Chinese civilization etiquette and fine tradition

Top of the willow bloom green, the lake blue, another year of spring time. In the blink of an eye, the Aojiu Festival is approaching.

The Au Jiu Festival, which falls on the 29th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, is an important festival for the people of Fuzhou. On this day, everyone has to eat "au jiu congee". Its origin comes from the folk legend of "Meilian Saves Mother". It is said that a filial son, Meilian, in order to save his mother who had fallen into hell and suffered a lot, tried every possible means to cook a sweet porridge with peanuts, cinnamon, jujubes, brown sugar and sesame seeds in a cauldron and fed it to his mother, and eventually saved her from the sea of suffering. This day falls on the twenty-ninth day of the first month, and later generations have been moved to follow suit and become a custom. The central purpose of the Festival is to advocate filial piety, promote the Chinese nation's filial piety and respect for parents, the purpose is to eat this meal with a unique flavor of porridge, revisit the story of the mother's rescue of "Megilian", the inheritance of filial piety and respect for the virtues of parents. Last year, the relevant departments of Fuzhou City, this popular folk festival named "filial piety festival", to the traditional festival injected a new connotation, making it more popular.

Filial piety and respect for parents is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation, respect for the elderly culture is an important part of Chinese civilization. "Disciples into the filial piety, out of the brotherhood of God, careful and trust, love all and pro-kindness", "old age, as well as the old man; young, as well as the young man" and other filial piety maxims, more than 2,000 years has been a must-read lines of enlightenment and education. Currently, we are in the spiritual civilization is to vigorously advocate respect for the elderly and respect for social morality. The city of Fuzhou has designated the Aojiu Festival as the "Festival of Filial Piety", which not only enriches the connotation of the festival, but also enhances the cultural taste of this ancient festival, making it a carrier for spreading the way of filial piety. China not only wants to rise peacefully, but also wants to rise in etiquette and public morality. New Year's Day is a combination of traditional culture and poetic life, the rich culture contained in the festival, advocated by the social morality, for the enhancement of family affinity and national cohesion, are of great significance. The promotion of the culture of respect for the elderly will certainly promote the formation of a more civilized atmosphere in society as a whole, and promote more civilized families to set up their own homes and rule with virtue. "Elderly people should give in less, young people should restrain themselves." When elders and children are close to each other, families are harmonious. And a beautiful, cozy home is exactly the social cornerstone we need to build a harmonious society today.

"Harmony is precious, harmony is a treasure." Harmony is an important form of beauty, and a harmonious society is the beautiful society we dream of. May the traditional culture carried by the Argumentative Nine Festival blow across the land with the February spring breeze, so that the virtue of filial piety and obedience to parents will be carried forward. If so, the social harmony, family happiness.