The Development and Inheritance of Spring Festival Culture in the New Period

The Spring Festival is a unique cultural phenomenon of the Chinese nation. It's special because it's not like an ordinary lifestyle, and it can be simply replaced or changed. After thousands of years of inheritance, it has formed a huge historical and cultural tradition. "Go home for the New Year if you have money", and it has become a cultural habit of China people to go home for reunion during the New Year.

Since the new era, with the comprehensive promotion of reform and opening-up, the connection between China and the world has been significantly enhanced, and the process of China society from tradition to modernization has been significantly accelerated. The Spring Festival, a big festival of traditional culture, has encountered an unprecedented realistic impact. The Spring Festival was originally an important part of the main culture, but now it has become a "relic" floating outside the modern cultural system, or a cultural symbol, or an opportunity for commercial operation. Nowadays, fashionable young people in some foreign festivals can send Christmas cards, but they are stingy with their wishes for the Spring Festival. Although most of this is fashion curiosity, it does dispel the traditional folk psychology of the Spring Festival.

When we enter the modern society and enjoy the convenience brought by the progress of network science and technology, we don't have to abandon tradition, especially at the expense of actively abandoning tradition. Because tradition and modernity are not natural enemies, traditional wisdom can be used as cultural resources for the construction of modern society. The Spring Festival is related to our national feelings, and it has become the birthmark of our culture. Although tradition as a whole cultural system has been broken, many valuable cultural fragments can serve as a link between our contemporary spiritual life and social life. Especially for national cultural festivals such as the Spring Festival, it has a unique time advantage. In such a natural season, people hold various Spring Festival ceremonies to relive family ties, coordinate interpersonal relationships, relax, get rid of the hectic rhythm of modern life and return to traditional leisure.

Of course, the Spring Festival is changing, and some parts of the Spring Festival tradition do need to be updated and adjusted. For example, it is necessary to dilute the consciousness of asking for God and reduce the tedious and expensive ritual of offering sacrifices to God and extravagance and waste.

Inheriting the custom of the Spring Festival is our primary task. We should pay attention to the specific folk customs of the Spring Festival, especially those festivals and customs that are related to our national feelings and have fun in life. It is folk programs such as Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, firecrackers, dragon lanterns, lion dances, reunion dinners, New Year greetings, temple fairs, social fires, lucky money and Spring Festival gifts that create the atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

In modern society, under the control of time machine, people's daily life is hurried and utilitarian, and people's spirit is anxious and lonely. We might as well emphasize and advocate some ceremonial, symbolic, subtle and warm cultural activities in national festivals.

The cultural connotation of festivals tends to be diluted all over the world. Most people in the East and the West who take part in festival celebrations have got rid of the shackles of their respective festival origins and backgrounds, and the significance of cultural origins and festival backgrounds has become a special pass for traditional culture to go abroad. With this cultural connotation, excellent festivals are more easily accepted by people all over the world.

Today, with the acceleration of economic globalization, China cannot close its doors to the outside world. While carrying forward its traditional culture, we should also absorb the essence of western culture for our use. At present, with the rapid development of China's economy and society and the increasingly frequent economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West, China's traditional culture has begun to go abroad and show its unique charm to the world, and China people have begun to understand the charm of western culture. The mutual infiltration and integration of Chinese and western cultures is a great gospel for the two cultures to keep up with the trend of the times and keep their vitality forever.