My Favorite Festival

There is no doubt that my favorite festival is the Chinese traditional festival: spring festival. The very first reason is that we have our winter vacation for the spring festival, which means that we may have a long vacation for almost one month. We treat the spring festival as the most important festival in a year and celebrate it for about two weeks. On the evening before the spring festival, the whole family will get together to have a big meal. Family members who even live very far away from home will come back and join the dinner, because the festival is for getting together in some sense. We make dumplings together, actually we enjoy the process in making dumplings more than the dumplings themselves. During the dinner, we chat with each other and share our happiness and sorrow for the past year with the whole family. After the dinner, we make some fireworks and watch TV programs together. The first day of the lunar new year comes, we begin to visit our friends and relatives, and bring our best wishes to them, always, the older people will give some money to the younger ones in return, so children can get some money during the spring festival. I like spring festival, because it give the big family a chance to get together and talk with each other. I like the atmosphere where the whole family are together.

The strangest thing I have ever eaten

The strangest thing I have ever eaten may be the ant. Several years ago when I travel to some place in China, one of my father's friends invited us to a local restaurant which is famous there. After several dishes, there came a strange dish. There were a lot of samll black things on the plate, I was curious about those, so I asked the waiter. To my surprise, he said those are fried ants. I refused to eat them, but the uncle said that you must eat the food since you were here, otherwise, you could not say that you have ever been here. I have no choice but to have a try. It smelled very normal, just liked normal fried food, I picked several ants up and put them into my mouth. Actually, it tasted good, but since I remembered that it was ant, I did not feel good. I could not convince mtself to try it again even though it is eally very delicious.