Festivals and changes of the times

This topic is too big. I will choose an angle and say it wherever I want.

There are many traditional festivals in China, and different nationalities and regions have their own traditional festivals. The origins of various festivals are also varied, which may be fairy tales symbolizing auspiciousness or commemorations of heroic deeds.

From the perspective of social economy, the function of festivals is to promote consumption and stimulate domestic demand. It is the same as our supply-side reform thinking.

Our country has been in a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy for a long time in history, and the mode of production of male ploughing and female weaving has caused social closure. At the same time, the long-term policy of emphasizing agriculture and restraining business makes the mobility of social resources extremely poor. At this time, the festival breeze just wrinkled this stagnant water.

Small-scale peasant economy can solve the consumption of basic means of subsistence, but it is difficult to provide pleasant consumption. On a dull day, finding an excuse to adjust your life is nothing more than eating, drinking and having fun. The point is still to eat, but we can only eat when there is surplus food at home. Therefore, there is no holiday if you don't meet the green and yellow, and even if you meet it, you can't eat well. For example, there is no cultivation in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and there is not much food at home. You can only eat some eggs and drink some realgar wine; Another example is eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, where glutinous rice is steamed with zongzi leaves, while most reed growing areas spread their leaves in May, and the leaves are fresh and tender, so working people can eat them without even letting go of grass. (The above is a personal joke) But the festival after the autumn harvest is different and the food is good. For example, the widely circulated nursery rhyme "Don't be greedy for children, after the Laba Festival, it will be the year ..." Another example is that there is a poem in the tour, "Don't laugh at the farmer's wine and wine, stay in the good year" (this is not to say the Spring Festival), but it all reflects the richness of holiday consumer goods at this time.

Festivals improve people's lives, promote consumption, promote the circulation of goods, and activate social economy. The development of social economy also brings changes to festivals.

When I was a child, I was impressed by killing pigs, freezing pears, persimmon and safflower, and buying a box of apples and oranges at home. Everyone loves oranges, but adults don't eat many, saying that eating too much turns yellow. Further on, when the previous generation was young, I heard that I couldn't eat an apple all the year round. Nowadays, there are many kinds of fruits in shopping malls, including fruits from north and south, and even fruits imported from abroad. This is the power of social development! In the holiday fruit market, it is a demand-driven economic development.

The power of social development goes far beyond these!

The word "Spring Festival travel rush fever" seems to have been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and everyone has become accustomed to the "Universiade during the Spring Festival". However, at both ends of Spring Festival travel rush, there are struggling vagrants at one end and expectant relatives at the other. Behind the great migration, it reflects the imbalance of regional economic development and the defects of household registration system. The problems of a large number of hollow villages and left-behind children and the elderly are more related to the change of social value orientation and social stability.

Looking back at history, human beings changed from grain gatherers to planting agriculture and came down from trees; Little Ice Age and famine, war and integration between different nationalities; Great navigation and colonization made the world civilized; The enclosure movement promoted the development of capitalism ... From these events, we seem to have found something.

This is the power of the times!

However, the development of society has enriched our dining table, but people who used to sit at the dining table have been sent thousands of miles away: social progress has brought me into a modern city, but I can't go back to my hometown.

This is an era of change!

Just, where is the great ship of the times going?