What are the main cultural factors that affect traditional festivals and folk customs?

The traditional folk festival culture, which has experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes, is the epitome of a mature national civilization. It not only reflects the relationship between man and nature, but also reflects the relationship between people in reality. However, with the rapid change of society, the rapid development of science and technology and the frequent flow of people, the world has gradually become a "global village". The great changes in human production and life style, organizational form and even cultural consciousness have made each of us strongly feel the "cold world" in culture, and the inheritance and development of traditional festival folk culture is facing a great test.

The main cultural factors affecting traditional festivals and folk customs are:

1, the impact of rapid economic and social development

With the rapid development of economy and society, the traditional way of production and life is gradually disappearing, the cultural forms and ways of primitive farming society are gradually fading, and people's material consumption patterns and survival concepts have also undergone tremendous changes. Most of our traditional folk festival culture is rooted in traditional agriculture and is the product of agricultural society and farming civilization. The degradation of the "soil" for cultivating traditional folk festivals makes more and more people gradually ignore the cultural and spiritual values of traditional folk festivals, which is an important reason why many traditional folk festivals are gradually "diluted" and "dwarfed".

2. The impact of the rapid influx of foreign cultures.

The development of science and technology makes the world smaller and smaller. Please keep this mark for the original reprint under the framework of farming civilization. Many of our cultures quickly disintegrated, dispersed or even disappeared under the impact of foreign cultures. Some excellent local traditional folk culture is often swept away by the tide of foreign culture before it can be checked. Many social customs and living arts that have influenced China people from generation to generation, under the impact of foreign culture, traditional cultural elements have been seriously degraded, and traditional cultural awareness and traditional concepts have gradually faded. For example, the experience of Valentine's Day in the West and Tanabata in China is an obvious example. They interpret the same theme, but they are treated differently, one hot and the other cold. The impact of foreign culture directly leads to the difficulty in forming the main organization mechanism of traditional folk festivals, and also becomes an important factor affecting the protection and development of traditional folk festivals in our county.

3. The influence of frequent population movements.

A large number of rural people have entered cities and become citizens. The change of people's production and lifestyle and the loss of local cultural backbone have objectively caused the gradual loss of traditional folk festival culture in some places. In addition, other villagers who are still scattered in villages generally go out for business and work, usually only go home during the Spring Festival, and then rush out after the holiday. Few people live at home in ordinary villages, so it is difficult to organize cultural activities of a certain scale.

4. The local economic development level is not high.

Economy is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, economic development promotes social integration, which makes the weak traditional folk culture gradually cut, dismembered and even declined under the impact of foreign culture. On the other hand, the inheritance and development of local traditional folk culture largely depends on the support of a certain level of economic development. The local fiscal revenue is extremely limited, and it is still unable to provide enough funds for the protection and development of traditional folk festival culture.

5. The restriction brought by the single operation mode of festival activities.

The emergence and development of any culture is closely related to local social production and life. With the progress of the times and the development of society, the operation mode of festival cultural activities based on certain economic and social life should be gradually changed. To some extent, there is the problem of "holding festivals for the sake of holding festivals", the degree of marketization and commercialization is not enough, and the subjectivity of the masses has not been well exerted, which also affects the sustainable development of various festivals.