Shandong official media responded to the controversy of collective kowtowing, how do you think Shandong people kowtow to pay New Year's greetings?

A self-media account posted a comment slamming the custom of collective kowtowing required for New Year's Eve in Shandong, meaning ? kowtowing to pay New Year's Eve is a bad custom, which is oppressive to others. Kneeling was abolished together with the Qing Dynasty at the time of its demise. The view that the wind of collective kneeling must not be allowed to grow? This article came out, got a lot of social opinion of the siege, to the author and his family caused a lot of unchanged. Shandong official media also responded to the matter. Response mentioned: ? People with a little common sense know that ancestor worship and kowtowing in the Spring Festival are not unique to Shandong people, but also widely exist in many places,? kowtow? has been a simple folk custom and traditional etiquette that has survived for thousands of years in vernacular China. With the development of the times, the acceleration of urbanization and the deepening of people's minds, kowtowing has been a simple folk custom and traditional etiquette that has survived for thousands of years in native China. kowtow? This custom is declining. We do not agree to look at the problem with prejudice. Therefore, in order to rub hot spots and earn traffic, individual self media people? The arbitrary move of individual self-publishers, in order to rub hot spots and earn traffic, will inevitably lead to a decline in the custom. s arbitrary move is bound to draw fire and spark controversy and trouble?

I think the reason why the custom of kowtowing can be passed down to the present day, certainly has its significance. We from the next generation of fathers and then give the pressure money, will have the sense to kowtow to the elders, to show respect for the elders. The kowtow in the Qing Dynasty was a kind of insult to people of lower status in feudal society, when people were divided into three, six, nine, high and low. Nowadays, we kowtow more to value this sense of ceremony to achieve respect for elders. In our country's vast land, not only Shandong people have the custom of kowtowing, all over the wedding and funeral which family does not have the ceremony of kowtowing. Kowtowing is no longer the traditional meaning of feudal society. It has been given a new connotation, and most of the kowtowing is done to show respect to people and to see the importance of things. Kowtowing is now a highly ranked ritual in society, not an insult for a lowly position.

Shandong province is the birthplace of Confucius' Confucianism, and the people living in Qilu land are deeper in traditional culture and etiquette than other places. Confucius advocated respect for teachers, naturally, in respect for the elderly Shandong people have always maintained Confucianism. In the countryside, every Spring Festival and Ching Ming Festival, the village family will organize the family men to go to the graveyard to pay homage. There are many branches of the family, and naturally, there are many people who worship together. This creates a collective kowtowing situation, which is actually just the reason why the family is so large. The kowtow is also a way of honoring the elders of the family and passing on the prosperity of the family through rituals.

I think Shandong New Year's kowtow is the heritage of traditional culture, the authors of the media are somewhat presumptuous. Chinese culture is profound we should learn to respect the customs of each place.