What is the significance of the promotion of traditional festivals to Chinese traditional culture?

Inheriting and carrying forward the rich and excellent cultural traditions in traditional festivals can promote national identity, unite people's hearts and inspire national will, reverse the lack of integrity and moral disorders of some members of the society, and help maintain social stability and harmony. Under the conditions of globalization, the competition for comprehensive national power is becoming increasingly fierce, cultural conflicts and cultural competition are becoming more and more prominent, and China's soft power centered on culture is being seriously challenged.

China's peaceful rise, the Chinese nation towards a comprehensive renaissance, while integrating into the world and absorbing the world's advanced culture, it is very important to promote their own excellent traditional culture, carry forward the core values of Chinese culture and improve the quality of the people. In comparison with Hong Kong, traditional festivals on the Mainland, including the Ching Ming Festival, are not only still not listed as statutory holidays, but also the atmosphere of the festivals is gradually fading, which is a phenomenon that warrants concern.

For a nation, traditional festivals play an important role in strengthening cohesion, establishing core values and deepening cultural identity, and are the collective cultural memory. How to save these cultural memories, which have been passed down for thousands of years and are rich in meaning, and revitalize them in the new era has been a matter of concern for the whole society, including experts, scholars and ordinary people, in recent years.

Nowadays, as people pay more attention to them, several traditional festivals have been included as legal holidays. This not only helps to establish the image of the peaceful rise of the Chinese nation, but also makes traditional festivals an important carrier of the Chinese spirit of "peace is precious", which is conducive to the establishment of a peaceful and friendly international image. At the same time, it is conducive to enriching the connotation and extension of the traditional Chinese festival culture industry, making it a key component of the country's opening up and an important industry for the development of the national economy and society.

Expanded Information:

Traditional Chinese Festivals of the Chinese People p>The traditional festivals of the Chinese nation carry humanistic and natural cultural contents such as beliefs, rituals, astronomy, geography, physical phenomena, arts and crafts, and calendars. The early festival culture reflects the humanistic spirit of nature worship and the unity of heaven and man in the ancient society of the ancients; and a series of sacrificial activities contain the profound cultural connotation of the civilization of rites and music.

Most of the traditional festivals were formed in the ancient times. During the pre-Qin period, due to the different customs between the north and the south and the fact that the customs of different places had not yet been integrated and popularized, many ancient festivals and customs were seldom recorded in the literature of the Central Plains. The Han Dynasty was the first period of great development after the unification of China, the economic and cultural exchanges between the north and south of the customs and habits of each other, which spread the popularity of holiday customs to provide a good social conditions. The Tang Dynasty was an important period in which traditional festival customs were blended and finalized, and the main part of them has been handed down to the present day.

Traditional festivals with existing documentary records can be traced back to at least "Xia Xiaozheng", "Shangshu", in the pre-Qin period, the division of the year into twenty-four festivals, has been completed, and later some traditional festivals, but also closely related to these festivals, festivals for the creation of festivals to provide the prerequisites. Each traditional Chinese festival has its own origin and the necessary conditions for its formation.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Festivals