Traditional Festivals and China Culture

Traditional festivals in China are famous for their various forms and rich contents. They not only have profound cultural connotations, but also embody the aesthetic essence of traditional culture. The traditional festivals in China belong to an important cultural phenomenon. In the traditional society of China, they are also an integral part of China's history and culture. From the origin of traditional festivals, some of them are to commemorate cultural celebrities, for example, the Dragon Boat Festival in memory of Chu doctor Qu Yuan and the Cold Food Festival for a generation of loyal officials. Some of them evolved from sacrificial activities, such as praying for blessings in ancient times, and gradually developed into the current national events for the New Year.

In the past, people attached great importance to these traditional festivals, and many literary works described the scenes of people celebrating these festivals. For example, the fifteenth night of the first month written by Su Weidao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, describes the grand occasion of Luoyang people celebrating midnight snack; There is also Meng Haoran's "Autumn Climbing Thousands of Mountains to Send Zhang Wu", which embodies the custom of climbing high and looking far on the Double Ninth Festival.

As a cultural carrier, traditional festivals in China contain rich and colorful cultural information. However, if we don't understand the traditional festivals in China, we may not be able to appreciate the aesthetic implication flowing in the cultural blood. China has a long history of traditional festivals and customs. He can trace back to ancient ancestors. In primitive society, due to the low level of productivity, people could not understand and control natural phenomena, and they had a psychology of fear and worship of nature. Ancient ancestors thought that nature had been personified, and they felt that there was a supernatural power hidden behind all kinds of natural phenomena.

In order to seek protection, ancient ancestors showed their worship of this supernatural power. The resulting animism gradually developed into a primitive belief in ancient times. This primitive belief includes prayer and sacrifice. After the calendar is gradually formed, people will have a specific date to pray and sacrifice according to the natural season. This is actually the embryonic form of traditional festivals. Traditional festivals in China are based on cultural concepts and natural seasons. From the initial worship of nature and animism, they gradually developed into a phenomenon with unique aesthetic significance in China, which has undergone thousands of years of evolution. Is it because? Pursue the distance carefully? Mourning one's ancestors, or praying for prosperity, bumper harvest and good luck, presents the traditional customs of China, the rich and profound cultural connotation of the culture, and the aesthetic essence of the traditional culture of China.