How is New Year's Eve different from the past for modern people essay

With the advent of the 21st century, we have entered the era of knowledge economy, which is an era of highly developed science and technology, highly civilized human beings and democracy, and also an era of the world's cultural and economic mingling and complementary development. Along with China's accession to the WTO and the improvement of the national cultural level, our traditional culture is likewise challenged and impacted by western culture and civilization. The traditional concepts of our nationals, especially the young generation, are fading away, and overseas and western cultures are changing people's consciousness, their outlook on life, values, aesthetics and sense of civilization through different impacts at every moment. In the face of foreign culture, we should believe in the strong vitality of Chinese folk culture, and we should see the addition of new elements in folk culture, which can ensure that Chinese folk culture can incorporate the old into the new in its development.

Along with the increasingly frequent exchanges with the world's political, cultural, educational, scientific and technological exchanges, Chinese people go out, foreigners into the country has become commonplace, so a large number of Western festivals were introduced into China by the cultural and intellectual circles, the moment by the country's young generation who are seeking Western knowledge to accept, and to promote the spread of. In recent years, in China's cities, the atmosphere of Christmas celebrations has been no less than the Spring Festival; the atmosphere of Valentine's Day has overshadowed the "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" that beautiful legend of the "Tanabata"; April Fool's Day, Father's Day and so on one after the other, if there is no vacation, these festivals have been the traditional folk festivals of our country impact. These festivals have shattered the traditional folk festivals of our country. Modern people's foreign mentality, modern people's individuality, modern people's faster pace of life, modern people's fast optimism, modern people's "I am the main", modern people's impetuous mentality, it has been difficult to accept and adapt to thousands of years ago handed down the holiday customs. Therefore, the pursuit of fancy, curiosity, personality and pleasure is the purpose and tendency of their festivals.

When the writing of New Year's letters is replaced by New Year's cards, New Year's cards are replaced by pager text messages, pager text messages are replaced by cell phone text messages, along with the widespread popularity of computers in people's lives, e-cards are not only a form of New Year's greetings for the young people, but also a widely used method of New Year's greetings in the society. The number of people watching TV in Chinese New Year also decreases dramatically, and many people go into the Internet to watch wonderful blockbusters, communicate their feelings, play online games, the family New Year's dinner is gradually replaced by the New Year's dinner in a private room, and many people ask their family members or friends to go to soak in a bar in the Chinese New Year, and the book bar, cyber cafe, toy bar, coffee bar, and tea bar are also a new method of celebrating the New Year. Tourism in the form of New Year's Eve is more distinctive, go to the Northeast indulge in snow and ice, go to Hainan spilling coconut groves, go to Yunnan carnival bonfire in the ...... Of course, go to the stadium to participate in sports activities, go to the gym to work out, go to the book city to swim in the sea of books are modern people haunted by the New Year's Eve of new fashions.

With the acceleration of the pace of life as well as the change of life consciousness, modern people are more and more inclined to the Spring Festival a few days off as a period of holiday to relax, some form of activities are more and more diluted. Modernization changes people's concepts, and Western culture is increasingly diluting our guardianship of traditional culture. The increase in Western festivals, the fact that the Spring Festival is no longer as irreplaceable as it used to be, has also changed the way people celebrate the festival, i.e., replacing traditional festivals dominated by rituals, eating and drinking with holidays for relaxation and travel. We should not call these changes the loss of traditions and lament over them, but rather the renewal of traditions. From ancient times to today, people have progressed not by clinging to existing traditions but by transforming them.

In the face of such rapid changes, folklore scholars believe that there are two ways out: one is to adapt to the development of the times, catch up with the pace of the times, pay attention to the changes in folklore, strengthen the study of modern new fashions and new folklore, and explore the laws of the development and mutation of folklore culture; and the other is to discover, rescue and protect traditional folklore culture, safeguard the ecological environment for the survival of Chinese folklore culture, and preserve the roots of Chinese folklore culture, so that tradition and modernization can be better coordinated, and that tradition and modernization can be better harmonized. The first is to discover, rescue and protect traditional folk culture, maintain the ecological environment for the survival of Chinese folk culture, and preserve the roots of Chinese folk culture.

"I'm going to spend my favorite New Year in my own way" is a change in people's awareness of New Year's Eve after entering the 21st century.

The traditional Chinese New Year gives people a kind of love that is so strong that it is hard to melt away, and a kind of simple flavor that has been brewed over the years. No matter how the ways change, the essence of its pursuit of reunion and enjoyment of kinship will not change.

But we should also see that some traditional folklore is being replaced by high-tech means and modern civilized ways that people enjoy.