How to understand "traditional culture is bad culture? "

Anything that does not benefit me is feudal dross, and anything that does not concern me or benefits me is traditional culture.

Some people say that it is bad custom to keep the New Year's Eve in one's husband's house.

Some people say that kowtowing on New Year's is bad custom.

Why doesn't anyone say that receiving red envelopes on New Year's Eve is a bad habit?

I'm a person, always do not believe in anything, not to mention the New Year, my own birthday, sometimes forget, for me, any day, is a normal day, and people agreed on a day, but also because "there is no commemorative" commemorative normal, the more pious, the more proof of life, there is no other day can be celebrated.

Let's start with the holidays.

I've been thinking about the meaning of holidays for a long time, and I still can't figure it out.

In my opinion, I think the holidays are just a means to give people "hope".

Spring, summer, fall, and winter, all four seasons have something interesting to offer. In spring, there are hundreds of flowers and everything is revived, in summer there are insects and birds chirping, and in fall there is a vast starry sky and the fullest moon. Winter, on the other hand, has almost nothing.

Man is a thinking creature, this creature, extremely afraid of loneliness, the emptiness of the winter, tend to amplify the sense of loneliness, so people like in the winter, to create festivals.

This may or may not be the meaning of the holiday.

What about customs?

Dan Brown wrote a novel called Angels and Demons, and the story depicts, with a slightly sad tone, the helpless position of the Papacy, in a technological society.

The story ends with the "enthronement" of the new pope, and the reverence of those who serve him as he changes his robes, a tedious process that is undoubtedly an effective means of proving the pope's former power to a pontiff who is left with only a note.

Then I wondered, what is their purpose in doing this?

Highlighting the power of the Pope?

The Pope has lost his power, but he is still the supreme being of the Church, and the faithful believe in him, so those who serve the Pope's change of clothes are devout and respectful.

So I realized something, that most of the faith in this world stems from a kind of belief in others and self.

And what runs through these two different kinds of "faith" is "tediousness".

Cognition comes from belief, belief comes from triviality, and triviality is embodied in custom.

Most of the customs in the world are designed to make people "not tolerate disbelief", a means of self-spiritual hypnosis.

Worshiping Buddha, to kneel three times, to be pious, to chest to the ground, hands over the top of the head, I've done all this, then I worship Buddha, can not do some miracles to me?

The custom of the Spring Festival is also the same, but he is higher than the worship of Buddha, he is to let people "happy", let people feel "affection", let these happy and affection, drive away the winter brought by the emptiness and fear.

Any activity with a set of complicated procedures can give people a kind of spiritual "comfort".

So, I never feel that the Chinese New Year has many customs that are bad, but it is a means of utilizing the tediousness to make people feel close to each other.

In that case, where is the tedium?

And where is the need for redesign?

Once upon a time, my grandmother said something to me, she said: New Year's Eve is just a normal day, and it's only interesting if you believe in it.

So, even if I don't believe in anything, I will choose an agreed upon day to be superstitious for a day, and that day will be the New Year's Eve.