Thoughts on Chinese New Year Customs

For modern people, the traditional Spring Festival folk culture is not so familiar anymore. Many people worry that the modern trend toward simpler, more practical Spring Festival activities will result in the loss of traditional folk culture.

Searching for lost New Year's flavors

The so-called New Year's flavors have faded, but they are actually relative. Nowadays, when it comes to New Year's Eve, people can't help but switch the New Year's Eve scene in front of them

Time and space, so the strong hope of the old days when "we ate the rice on the 8th day of the 12th month, and then we did the New Year", the kind of "Twenty-three sacrifice stove off, twenty-four sweeping day, twenty-five paste windows, twenty-six steamed buns," the countdown atmosphere is gone. With the improvement of people's overall standard of living, in the past, because of the wholeheartedly organize the festival and raise the heart of no, strong flavor of the year, naturally lost the due "material basis".

The old so-called New Year's flavor, mainly reflected in the everywhere overflowing with a kind of worship friends and relatives of the strong atmosphere, but today, hanging a phone, send a text message, all the expression of affection can be "fixed". The new popularity of all kinds of "urban civilization" elements, not only is it difficult to create a cultural atmosphere of the old New Year, more difficult to bear the traditional cultural heritage of the year.

New Year's Eve is like a solidified mountain

New Year's Eve is like a flowing river

What is it that is not New Year's Eve, but the promise of affection, the crowded roads, the crowds in shopping malls, the busy restaurants ......?

"The Spring Festival, the most important folk festival of the Chinese nation, contains a number of spiritual meanings: reunion, celebration, peace and tranquility." Folklore expert Feng Jicai said, the flavor of the year light theorists, just talk about the decline of some of the traditional New Year's Eve, the wrong New Year's Eve when the flavor of the year, New Year's Eve look as the kernel of New Year's Eve, mixing up the Spring Festival symbols of the interpretation of the form of the Spring Festival symbols of the humanities connotations.

Perhaps, this understanding is closer to the truth: as the Spring Festival humanistic connotation of the flavor of the year, like a solidified mountain, not for the vicissitudes of change and move; as the Spring Festival decorated New Year's Eve, like a flowing river, with the stars and spit out the old and the new; their internal relationship is that the river flows around the mountain. It is not that the flavor of the year is fading, but the customs of the year are changing.