How should we treat traditional festivals?

Individually, as a Chinese person, we should maintain enough respect for traditional festivals. Because this is not only a kind of compliance with the historical traditions of the Chinese nation, but also a kind of confirmation of one's own national identity. The use of traditional festivals, close relationships with family members, enhance feelings with relatives and friends, so that in the busy process of work and study, so that they can not forget their obligations in the whole family, enhance the sense of belonging to the family belongs to the sense of belonging and pride.

In an open society, we certainly should not exclude foreign festivals, but at the same time, we can not because of the introduction of Western festivals on the neglect of their own traditional festivals. It is understandable to revere the foreigners, but pandering to them is not the right attitude. After we have tasted the novelty of Western festivals, it is time to reflect on how to treat traditional festivals.

The practice of trivializing traditional festivals as a way to present oneself as a newcomer to the times is extremely naive and ridiculous. In fact, the more open a society is, the more people should emphasize their ethnicity. Only if all peoples pay attention to maintain their own ethnicity, the world will appear diversified; human civilization will become rich and colorful. This is the correct attitude that people in the new era should hold in the face of different human civilizations.

The reasons for the decline of traditional festivals

1, traditional festivals are related to the farming culture, with the transformation of human society to urban and industrial civilization, the relationship between man and nature has been slowly estranged, and the traditional festivals rely on the cultural background tends to fade.

2, in the Internet era, by a variety of cultural information and lifestyle impact and influence, people are more looking to the future, looking forward, looking back at history is less and less interest, less and less opportunity, with which, people's awareness of the historical traditions and emotions are also becoming more and more diluted.

3, traditional festivals are all lunar calendar, and now people generally use the Gregorian calendar, over time, the lunar calendar as the scale of the traditional festivals will be easy to be ignored.

4, traditional festivals originated and developed in the acquaintance society, in this social environment, there is a very strong family, friendship or hometown affection between people, it is easy to form a mutual interaction and mingling, while the modern society is a high mobility of the society, the relationship between people is detached and loose, the traditional festivals need a qualitative change in the social environment to support the existence of its strength is getting weaker and weaker. Weakness.

5. In modern society, people's thinking space and living space have been greatly expanded, and the existence of the Internet has brought great convenience to people's material and spiritual life, so that people have more and more opportunities to enjoy entertainment and revelry, and as a result, the attractiveness of traditional festivals has decreased significantly.