Briefly describe the Chinese New Year plot of China people! ! !

In the last month of 2005, Miss Zhu Fang, who worked as a secretary in a central institution in Beijing, began to get excited and busy, because in the next month and a half, she concentrated on several favorite festivals of the year.

China people regard all kinds of foreign things as "foreign". At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, besides the traditional Spring Festival in China, there are many "foreign" festivals: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day and so on. In the past, for some China people who worked in foreign companies or had a background of studying abroad, it was just a Christmas. Today, more and more people, whether adults, children, officials or ordinary people, are beginning to participate. On this day, they have to express something more or less, send greeting cards, send text messages on their mobile phones, or have dinner with relatives and friends in bars and restaurants. Valentine's Day is mainly a festival for young people, while Halloween is mainly a patent project for fashionable young people. Rupei, a good friend of Zhu Fang, said that the editor-in-chief of the magazine where she works received a Christmas card from a classmate studying at the Central Party School (a school that trains and trains senior officials in China).

As a "foreign" festival, Christmas is increasingly loved by China people. From the initial commercial speculation, it has gradually become a habit of people. Most people in China spend Christmas in their own way. In the bustling Xidan Cultural Square in Beijing, merchants erected several Christmas trees for passers-by to hang up notes with their wishes. Within a day or two, the trees are full of people's wishes, some of which say "I wish the people I love and those who love me happiness", "I wish my parents a long and healthy life", "I hope my postgraduate entrance examination will be successful one year later", "I hope my girlfriend will be admitted to a good university", and some say "For.

Sociologists say that Christmas is becoming more and more popular in China, because it has a good "appearance", and the red tone meets the requirements of China people for the theme of the festival, which is festive and peaceful. At Christmas, you will find many places where Santa Claus and China's red lanterns are together, which looks very harmonious.

The more obvious aspect of Christmas's popularity in China is that it caters to the rising tide of consumerism in China. Every Christmas comes, restaurants and shopping malls are almost invariably decorated with Santa Claus and Christmas trees, and waiters, shopping guides and salespeople are all permeated with Christmas atmosphere. All kinds of promotional activities were carried out with great fanfare in the cheers of Merry Christmas.

Many private owners in southern China are happy in the months before Christmas, and their Christmas product orders come from all over the world, even the White House. 70% of Christmas products in the world are made in China. For them, this is a festival with money to earn.

For Zhu Fang, Christmas gives her an excuse to go out happily and eat delicious food. After a series of contacts and meetings, Zhu Fang and a group of her friends went to the Great Wall Hotel on Christmas Eve in eastern Beijing, where there was a buffet and a song and dance performance. After 10, Zhu Fang left his friend who was still waiting for the lucky draw and went to Siku Church alone. This is what she planned long ago. On Christmas Eve in 2004, she and her college classmates also went to Siku Church after watching the movie. It has always been a pity that she missed listening to the hymn.

Zhu Fang, 200 1 graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University, and had a short experience of studying in the UK after working. She said that listening to evening prayers in a church in London made her unforgettable. Like many young people in China, she doesn't believe in Catholicism, but she likes the atmosphere of the church: pure and peaceful.

However, this year's Christmas Eve is still a pity for her, because people attending church mass must enter with tickets, but they can't. After listening outside for a while, she reluctantly went home.

That night, photographer Arlo and his friends stayed at Sishku Church until midnight. Xishiku Church (also called Beitang), with a history of more than 130 years, is one of the four famous Catholic churches in Beijing, and now there is a plaque inscribed by Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (A.D.17th century). Christmas Eve Mass in Beitang is held at midnight, but since 7 pm, Christians and non-Christians come to the church in an endless stream. The staff had to stop the rope, and all the visitors had to line up in a single line, so they crowded until 1 1 at night. Many non-Christians wear Santa's red hat and come together. They take pictures with camera phones. By 1 1 in the afternoon, the church was emptied, and the people who attended the Christmas Eve mass were admitted with tickets, basically parishioners. It is said that the tickets were issued a week ago.

Christmas is a Christian and Catholic festival, and the number of Christians and Catholics in China is quite objective. According to the data in Freedom of Religious Belief in China published by China the State Council Press Office, there are about 4 million Catholics in China,100000 Christians. And this number is still increasing. Arlo thinks this also shows that the popularity of Christmas in China has a certain mass base.

After Christmas and New Year's Day, the end of 65438+ 10 in 2006 is the traditional Spring Festival in China. This is the most lively family reunion festival in China. At this time, China people hope that the whole family can get together for a reunion dinner, set off firecrackers and fireworks, and visit relatives and friends. As more and more people leave their hometown to work and study in other cities, especially big cities, the Spring Festival means returning to their hometown for the holidays for many people. According to the data of relevant departments, during Spring Festival travel rush in 2005, the number of people traveling in China exceeded 654.38+09 billion, and it is expected to exceed 2 billion this year. Although the transportation capacity of China has been improved year by year, it still cannot meet the demand well. Therefore, the transportation capacity is quite tight at this time of the year. Due to economic reasons, most people choose to travel by train, so buying tickets to go home has become a headache. Ma Liqiang, deputy secretary-general of the National Development and Reform Commission, said: "The shortage of transportation capacity will not be solved in five to 10 years, and the staged tension in Spring Festival travel rush may last longer."

Talking about his feelings about the Spring Festival, Lin, who graduated from the Economics Department of Fudan University and now works in the Ministry of Construction of China, said: "That feeling is really both happy and sad." It's good to be reunited with my parents, but it was very troublesome to buy tickets before, and I finally got home. It's easier said than done. Those who are developed outside, if their grades are not outstanding, or even those who are in a bad situation, can imagine the pressure under the current social atmosphere of keeping up with the joneses. In addition, the traditional virtues of China people, such as respecting the old and loving the young, should be most vividly displayed in the Spring Festival-of course, it should be embodied in the material, so the Spring Festival is not only tiring, but also tiring.

Now there are many people who have the same idea as Lin. Young people in many cities have begun to get tired of eating, drinking and giving gifts during the Spring Festival. This situation has caused some people's worries. Just after New Year's Day, Gao Youpeng, a Chinese folklorist, wrote a declaration to defend the Spring Festival, appealing to the society that the Spring Festival, as a representative of China's traditional culture and an important "intangible heritage" of national culture, should be "protected" in today's globalized cultural context.

With the increasing popularity of "foreign" festivals and the gradual decline of traditional festivals, this anxiety and worry have existed in recent years. Compared with the Spring Festival, other traditional festivals seem to be even more declining. Although most people in China still eat jiaozi on Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, the connotation of festival culture is withering and people's enthusiasm for participation is decreasing.

Sociologist Wu Ming believes that traditional festivals in China do face some difficulties. This is related to social changes. Urbanization has greatly changed the social structure, people's lifestyle, life rhythm and interpersonal relationship. Many traditional festivals related to agriculture, rural areas and acquaintance society will naturally be looked down upon.

At the same time, the connotation of festival culture began to change. For example, the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional festival, is full of poetic, historical and humanistic flavor, and it is a pleasure to taste all kinds of moon cakes on a full moon night. However, in recent years, moon cakes have become more luxurious, more exquisite and more expensive, and the so-called "sky-high moon cakes" have appeared. These moon cakes are not all used to satisfy delicious food, but have become gifts used by some units and individuals for communication and public relations.

In June, 2005, gangneung danoje festival declared by South Korea was officially recognized by UNESCO as "representative of oral and intangible heritage of mankind", which ended the year-long dispute between China and South Korea on the application for the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China with a history of more than 2,500 years. It was introduced to neighboring countries many years ago, where the process of "localization" was completed. Gangneung danoje festival's application for World Heritage once again triggered China people's thinking about how to protect their traditional culture and festivals. Many experts and scholars once again put forward that some traditional festivals in China should be designated as legal festivals to protect traditional festivals in China.

The government also began to intervene in the protection of traditional festivals in China. On June 5438+February 3, 20051,the Ministry of Culture of China publicized the first batch of recommended national intangible cultural heritage, including the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and other traditional festivals in China. Some media believe that this marks a "national holiday defense war" from the government level.

Of course, some people disagree with the statement of "excuse". An article signed by Mo Xi published in Modern Express said: Spring Festival not only does not need a sense of security, but also should be properly cooled. First of all, the Spring Festival is purely folk. It is best for officials not to engage in all kinds of stylized and formalized activities before and after the Spring Festival, so that the people can freely and easily live a pure Lunar New Year. Secondly, people should also change their customs and learn foreign festivals. Don't eat or drink at home all day, stay up late to "build the Great Wall" (play mahjong).

The article also said that when it comes to traditional festivals, experts clamor for "protection and rescue", but in fact, many of our traditional festivals have gone stale. What we want to protect is the original flavor of those festivals, the excellent folk customs that are disappearing day by day, rather than blindly protecting a festival that has become a bit stale. If the Spring Festival needs to be saved, it should first be restored to a pure traditional festival.

Background information:

Some important traditional festivals in China:

Spring Festival: The most solemn and lively traditional festival among the people in China. Also called "Chinese New Year". It is the only legal traditional festival in China at present. It originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors from the beginning to the end of the Shang Dynasty (around 2000 BC). Now the Spring Festival usually falls in the solar calendar 1 or February, and the traditional Spring Festival usually lasts from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first month. During this period, the Han nationality and most ethnic minorities in China will hold various celebrations.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household should clean up and start shopping, and prepare some gifts when visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival. Children should buy new clothes and hats to wear during the Spring Festival. On the door of the house, there is a New Year greeting in red paper and yellow characters, that is, Spring Festival couplets. Colorful New Year pictures were posted in the room, and ingenious girls cut out beautiful window grilles and stuck them on the windows. Hanging red lanterns in front of the door, or putting the word "Fu" upside down, the god of wealth, the door god, means being blessed.

The night before New Year in China is called New Year's Eve, also known as reunion night. Celebrating the New Year is one of the most important custom activities in the year when the old and the new turn. On New Year's Eve, the whole family will celebrate the New Year together, get together for a good drink and enjoy family happiness. There is a custom of eating jiaozi in the north and rice cakes in the south.

On New Year's Day, men, women and children all wear holiday clothes. First of all, they pay New Year greetings to their elders, give children lucky money and have a family reunion dinner. On the second and third days, they began to visit their relatives and friends, celebrate the New Year with each other and say something to congratulate them on their new happiness and wealth.

In some places, there are customs such as lion dancing, playing dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets and temple fairs until the end of the Spring Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Lantern Festival: The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients in China called the night "Xiao", so they called the 15th day of the first month the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year, and it is also the night when spring returns to the earth. People celebrate it and celebrate the continuation of the Spring Festival. On this night, people light lanterns to celebrate. Go out to enjoy the moon, set off firecrackers and fireworks, eat Yuanxiao in solve riddles on the lanterns, and have a family reunion.

Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of the fifth lunar month, around June in the solar calendar, has a history of more than 2,000 years. There are many legends about the Dragon Boat Festival. The most popular story is about Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet around 300 BC, who threw himself into the river because his wish to serve his country could not be realized. Since then, on the day he threw himself into the river, that is, on the fifth day of May every year, there has been the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine; In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most important festival in China, and it is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping is an activity to sacrifice and commemorate the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, according to the solar calendar, between April 4th and 6th every year, it is the season of beautiful spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing (called outing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities.

Mid-Autumn Festival: The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is in the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. The ancients in China believed that the moon on August 15 was rounder and brighter than the full moons in other months, and there was a cold reception and moon sacrifice every Mid-Autumn Festival night. There are moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums, grapes and other sacrifices under the moon, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. The whole family takes turns in Yue Bai, and then the housewife cuts the reunion moon cakes. If people are laid off in advance, the number of the whole family, whether at home or in other places, should be counted, and the size should be the same. On this night, people are looking forward to family reunion, and wanderers who are far away from home also take this opportunity to pin their thoughts on their hometown and relatives. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival".

Double Ninth Festival: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Because the Book of Changes in ancient China defined "six" as a negative number and "nine" as a positive number, and September 9th, the heavier of the two, was called Chongyang, also called Jiujiu, because it was homophonic with "Jiujiu" and meant longevity. Moreover, autumn is also the golden harvest season of the year. The ancients thought it was an auspicious day to celebrate, and they began to celebrate it from a very young age.

The activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival are colorful and romantic, which generally include traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high into the distance, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, eating the Double Ninth Festival cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

Today's Double Ninth Festival has been given a new meaning. 1989, China designated the ninth day of the ninth lunar month as the festival for the elderly, which also became a festival to respect, love and help the elderly.