On the Inheritance and Changes of the Spring Festival from Wendy's Home.

202 1 On the eve of the Lunar New Year, the decryption game Wendy's Home, developed by the decryption game developer QZQStudio, was launched on the Apple AppStore. The background of this play is quite suitable during the Lunar New Year. Wendy, the protagonist of the game, hurried home to spend the New Year with her family on New Year's Eve, only to find no one at home.

In order to avoid spoilers, let's not talk about the plot of the game for the time being. Let's start with this game with the Spring Festival as the background, and talk about the cultural changes behind the Spring Festival today.

Inheritance and change

Although in our view, the Spring Festival is a traditional festival, in fact, the name "Spring Festival" has only been associated with New Year's Day for one hundred years.

The prototype of the Spring Festival can be traced back to the early Yin and Shang Dynasties. During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, there was a grand activity to worship the gods and ancestors at the beginning of each spring to pray for a good year. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, agricultural celebrations were held on the basis of the original spring activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors. In the pre-Qin period, large-scale celebrations were held at the beginning of spring every year to worship gods and ancestors, pray for a happy New Year and drive away evil souls and disasters. This is the embryonic form of the Spring Festival now.

The prototype of the Spring Festival dates back to the Shang Dynasty. )

In the Han Dynasty, with the cultural exchange between North and South, the year-end sacrificial culture spread widely in China. There is a record of year-end sacrifice in the "Four-person Moon Order" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "The first day of the first month is the right day. Bow to your wife, _ ancestor worship "; During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the custom of observing the age, which is essential for the Spring Festival, first appeared on the historical stage. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin made greeting cards with gold foil, and then this form became the prototype of modern Spring Festival greetings ... With the development of history, the celebrations on the first day of the first month of each dynasty became more and more grand, and most of the celebrations of modern Spring Festival were also formed during this period. In Wendy's home, customs such as posting Spring Festival couplets, stick grilles, hanging lanterns and celebrating New Year's Eve can be found in a long history.

(Rich Spring Festival elements in the game)

But until Yuan Shikai's government in the Republic of China, this grand spring celebration was "New Year's Day" instead of "Spring Festival".

The Revolution of 1911 broke out in 19 1 1. The following year, the Beiyang government was established, and decided to use the Gregorian calendar instead of the lunar calendar to record the year, and moved the "New Year's Day" originally on the first day of the first lunar month to the Gregorian calendar 1, and once planned to cancel the celebration originally on the first day of the first lunar month. In the third year of the Republic of China (19 14), the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China mentioned in a report to Yuan Shikai that "the first day of the Lunar New Year is the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is the summer festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the autumn festival, and the winter solstice is the winter festival." From then on, the word "Spring Festival" as we say today was officially born.

(The government of the Republic of China changed the Gregorian calendar)

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It is not difficult to see from the history that the customs and related cultures of the Spring Festival we celebrate today do run through the whole history of China, but it is only a hundred years since the birth of the name "Spring Festival" and the New Year's Day of June 65438+ 10/. However, although the name "Spring Festival" does not have a long history, we now celebrate New Year's Eve, visit relatives and friends and pay homage to our ancestors during the Spring Festival, but it has a long history passed down from the starting point of civilization.

Finally, let's go back to the topic of games. As a decryption game, Wendy's Home tells a warm family story in a very clever way, and integrates the traditional culture of the Spring Festival into the game. Isn't this a cultural heritage?