The Autumn Festival 600字高中英语作文

　　Chinese celebrate the harvest on the Mid-Autumn Festival since ancient times. It's the same as the custom of Thanksgiving Day in North America. The custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival was popular in everywhere in China in the early Tang dynasty. The Mid-Autumn is on August 15 according to lunar calendar, it's the festival on which people will worship the moon.

　　On this night, the moon will be bright in the sky and people will get together to appreciate the moon in the family. The Mid-Autumn Festival was listed as one of China's cultural heritage in 2006 and was designed to be a public holiday in 2008. The moon cake is regarded as an indispensable food on Mid-Autumn Festival. People give them to their relatives and friends as gifts or enjoy them in the family party. The traditional moon cake is printed with cheracters "longevity", "blessing", "harmony" and so on. What a funny festival!

The generation gap

　　There is generation gap between parents and kids which becomes a commom phenomenon.This problem makes many parents confused.

　　After analysing, there are some following reasons.First, modern students like playing.They prefer to go out with friends rather than obey parents' wishes to stay at home. In addition, Chinese education develops slowly so that they can't control themselves well. Finally, they all have rebellious thoughts, they dislike to be restrained so that they will be far away from their parents. For example, if someone ask them to study hard, they will be annoyed. These factors caused the generation gap.

　　As a student, I think we should often go home to look after our parents and talk to them about our life. Moreover, we can ask our parents if there are some interesting things happened to them these days to impove the relationship. Why don't we take a walk with them after working? How about going to take them out for a meal? Let's get a move on to eliminate the generation gap!