#Today's Summer #Does life need rituals? Are you still celebrating the ancient Chinese festival today?

A while ago I saw some marketing tweets in my circle of friends, and the article said, "A woman without a sense of ceremony can't live a high-class life."

It's disgusting to see such words, pretentious and empty, but it doesn't mean that I deny the sense of ceremony. In connection with this issue of ancient Chinese traditional festivals, I think that the reason why these ancient festivals can still survive in this era is that people have a sense of ritual for history and tradition. We rely on folding time to summarize life and trace the meaning of life in different time and space.

A sense of ritual brings a sense of belonging, and that's a good thing.

I don't know what old traditions other people still celebrate, probably everyone has a different definition and attitude towards it.

One of my favorite festivals is the Day of Man. The seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar is said to be the day of mankind's birth. Nuwa created the world and made man on the seventh day. Folks used to call this day "Man Day", "Man Day Festival" or "Man Sheng Festival". Chinese people in this day to wear people win, eat seven treasures soup, eat noodles, climb high and write poems. Folklore experts say that the Day of Man reflects the ancient Chinese working people's desire to pray for good luck and peace and security, as well as their respect for "man" itself.

In our hometown, there are not many people who celebrate the "Day of the Man" now, and we don't eat seven treasures of soup and noodles. According to our custom, on the Day of Man, we should eat a table of green vegetables feast, seven kinds of green vegetables, seven pots. Every year on the seventh day of the first month, my mother would get up early, and then called me up, and together we went to the market to select the freshest seven kinds of vegetables. Young people are too troublesome, love to sleep, the morning market is not many people, are older housewives, somehow, I am obsessed with that scene, I think this is the wood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar and tea.

Many people know about the Lantern Festival, but they don't know that it was originally called the "Lantern Festival". The festival is the first of its kind in the world, and it is the first of its kind in the United States. The festival is actually a ghost festival, the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar. But I always do not like to call it "Ghost Festival", I think it carries a kind of disrespect, horror meaning, and called the "Festival of the Middle Ages", it gives birth to an inexplicable sense of history and closeness.

According to the custom in my hometown, we have to pay homage to our ancestors and wild spirits on the Mid-Yuan Festival. The day before, my mother would make a lot of cakes, and the patterns on the molds used to print the cakes were all meaningful. I asked my mother, "Why do we worship the wild spirits?" My mother said, "They have no relatives in their lives, no one to worship them after their deaths, and they have been starving for a year, so we feed them on this day and burn money for them, so that they can live well and we can live well, isn't that good?" Because of this explanation from my mother, I fell in love with this special holiday. Do not dislike traditions, and do not narrowly interpret these as narrow-minded, in my opinion, this holiday is full of the glory of humanity.

Love modernity and love tradition, and the two don't have to be pitted against each other. You can have Christmas and New Year's Eve and Chinese New Year, but don't just devalue a certain culture, especially tradition, that's what we should realize.