Traditional etiquette for New Year's Day

The most handsome and hygienic of the traditional etiquettes that can be restored is the bowing. The traditional Chinese bowing ceremony can be restored. Traditional festivals, as a platform, should explore and restore some healthy traditional rituals while it itself is protected and inherited. At the same time, the connotation of traditional festivals can only be rich if the related ceremonial culture is promoted. The bowing ceremony is the most handsome and hygienic.

China's bowing ceremony dates back to the pre-Qin period. It is divided into three categories: one is called "heavenly greeting", which originated from sacrifices to honor heaven, and then it was used for personnel, first to the son of heaven with "heavenly greeting", and then to parents, teachers, and all those who deserve respect. The gesture of the heavenly greeting is to raise one's hand slightly upward, which is called "pushing one's hand upward". The second gesture is called "Earth Greeting", which is exactly the opposite of Heaven Greeting: "Pushing hands down", and also originates from nature worship, which is a transition from earth worship to showing respect to people, such as teachers can perform "Earth Greeting" to their students. For example, a teacher may perform the "Earth Bow" to his students. Thirdly, the "time-bow" and the "flat hand-push" are used between peers. To bow to time is to show respect for time. Heavenly and earthly greetings are spatial greetings, while time greetings are temporal greetings. The core value of Chinese culture lies in the worldview of "the unity of heaven and mankind". This worldview is embodied in the small gesture of bowing. Chinese characters are a symbol and a code of Chinese culture. The character "揖", with a hand, a mouth, and an ear, indicates that one must use one's hands, mouth, and ear to make a gesture of greeting. In addition to clasping and folding the hands to do the action, but also to add respectful language, at the same time, humbly listening, can not be careless, people are talking without ears. Three in one, all three, this is "揖", this etiquette is considered in place.

Bakhtin said: "Carnival has no division of labor between actors and spectators. It doesn't even have a budding stage, and a stage would spoil the carnival. People don't watch carnival passively, they live in it, all together, because conceptually it is universal." I thought that the main thing that people are upset about the Spring Festival now is not the content of the program, but the fact that they don't know how to get involved in it. Why don't we learn from Japan and take the good programs accumulated over 20 years, especially the good songs that are familiar and widely circulated among the masses, and repeat them, and invite the influential artists among the masses to appear, and take care of people of all ages and from all walks of life, so that everyone will have a chance to open their mouths and dance - and this year will definitely be more enjoyable.

For more than 20 years, CCTV's Spring Festival gala has become a major center of gravity and a mainstay of China's annual festival. It has brought great excitement and joy to Chinese people. But in recent years, rather than people's appetites are getting bigger and tastes are getting more and more difficult, the "Spring Festival Gala" form itself is flawed - the public has become a "spectator", "watching the festival", "watching the festival", "watching the festival", "watching the festival", "watching the festival", "watching the festival", "watching the festival". "Watching the festival" instead of celebrating the festival. Japanese New Year's Eve is also similar to our "Spring Festival Gala" TV cultural evening, called "red and white song club", a red team and a white team, fighting songs, fighting the whole night, singing all the old songs. The people are watching TV, while they also "fight", unit colleagues, school teachers and students, and even family members, all divided into two factions, some like the red team, some support the white team, some like to the square, the park to watch the big screen, while watching and singing and even dancing, hip-hop and ha-ha-hop, noisy, cheerful. This will have a sense of participation, carnival atmosphere, will not be an outsider. Ancient Chinese New Year's Eve, "the townspeople Nuo", the participation of all the people is very strong, "a country are as crazy" (Confucius language). Chinese folk some places so far. Such as Shanxi, a place in the countryside, New Year's performance Guan Yu "five passes through six generals", all the villagers are followed by a high horse on the "Guan Gong", around five or six villages. Anhui Guizhi Nuo "shouting off", "the head of the year" in the above shout, the villagers should be below, so-called a call.