Spring Festival

 The Spring Festival is the most important and meaningful festival for Chinese people. The celebration runs from December 24th to January 5th on the lunar calendar. During this period of time, we follow many traditional customs, including purchasing the supplies needed, paying courtesy calls to our relatives and friends, posting the Spring Festival couplets over the door, having a luxuriant dinner on New Year's eve, staying up all night gambling, and getting the lucky-money red envelopes from our parents. 
    But in recent years, some of these traditions have been on the decline. For example, people think that the Spring Festival couplets are inconvenient and will smear the appearance of the door, so fewer and fewer people want to buy them. And because modern people prefer light foods and healthy lifestyles, staying up and having a big meal seem not to be such a good idea. Furthermore, we don't get as many red envelopes as before. According to my mom, since our relatives will reciprocate the same amount to us, it's a little silly to exchange these envelopes.
    Obviously, our New Year customs are becoming less and less valued. Personally, I don't like this trend at all. I think that people should respect our old traditions as we pursue a modern way of life. I hope this trend could be reversed, because these established customs have indispensable functions and are the bases of our culture. It is on this foundation that we create the future, so we should take our traditional customs as an honor!