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Liu, member of Honorary Department of China Academy of Social Sciences and president of China Folklore Society, introduced the origin, connotation and legend of traditional festivals such as China New Year Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival in detail with the theme of "China Traditional Festival and Folk Culture". Liu, who has studied folk festivals, believes that the implementation of the holiday system is not the ultimate goal of protecting traditional festivals. What is important is how to make traditional festivals adapt to the development of society and arouse the respect of young people.

Liu has been devoted to the discipline construction of China folk literature and art and China minority literature. From 1960s to 1980s, he visited the rural and remote areas of China for many times to inspect folk customs and folk literature, and also participated in the formulation of the traditional festival system. This year, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are on holiday for the first time, which makes more people pay attention to traditional festivals. However, the traditional atmosphere of these festivals is not strong. Liu said: "The traditional festivals in China are decided under the patriarchal clan system, and most of them focus on family and clan. Tomb-Sweeping Day worships his ancestors and misses his loved ones in Mid-Autumn Festival. Nowadays, young people pay more attention to personality display and rarely spend time with their families even on holidays. " Liu believes that it is not the most important thing whether traditional festivals have a holiday or not. To bring traditional festivals back to life, we must first create some contents that meet the needs of the present society in the process of festival development, and make reasonable innovations on the basis of tradition, so that folk culture can be spread for a long time. How to arouse young people's respect for traditional festivals is also very important. "We owe more than 65,438+000 years and have left our traditions behind for too long." Liu said with emotion.