How contemporary young people face traditions

Traditional festivals, including Spring Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, are an important part of traditional Chinese culture and an important manifestation of cultural vitality. The rise of Qingming Festival from folklore to a national legal holiday is not only a historic event that respects the masses and responds to public opinion, but more importantly, it can be considered as a sort of correction of 100 years of radical and biased attitudes towards traditional Chinese culture, from which we can see a solid step towards rebuilding the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation.

It is right to inherit the traditional culture of one's own country critically, but it is unwise to go down the path of belittling and ignoring it. If we look at the developed countries with an open mind, we will find that one of the most important features behind their creativity is that they pay great attention to tradition, protect it and promote it. Just take our close neighbors as an example, Japan is a very good learner. Before the Meiji Restoration, it learned from China and advocated "harmony and the soul of Chinese talent", and after that, it turned to the West and advocated "harmony and the soul of foreign talent", and it became the most modernized country in Asia. However, in the process of modernization and industrialization, Japan did not give up its own cultural traditions, and to this day, traditional festivals are often held, with costumes and ceremonies following ancient rituals. Korea, which is also in the Confucian cultural circle, has made remarkable achievements in modernization, but also preserves various traditional cultural ceremonies such as Confucianism, Dragon Boat Festival, Seowon, and village schools, so much so that many Chinese scholars lament that Korea's preservation and promotion of Confucianism is better than that of China.

Whether from a historical perspective, or from a comparative perspective, we should soberly realize that the excellent traditional culture is not a burden of modernization, but a driving force to promote modernization, and a source of confidence for us to rebuild. It is not right to treat tradition as backward and feudal, and to simply put modernization and traditional culture in opposition to each other; we must maintain our cultural characteristics and promote the excellent traditional culture. And respect for one's own national culture cannot stop at the Four Books, Five Classics and other scriptures and histories. If traditional culture is only spread in the study halls of the social elites, and is only understood as the words of the ancient sages and sages, then it will not have vitality. Only when traditional culture is integrated into the daily life of the common people can it be vivid and lively and have a long history. As an important part of folk culture, traditional festivals are a kind of "living" culture, which is in the form of people's enjoyment, integrated in the people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, regardless of the north and south of the land, regardless of the old and the young, everyone participates in the festival, with a unique popularity and extensiveness, but also once a year, and year after year, and to infinity. Such a cultural carrier, its national unity, the important role of cultural identity is difficult to replace other forms.

Therefore, to increase the number of traditional festivals as legal holidays, is to enhance the national centripetal force and cohesion, "to promote Chinese culture, the construction of the Chinese nation **** have a spiritual home" an important initiative.

As a base for cultural inheritance and innovation, colleges and universities should not only pay attention to specialized cultural and academic research, but also to the research and promotion of folk culture. First of all, we should pay attention to the folk culture and its important position in the construction of spiritual civilization in China and vigorously publicize it. The reason why folk culture has existed for a long time in a country, a place and an ethnic group must have its rationality of existence. It has a long history and is a product of the long-term accumulation of a country's and nation's history, and is rich in humanistic values. For example, the Qingming Festival originated from a family of deceased relatives and ancestors of the festival, and later gradually developed to include the national elite, great men, sage and philosophers of remembrance and nostalgia, expressing a cautious to catch up with the humanistic feelings. We should be good at exploring the social and cultural values of folklore, publicizing good customs and abandoning bad habits. Secondly, we should promote folk culture to keep pace with the times. Everything is in the process of development, folk culture should not only inherit the tradition, but also adapt to the modern society and reflect the style of the times. Colleges and universities have a lot to offer, not only can they summarize the creation of the common people on the basis of respecting the masses, but also through the study of the characteristics of folklore in different regions, to guide the whole society to further understand the folk culture, enriching and expanding the folk culture, and also through the borrowing of pioneering, innovative forms of folk culture, and through the whole society's efforts to *** with the continuous improvement of the quality and taste of the festivals. Thirdly, colleges and universities also need to have a sense of responsibility, that is, to cultivate the young generation's recognition and love of traditional culture, including folk culture. Only young people experience traditional culture, recognize its inherent national spirit and humanistic values, traditional Chinese culture can be alive and new.

Keeping an eye on traditional culture and promoting its "newness, newness, and newness" is the responsibility of colleges and universities, and it is also an important way for the whole society to respond to the 17th National Congress of the CPC and build a spiritual home for the Chinese nation***.