Reasons for the decline of traditional Chinese festivals

First, with the improvement of living standards, people's material needs for traditional festivals have gradually decreased.

The most fundamental reason is that economic life has developed. In the process of cultural exchange there is a principle that economically developed areas, it is often the output area of culture; economically backward areas, it is often the area of cultural input. Therefore, Western festivals are becoming more and more popular. Students have often heard of "European wind and rain", "Korean current", but have not heard of "Bengali wind", "African current "

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Secondly, Chinese traditional festivals are not as diverse as Western festivals, and are somewhat old-fashioned.

With economic development, the festivals themselves should evolve. Whether it is the Lantern Festival or Chongyang Festival, they are different from their original origins, have changed, simply because most of the festivals were born in the agricultural era, when it was not easy to get enough to eat, so the main subject is reunion, commonly known as a large family to eat a good meal.

Those times are not enough to eat and wear warm, there are good food, new clothes to wear, people have something to look forward to, so look at most of the festivals are related to eat. Please think carefully about the festivals you resent, whether they happen to be the ones related to food and reunion.

In this era of rapid development, of course, no one is looking forward to eating, drinking, and chattering, or the already short vacations, but also the burden of visiting friends and relatives. I don't think anyone hates Women's Day, Labor Day, Youth Day, Army Day, Party Day, National Day, and so on.

So shouldn't our traditional festivals follow the development of our economy, culture and society? Traditional festivals have been neglected not because our traditional festivals have become ossified, but also because people's aesthetic tastes have changed and improved, which requires that traditional festivals should be constantly developed and innovated to adapt to the fast-developing society.

Thirdly, Chinese traditional festivals have been mixed with too much commercial speculation, missing their cultural connotations.

Because of economic factors, most of the time we now see horizontal cultural exchanges. In fact, the development of culture has two threads: horizontal and vertical; vertical development is the inheritance of the culture of the nation and the country, which can preserve the characteristics of a nation and a country.