Briefly describe the characteristics of folk customs.

1, a collection of folk cultural activities:? Any kind of folk custom is undoubtedly a kind of culture, which is called folk culture. Folklore is accompanied by the emergence of human groups. Therefore, folk customs cultivate social consistency, strengthen national identity, strengthen national spirit and shape national character.

2. Inheritance of folk cultural activities:? Folklore is the acquisition of knowledge, which needs to be handed down from generation to generation and has the continuity of time transmission. Folklore is a continuum of time. It is an objective reflection of a region's long-term cultural accumulation, a symbol of local culture and the inheritance of ancient culture. Therefore, inheriting folk culture is a continuation of ancient civilization and humanistic spirit, and it is a cultural belief.

3. What is the locality of folk cultural activities? Folk cultural activities are passed down from generation to generation, and besides the great cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, such as the Spring Festival activities have national characteristics. Every place has formed a small cultural tradition of serving the place according to its own special environment. The same folk custom will appear in different forms in different places, and different times and regions will have their own characteristics.

4. Variability of folk cultural activities: Due to the particularity of its inheritance, folk culture is relatively stable in daily life. However, as a basic culture, folklore is not static in the process of inheritance and dissemination. On the contrary, it constantly mutates with the change of time and space, forming the variability characteristics associated with stability. Variability is one of the remarkable features of China folk customs.

5. The richness of folk cultural activities:? At the beginning of its independence, China was a multi-ethnic country, forming a country where 56 ethnic groups meet today. The same folk customs, in the continuous integration of various ethnic groups in China, the customs of all ethnic groups have been accepted into the cultural system of China, but they have retained their own national characteristics, thus enriching the folk cultural activities in China.

6. Practicality of folk cultural activities: There is only one way to carry out folk cultural activities, that is, to serve people's daily needs. Practicality is the most essential feature of China folk customs. Folk culture serves people's production and life, and people rely on folk culture for production, reproduction and spiritual happiness.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-folk culture