2008년 11월 13일 목요일

Ghost Festival

YUMIN

There is a traditional holiday called Ghost Festival in Taiwan. It is really different from Halloween. Almost whole August is Ghost Festival. There are many ghosts that are released from hell. The ghosts will come to eat even they will find someone instead. My grandparents always ask me to leave away streams or ocean because old people believe the water ghosts are bad. It is a serious festival, we are not celebrating it happily. Recently, more and more people don't care about the legends. We still go to swim and travel in August. The Ghost Festival always let me scare and get a lot of stress when I was child. So I really hate this festival when I was young. I didn't go out because many activities which about Ghost Festival on the road. It was easy to make me think about ghosts. I had a lot of nightmare during this month. However Halloween seems a happy holiday though it is respect death. Adults and children can have fun in this day. So, I like Halloween more. But, there is one thing between these two holiday. Children also can get candy in the Ghost Festival. People want to give candy to the ghosts by this way. It is also a religious day when monk will help some of the ghost to be human again not to stay at hell forever. Those are different among Halloween and Ghost Festival.

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The Moonlight Day

The Moonlight Day is the traditional day in China. It is one of the biggest holidays in China. All the members of family will go to the oldest person’s family to have a dinner and see the beautiful moon. Also, do not forget the moon cake. It is really delicious. In recent years, we eat moon cake and watch the slow about Moonlight Day. That is fantastic. It is completely different from Halloween. In Halloween, people wear some very special clothes and make much fun outside. People have parties and celebrate Halloween. However, Moonlight Day is different from Halloween. In China, we just stay home and watch the moon and say something fun. We are happy but it is not like people on Halloween day. They are crazy. Although, Halloween and Moonlight have many differences, I still like both of them. In China, I like Moonlight Day. In the U.S., I like Halloween