How to inherit traditional folk festivals

Traditional Chinese folklore, as an integral part of traditional Chinese culture, was nurtured, occurred and passed on under the constraints of the Chinese nation's unique natural environment, economic mode, social structure, political system and other factors, and thus traditional Chinese folklore has the **** of human folklore as well as a unique personality that is different from that of other countries and nations.

For example, the Spring Festival is the most traditional, most highly regarded and most representative of Chinese folklore. The first day of the Lunar New Year is called the Spring Festival every year and is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese people. The customs of Spring Festival include: sacrificing the stove, sweeping the dust, New Year's Eve, worshipping ancestors, keeping the New Year's Eve, welcoming the Spring Festival, paying homage to the New Year, New Year's Eve dinner, sticking Spring Festival couplets on the door, setting off firecrackers, and suppressing the New Year's Eve. And now, only the New Year's Eve, ancestor worship, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve dinner, sticking spring couplets door god and other customs exist, like the general in addition to some countryside places to let firecrackers, almost all prohibited to set off firecrackers, sacrificial stove, welcome the god of happiness, peach symbols, send poor? In addition to the transformation of peach symbols into spring scrolls, these customs in the modern Chinese New Year customs have also been very rare. In fact, many Chinese New Year customs were formed by the Chinese people to pray for a good new year. With the fast pace of life of modern people, the continuation of these customs is not in line with modern people's pursuit of life. In addition, modern people have much more understanding of nature and science than in ancient times, the ability to control their own destiny greatly enhanced, feudal superstitions no longer have a place in their hearts, they pray for blessings is only to send their own good wishes, and do not care about the red tape and a variety of taboos, so some of the Chinese New Year customs disappeared as a matter of course.

The Spring Festival is the most important festival in the Chinese tradition, although some of the customs have disappeared, but it still exists and the atmosphere of the festival is very strong, while other traditional festivals are not, especially in the impact of Western values and lifestyles, China's traditional festivals by young people, many festivals and cultural colors are gradually faded down. For a long time, traditional culture was considered something feudal and superstitious to be broken. When there is no cultural interpretation of festivals, people gradually forget about them. But traditional festivals have a need to exist in modern life! The significance of traditional festivals in modern life has three points:

1, traditional festivals have the role of cohesion of the national spirit;

2, there is to enhance interpersonal harmony, the role of civilization;

3, is conducive to the construction of "harmonious" society.

Historically, traditional festivals are not static, but are constantly evolving and integrating. So, in the process of urbanization, how to make the traditional festivals in the urban life of the inheritance and transmutation, to get a new carrier, but still maintain its ethnicity?

First, the maintenance of the summer calendar and the western calendar coexistence of the calendar system: the construction of traditional festivals can not leave the summer calendar, which is closely related to the

The government should state that: the summer calendar and the western calendar coexistence of the current government's calendar system, newspapers, television stations and other media should be the summer calendar and the western calendar and the use of the calendar, may be felt to be cumbersome, but it is the awakening of the national culture awareness of the national heritage. We should cherish our own traditions. So that we do not lose ourselves in today's globalization and lose the most valuable things.

Second, the traditional festivals appropriate increase for legal holidays: China's current legal holidays, only the Spring Festival is a traditional national holiday, while some other political holidays: such as the National Day, May Day International Labor Day, etc., from the stimulation of economic growth, to promote consumption, to set up a seven-day holiday, less cultural heritage, holiday cheer, but more fickleness and hustle and bustle. In the case of traditional holidays and modern political holiday proportion is greatly detuned, respect for people's customs and habits, the appropriate increase in traditional holidays for the legal holidays, it seems urgent and necessary. At the two sessions of the National People's Congress in 2005, more than 60 representatives of the Hong Kong SAR made a joint proposal calling for the addition of the Ching Ming and Mid-Autumn festivals to the list of national holidays, and deputies to the National People's Congresses of various places also suggested that the addition of traditional holidays should be included in their agendas. Prof. Ji Baocheng of Renmin University of China has repeatedly called for the addition of traditional Chinese festivals as legal holidays. The folk cultural significance of traditional festivals is also more and more people are concerned about, to explore.

Third, strengthen the education of the next generation of traditional culture: more traditional culture courses, so that students have a clear understanding of the ins and outs of traditional festivals, and through education so that they have a sense of traditional festivals, festivals of their own country's sense of warmth and respect, in the traditional festivals of the formation of a good social atmosphere, the lack of social education must be supplemented by the function of the school education, so that there is no "break" of traditional festivals. The traditional festivals of the "broken generation".

Fourth, the need for folklore scholars, social attention to folklore: folklorists in the discovery of traditional festivals, cultural meaning, traditional festivals in modern society has an important role in the reincarnation of the community should pay attention to the work of folklorists, which the government should also play an active role in guiding the creation of conditions to guide the public on the traditional festivals of the people to the traditional festivals of the love of the traditional festivals, so that traditional festivals will not lose their cultural meaning, but also in the new era of the traditional festivals of the people. cultural meaning, but also in the new era, adding new carriers, new ways for young people to love. So that young people in the West to happily celebrate Christmas, Valentine's Day, but also do not forget our own holidays, our traditional festivals more warmth and respect, more tolerance for foreign festivals.

Traditional Chinese festivals are a precious treasure left to us by our ancestors and need to be treasured. How traditional Chinese festivals respond to globalization and lifestyle changes has become a test of whether traditional festivals can continue to have real vitality in the field of social life. However, the modern reincarnation of traditional festivals does not mean that the inherent traditions and spiritual core should be discarded in order to succumb to modernization and urbanization. Rather, it is to give people spiritual comfort and self-identity in the wave of urbanization and globalization.

Let's start from ourselves, from the side, together inherit our own Chinese culture, and make it more luminous.