Some festivals are held to honour the dead or satisfy the ancestors，who might return neither to help or to do harm. For the Japanese festival Obon，people should go to clean graves and light incense in the memory of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think what this will lead the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico，people celebrate the day of the dead in earlily November. On this important feast day，people eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with "bones" on it. They offer food，flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also has its origin in old beliefs about the return of the spirit of dead people. It is now a children's festival，which they can dress up and go to their neighbours' homes to ask for sweets. If the neighbours do not give any sweets，the children might play a trick at them.

It is Mother’s Day today. Though it’s a western festival it’s popular in China now. Mom has a full - time job, so she has to do most of the houseworks. She is a great mother. Both Dad or I planned to do something on Mother’s Day. We got up earlier in the morning. Dad cleaned the house, and then went on shopping. When he comes back I found a bunch of flowers in her hand. I asked Mom to stay in the sitting room and I cooked in kitchen. The dishes what I cooked were Mom's favorite. At dinner we said to her “Happy Mother’s Day!” Mom was grateful and moving.

It is three years now since I graduate from Xinhua High School. Last Sunday, the class that I was in held a get-together, which took us a long time to prepare. It was indeed not easy to get in touch with everybody and a properly time for all of us. We all enjoyed a precious day greatly, remember the time we spent together. It reminded us the interesting stories and the people they were familiar with. It was a pity which some of us were not present as they had gone to abroad for further studies. And they called back or sent greeting card from different places.