一篇英语作文：different festivals

The Spring Festival is the biggest and the most formal festival for Chinese
people.Yet,in the 1970鈥檚 the Spring Festival was not it is now.It鈥檚 a far cry
between them.There are a lot of experiences in my memory.I remember when I was
in the middle school,every year before the Spring Festival,the No.1 task of
every family is buying festival goods,the most important being foodstuffs,in
order to spend a satisfactory Spring Festival.Being the biggest child of the
family,I was given the task of rushing out for buying all the festival goods
with purchase list and money in my pocket,usually on foot.Almost all the
festival goods on the market were in short supply,from chicken to fish,from
vegetables to cake...I thought out everyway possible and bent over backward for
buying all the festival goods.It was just like fighting a battle and I was
quite proud of bringing fruitful baskets back home almost every time.
The early bird catches the worm.One year I remember,a few days before
Spring Festival,I made many cards,nearly 100 pcs.,with numbers on for buying
chickens.I got up at 3:00 o'clock,and went to the big foodstuffs store to
distribute the cards at the gate.As soon as I finished the distribution I went
back home sleeping for a while & waked up at the crack of dawn.I rushed
back to the store to organize the crowded endless queue in order according to my
cards number,keeping anybody without card out of the queue.I kept the top 10
cards and gave them to my neighbors,classmates and friends as festival gifts
who thanked me a lot just for being able to buy a few chickens.The notice on
the gate said :"Two chickens for each person only."
Another thing impressed me deeply was,one year,three days before the Spring
Festival,I took my 3-years-old younger brother by the hand going to by
fireworks.When I saw the dragon like long queue crowded in the shop yard,I
arranged my little brother standing by the corner within my sight where was not
so crowded waiting for me.I myself rushed into the crowded queue searching
familiar faces,just like looking for a needle in a haystack.At last,thanks
God!My sight was fixed upon a young guy!I was lucky enough to find a fellow
student who studied in the same school with me.Though we never talked with each
other before I was sure we met each other in the school yard several times.With
this idea flashed across my mind I acted at once.I went up to him patting his
shoulder saying :鈥 Hi!I was here after you,wasn鈥檛 鈥 watching his eyes with
smile.People in the queue looked at me with doubts.My schoolmate replied
loudly:鈥 Yes,correct!You鈥檒l miss if you come one minute later!鈥 On hearing
this,they had nothing to speak of.In fact,everybody present knew clearly
that,I cut into the queue.Seeing we two young guys who seemed not afraid of
fighting for shopping,they gave in.And besides,we made it smoothly,giving
the right excuse.In this way,I was ahead of the game,having bought several
packs of fireworks and said "Good-Bye!" to my schoolmate whom I鈥檝e been still
keeping contacts with for friendship till now.When my little brother see me buy
the fireworks so quickly,he was as happy as a lark,walking on air!Hand in
hand,we two went back home singing songs,as happy as a clam.
On our way home we passed a foodstuffs shop by the roadside.Catching sight
of persimmon pies on shelf,which he had never tasted before,he thought it
should be very delicious.He dragged me by one hand and pointed to the persimmon
pies with another,murmuring :鈥 Buy!Buy!鈥 Although I knew that he was still
wet behind the ears and had little knowledge about food,he was the apple of my
eye.I would like to jump through hoops for him all the time.I bought 10 cakes
of persimmon pies and packed up,telling him :鈥淲hen we are back home,mother
will cook porridge with these pies for you.鈥 My little brother was very happy
and nodded with thanks,smiling from ear to ear.However,as soon as we arrived
at home,I was given new tasks of buying eggs and fishes.And I went out for the
shopping immediately.The next day,when I asked mother to make porridge,
enabling little brother to enjoy persimmon pies,the persimmon pies were nowhere
to be found.I felt rather upset for it seemed that something had happened.At
last,when we discovered three cakes of persimmon pie remained in the plate at
the corner of the closet,mother,father and I were all eyes.My dear little
brother had eyes only for persimmon pies and he was too anxious to wait for the
porridge.He had eaten seven cakes of persimmon pies once continuously!As the
result,he was badly suffering from stomachache which had to be cured for years
afterwards.Even now,he who has become father himself,still feel uncomfortable
at his stomach sometimes.
Nowadays things are altogether different.It has been great changed for
people to spend the Spring Festival.Large supplies of all kinds of festival
goods are available in all large shopping malls,supermarkets,from seafood to
meat,from vegetables to fruits etc.Most families just ordered meal parties in
the restaurants and many people drive their own cars to visit relatives and
friends which was unimaginable when I was young.All in all,the Spring Festival
is not it used to be.From the different Spring Festivals we can see that the
living stand of Chinese people has improved a lot.Even many foreign countries
arrange colorful activities for celebrating Chinese Spring Festival now.The
Spring Festival of Chinese people has now become the festival global-wide.