What are the artificial holidays?

In recent years, there has been a fierce "festival trend" in mainland China, such as Chestnut Festival, Pants Festival, Tofu Festival, Tortoise Festival, Pig King Festival, Singles Day, Twins Cultural Festival... there are countless ways to do it.

In one western province alone, governments at or above the county level held hundreds of festivals in 2003, including five titled "Crab Festivals." Such man-made festivals often waste money, waste money, and are extravagant and wasteful. According to informal reports,

According to statistics, hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on holding various festivals in the Mainland every year. The result is often "celebrities make money, the government foots the bill, officials benefit, businessmen complain, and the people suffer." They are widely criticized by the people.

As more and more artificial festivals such as Mobile Phone Festival, Motorcycle Festival, Jewelry Festival, Clothing Festival, etc. choose to be held on National Day, the "warmth and happiness" that the traditional festival itself should give people is getting weaker and weaker.

In a word, although the various "festivals and market promotions" during the National Day holiday have enriched the content of the National Day, at the same time, the meaning and traditional cultural connotation of the National Day itself have also been gradually swallowed up.

It’s not just the National Day that has such an “encounter”. Many traditional festivals in China are “challenged” by man-made festivals.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and May Day are being artificially replaced by the Mooncake Festival, Zongzi Festival and various shopping festivals.

What kind of festival is a real festival?

Today, with so many man-made festivals approaching, how can we find the original meaning of the festival?

The origins of traditional festivals are mostly rooted in long historical origins and beautiful folklore.

Jiang Harvest, vice chairman of the Jingchu Folklore Research Association, said that the profound accumulation of history and culture is the fundamental driving force for the continuation of traditional festivals to this day.

Fan Kai, a Chinese folklore scholar, believes that searching for the "origin" of the festival has sounded the "death knell" for such festivals. The inability to spread is the main feature of various man-made festivals, and real festivals can withstand the test of time.