Traditional Chinese Festivals Folklore Patterns

The Contemporary Interpretation of Traditional Festivals

As far as history and social culture are concerned, the native land complex and kinship complex are the foundation of patriotism and nationalism. In China, patriotism and nationalism would become baseless and without a source of water if we leave the native land and affection complex. Undoubtedly, the native land and affection complex and the patriotism and nationalism arising on this basis are the fundamentals of the nation, the foundation of the country, the powerful spiritual glue that unites more than a billion people, and the most valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.

Over the past seven days, whether in bustling cities or remote villages, all parts of China and even the world where Chinese people live have been celebrating the New Year with joy and happiness. Celebrating the Spring Festival has become the central topic of more than a billion people **** with each other, and all kinds of news in the political, economic and cultural fields arising from the celebration of the Spring Festival have also become hot spots of concern for the whole society to a certain extent. It can be seen that in a particular period of time, celebrating the Spring Festival for the Chinese people's influence is crucial.

From the perspective of folklore, traditional festivals are the carriers of national culture, which condense the spirit of a nation, mark the style of a nation, highlight the value of a nation, and demonstrate the pursuit of a nation. The Spring Festival is undoubtedly the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which contains cultural meanings that will not be over-assessed no matter how. In this happy year is about to pass but still not yet finished, the Spring Festival as a traditional festival to make some rough modern interpretation, may not be meaningless.

The Spring Festival is a product of agricultural society. In ancient China, "Spring Festival" first referred to the spring festival, basically synonymous with the word spring, and later referred exclusively to the New Year's Day of the lunar year. In agricultural society, the greatest influence on material production is the time of the year. "Cold comes and hot goes, autumn harvest and winter storage" is a true depiction of agricultural production. Mr. Lao She listed the phenomena of Chinese New Year in his article "Spring Festival in Beijing", pointing out that they are all related to the agricultural society, which is very true. The food culture of the Spring Festival is based on the rich and colorful products of the agricultural society; the entertainment culture of the Spring Festival is based on the winter leisure in agricultural cultivation; and the culture of sacrificing to the gods of the Spring Festival is based on the peasants' prayers to heaven for good weather conditions so as to have a good harvest. Almost all the cultural forms of the Spring Festival period are typical expressions of agricultural culture.

Broadly speaking, culture refers to the sum of material wealth and spiritual concepts, but when people use the term culture, they more often refer to spiritual concepts. The spiritual concepts of agricultural culture come from agricultural farming methods. If we examine the agricultural farming method a little, we will find that its greatest characteristic is its geographical fixity. The agricultural people do not live by water like the nomadic people and have no fixed place of residence; nor do the agricultural people travel by profit like the commercial people and have no trace of their activities. Agricultural people in the fixed land on the generations of farming, generations of inheritance, over time, will produce two very obvious ideological concepts, that is, for the hometown of the land of the immense fondness and for the family of the family's great attention. The former is the concept of native land, and the latter is the concept of kinship. In China, regardless of the flow of time, regardless of social change, regardless of the change of government, regardless of the metabolism of personnel, the concept of the countryside and the concept of kinship has long been transformed into a deep complex, rooted in the bone marrow of the children of the Yellow Emperor. Ancient poems such as "I am more timid when I am near my hometown, I dare not ask the people who are coming" and "I miss my relatives twice as much when I am at festivals" are precisely a reflection of such a complex. Historically and socio-culturally, the native land and kinship complex is the foundation of patriotism and nationalism. In China, patriotism and nationalism will become a tree without a foundation and water without a source if we leave the native land and affection complex. Undoubtedly, the native land and affection complex, as well as the patriotism and nationalism generated on this basis, is the root of the nation, the foundation of the country, the powerful spiritual glue that unites more than a billion people, and the most valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. It is the most valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival carries on just such a meaning. Hundreds of millions of Chinese people no matter how cold it is, exhausted, no matter how long the journey, the car and the ship, all to go home and meet with their parents, this is not a kind of the greatest nostalgia? Hundreds of millions and even more than a billion people *** with the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, with the evening program with the joy of the same music, singing and laughing, shaping the strong atmosphere of the Chinese nation's big family, this is not one of the greatest affection? The powerful spiritual force generated by this traditional culture should push us to build a moderately prosperous society more quickly. A few years ago, some scholars put forward the "cultural power", which caused a heated discussion in the theoretical community. The author believes that, as a social phenomenon, the Spring Festival can be completely "cultural power" of the said evidence.

It is worth recalling that the classic Marxist writer said that tradition is the inert force of history. So has the Spring Festival, as a traditional festival, become incompatible with certain aspects of modern society in terms of the traditional meanings it carries? As a matter of fact, the Chinese people's celebration of the Spring Festival has changed a lot over the decades, and the significance of rituals such as praying to the gods and sacrificing to ancestors has been greatly diminished. However, it cannot be denied that there are still some negative aspects of the Spring Festival for modern society. From the economic level, the economic phenomenon generated by the Spring Festival is actually an abnormal economic phenomenon, which is contrary to the market economy of modern society. Because the mode of production in industrial society is very different from that in agricultural society. Industrial production relies on market demand rather than on seasonal and seasonal changes. Industrial production is more regular and balanced than agricultural production, and except for certain man-made specific circumstances, there are rarely any big cold, big hot, big ups and downs. Agricultural economy is a kind of seasonal economy with uneven busyness and idleness. Since the Spring Festival originates from agricultural society, the economy of Spring Festival is of course a kind of seasonal economy, which will inevitably bring certain obstacles and influence to modern industrial and commercial operation. On a cultural level, the significance of the Spring Festival can express nostalgic feelings and enhance the degree of affection, thus uniting people's hearts and contributing to social stability and peace. However, while paying too much attention to the nostalgia of the countryside and the family affection, the other side of the coin may be the neglect of the rigid legal rules of the modern society, which may not be favorable to the construction of the rule of law in the modern society. Chinese society in the "back door", "nepotism", "relations" and so on the phenomenon of repeated, from a deeper sense, and the traditional culture of over-emphasis on human feelings and the family The concept of affection is y rooted. It has been proved that the Spring Festival is also the period of the year when the social improper winds are at their peak. Of course, I don't think that local kinship and other traditional cultures are irreconcilably at odds with the rule of law in modern society, but you can't ignore the huge differences in the way they are expressed.

Tradition is often a double-edged sword, it accumulates history, rich culture, but its concepts and cultural identity formed in a particular stage of history may also hinder the new concepts, new ideas of the people's hearts; as a traditional culture in the sense of the Spring Festival is also a double-edged sword, its positive impact has long been known to all Chinese people, but its inherited traditions from some of the customs of the modern society is not adapted to match the people feel that they do not know what to do with the modern society. However, some of the customs inherited from the tradition are not compatible with the modern society, which people feel but may not be able to y understand. How to promote the positive influence of the Spring Festival culture, dissolve the negative influence of the traditional culture of the Spring Festival, and give the Spring Festival more modern significance and atmosphere of the times, is exactly the subject that we can calmly consider after celebrating this peaceful and beautiful Spring Festival. Today, with a modern perspective to interpret the Spring Festival's ideological underpinnings, the significance of which is also here.