How to live a good Chinese traditional festivals against only focus on eating ignore traditional culture

Hundreds of millions of people in the Spring Festival, more than a billion people at the same time to eat dumplings, rice cakes, firecrackers, hanging red lanterns, all show that folklore is a great power, is the embodiment of the national cultural identity

Zhao Shu: the spirit of the traditional culture is expressed in where? It is not in the court wisdom, not in the battlefield fighting, but is embedded in the daily production and life of the general people. Philosophy is the soul of traditional culture, literature and art is the face of our nation, folk culture is the gene of the people *** with the same emotion, is the national *** with the body of the sustaining force.

Lu Pintian: The Chinese nation has historically constructed a series of traditional festival symbols integrating folk art and yearly customs, which are y recognized by the general public, and these gorgeous and enthusiastic festival symbols create a red-hot, festive and highly contagious cultural space for the festivals. As the traditional symbols of New Year's festivals, such as spring couplets, New Year's paintings, paper cuttings, fireworks, lanterns, social fires, etc., they are widely used in festivals and customs such as rituals, prayers, commemorations, prayers for sacrifice, veneration and welcoming, etc., and they have a great influence by means of their conventional expressions, symbols, remembrances, wishes, congratulations or warning significance. As a result, people can not only get a strong sense of visual aesthetics, but also obtain a deep sense of cultural belonging through a series of sound and colorful Spring Festival activities, such as releasing lanterns, lifting pavilions, walking streamers, and dancing dragons, in a passionate aesthetic experience. The universal recognition of the traditional symbols of New Year's Day and the deep feeling of being touched by them make the Spring Festival an important component of the spiritual home of the Chinese nation. The rich value and rich function of the festival and folk art are thus maximized, and the cohesion of the national culture is also maximized.

The cycle of traditional Chinese festivals inserts relaxation and joy into the continuous flow of life, so that the passing of time and the rhythm of nature and life in a circular structure, adding fun and vitality to life. During the festivals, people get rid of the state of labor, immersed in no sense of time in the state of excitement, to send ideals, express their feelings, catharsis, in the carnival to get physical and mental regulation and recuperation. Traditional festivals in a "heaven and man" of the important nodes of time cycle back and forth, repeatedly stimulate the social psychology, stretching the humanistic feelings, so that the public's will to live, social consciousness and cultural identity is not due to the passage of time and dilution.

Xiao Fang: traditional festivals themselves are an interrelated, full of vitality of the life organism, which is not only a concentrated expression of national culture, but also a carrier of national cultural heritage, but also an important way to cultivate and nourish the national spirit. Festivals as a collective **** enjoy the special time, it needs a specific spiritual core. If there is no spiritual connotation, the festival may not go far, not pass on. Entertainment is the soul of the festival, if there is no play, no active activities, no mobilization of people's emotions, the festival is also very dry, no vitality.

Tian Qing: Spring Festival is a miracle, thousands of people in the cold rain, cold snow in long lines, overcoming all sorts of difficulties, must go home and parents reunion, which is the Chinese nation touching the sky and earth. Why do we have New Year's Eve dinner? Why do we have to salute the ancestral tablets before having the New Year's Eve dinner? There is both respect for the ancestors and an elaboration of family ties. Festivals should be a time for the full display of rituals, and traditional Chinese festivals should restore their rituals and the essence of "respect".

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The hundreds of millions of people in the Spring Festival, more than a billion people eating dumplings, rice cakes, firecrackers and red lanterns at the same time, all show that folklore is a great power, is the embodiment of the cultural identity of the nation

ZHAO SHU: Where is the spirit of the traditional culture expressed? It is not in the court wisdom, not in the battlefield fighting, but is embedded in the daily production and life of the general people. Philosophy is the soul of traditional culture, literature and art is the face of our nation, folk culture is the gene of the people *** with the same emotion, is the national *** with the body of the sustaining force.

Lu Pintian: The Chinese nation has historically constructed a series of traditional festival symbols integrating folk art and yearly customs, which are y recognized by the general public, and these gorgeous and enthusiastic festival symbols create a red-hot, festive and highly contagious cultural space for the festivals. As the traditional symbols of New Year's festivals, such as spring couplets, New Year's paintings, paper cuttings, fireworks, lanterns, social fires, etc., they are widely used in festivals and customs such as rituals, prayers, commemorations, prayers for sacrifice, veneration and welcoming, etc., and they have a great influence by means of their conventional expressions, symbols, remembrances, wishes, congratulations or warning significance. As a result, people can not only get a strong sense of visual aesthetics, but also obtain a deep sense of cultural belonging through a series of sound and colorful Spring Festival activities, such as releasing lanterns, lifting pavilions, walking streamers, and dancing dragons, in a passionate aesthetic experience. The universal recognition of the traditional symbols of New Year's Day and the deep feeling of being touched by them make the Spring Festival an important component of the spiritual home of the Chinese nation. The rich value and rich function of the festival and folk art are thus maximized, and the cohesion of the national culture is also maximized.

Cyclical Chinese traditional festivals insert relaxation and joy into the continuous flow of life, so that the passing of time in a circular structure and the rhythm of nature and life, adding fun and vitality to life. During the festivals, people get rid of the state of labor, immersed in no sense of time in the state of excitement, to send ideals, express their feelings, catharsis, in the carnival to get physical and mental regulation and recuperation. Traditional festivals in a "heaven and man" of the important nodes of time cycle back and forth, repeatedly stimulate the social psychology, stretching the humanistic feelings, so that the public's will to live, social consciousness and cultural identity is not due to the passage of time and dilution.

Xiao Fang: traditional festivals themselves are an interrelated, full of vitality of the life organism, which is not only a concentrated expression of national culture, but also a carrier of national cultural heritage, but also an important way to cultivate and nourish the national spirit. Festivals as a collective **** enjoy the special time, it needs a specific spiritual core. If there is no spiritual connotation, the festival may not go far, not pass on. Entertainment is the soul of the festival, if there is no play, no active activities, no mobilization of people's emotions, the festival is also very dry, no vitality.

Tian Qing: Spring Festival is a miracle, thousands of people in the cold rain, cold snow in long lines, overcoming all kinds of difficulties, must go home to reunite with their parents, which is exactly the Chinese nation touching the sky and earth. Why do we have New Year's Eve dinner? Why do we have to salute the ancestral tablets before having the New Year's Eve dinner? There is both respect for the ancestors and an elaboration of family ties. Festivals should be a time for the full display of rituals, and traditional Chinese festivals should restore their rituals and the essence of "respect".

How can folklore study intervene in contemporary life

How can we enhance the psychological quality of people's culture internally? How to make the national culture go to the world externally? is the task facing contemporary folklore. Interpretation and dissemination are the responsibility of scholars. Treating folklore as an independent discipline, publicizing and applying research results in social practice

Zhao Shu: With the inclusion of traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival in the list of national intangible cultural heritage to be protected, China's folklore science has moved from describing and interpreting folklore to the stage of preserving and applying folklore culture. Folklore science should seriously study which of our folk cultures can go to the world, and how to make Chinese culture become a wealth of mankind *** with. Need to treat folklore as an independent discipline, systematic research, and its results in social practice to publicize and apply.

Folklore is a precious cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors, and only by fully understanding its cultural connotation can we fully enjoy and apply it to enhance the happiness of people's lives. Folklore comes from the people's pursuit of beauty and is a reflection of a nation's values. The promotion of national culture to the world can enhance national self-esteem, self-confidence and pride, and is an indispensable "soft power" for the development of the country.

Lv Pintian: The identity of festival symbols is actually folklore, without which all symbolic media are meaningless. How can we activate the folklore, so that the traditional customs that have lasted for thousands of years can continue to be active today, continue to have vitality, continue to get the attention of the government, continue to get the public a deep recognition? This is the future of the festival symbol construction work focus.

Tian Qing: The biggest task of folklore scholars is to explain the origin of festivals to the public and to encourage the restoration of the spiritual connotation of traditional festivals.

Festival symbols face difficulties and dangers of inheritance

Life and production modes have changed, and festivals are still being lived, but face difficulties and dangers of inheritance. The relationship between culture and the market should be handled properly in order to make folk culture more dynamic

Lu Pintian: The symbols of festivals have intrinsic stipulations in terms of what they can refer to and what they can mean. Over the years, we have made a lot of mistakes by adding things arbitrarily or randomly out of goodwill in the "change of customs and traditions", which is a sign of disrespect for the laws of culture.

Today we should return to the correct understanding and grasp the construction of festival symbols.

Xiao Fang: For a long time, we ignored the symbols and banned many of them, or under the hype of businessmen, individual symbols were highlighted, but the symbols of the overall series of festivals were not fully emphasized.

We should note, first, that festivals need symbols of material products that can be tasted, viewed, and played with directly. The process of our festival activities is the organic display of these symbols, the symbols can not be separated from the festival activities, it is actually in the festival activities, rituals and activities to play an important, propulsive role. Secondly, festivals need rituals and celebrations to convey a tradition through the memory of rituals. Chinese people have a sense of ritual within traditional society, but in recent times, some of these things have been dissolved as feudal superstitions.

Zhao Shu: Tradition is built up, and without rituals, how can you make people follow them? The so-called rituals are about spending invisible, colorless and silent time with tangible, colored and sound cultural forms. That's what rituals do.

Gao Lei: Government support is certainly important, and the leverage of the market is even more important. But there is a knot here, manifesting itself in the contradiction between traditional craftsmanship and modern technology; the contradiction between traditional images and modern creations; and the contradiction between traditional forms of selling and modern intensive marketing.

For many years, the progress of art has always followed the law of spiral upward, and our generation is also in this circle, but we must be higher than the one in the past, and what our generation leaves to the future generations should be the cultural splendor of our generation. If we want to solve these contradictions, we have to innovate, we have to keep up with the beat of the times and adapt to the needs of the times. For example, paper is the medium of woodblock prints, can we use cloth, silk, synthetic leather, porcelain plate, woodblock, so that the traditional New Year's paintings have more sisters and brothers?

I advocate combining the auspicious prayers of traditional Chinese festivals with the nostalgia of modern urbanites, combining modern technology with traditional forms, using the cultural elements of traditional festivals as materials, taking the expression of good wishes for good luck, praying for blessings, peace and joy as the purpose, and taking the essence of folk culture as the main carrier, so as to achieve that things must be intentional, and that the intention must be auspicious.

Our cultural progress must not be spinning in place, but in not losing the essence of traditional culture at the same time to succeed a new cultural chain belonging to today. We hope that with everyone's **** together, the symbols and rituals of traditional festivals will become a national consciousness and honor.

Xiao Fang: should adhere to an open, inclusive holiday tradition, today's society has a variety of cultural components can complement each other, enrichment, so that our living tradition will be more dynamic and tension.