2018-09-19 TOEFL 黄金口语 物品类---Festival

What is your best time in a year? Please state your reasons and include specific examples and details in your explanation.

Intro

The best time in a year is the Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year, also called Spring Festival, has more than 4,000 years of history. It is the grandest and the most important annual event for Chinese people.

Body

First, it is the perfect time for families to spend quality time together, which is similar with Christmas Day to the westerners.

The festival is an opportunity for families to renew family bonds and take a break from their work and hectic life.

Second, extended family joins the table and shares a meal.

Food is one of the things that the Chinese take the most pride in. And of course, a lot of care and thought is put into the menu for the most important holiday of the year.As with Chinese New Year activities and decorations, the dishes are created to give blessings for the next year. Both the names and looks are symbols of wishes for prosperity, happiness and auspiciousness. For example. in most cases the last course is fish because it symbolizes abundance.

Conclusion

By repeating the traditions, we find a sense of belongingness.

Therefore it is the best time in a year.