Discuss the variation of folk culture in modern times and its influence

In folk characteristics, variation is the driving force behind the development of folk culture. Folk culture is originally created and enjoyed by the people. This creation and enjoyment will never give up the absorption of fresh culture and the convenience brought by modernization. In a sense, what it embodies is the change of the people's ideological concepts. For example, the Chinese Spring Festival is a culture that has lasted for thousands of years, and its original theme was built on the basis of an agricultural society, where "good weather, good harvests", inviting the gods to sacrifice to the ancestors, and family reunions are almost unchanging contents that have lasted for thousands of years. The cultural activities accompanying Spring Festival customs are even more colorful. The traditional Chinese New Year rituals mainly consist of three aspects: the pre-holiday busy New Year; New Year's Eve New Year's Eve; and the festival of New Year's Eve. It lasts for about a month. Specific activities: busy New Year's Eve generally from the beginning of the eighth of Lunar New Year after the "Laha" festival, the preparation of the New Year's activities, to the New Year's Eve (New Year's Eve), every household to paste the Spring Festival couplets, the God of the Door, window, New Year's paintings; New Year's Eve Eve to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the New Year's Eve vigil, burning firecrackers, inviting the gods to sacrifice to their ancestors; the first day of the New Year began, family and friends to pay tribute to each other; community fireworks, festivals, temple fair activities The activities of social fires, flower shows and temple fairs are carried out in turn. Until after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the yearly activities will not be considered finished. Traditional Chinese New Year customs are shrouded in the concept of faith, mysterious and interesting. With the acceleration of social modernization, the rituals and contents of the Spring Festival have undergone significant changes. The faith component gradually weakened and the entertainment component gradually increased. In fact, the Spring Festival custom is only one aspect of the changes in folk culture, and the changes in other customs are equally far-reaching. Changes in material folklore, such as residence, food, clothing, production, and transportation; changes in social folklore, such as family, village, marriage, and funeral rites; and changes in spiritual folklore, such as beliefs, also reflect the characteristics of folklore as it advances with the times. It is not difficult to realize that Chinese customs are being integrated into the world cultural trend. As far as dress culture is concerned, traditional Chinese clothes have gradually disappeared from the life of the Chinese people, and peasants are wearing suits; traditional weddings no longer exist, and funeral rituals are being reformed at an accelerated pace, etc. In the face of such rapid changes, folklore is changing rapidly. In the face of such rapid changes, what do folklore scholars think. There are two ways out: one is to adapt to the development of the times, catch up with the pace of the times, pay attention to the changes of folklore, strengthen the research on modern new fashion and new folklore, and explore the law of development and mutation of folklore culture; and the other is to excavate, rescue and protect the traditional folklore culture, safeguard the ecological environment for the survival of the Chinese folklore culture, and preserve the roots of the Chinese folklore culture, so as to make better coordinated development of the tradition and modernization. In the face of foreign cultures, Chinese people should not lose their national self-confidence, but should believe in the strong vitality of Chinese folk culture, and should see that the addition of new elements to folk culture can ensure that Chinese folk culture can incorporate the old into the new in its development. In a peaceful environment, the spread of folk culture often takes the form of "borrowing". A people's acceptance of foreign cultures is always selective, not blind. It is rare that a foreign culture simply replaces the original culture of a nation. For example, Buddhism is a foreign culture, and before the Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties, it was spread in the Indian way. However, after the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism was secularized by the Chinese, with Chinese characteristics, and was more conducive to spreading, even affecting many countries in East Asia. Cultural change, including the variation of folk culture, is an objective law. We are now in the era of global informationization. From the point of view of the spatial environment of human existence, in the past, we were in a relatively closed environment, and the dissemination of folk culture had to rely on oral and behavioral methods, and the speed of dissemination was quite slow. Today, with the changes in modern transportation and communication, the space for human existence has been significantly reduced, and the changes in the environment directly affect the mutation of folk culture, and the study of folklore should directly face this change and make new choices.