Traditional festivals meet foreign festivals" as the topic of the essay

Almost all traditional festivals have inevitably fallen into the predicament of existing in name only, is this inevitable?

For many years people have been lamenting that the taste of festivals is getting fainter and fainter, and when the concept of "festivals" has been replaced by "holidays", the holiday economy and the resulting consumer frenzy provoked by the people's vacations have become the most magnificent landscape of the times. Festivals on the view of "political correctness" often leads our thinking to the national salvation of the court of justice without new ideas, it seems that the decline of local festivals are foreign foreign festivals to do ghosts, so, there is a Christmas in 2005 before and after the emergence of the "defense of the Spring Festival" type of crisis. The "defense of the Spring Festival" emerged around Christmas 2005, a kind of dangerous words. People have been arguing for at least 100 years about how local national cultural values should be protected, and will continue to do so at the same level, which obscures the crux of the issue.

In fact, almost all important traditional festivals, both in China and in Europe, are in great crisis. Festivals, which are rituals of cultural identity, have been marked by too much commerce in the age of globalization. In the 1990s, European countries, including France and Denmark, were y hurt by the penetration of consumer culture in the era of globalization, represented by the United States, and tried to resist it by promoting local cultural values - with little success, as you can see.

On the surface, the prevalence of Western festivals in contemporary China does seem to have a strong suspicion of "cultural self-colonization. It's hard to believe that a yellow-skinned, Chinese-speaking Chinese person would be keen to celebrate Christmas without any religious reasons, but as our numerous interviews have shown, for the majority of young people who ignore local festivals in favor of Western ones, they have no idea that Christmas is just a trendy consumer product from the West, like Hollywood blockbusters, Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton, the NBA and so on. It is a fashionable consumer product from the West. The specific meaning of Western cultural symbols has been muddied by consumerist desires.

We've become less and less aware of why we celebrate. We know and look forward to what may be just a good sleep or vacation to reduce stress, just a good reason to go crazy shopping or spending, just an excuse to party all night or even just a symbol used to show their fashion attitude, of course, needless to say, the holiday is a good opportunity for commercial promotion or a lever to pull domestic demand ...... All these have made the cultural flavor of our festivals very thin, and the ritual function of festivals in reinforcing people's sense of cultural identity is being lost day by day.

So if traditional Chinese festivals, represented by the Spring Festival, need to be protected and defended, their imaginary enemies are not imported festivals like Christmas, but all those things that deal a fatal blow to traditional values in the age of globalization.

Have a good holiday and take ourselves seriously.

18 Opinion Leaders on Festivals

Traditionally, Chinese native festivals mean commemorations, reunions, celebrations, and rituals, and after the Spring Festival, there are the Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Lifting Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Lunar New Year's Day, and so on. In addition, in recent years, Chinese people are also keen to celebrate "foreign festivals", such as Christmas, Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Easter and Halloween. According to a survey conducted by China Social Survey Office, 53.6% of young people celebrate "foreign festivals" to "find a reason to be happy"; as for the question "What is the difference between foreign festivals and traditional Chinese festivals? In terms of "What is the difference between foreign festivals and traditional Chinese festivals", 57.1% of men think that "traditional Chinese festivals stay on the level of material enjoyment such as food and clothing, while foreign festivals pay more attention to spiritual exchanges", and 60.7% of women think that "foreign festivals are relaxing and easy-going, while traditional Chinese festivals are tiring! "

In today's China, there are on average two festivals every month, how do people treat these festivals? The survey involves Confucian scholars, professors of religion, private tutors, former ambassadors to Germany, media commentators, professors at Chinese study institutions, young directors, musicians, foreign executives, beautiful writers, international models, magazine editors-in-chief, foreigners in China, party-goers, professional clergymen, mountain-climbing enthusiasts, overseas Chinese scholars, modern artists and so on. (Coordinator/Dong Wei)

Zhang Yang: "I don't know what day the Dragon Boat Festival is."

"A sixth-generation director" and one of the most sincere young film artists of our time. He has recently faced two major events, and his mood is most likely in a delicate state: first, his own film "Sunflower" won two awards in Spain last October, and second, his new film was released domestically at a dismal box office. Zhang Yang has been rather blasé on the subject of festivals.

"Festivals often mean that people get a period of freedom and happiness, and those of us who are in the movie business have a freer time than the general public. For me, a festival is a day to be happy."

Zhang Yang considers the real festivals to be mainly the Spring Festival, New Year's Day, May Day and National Day. Christmas is more like a day for young friends to get together, while on the Spring Festival, many people have to go home. On the second and third days of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Yang often goes to Yunnan to get together with friends in Dali and other places. Zhang Yang basically do not "Valentine's Day", which he believes is a holiday that young people before the age of 20 care about.

Zhang Yang believes that festivals are related to a person's upbringing, and that Valentine's Day and Christmas only appeared after the 1980s, and that people born after the 1980s have more memories of these "foreign festivals".

Zhang Yang knows what day Qingming and Mid-Autumn Festival fall on, but he doesn't know what day Dragon Boat Festival falls on. Zhang Yang does not think that "foreign festivals" is a "cultural invasion", "in fact, it is only so that the Chinese people can find a reason to revel in, its function is to provide an opportunity, and did not change the concept of human beings. In the future, there will not be only Christmas but not Spring Festival, because people have a historical heritage." (Interview / Wu Wei)

Motton: "Valentine's Day more holidays more formalized ah!"

Contacted the notorious beauty writer Cotton when she was having dinner with her friends, the hubbub coming from the microphone paved the way for a vivid backdrop - as if Cotton should be like this, always surrounded by a large group of friends, always the center of attention. Such a party animal must be full of interest in the festivities, and each of her holidays should be Colorful Days --

Cotton went so far as to say that on Christmas Eve she had planned to stay home, but the singer Jiang Xin, known as the female version of Xu Wei, asked her to go out to dinner, and so together they went to the "Happy Garden", and later went to the Beijing music station's famous DJ to Say Hello, out of the past "Babyface" when cotton and listened to their own hunches to go in to find the owner rarely appear, and opened two bottles of champagne! ...... In this way, the cotton intended to be quiet at home cotton had a noisy Christmas Eve. She said she didn't feel much for Christmas, but it was her youngest daughter who was passionate about it because every year she goes abroad to spend it with her dad, just like a standard foreign kid. Speaking of Valentine's Day gifts, Cotton's answer was "Never!" She said that if she were to cancel a holiday, it would be Valentine's Day, "What's the point? It's so fake and formalized! Don't you think it's boring?"

The most impressive holiday in the past year, cotton thought for half a day, seriously said it should be the Spring Festival, "because you can be with your family", the upcoming Spring Festival is also intended to "accompany mom and dad". As for his most happy holiday, cotton said one is two years ago in the Great Wall above the world's top DJ Party, another is not long ago in the Netherlands rock festival. For the masses of the festival, cotton can not say what the origin of foreign festivals allusion, but also can not think of any impressive traditional festivals celebrations, "I'm a person who has no feeling for the festival". (Interview/Han Feng)

Wang Dasan: "Our Christmas is supposed to be the birth anniversary of the Confucius Sage."

Wang Dasan, who drew numerous slates on major forums with a "Letter to the Nation on the So-Called Christmas Issue," is Wang Yong, a philosophy doctor at the National People's Congress (NPC). The so-called Dasan, benevolent people do not worry, the wise are not confused, the courageous are not afraid, this Confucianism three Dasan virtues also. Wang Yong said, this is his goal and ideal, "I want to do this three, so the name." Scholar's breath comes out.

Wang Yong insisted on using "Christmas" to call "Christmas", he said: "Holy, is the Christian's holy, not ours, so not 'Christmas', but 'Christmas'." He called the "Bible" "Yiddish" or "New Testament" or "Old Testament" in a tone of natural determination.

His daughter's kindergarten had a Christmas Day celebration, and he was very dissatisfied with the garden such an arrangement, so he did not let his daughter participate in it, and specially submitted a submission to the kindergarten side, but the stone sank without a trace, and he was quite helpless. "Why should we celebrate other people's festivals? We have our sage Confucius, Christmas should be the birth anniversary of the sage Confucius; we have our cowherd, Valentine's Day should not be Valentine's Day in February." He smiles sheepishly as he talks about how he used to even exchange gifts with his lover on Tanabata.

As a defender of Confucianism, he still has a tolerant attitude toward other religions as well. In the past, a temple with Confucius in the center, Laozi on the left, and Sakyamuni on the right, didn't bother anyone.

"One more Jehovah's Witness is not one less Chinese," he said, "Confucianism is a kind of spirit and thought that permeates the bones and blood of the Chinese people, and it's not something that can be washed away by another culture in a decade or two." Saying so, he still exudes a worried alarm, "This is a kind of universal unconsciousness, universal unconsciousness." Behind the customs and habits is a sense of cultural identity and national belonging. "Intellectuals have to speak out." He said, and made a show of leading the way.

Wang Yong is preparing to spend the upcoming Spring Festival in the most Chinese way possible: by squeezing into a train, going back to his hometown, kowtowing to his parents, having a family reunion dinner, and visiting the graves of his ancestors. His hometown is not too far away in Shandong, which is also the hometown of Confucius. (Interview/Yu Yanan)

Jin Yijiu: "If Christmas has been turned into a day that the Chinese have to revel in every year, shouldn't we push our Mid-Autumn Festival out of the country as well?"

When McDonald's just celebrated its 15th birthday in China, Prof. Jin Yijiu of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences stood up and said, "If we keep supporting McDonald's, this nation is doomed!" McDonald's, which hadn't even finished its birthday, was thus put on trial as a representative of imported culture.

Referring to this inference, which caused a great stir, Prof. Jin Yijiu laughed: "This quote is not my original, it is the words of an old teacher beside me, only I am a little bit more famous than he is, so I brought it up, and it got a little bit more attention and repercussions." His gentleness is not unlike that of many older professors in their early to mid-70s anywhere.

Because he flies around the world a lot, Kim Yi-koo feels like the festival is a blur. Earth festivals? Foreign festivals? All but festivals. Even the upcoming Chinese New Year seemed like a common day to Prof. Kim.

When he was studying abroad, he was invited to a friend's house for Christmas. In Jin Yijiu's mind, the so-called festivals should always be celebrated with family members, but after so many years away from his hometown of Shanghai, the concept of festivals has long disappeared from his mind. Only when it comes to the Spring Festival when he was a child, he is slightly excited, talking about the young family wearing robes in the New Year's Eve to relatives, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, his family to make moon cakes, what kind of fillings to put, said as if close to the present. "In fact, these traditional festivals of our China are very good, it has its own culture in it, but people nowadays don't know how to cherish it." A long sigh.

Professor Jin used the term "cultural penetration" to replace "cultural invasion", and he magnanimously understood the young people's curiosity about foreign festivals. As a person who doesn't celebrate many festivals, he doesn't really care what kind of festivals are the most popular nowadays, but he just hopes that the ones that shouldn't be forgotten aren't forgotten. In his paper, "Islamic Culture and the West," he mentions, "Human society is constantly developing and advancing through cultural intermingling among different peoples."

In Prof. Kim's opinion, if Christmas is turned into a day that Chinese people have to revel in every year, shouldn't we push our Mid-Autumn Festival out of the country as well? "The integration is mutual." (Interview/Yu Yanan)

Cai Jiahe: "Whether it's the Dragon Boat Festival, or Halloween, we'll have events to celebrate."

The Center for Chinese and American Cultural Studies, a joint venture between Nanjing University and Hopkins University, enrolls 50 Chinese and 50 American students each year: Chinese (including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) students are enrolled by Nanjing University, and American students (including a few other international students) are enrolled by Hopkins University. Students receive interdisciplinary and intercultural education and training in a bilingual environment.

"Whether it's Dragon Boat Festival or Halloween, we have events to celebrate." "Professor Chia-Ho Tsai, associate director for academic affairs at the Center for Chinese and American Cultural Studies, said, "In this environment, celebrating festivals is a major way for students to communicate with each other emotionally."

Professor Cai, who is busy preparing for the dinner, describes himself as an enlightened neo-con, and is enthusiastic about the prevalence of Western festivals in China. "For young people nowadays, these Western religious festivals, such as Christmas and Easter, don't have a lot of religious connotations, but are just used as an opportunity for cultural exchange and emotional communication. Those who are truly religious naturally still have different ways of celebrating the holidays from the general public, such as going to church." The first traditional festival for the fall enrollment at the "China-US Center" is the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, which Prof. Cai says is held to allow Western students to learn more about China and integrate into local customs.

This past Christmas was also a very festive occasion for the Center, which organized Christmas dinners, parties, and special Christmas movies, all of which Prof. Cai attended "because I like to see the enthusiasm of the young students," he said. because I also like to see the enthusiasm of the young students." When it comes to the Spring Festival in the near future, Prof. Cai is certain that it will still be spent in the most traditional way: visiting friends and relatives, having a reunion dinner, etc., "and of course setting off firecrackers." He added with a smile. (Interview/Yin Beibei)

Bao Yifeng: "Once there are more festivals, the happiest people are the merchants."

Bao Yifeng, general manager of Shanghai's Linjie Fashion, is a veteran party planner, an "aeronaut" who flew back and forth from an art show in Miami to a Dior launch party in Beijing, and was interviewed by this reporter shortly after arriving back in Shanghai.

Christmas is not intentionally designed, is at home, at first called a dozen friends over to drink, dinner, and later came to more than 10 people, but also like a Party. Chinese people, first of all, we have to inherit our own traditions well." He mentioned that Hong Kong people would give people a holiday during traditional festivals, such as the winter solstice, Ching Ming and Dragon Boat Festival, which is very humane, but not on the mainland.

Among the traditional festivals, Xiaobao attaches the most importance to the Spring Festival because it is the time to fulfill filial piety. On the first and second day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Bao will visit relatives and elders, and after the third and fourth day, he may travel abroad to a warmer place for a vacation. "Due to holiday inertia, the average Chinese person won't get back to work until the 15th day of the first month, so it might be too much to bear if they're all at home for the entire Spring Festival vacation." Valentine's Day falls on Hu Bing's birthday, which Xiao Bao and the others tend to celebrate.

Small packs noticed that the boom of "foreign" festivals is also touched by the businessmen, "they can't wait for the whole country to celebrate the holiday, so they can do more business," said small packs said the example of Shanghai, "the Hilton Hotel on the 25th of December, the Hilton Hotel on the 25th of December, the Hilton Hotel in Shanghai. On December 25th, the Hilton Hotel reportedly had 800 diners, basically Chinese (many foreigners went home for Christmas), and record sales of more than one million dollars. All the other 5-star western restaurants were also said to be full. People go there, presumably because they think they can get authentic Western food."

There are an odd number of festivals now, and I've heard there's a Secretary's Day. "As soon as there are more festivals, the happiest ones are the merchants," said Bao, adding that China Mobile will make a killing on SMS revenue whenever there are festivals, and that one of the operator's maneuvers is that it will hire some SMS writers to write some funnier SMS blessings, and then let these blessings be spread among cell phone users, so that the message fee rolls into They are in their pockets. (Interview/Wu Wei)

Chen Jing: "Chinese festivals are also celebrated by many people abroad."

This principal oboist of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra is a handsome man who often performs all over the world. Oboe virtuoso Maurice Bourgue (former principal of the Orchestre de Paris), Hansjorg Schellenberger (principal of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), and Anthony Camden (former principal oboist of the London Symphony Orchestra) are among his mentors.

As in previous years, Chen spent Christmas Eve performing. As a professional performer who is on stage most holidays of the year, Chen says, "Chinese New Year is the holiday I look forward to the most. This Spring Festival, we will go back to my wife's hometown, Dalian."

Chen's friends, like him, don't have a lot of time for festivals, but they all value traditional Chinese festivals, while Western festivals seem to them to be just a ritual for people to get together.

The Starfish Concert Hall held an outdoor reception for Christmas 2005, and, he says, "The hall itself is a Westernized place. "

Chen also has a busy schedule, and on May 1, 2005, he and his wife took a trip to the Philippines." The holidays are just an excuse to spend time with family or to travel." Chen Jing, who has studied abroad, says, "Chinese festivals are celebrated by many people abroad. One year, my wife and I were in Japan for Chinese New Year, when Chinatown was bustling and Japanese people were particularly interested in this foreign festival, Chinese restaurants were doing a great business, and Chinese handicrafts and food were selling particularly well."

"The most touching holiday story," Chen Keng said without thinking, "is the story of the Mid-Autumn Festival, where Chang'e runs to the moon full of warmth and poetry, and also expresses the longing for loved ones." Although there are so many festivals, Chen Jing believes that one should not be canceled, "Each festival has its rationality of existence. As long as it's a festival, as long as it's a vacation, I love it." (Interview/Sun Linlin)

Eleven: "Chongyang Festival must be celebrated."

He loves hiking and almost turned his hobby into a profession, but luckily he realized it early and now works for a charitable educational foundation, thus releasing some of his flourishing love. The most satisfying personal name: assistant to the general director and member of the 2003 Everest climbing team. He is also a member of the Outdoor Sports Committee of the China Mountaineering Association and vice president of the Shenzhen Mountaineering Association.

Xi Lang works in Beijing and has family in Shenzhen. He has a lot of friends, and Christmas 2005 was all about getting together with a large group of familiar netizens, swimming, playing pool, eating, playing cards, and singing.

He can't stay idle, but he must go home on New Year's Eve. He values Chinese festivals, the Spring Festival to keep home, the Mid-Autumn Festival also want to have a family reunion, he recalled: "When I was a kid, I had the Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, but now it's rare. The Chongyang Festival is a must, and the end of September and the beginning of October is the prime time for hiking, so you can find a mountain of one or two kilometers with a group of hiking friends and have some fun. Around the Spring Festival may choose some neighboring places to play four or five days, ice climbing or skiing."

After so many festivals in the heat of the moment, the one that Xilang remembers most is Mother's Day in 2003. He was climbing Everest at the time and wrote a postcard to his mom from Everest Base Camp the day before he left, making this Mother's Day especially meaningful to him.

"Chinese New Year is a good time for a longer vacation, giving people time to recuperate while better planning for the next year. Originally, the festival was an excuse to add a little change to people's lives, and many of the holiday stories are nonsense, but this is not important, the important thing is to have a lively atmosphere. You can't get more and more fickle over the holidays, you have to be down-to-earth, enjoyable and comfortable."

In addition, Eleven said, "Christmas and New Year's Day can be completely merged, because it is too close." (Interview/Sun Linlin)

Chinese and Western festivals have been drained of their cultural connotations, and the tide of consumption has diluted the warmth of the festivals

Whether it's the traditional Chinese festivals or the various foreign festivals, their cultural connotations have been drained of their cultural connotations. We can not leave the festival, can not bear to see all the festivals are reduced to shopping festival, dinner festival, we need to find in the tradition of each other in the exchange of the bottom of the air. <! -- Technology Inside - 360*300 Picture in Picture -->

Wen/Wang Jian

Most of our traditional festivals are closely linked to the ancient agricultural production, when we say goodbye to the farming society to industrial society, the traditional festivals in the era of industrial production began to function in the decline of the West, Western learning in the East, the West Festival is also rapidly in the land of the branches and leaves flourish up, and even have a clamor to take over! The momentum of the festival! Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving seems to have become a glorious "Chinese festival", the shrewd businessmen's momentum plus the young generation's blind followers are fueled by - the traditional festivals are fading away and the western festivals are in full swing.

Western festivals have come on strong, but to say that they are as formidable as the ships and cannons of the past may be an exaggeration. Although the culture of festivals in the Western world began to sprout before the birth of Christianity, it really grew after Christianity came to power. It has been more than four centuries since Matteo Ricci spread the Bible in China using Confucian classics in the 10th year of the Wanli reign (1582 AD).

In contrast, traditional Chinese festivals have not been strongly protected; after 1949, most festivals were abolished as remnants of feudalism, and the only ones that survived were the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, of which only the Spring Festival was included in the official holidays. It was not until 1999 that the State Council issued the "Measures for National Festivals and Memorial Days" that the number was increased to 10. Such a level is obviously too low when compared with the 69 days in China during the Song Dynasty, 15 days in Japan, 16 days in Korea, 22 days in Macao and 23 days in the United States. The relegation of traditional festivals and the arrogance of foreign festivals form the most dramatic scene of the era.

People born more than 20 years ago still vaguely remember the dates of the seasons and festivals detailed on the old almanacs that turned the pages every day. Turning the pages of many current calendars, the only traditional festival left is the Spring Festival. Important festivals such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Shangsi Festival, Summer Solstice, Mid-Yuan Festival, Winter Solstice, Lapa Festival, and Zaosai Festival, have all faded from the calendar. Also fading are special rituals such as agricultural sacrifices, ancestor worship, deity worship, and exorcism of evil spirits to avoid disasters. Can future generations only experience those rituals, which have thousands of years of splendor and romance, in ancient texts?

It can not be denied that traditional festivals now do not suit the ingredients, but if it will be regarded as worthless immediately into the embrace of foreign festivals is tantamount to waving a sword to the palace. Festivals are not only the spice of daily life, but also a way to maintain a sense of national identity. It is interesting, but also upsetting, that UNESCO's World Teachers' Day, Teachers' Day in the United States, and Teachers' Day in Taiwan and Hong Kong are all celebrated on September 28, the birthday of Confucius, a day that we ourselves have deliberately avoided.

Why is it that foreign festivals are so popular and traditional festivals are so quiet? Scholars see this as cultural arrogance and self-colonization. Recent history has left the country with more than just endless resentment and a deep-seated inferiority complex. Backwardness and beatings have become the customary summary of recent history, and numbness, inferiority complex and even hatred have become the attitude of most people towards their own culture.

Human beings themselves are only an accidental branch on the branch of the evolutionary tree, and the iron law behind human history is only a kind of fetish under the domination of anthropocentric theories, and the process of modernization cannot be the unavoidable destination of human history, and it is even more unlikely that it can become the "City of God" that can save human beings, but on the contrary, the aggressiveness of modernization is very important to human "culture". On the contrary, the aggressiveness of the modernization process may be devastating to the "cultural ecology" of human beings. In this seemingly inescapable situation, both traditional Chinese festivals and foreign festivals have in fact been emptied of their flavor and have become mere ornaments. For example, Christmas to us here is a consumer day, or fashion labeling, not so much to the traditional Chinese holidays pose much of a threat. The real danger comes from ourselves, as warm festivals like the Mid-Autumn Festival have become a showcase for mooncake merchants and a conduit for unscrupulous politicians to engage in corruption and speculation.

Fei Xiaotong once proposed that as a world power and an ancient civilization, China should have such a cultural mindset and cultural aspirations: "each beautiful, the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty of the beauty and the beauty of ****, the world is the same. Such an ideal can also be used to express our attitude towards festivals, not to be humble and not to be overbearing. In today's serious lack of cultural identity, not changing the festival banner to make money to consume, but with a reverent heart to seriously live our own traditional festivals, this may be our duty.

The gods and goddesses under the mask of festivals

Festivals are a part of culture, and an extremely important part of it, which defines a person's cultural identity and maintains the relationship between a person and his or her traditions in a ritualized way. In the globalized imagination***similarity, many human values are converging, and festivals may be the last barriers to maintain people's cultural identity. Maintaining traditional festivals is not simply a gesture of exclusionary cultural conservatism to resist the "invasion" of Christmas and other foreign festivals and to keep foreign festivals out of the country, but rather to prevent the tendency of the wave of globalization to cause the hollowing out of national cultural values and commercialization.

Wen/Li Guoqing

Even though we have long been well-fed, running on the road to prosperity, no longer looking forward to the Spring Festival to eat and drink a meal, and can even go at any time to kiss the air of Europe, the trend of Tokyo, New York's fashion, Hong Kong's Disneyland, but we are still in a kind of hunger and thirst for festivals - Christmas, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day and other festivals. Christmas, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, Lantern Festival, Halloween, Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, April Fool's Day, Chung Yeung Festival ...... The number of festivals nowadays can be described as a flood, but people's love for festivals has not been diminished by the age of "entertainment to the death" of the gods and goddesses. We are still absolutely hyper-globalized, enjoying traditional, imported and customized festivals alike.

Sociologists are disturbed by the fact that, at least superficially, traditional festivals are on their last legs, while imported ones are on the ascendancy, a situation that naturally leads to deafening declarations of "defense of the Chinese New Year" by know-it-alls!

Chinese festival

"The so-called festival is a day when everyone puts down their work, puts down their worries, and gathers together happily. Singing, dancing, and more importantly, eating and drinking. Of course, for people like me who don't like to get together, the festival is even a good day for reading." Shen Hongfei wrote an article, "Over the Festival," which begins by talking about the spiritual significance of the festival.

Some of this interpretation is as plain as water, singing and dancing, there is a magnificent spiritual significance, but the only thing missing is the material significance of the impact of the desire to consume, it is difficult to pierce the kernel of the festival in China, for the Chinese people who like the new and hate the old, the significance of the festival is not static, but also accompanied by the whole of the Supergirl or Jay Chou's lisping voice of the song in line with the times.

The significance of festivals before the reform and opening up of China is not the same as it is today. If you ask any old man over the age of 60, he will tell you that the significance of the Spring Festival is that you can wear new clothes and eat a lot of meat and fish. Ask anyone who was born in the 60s or 70s, and they will tell you that the meaning of Chinese New Year is to set off firecrackers, have a Chinese New Year Gala, and go home for the New Year. Ask anyone from the 80s and they'll tell you that the meaning of Chinese New Year is relaxing, traveling, playing video games, and collecting New Year's money.

As the world dons a funny Santa hat, it is also a metaphor for the decline of Chinese festivals. I searched Google and found 20 important traditional Chinese festivals, including Zhonghe (February 2), Shangsi (March 3), Tian Kuang (June 6), Summer Solstice, Tanabata and Winter Solstice, etc. I'm sure many people have rarely heard of these festivals, let alone participated in them and had fun at them.

So experts are anxious that modern people have lost their traditions. Because these festivals and my generation of Chinese heirs, dragon sons and grandsons have inherited origins, for example, with the sun and moon seasonal rendezvous related to the Spring Festival, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Zhonghe Festival, on the Si Festival, Qingming Festival, Tian Kuang Festival, Summer Solstice Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival ...... On the other hand, "Ren Sheng Festival" on the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, "Buddha Bathing Festival (Sakyamuni's birthday)" on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, "Zhong Yuan Festival (Ghost Festival)" on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and "Xi Yuan Festival (Ghost Festival)" on the fifteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, are all related to the Chinese New Year. "Xiayuan Festival (Birthday of ShuiGuan Da Di)" are derived from Chinese legends, myths and religions.

Thus, from the root of the analysis, the Chinese traditional festivals and even the development of inheritance, are rooted in millenniums of farming civilization, also in line with the experts generously stated three major characteristics: the Chinese lunar calendar for the service of agricultural production for the carving out of a specific seasonal nodes; the Chinese people highly respected the "unity of mankind and the sky" philosophical thinking. Excluding the externality and contingency of these seasonal nodes for the ancients

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