How to inherit and innovate traditional festival culture

To inherit the festival culture in China, we must establish a correct concept of festivals. Festivals are reunion, celebration, peace and respect for the old and love for the young. We should lead them from the family cultural tradition to the society, promote the harmony of neighborhood relations, and cultivate the traditional virtues of respecting the elderly and loving the young. Eating habits need to be optimized. Don't just treat holidays as a time to eat, drink and be merry. Festivals should aim at promoting family ties and friendship and meeting people's emotional needs, and give full play to rich cultural connotations. It is necessary to inherit and expand many functions of festivals, especially in inheriting and developing national traditional culture. Through traditional festivals, we can feel the broadness of Chinese excellent traditional culture, enrich our spiritual life, sublimate our moral realm, and feel the charm and strength of culture imperceptibly.

To carry forward the festival culture in China, we should pay attention to the innovation of form, process and transform the original tradition, extract its essence and add new elements of the times. On the one hand, we should strengthen the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, such as advocating honesty, respecting the old and loving the young, and attaching importance to blood relationship and family cohesion. On the other hand, we should keep pace with the times, absorb and integrate the lively and humorous elements in foreign festivals, and pay attention to communication and humanistic care. Some customs of traditional festivals should also be changed. In addition to eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and eating moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, innovative cultural activities should become the main trend of the festival, such as the Zongzi making competition recently launched by our bureau, the Spring Festival handwritten Spring Festival couplets competition, and the Mid-Autumn Festival photo exhibition of "Reunion of the Moon". These activities can cultivate sentiment, improve quality, safeguard social morality and enhance national cohesion.