My opinion on the causes of the changes of old customs.

Evening, lights, firecrackers, jiaozi, "Spring Festival Gala".

Towering buildings hold spinning fireworks and torn kisses, and primroses bloom in the air, as if to show people peace and prosperity. The rich air is filled with the rich flavor of the year, and it shuttles back and forth in eternal time and space with warmth and tranquility.

Gently touch the mottled calendar and sigh the fleeting time; Open the low curtains and stare at the splendid Xinghai.

Suddenly, this year became vulgar and weak, and it became new and fat.

The Spring Festival is undoubtedly the most important traditional festival in China. For thousands of years, New Year pictures, paper-cuts, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers have been an inseparable part of the year. With the changes of the times, some traditional customs are gradually frustrated, some new "customs" are emerging, and customs are changing between the old and the new. For excellent traditional customs, we need to protect and inherit; We should constantly create new customs. It is this constant inheritance and constant creation that makes our year full of vitality and forever young.

New Year pictures give way to "Spring Festival Evening"

The year of origin is full of all kinds of New Year pictures, which can be said to be the labels and business cards of that year. The earliest New Year pictures can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. For thousands of years, New Year pictures have been indispensable for the Spring Festival. There is a door god at the door, a god of wealth at the door, a nave in the room and murals on the wall, all of which are unambiguous.

In the farming society, we pay special attention to the significance of the New Year. As a pleasing New Year picture, we promote the ideal of life, which has long been regarded as a "TV set attached to the wall" by experts in New Year pictures, and it is a treasure. Because for a long time, New Year pictures are not only decorative and festive, but also a medium for people to acquire knowledge and express their wishes. It can be said that "without New Year pictures, these years in the Loess Plain will become unbearable and wither."

But, unfortunately, the New Year pictures in 1980s are not really going to decline and wither. Maybe it's coincidence, maybe it's providence. Since then, real TV sets have become popular. Because the entertainment function of TV far exceeds that of New Year pictures, it has been widely welcomed by people, and people have begun to ignore New Year pictures. The Spring Festival Evening, which began at 1983, has become a cultural feast almost as important as the New Year's Eve for more than 20 years, which determines that the New Year's Eve is doomed to decline and give way to the Spring Festival Evening.

Network accelerates the renewal of old customs

It used to be the year our ancestors said, such as eating Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, offering sacrifices to the kitchen gods on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, sweeping the dust on the 24th, killing pigs to buy new year's goods on the 25th to 28th, offering sacrifices to ancestors on the 29th, setting off firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve, and keeping the New Year's Eve. Wear new clothes and pay lucky money on New Year's Day. Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month. "Eat Yuanxiao wine and find your own way", telling you that 2008 is over. And so on, as a custom, once strongly supported the Year of China.

But the grandchildren don't know much about these customs, and they are very hazy, because they have not experienced these things systematically. These young people who grew up in the e era, many things were done on the internet, and this custom was digitized. There are too many virtual things on the internet. You can virtually package jiaozi, set off firecrackers, drink, play cards and marry a wife. Anything you can think of can be tried and realized online. The integration of traditional Spring Festival and network technology has added new connotations to the annual customs.

Since the advent of the Internet, the way to pay New Year greetings has also changed. I remember visiting my family and friends with my parents when I was young. Celebrate the New Year with dragon lanterns and flower drums, "Congratulations on getting rich" and draw a "red envelope". These New Year greetings are very timed. What do you mean, "On the first day, the second day, the third day and the fourth day, women worshipped their mothers. On the fifth day, the sixth day, the seventh day and the eighth day, you didn't eat anything." New Year greetings are tedious, hard and secular, and young people don't like them. They always want to try to make some changes. But now, New Year greetings can also be carried out through information and digital methods, such as video New Year greetings, e-mail and greeting cards, SMS and MMS New Year greetings, blogs and so on. All kinds of online New Year greetings have made it close at hand. Through the video, you can see each other's expressions and hear each other's voices. Even though they are thousands of miles apart, you can also convey your thoughts and greetings to each other and say "Take care".

However, the network is also a double-edged sword. It not only innovates ideas and refreshes thinking, but also injects new factors into old customs, but also abandons many customs that have been passed down for thousands of years.

Preserve and preserve old customs

We know that firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, paper-cuts, New Year pictures and New Year's Eve dinners, which are timeless, have supported the New Year like wind figures for many years and are indispensable for the Spring Festival. However, with the changes of the times, these traditional folk props gradually declined. Due to the change of people's aesthetic taste and the shrinking market, New Year pictures and paper-cutting are facing a sharp decline. Spring Festival couplets are faced with the current situation that Chinese studies are shallow and few people are right, and the scene is depressed. Because of safety and environmental problems, fireworks have been repeatedly banned; New Year's Eve dinner was changed by the concept of consumption, so it moved out of the family and moved to the hotel, which was metaphysical, less human and lacked the flavor of the year.

In the 1930s and 1940s, in the cities and villages of China, window grilles, including flowers, birds, insects, fish, myths and legends, historical allusions, etc., were pasted on the windows of every household during the Spring Festival ... Every year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, it became a top priority to unveil the old window grilles and replace them with new ones. At that time, window grilles brought people a lot of artistic beauty and scenic enjoyment, and became a unique landscape in China. It is another spring breeze to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new through the window covered with grilles. However, like the fate of New Year pictures, window grilles have declined sharply. After many years, it is difficult for people to see them in the homes of ordinary people. I don't know when it became a treasure of museums and collectors.

You can see the whole body at a glance. Judging from the decline of paper cutting, many traditional customs are disappearing. Whether it is New Year pictures, paper-cutting or Spring Festival couplets, they were once the products and carriers of New Year culture, bearing the contents of folk beliefs, philosophy, morality, education and entertainment. In the face of the decline of excellent folk culture, it is particularly important to protect and inherit, advocate and carry forward folk culture. Some of them should be protected, saved and preserved like endangered species. Only in this way, our excellent folk customs will not be lost, and the traditional customs and beautiful tastes of the Chinese nation will not be eclipsed. Only in this way can China, a big country in central China, remain young forever!