What is the main spirit of Chinese New Year? Connotation ......

The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China and one of the most important festivals of the year. How to spend this festival, in the development of thousands of years of history, formed a number of more fixed customs and habits, many of which are still handed down to this day. New Year's Eve people always want to, will be a year of worries and sorrows forgotten, to enjoy a year of hard work to bring the joy of waiting for the old to welcome the new bell, to feel the warmth of family and friendship, and the warmth of family harmony.

One, "the world's great gala" of the soul of what

CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, after more than two decades of continuous organization has become the Chinese people thirty years a family of men, women and children get together to eat the New Year's dinner, wrapping dumplings, watching the party, the indispensable content of it. Now through the satellite for the world live impact is huge, has become the global Chinese New Year's spiritual feast and show the main time of the spirit of the Chinese nation. Because of the special nature of this party, it has become a symbol of our country's cultural and artistic direction and new works and new achievements will be displayed. The Spring Festival Gala has become an important part of people's concern in every year.

The planning of the Spring Festival gala people often lament the difficult to adjust the mouth, and the result of their exhaustive efforts, or the end of these dishes to the audience. Therefore, the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala program many of the songs and dances, sketches, comedy, acrobatics, opera monotonous and boring, poor quality.

The Spring Festival is our folklore, and all behavior is to seek luck and find a joy. Watching the Spring Festival Gala is to find a fun, so the program is naturally unnecessary to get too orthodox and too elegant, but also can not be too messy too cheesy. Because folklore is not vulgar. Programs to achieve irrespective of east and west, north and south, young and old all love is more difficult, but at least to be healthy and beneficial. But look at this year's Spring Festival Gala, not full of white women's thighs, bare breasts and navels, or full of profanity. Such as in the skit "decoration" in just a minute or two there are "night to the wife to be intimate", "daytime can be husband as a small worker to call, the night can not be our small workers as a husband to call", "in front of the TV behind the toilet, you have to a convenient, that's why I want to go to the toilet, you have to go to the toilet, you have to go to the toilet. "The TV is in front and the toilet is behind. If you want to make it easy, it's not a live broadcast." "A said: 'If you sit here to watch TV, my wife stands there to take a bath ......' B said: 'Then how can I be in the mood to watch TV ah'" and so on. "and so on, so much sexual harassment foul language, please watch the program when the child asked their parents what the actors are talking about, how parents should answer. There are even a few programs where the actors spit in each other's faces and call each other "mom" for laughs. Yet the laughter-free "A Thousand Hands" is y moving. Programs like "Decoration" were also awarded second prize. These are the contents of the 2005 Spring Festival Gala, which was themed as a great celebration of the world. The viewer is not forced to a happy, but, after laughing at the people of the country to think about "these are the performance of the Chinese nation's prosperity", the heart is naturally a little hard to bear.

The cheap and dirty language as a model in the country and the world publicity, which is misleading to the people and damage to the national image. What is the soul of the "Sheng Shi Da Jie"?

2005 Spring Festival Gala CCTV's own survey satisfaction rate of about 95%, but less than 5% of folk Web site survey satisfaction rate. In the end, how many people satisfied? What kind of people are satisfied?

Two, "joy" as an important factor affecting people and society

In today's world, society, family and many other problems, Confucianism is considered to be the cure for these problems. Confucian "music", in fact, to the root of the human heart, the human heart, "feelings in the", in order to "form in words"; "words are not enough! ", to "contempt of"; contempt of the lack of, to "singing of", that is, want to sing to praise it; "singing of the lack of", unknowingly want to The "music" is not enough to "sing", i.e., to sing to praise it. So this "music", it should be said that it is a thing that expresses human feelings. Different styles of music give people different feelings. Some songs can make you crazy, you have to go crazy after listening to them for a long time, and some music can make you depressed and disillusioned after listening to it for a long time. What kind of things should we choose to recommend to you in "Sound"? It is to be able to give you the physical and mental health of the beneficial, that is to say, can be beneficial to the community.

So we talk about "ritual and music education" in ancient times, what is it?

There is a saying in the Book of Rites that says, "Virtue moves within," and you have to have a "virtue" within you, and this "virtue" is glowing.

Human nature has two sides, one is the devil and the other is an angel. The two sides of human nature are devilish and angelic, i.e., evil and good, and therefore one needs to be guided by music to suppress evil and promote goodness.

Xunzi's analysis of the origin of music in "The Discourse on Music" says: "The music of music is also a human being's inevitability. Therefore, people cannot be without music." This means that music originates from the need to properly guide human emotions. Through music, we can cure people's sentiments, cultivate their goodness, and prevent the corruption of evil desires, which is the social function of music. Emotions must be correctly guided, otherwise it will cause people to compete with each other for material desires and emotional indulgence, thus causing social chaos.

The social role and importance of music, Xunzi believes that music can not only cultivate people's temperament, but also make the upper and lower "and respect", the family "and new", the township "and smooth! It can also make the top and the bottom "harmonious and respectful", the family "harmonious and new", the township "harmonious and smooth", "good to the people's heart" and "change the wind and customs". And the comprehensive social effect of ritual and music is: "music and clear will, ritual repair and behavior, ears and eyes smart, blood peace, customs, the world is peaceful, beauty and goodness of each other happy." Therefore, Xunzi summarized: "Music is also, and the unchangeable; ritual is also, the reason is not easy. Music contract, rituals are different. The unity of the rites and music, the management of the human heart." This is to say, the rituals and music make people pure ambition, behavior, ears and eyes, peace of mind, customs, social peace, people to praise the good deeds for the joy of things. Music and etiquette embody the fundamental principle of immutability in the physics of temperament. The role of music is to bring harmony to the group, and the role of ritual is to bring order to the group. Therefore, music and ritual can be said to govern the hearts and minds of the world.

Confucius said, "If the rites and music are different, the punishment is not neutral; if the punishment is not neutral, the people have nothing to do." Thus, in Confucius' view, rituals and music are indispensable to individuals and society. Nowadays, our country advocates the rule of law and the rule of virtue, which are inseparable from the guidance of "music". Xunzi said in the Book of Music, "Music is also a means to promote ethics." Today's society is impatient, the juvenile delinquency rate has risen, the school, the family is painfully difficult to educate the child, which is related to the social and cultural pleasure guide too much.

As mentioned above, the traditional education of etiquette and music is centered on ethical and moral issues.

For individuals, it is essential to develop a sound personality. Therefore, the spirit of Confucianism, especially Xunzi's thought, which emphasizes the system of rites and music and rites and music education, is very worthwhile for today's people to learn from. Today, it is still necessary to establish a system of rituals and music suitable for the present age, and it is still necessary to strengthen the education of all people in rituals and music.

In traditional music education, much attention was paid to the profound influence of different kinds of music on human emotions and thoughts. The great influence of music (including all artistic activities) on people's thoughts and feelings, as pointed out in these discussions, is something that we cannot ignore even today. Therefore, we can gain a lot of insights from the traditional music teachings.

Our artist should have a high degree of social responsibility in creating his works, and dedicate healthy and upwardly mobile works of art to the society.

Three, traditional culture does not exist in the country where the nation

"Music" said, Wei Wenhou and Zixia two people have a conversation, Wei Wenhou said, ah, you are very learned, I ask you for advice on a problem, said, "I end of the coronet and listen to the ancient music," I put the hat are right, I sit upright, I come to listen to ancient music, I listen for a moment, I want to listen to the ancient music, and I want to listen to a little while. I sit upright and listen to the ancient music, and I want to sleep after listening to it for a while. But when I listen to the new music, which we call pop music today, I don't want to go to sleep for the whole night, may I ask what is the reason for this? The Zixia then laughed and said, "Those things you said, the messy sound, the sound of music, the sound of the dead country are not "music", "the sound of music for music".

Gu Yanwu in the "Zhi Zhi Lu" inside he also said that there are two cases of death, one case is a change of an emperor, the emperor surnamed Zhang changed into the emperor surnamed Li, the culture has not changed, or Han culture, which is called the death of the country. What do you mean by the death of the world? That is, your entire culture was assimilated by others, or eliminated by others, your people one by one are still there, but you have no this nation.

The Chinese people are the only people in the world whose culture has not been broken in thousands of years, which shows the excellence of their culture. Festivals are the carrier of culture, culture is the soul of the festival. Now why do many of us like to have foreign festivals, what April Fool's Day, Valentine's Day, Christmas, etc., do not like to have Chinese festivals, even if it is a Chinese festival is also foreignized over. This year our major traditional festival, the Spring Festival spiritual feast hosts are wearing foreign clothes. Culturally actually conquered to some extent. What kind of nation are we?

China's modern famous patriotic thinker has pointed out extremely profoundly: "the destruction of people's country, must first go to its history; co?o of the people Fang, the defeat of the people's program, must first go to its history; extinction of the people's material, the annihilation of the people's teachings, must first go to its history; barbarians of the ancestors, must first go to its history."

The history of a country and a nation is the centralized manifestation of its economy, politics, and culture, and it is the place of the national spirit. The best way to eliminate people's national subjective consciousness is not to let him know his own history. Therefore, history is not to be forgotten and our traditional culture is not to be lost.

In recent times, we have been subjected to foreign aggression, and in this very special situation, some people always want to westernize wholesale. Their own national culture can not stand up, there is no cultural self-confidence and self-esteem, there is no national renaissance.

Four, on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala a few suggestions

2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala program with "heart" less performance, more than the oil tone, showing that there is no basis for life. For this reason, we have the following suggestions on how to do a good CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

(a) the purpose of the evening:

1, highlighting the good folklore folk style. Such as windowpane and upside down "Fu" word, New Year's paintings, dragon and lion dances and other distinctive folklore. This year, the evening party to add a couplet is quite popular. This shows the unique charm of Chinese culture. Regrettably, the 2005 Spring Festival gala, hosts around the couplets, are on the province, district, city description, regional characteristics of these couplets is the main content, but the artistry is very poor, no let a person applaud the masterpiece.

2, highlighting the times. CCTV's Spring Festival Gala is a comprehensive party, in the sketches, comedy, song and dance, and other artistic performances, can be fully demonstrated in all walks of life in a year of outstanding people and things.

3, highlighting the national spirit. The Chinese nation has self-improvement, virtue and indomitable tolerance and harmony of the spirit of the inner letter.

4. Highlight the unique concept of life of the nation. The reason why China has become the only one of the four ancient civilizations that has not declined so far is closely related to the special concept of life advocated by Confucianism, which is "sincerity, righteousness, cultivation, family unity, governance, and world peace".

(2) Specific methods:

1. Hire a traditional culture consultant. Duties are: during the preparation and rehearsal period, make suggestions to the competent authorities on the cultural connotation of the program, and strictly control the emergence of vulgar and boring programs or program segments, so that the audience can enjoy a healthy, positive, upward and peaceful spiritual feast from the whole evening party.

2, vigorously update the actors. The main actors each year, at least 50% of the hard percentage should be updated. Definitely should not let some actors and actresses for years and years to dominate the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, they take some worthless trivial boast no vitality and artistry, and should be more newcomers. Disabled people's dance "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy" is the evening party newcomers new work, is the proof.

3, the creation of go out. With 1.3 billion Chinese and tens of millions of overseas Chinese wisdom is not worried about good works. Breaking the small circle of closed doors, for the community to collect a wide range of materials and works.

4. Programs are invited in. With the talent of 1.3 billion Chinese and tens of millions of overseas Chinese, there are no worries about good programs. The heart of China's good program regardless of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign can be invited to perform.

V. Comparative thinking about the advantages and disadvantages

Finally, two couplets to end our thinking.

The first pair of national sadness

The first couplet: full of spittle funny, bare breasts exposed navel exposed thighs good-looking, good in vulgar low-class.

Next couplet: it is difficult to distinguish between a husband and a small worker, and it is difficult to distinguish between pretending to be stupid and becoming paralyzed and becoming insane, and it is difficult to have normal elegance.

The second vice Chinese world

The first line: family love, countryside love, friendship, ethnicity, love warms the heart.

The next couplet: righteousness and courage and gas giant dragon gas, gas full of heaven and earth.

Note: This article is based on the February 26, 2005, Chinese Cultural Renaissance Research Institute, Beijing Ruyi life culture research center sponsored by Mr. Li Bochun, "Chinese cultural renaissance series of activities," the third part of the "social and cultural phenomena of the series of seminars "The twenty-fourth seminar on the topic "2005 Spring Festival Gala - What Chinese People Eat for New Year's Spiritual Meal", organized by the Institute for Chinese Cultural Renaissance and the Beijing Ruyi Life Culture Research Center, was attended by Chen Kuan, Wen Eryi, Pang Yun, Zhisheng Shao, Ma Wen, Zhang Yikuan, Yang Yulin, Li Waili, Long Yuchen, Li Bochun, and other experts, Long Yuchen, Li Bochun and other experts to organize the speech.