There are ten folk customs about the Spring Festival.

For thousands of years, the traditional folk customs of the Spring Festival have continued to this day, and people's inner emotional needs have been expressed through bottom-up expressions. However, with the development of the times, while maintaining these traditional customs, people have also injected some new elements into festivals and formed new folk customs.

"Yesterday's fashion is today's folk custom, and today's fashion is tomorrow's folk custom. Today, many of our tentative things, if recognized and observed by more people, will definitely become the folk custom of tomorrow and become the heart endowed by the times. " Gao Wei, secretary-general of Beijing Folklore Society and an expert in folklore, summed up ten new folkways that have been recognized and shaped by big bosses in the past decade. We might as well follow his thinking and see what "new folk customs" there are.

The whole people watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Every year on New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival Gala with family members has almost become the first choice of most families, and it is also the "New Year" complex that many people can't get rid of. Since 1983, the Spring Festival Evening has spent sleepless nights with China people, and it has become a new way of "keeping the old".

"In a strict sense, the Spring Festival Evening is an adjustment or even weakening of the traditional custom of keeping the age." Gao Wei said that New Year's Eve is a special time of "two years old in one night and two years old in five classes". In traditional customs, on New Year's Eve, the old people put on formal clothes to lead their children and grandchildren to worship their ancestors, and then eat New Year's Eve. After dinner, the family needs to sit around the fire to watch the New Year, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

"In ancient times, observing age had two meanings. Old people observe their age to bid farewell to the old year, which means cherishing time. Young people abide by their age to wish their parents a long life, which is not only a deep understanding of life, but also a hope for the new year. " Gao Wei pointed out, however, this custom of watching the age has gradually weakened since the 1980 s, and it has been replaced by the rise of the new custom of watching the Spring Festival Evening by the whole people.

"After watching the Spring Festival Gala, the family sat around the TV and felt the happiness of the New Year's Day, but family communication may be relatively small. While watching the Spring Festival Gala, it is worth discussing how to make the family communication continue in time. After all, the most important theme of the Spring Festival is reunion and family exchanges. " Gao Wei said.

(2) New Year greetings by SMS and email in Weibo.

Go to relatives, friends and neighbors to celebrate the Spring Festival, which used to be called New Year greetings. Gao Wei said that the New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. In the past, New Year greetings were mostly in the form of personal visits or exchanging New Year cards. During the Spring Festival, the owners went for a tour to let people experience the peace and excitement of the New Year by visiting relatives and friends. However, with the changes of the times and society, in recent years, during the Spring Festival, it has become the mainstream to pay New Year greetings by SMS, Weibo or email.

"But many interviewees said that the content of the New Year greetings was original, and most of them were believed by thousands of people, lacking warm and targeted words, which made people feel that the New Year greetings were a bit difficult."

Gao Wei suggested that new forms such as SMS should be adopted to celebrate the New Year. The content of the hair should be tailored to local conditions and vary from person to person. The effect of sincere New Year greetings can be achieved by integrating heartfelt feelings into words and creating original short messages.

③ temple fairs are diversified.

Buy new year's goods, taste snacks and enjoy folk customs. If you want to find the taste of a year, you must go to the temple fair. Gao Wei said that in Beijing, temple fairs during the Spring Festival have been restored for more than 30 years. In addition to the traditional temple fairs featuring Beijing flavor, there are many activities with unique historical and cultural connotations and ornamental characteristics, showing a diversified development trend. For example, worship performances at the Temple of Heaven and Ditan, and foreign temple fairs at Chaoyang Park and Happy Valley. In addition, in recent years, the forms of indoor temple fairs such as Jinyuan Yansha, Dongcheng District Cultural Center and Fengtai District Cultural Center have greatly improved their operability and participation.

"Like the annual worship ceremony in the Temple of Heaven, it can attract 200,000 to 300,000 people to watch the ceremony at the scene, which brings great shock. Because with the improvement of material conditions, today people have no low-level needs to eat and join in the fun when they go to temple fairs. They hope to be satisfied spiritually and culturally. "

④ The discharge of fireworks and firecrackers is reduced.

"One year old in firecrackers", there is a saying of "setting off firecrackers" in the Spring Festival. Gao Wei said that the origin of firecrackers has a history of more than 2000 years. However, in recent years, statistics show that the number of fireworks and firecrackers is decreasing year by year. Last year, a statistic showed that more than 400 tons of fireworks and firecrackers 1.400 were cleared from New Year's Eve to Grade One, which was 950 tons less than the previous year.

"On the one hand, the price of fireworks is getting higher and higher, on the other hand, the harm caused by setting off firecrackers is inevitable, so many people's enthusiasm for setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival is greatly reduced, but this basically reflects the citizens' increasing awareness of civilization. "

Gao Wei said that because of the environmental pollution and noise pollution caused by fireworks and firecrackers, many citizens consciously reduced the amount of fireworks and firecrackers, which should be said to be a sign of social progress. It also shows from another side that setting off fireworks and firecrackers in the Spring Festival is a bad habit and needs to be improved.

⑤ Eat in the New Year's Eve restaurant.

In recent years, eating New Year's Eve out has become a fashion. As the most important meal of the year, New Year's Eve is celebrated in the name of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. The family, men, women and children, are sitting around the fire, enjoying themselves. "Convenient and easy" is the main reason why many people choose to eat New Year's Eve in restaurants.

Gao Wei said that the traditional New Year's Eve dinner actually started when the whole family was preparing for it on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The family had a busy meal, and all the dishes that they were reluctant to eat were left until the New Year's Eve. This kind of expectation and participation is the meaning of New Year's Eve.

"We found that most families still like to eat at home. That kind of family communication and creativity, that kind of taste of home, is the real attraction of New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve has a taste of home, a taste of the year, and a taste of folk. "

China went to the world in 2000.

Gao Wei said that under the background of internationalization, if the Spring Festival in China crosses the countries where China people live and work all over the world, it will become a favorite festival for many countries and people in the world. In the United States, the Philippines, Singapore, Paris, London and other places, the Spring Festival in China has been designated as a legal holiday. During the Spring Festival, a grand lion and dragon dance performance will be held in Chinatown in Los Angeles to create a festive atmosphere.

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