What are the cultural and spiritual connotations of traditional festivals and folk customs in China?

Wang Weiyou, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in a poem: "When you are a stranger, you miss your relatives more often during the festive season. Gao Qi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once said, "The mountains are in the daytime, the country is all around, and there are no guests who don't want to be at home during the Qingming Festival. "That is to say, homesickness is as natural as the mountains around Guo and the water flowing east. Therefore, in the past, when traditional festivals came, people would go to graves as scheduled to express their memories of their deceased relatives. For those vagrants, people often turn their eyes away from the bright moon to express their feelings and confide their feelings of "I wish people a long time and take the road of Wan Li". "

Step 2 celebrate happiness

Whenever traditional festivals come, people will be immersed in the atmosphere of universal celebration and joy, and the warmth and joy in their hearts will come as scheduled.

Nowadays, many people who are tired of city life often take advantage of holidays to travel and find a good mood in the quiet and natural landscape. Although the journey is very tiring and crowded, many people are willing to "spend money to suffer." This is because during the journey, they can experience the inherent fun of traditional festivals in twists and turns.

3. Optimism and confidence

First of all, festival culture can entrust and even show people's eager yearning for a better life. Such as Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and firecrackers. They all revolve around the happy and auspicious theme of reunion; Tangyuan and moon cakes symbolize reunion and so on.

Secondly, people can find psychological balance from the worship of faith in festival activities. For example, on New Year's Day, it seems useless to pray for the protection of gods and worship ancestors, but it has the function of spiritual comfort and spiritual purification.

Third, festivals have a direct effect on physical fitness, education and entertainment. For example, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, they go hiking, fly kites, race dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival and climb Chongyang Mountain. Their fitness intentions are very clear.

4. Historical consciousness

The custom of sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the moral consciousness of China people, such as being grateful, not forgetting one's roots and pursuing the future cautiously. Its cultural significance is similar to Thanksgiving in the West. Tomb-Sweeping Day's activities of offering sacrifices to ancestors to sweep graves and remembering the merits of ancestors have a profound relationship with the profound ancestor worship and filial piety culture in China culture, which is the pillar of the harmonious and stable development of China society for thousands of years.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the tearful Luojiang River to pay their respects to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor. An old doctor brought an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that it could curb ichthyosaurs and protect Qu Yuan.

5. Shu's feelings

For example, the popular folk activities of "offering sacrifices to the kitchen god, saying good things in the sky and ensuring peace in the next world" clearly branded Shu's feelings: some festivals around the elderly, children, women, lovers and so on. It shows the feelings of Fulu and Xi Shou and the exquisiteness of peaceful reunion, all of which are concerned about people themselves.

6. Harmony between Heaven and Man

During the Double Ninth Festival, the autumn harvest has been completed and farming is relatively idle. At this time, Shan Ye's wild fruits and medicinal materials are in the mature season, and farmers have gone up the mountain to collect wild fruits, medicinal materials and plant raw materials for sideline production. This kind of mountain gathering farmers call it Diao and autumn harvest. The custom of climbing mountains may have evolved from this at first. As for the day of Chongyang, it was later. That means treating it as a symbol from the beginning to publicize its function, just as it is suitable for planting trees in spring, so people hold an Arbor Day. In addition, during the Double Ninth Festival, the weather is sunny and the temperature is cool, which is suitable for climbing high and looking far.