What are the factors that have played an important role in the development of traditional Chinese festivals and customs?

Chinese culture, education, Chinese culture is inclusive, manifested in assimilation, integration, continuity and cohesion. In the course of history, as the core of the Chinese culture of the Central Plains agrarian culture and the northern nomadic culture, the southern mountainous nomadic culture, minority cultures have realized the mingling and complementary, but also with foreign cultures have had a number of major convergence. Traditional Chinese culture is an integral part of Chinese culture and should be inclusive, and traditional festivals, as a behavioral level of traditional culture, should be more inclusive.

Traditional Chinese festivals have a history of thousands of years, in the process of long-term development, people's concepts, dietary changes and the development of education, the inflow of foreign cultures, so that it continues to meet with other cultures, mutual collision, the gradual demise of negative things, the good things are increasingly prominent, which is precisely the traditional festivals have a strong cultural vitality and cohesion of the performance. In the convergence and mutual collision with foreign, especially Western, festivals that are popular in our society these days, traditional Chinese festivals will surely be able to give full play to the customary value integration function of Chinese culture and reach a new level

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