Cultural Connotation of Traditional Festivals

The cultural connotations of traditional festivals are as follows:

Traditional festivals also bear the national cultural memory and express the life feelings of China people. Festive customs are like a bond, linking tradition with modernity and past with present, which not only creates a strong festive atmosphere, but also activates people's memory of * * * and arouses the spirit of * * *.

In this sense, it is not only the need to enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also the proper meaning of inheriting excellent traditional culture to close the distance between holiday customs and more people. From the ingenious Mid-Autumn Festival light show, to the online experience hall of moon cake culture, and then to the Mid-Autumn Festival theme concert, the innovative form and rich and diverse content have also made the festival culture better presented.

People's favor for traditional festivals is the recognition of excellent traditional culture and the embodiment of cultural self-confidence. Dig deep into the cultural connotation of traditional festivals, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture, pass on the historical context from generation to generation, and constantly create new glories of Chinese culture.

The formation of traditional festivals:

The origin, inheritance and development of ancient traditional festivals are the "cultural process of gradual formation and perfection" of human society and the product of the evolution and development of human civilization.

Ancient festivals are folk cultures created by people based on primitive beliefs to meet the needs of life. Some popular festivals in ancient times clearly recorded the rich and colorful social life of the ancients, and also accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations of China.

In the ancient farming society, people lived and worked in peace and contentment. They chose a day to worship the gods and ancestors, and they had various regular festivals. Abundant offerings to gods and ancestors developed into festival feasts, and gradually formed some established ways of celebration, that is, the so-called festival folk customs. The early festival culture embodies the ancient people's humanistic spirit of advocating nature, the unity of man and nature, cautiously pursuing the future, and firmly thinking about the source.

A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The traditional festivals of the Chinese nation are diverse in form and rich in content. They are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation and the basic framework of a civilized country.