Preserve Our Tradition

We should preserve our own traditions. Without them, we would be nothing in our society, or we can even be disregarded by our own kind. Some children and young people nowadays do not even know their own family traditions, because their parents did not teach them since they were young.

Some Chinese hierarchy nowadays do not even do or know the old traditions, unlike the old generations of their family lineage. Some examples of the Chinese traditions are: eating moon cakes during the moon cake festival, wearing red clothes during the Chinese New Year, visiting relatives’ houses during the Chinese New Year, etc. But if someone asks a Chinese descendant about their tradition, some people might not know or do their own traditions. So automatically, their children would not even realize that a certain day is actually a celebration of something.

Young people nowadays disregard their own tradition, like throwing trash into the dustbin. But the fact is that, traditions are really important. Having traditional events or celebrations reflects our way of life and culture in the environment that we live in. The people in Bali have a tradition of celebrating “Seclusion Day”. It is a tradition of the Hindu people in Bali, but the whole island also celebrates this day. During the “Seclusion Day” Hindu people will have to turn off the lights in their houses, meditate, and fast during the whole day. While the people who are not Hindu, turns off the lights in their houses but does not have to fast and meditate in their houses. But, they could not go out either. This tradition still exists until today. While some other traditions, other than the one mentioned before, were already disregarded by its people.

We should preserve and treasure our own tradition, so it would not disappear from our lives. Traditions are really important, if we do not have our tradition, it means the end of our existence. We would be disregarded by our society, and our existence would not be acknowledged by other people as a part of a certain society.



  ( In our Language Arts Class, we are now focusing on persuasive writing - speech writing. So here are some of our works. Have fun reading! )

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( By : Banshee - Elvira )