Essay Tradition in Modernity

Let the tradition and modern harmony Carrying long years, carrying a long culture, carrying a traditional festival passed down, the long river of history flows slowly. From ancient times to the present, a number of traditional festivals have been passed down. There are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival ...... These festivals have traditional customs. In ancient times, our ancestors were very precious to every festival, and every festival and custom was extra solemn. That's because people in ancient times had great respect for nature. In every festival, they paid attention to begging heaven and earth for happiness and well-being and family joy. Therefore, every festival is celebrated with great solemnity. Festivals and customs handed down for thousands of years have naturally changed a lot. Modern people do not want to be old-fashioned, the pursuit of freedom, spontaneity, happiness, no longer bound by tradition. The festival customs are watered down and simplified. In these festivals, some people are too busy with their work and forget about the festivals; some people use the time of the festivals to go out and travel and take a break; some people only give some gifts during the festivals, which seems to subvert the traditional customs. With the change of time, some foreign festivals have also been introduced into China. Such as Christmas, Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day and so on. People seem to prefer the passion and romance of foreign festivals, and have neglected the traditional festivals. For traditional festivals, people know how to take the best and get rid of the dross. They welcome new and beautiful foreign festivals and reject vulgar festivals. With the weight and responsibility between traditional and new festivals, festivals can be renewed and developed. If we blindly embrace new foreign festivals, we will only see their passion and romance, but not their vulgarity and vulgarity, and we will not emphasize choice. The traditional festivals only with a new vision, do not know its solemn and sacred cultural essence and long history and civilization, will only fall into it, can not see the glory of history. Such subversion and coldness is the abandonment of traditional culture, is cold to history, is irresponsible to the national spirit. Celebrating traditional festivals is a review of history, a celebration of development, an embrace of culture, and the promotion and transmission of the national spirit. Only by focusing on choices and taking responsibility can we better promote the national spirit. Develop traditional festivals. We should be solemn and sacred for every custom. Because these customs are in the long thousands of years of continuous transmission, development. We must not forget these thousands of years of history and culture. Should let the essence of these customs and the essence of the development of history and the continuation of these customs forever, only then can we build a harmonious home of tradition and modernity.