricultural culture, land is the basis of people's foothold, which lays the material foundation for the survival and development of human beings. Fire, is the source of cooked food and warmth, but also essential to the survival and development of mankind, ancient people with primitive thinking that fire also has a "spirit". And regarded as having a special meaning of God, to worship, so the formation of the concept of fire.

Today, my grandmother took me to see the social fire, where there is a sea of people to see the social fire is really quite a lot of people. We went to the place to play social fire, only to see there are drums, dancing, juggling, social fire team on the people's faces are painted with a variety of facial features, playing a variety of roles, they are in the fire god performances, to make the fire god happy, so that the god of fire will bring good luck to the people of the new year. It is really interesting.