What is the social function of national customs?

The role of national customs and habits

Today, traditional festivals in China are becoming a hot topic in Chinese communities all over the country and the world. The relevant state departments have adjusted the national legal holidays, and traditional festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival will be added as national legal holidays. This is a great event in China's cultural construction. Its significance is far-reaching and cannot be overestimated.

New Year, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, today, why do we still have traditional festivals? How to celebrate traditional festivals under today's historical conditions?

In order to make our topic easier, let's start with "explaining words"! If you want to speak, you must first understand the words: where did the word "festival" come from and how did it come together? What is the original meaning of the word "festival"? The word node originally refers to the place where bamboo leaves grow and branch. Bamboo festival is the original meaning, but it is already an extension. Knowing this, we can understand that our ancestors used bamboo to compare our lives. Ordinary days are like bamboo tubes, slippery and fleeting. Festivals are bamboo festivals, and we don't want all the days to slip away like this.

There are three sources of New Year festivals in China: one is arranged according to the seasonal climate, that is, 24 solar terms, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and winter solstice; Second, the new moon is a festival, so many people celebrate the first and fifteenth days of a month, especially the Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, which are loved and valued by people. Third, odd-numbered months and days overlap, that is, the first day of the first month, the third day of March, the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival in May, the seventh day of Qixi in July, and the ninth day of the Double Ninth Festival in September. These are all "big festivals", and there are also some "small festivals", such as "Dragon Raise its Head on February 2", "Flower Festival on February 12, 200" and "Dressing Festival on June 6".

There are twelve months throughout the year, and there are festivals in every season and festivals in every month. Festivals are evenly distributed in the four seasons, which fully embodies China people's closeness to nature, care for life and call for human feelings. China people conform to nature, but they are not passively dependent, and they can make a difference. They believe that man proposes and God disposes, which is called "dynamic adaptation". We live, work, fall in love, give birth and spring according to the natural rhythm. Autumn harvest and winter storage. Traditional festivals take into account the sun, moon and stars, seasonal changes and the relationship between the earth and human beings. China's traditional festivals are the product of our ancestors' consciousness of the times and the concrete embodiment of China people's world outlook of "harmony between man and nature".