Why should we protect national traditional festivals?

First, the collectivity of folk cultural activities.

Any kind of folk custom is undoubtedly a kind of culture, which is called folk culture. Folklore is accompanied by the emergence of human groups. Therefore, folk customs cultivate social consistency, strengthen national identity, strengthen national spirit and shape national character. Without human groups, there would be no folk culture, so folk culture is the crystallization of collective wisdom.

Second, the inheritance of folk cultural activities.

Folklore is the acquisition of knowledge, which needs to be handed down from generation to generation and has the continuity of time transmission. Folklore is a continuum of time. It is an objective reflection of a region's long-term cultural accumulation, a symbol of local culture and the inheritance of ancient culture. Therefore, inheriting folk culture is a continuation of ancient civilization and humanistic spirit, and it is a cultural belief.

Three. Locality of folk cultural activities

Folk cultural activities are passed down from generation to generation. Besides the great cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, such as the Spring Festival activities, they all have national characteristics. Every place has formed a small cultural tradition of serving the place according to its own special environment. The same folk custom will appear in different forms in different places, and different times and regions will have their own characteristics.

Folklore:

1, Zhuang: Welcome the hero

Zhuang people living in the south of China call Spring Festival "New Year's Day". On this day, people should congratulate each other no matter who they meet when they go out, thinking that this year can be auspicious. Zhuang people also have a custom of providing for the aged, which Zhuang people call "Chi Li Festival". The "Food Festival" is on the 30th of this month. It is said that more than 65,438+000 years ago, a Zhuang peasant armed force returned home in triumph after fighting against foreign invasion. At this time, the Spring Festival has passed. In order to welcome them, the Zhuang people celebrated for them on the 30th of this month.

2. Buyi people: girls grab the first water.

Buyi people living in the southwest frontier of China hold vigils every New Year's Eve. At dawn, the girls scrambled to fetch water outside the house. Whoever carries water first is the most hardworking girl. The Jingpo people there like to hold shooting activities before the Spring Festival, and the girls are the organizers and referees of this activity. They hung the embroidered purse on the bamboo pole with thread and swayed from side to side at the top of the tree, asking the young man to make a move. The girls will give the wine as a prize to whoever hits the wallet first. A wallet usually contains a coin, some millet and some decorative beads as a symbol of happiness.

3. Hani: Swing.

A few days before the Spring Festival, the village where the Hani people live has been very lively, and women are busy with Baba. Baba is a cake made of glutinous rice. The boys are busy chopping bamboo up the mountain, ready to set up a swing. The swings there are more than ten meters high, and the Hani people, regardless of gender, age and age, love to play on swings. During the festival, everyone wears their favorite clothes to swing, showing a lively and harmonious holiday scene everywhere.