Cultural Connotation and Significance of China Traditional Festivals

The ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation include primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical calendar, Yi Shushu and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, which contain profound and rich cultural connotations. The traditional festivals in China, which developed from ancient ancestors, not only clearly recorded the colorful social life and cultural content of Chinese ancestors, but also accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations. Here are the meanings of some festivals:

1, Spring Festival?

Spring Festival, that is, Lunar New Year, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, and so on. Verbally, it is also called Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. In the early days of observing images and time, "Yin Hui with a barrel handle" is the beginning of a year.

2. Lantern Festival

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. The formation of the Lantern Festival custom has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on the lights to pray. Generally, turning on the light for blessing begins on the 14th night of the first month, and the 15th night is "positive light". People light lamps, also known as "sending lamps", in order to pray to the gods.

3. Cold Food Festival

The Cold Food Festival is an early festival that originated in northern China. At the beginning of the Cold Food Festival, fire was banned and only cold food was eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping the floor, swinging, cuju, holding hooks and fighting cocks were gradually increased. Because of the cold in the north and the rising temperature in spring and March, it is time to change the fire, so people should ban the fire before the new fire comes. Although the Cold Food Festival is related to meson push in folklore, its origin is not to commemorate meson push, but to follow the old habit of changing fire in ancient times.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years to sweep graves and cherish the memory of ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family memory, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day's integration of natural solar terms and humanistic customs is a combination of humanistic and natural conditions, which fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' pursuit of harmony between heaven, earth and people, pays attention to conforming to the right time, place and people, and follows the laws of nature.

5. Dragon Boat Festival

The ancients always advocated the way of center and right. The original meaning of the word "Duan" in the Dragon Boat Festival is "right" and "noon" is "middle". "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Chiang Kai-shek" are also right, and noon on this day is right in the middle. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are integrated, and the festival customs are rich in content.