My Favorite Holiday

Like many people in China, I like traditional chinese Spring Festival, Chinese New Year, not only because its a longest holiday but also because its specially symbolic meaning. Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year on lunar January 1st and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.



On New Year's Eve, all the people sit around the desk and have a big family dinner. There are vegetables, fish, meat, fruits and drink like juice, Coke, Pepsi and some nice wine. Overall, this is a good and delicious dinner. After dinner, we always watch TV New Year progammes, which is the most interesting thing I look foward to at that day.



On the first day of the Spring Festival, most of people get up early and say "happy new year"to each other. For breakfast, people often eat dumplings which symbolize treasure After breakfast, people often make many delicious foods, and children often play cards, computer games and fireworks. On the other days, we visit friends and relatives. The most thing I like for Spring Festival is that I have enough time to visit my friends and my grandmather. I cherish the relationship with others so much that I think Spring Festival offers a best opportunity for me to share my feelings wirh others. In addition, we always have a short-distance travel with our family and some relative. For me, compare to my my parents, I like to stay home and enjoy my sleeping.

In conclusion, the Spring Festival is my favorite holiday. I look faword to it every year; however, this year I will stay in CA, hope every one has a good time at traditional Chinese festival.

The strangest food

When I was a child, I am a very picky eater. I didn't like to eat not only meat like pork, beef, mutton, but also some vegetables such onion, garlic, parsley. My eating habit was changed when I growed up, and I accepted some of food I didn't like before unconsciously. Some experiences I tried new food were never forgot. I can still remember how afraid I was when I first tried to eat shrimp, I could even not dare to pull the shells of shrimp. When my mom put the shrimp which was pulled the shells by her into my mouth, I felt the shrimp was moving in my mouth, the feeling was strange. However, now, shrimp is my favorite food.

When talk about the strangest food, for me, is definite the scallop. The first time I ate it is in my cousin's restaurant, where only services seafood. Actually, I don't like seafood but my families love it. When my father said "we want the medium scallop", I just keep silent because I thought I would not eat it, but in order not to let my parents down, I tried a litter mouth of it, guess what? I threw it up immediately and felt very uncomfortable. From that moment, I decided it was my first and last time to taste scallop. Maybe not because the scallop per se made me disgusting but because it was not well down, anyway, I will no longer try it!