Sunday, April 8, 2007

4/5 Memory ancestors


April 5, is the memorial day for us to offer sacrifice and clean up the grave of our ancestors. Our school declare the holiday for four days. One reason is that we have to memory our ancestors in April 5, and another is the spring break.
Why we choose April 5 as the special day to memory our ancestor? It’s based on the Chinese traditional 24 solar terms. According to the 24 solar terms we can clear to know the climate in every time. However, people follow the 24 solar terms to do the thing in the best time. Although the all soul’s day for Chinese is set on April 5, we memory our ancestors in the course of the April 5 before and after.
Wednesday April 4, is the last we went to class in this week. Although our class was till to five o’clock. Some of my classmates avoiding attending to class because of wishing to wing their way home. In the last class, English writing, there were just half of students in this class. Therefore, this class we were early to finish.
While the day to memory our ancestors coming, my parents were early to get up to prepared the offering. Firstly, we went to the tower that putting the bone ash of the dead people. There were three of our family ancestors tubs be putted in the tower, my grandfather and my grandfather’s mother and father. In the afternoon, we went to
burial ground to clean the grave of my ancestor. However, we clean the grave in this time every year, I had different feeling in each time. While I stood on this memorial place, my thinking just like the water flooding out. My grandmother told the story about our ancestors and wept in silence for the deceased. Although I didn’t know how my ancestors lived and had a son to carry on the family name, I could feel the grand my ancestors were. In the end, I think all the people would dead just from they were born. But we should not depressed about our life. Therefore we should live replete and cherished the people around us.

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