Why China's traditional festivals are gradually forgotten, instead of Western

Most traditional Chinese festivals have lost their intrinsic drive, but that is not the same as saying that people really understood the connotations of the festivals 1,000 years ago. Based on the experience of other peoples, and how they have inherited traditional festivals, we would understand that historical traditional festivals generally come from a very deep, transcendent human connotation, rather than simply folklore, political necessity, and ideology. Chinese traditional festivals, from the written records, are almost always elaborated under the Confucian metaphysical perspective, and are mainly recorded after the Han Dynasty, with their core connotations centered around ethics, secularism, health, filial piety, loyalty to the king, patriotism, etc. This is rare when looking at traditional human festivals.

Is this only true of Chinese traditional festivals? If we really give up the old conceptual constraints, the scholars' metaphysical perspectives and books, then a new connotation of festivals will be clearly revealed, and we will find that the Chinese traditional festivals, like those of other nations, have such profound and transcendent connotations. These transcendental connotations are wrapped under various superstitious symbols, waiting to be recognized and practiced.

Personally, I feel that from the people's point of view, custom, superstition, and inner psychological comfort and need constitute the superficial driving force of the festivals, and without these superficial ways that the people can understand, the festivals would be difficult to be inherited in a sustainable way. Taking the cold food as an example, before the Tang Dynasty, the government made efforts to publicize and suppress it, breaking its superstitious surface factors, and at the same time, the phenomenon of changing the fire in people's actual life, also gradually faded away, and if there is only such a humanistic symbol as Jie Zi Tui left, the cold food can not be carried on. Not to mention that the cold food and other festivals rich in food and drink is different, how can the people in order to a humanistic symbol, and stick to the cold food this festival? I think the disappearance of cold food is quite natural. In fact, the fact that we have changed such an important festival as New Year's Day to Spring Festival (Note: Spring Festival was formerly known as New Year's Day, which is the first day of the first month) in recent times shows the same thing, that these traditional festivals have become less important in the eyes of the intellectuals and the government.