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Why create new traditions?

This is because any tradition is certainly relatively stable, but tradition is not rigid and unchanging; it should evolve with the development of society and the progress of the times. As a matter of fact, all traditional things are the products of local practices at that time, and they are developed through repeated tests and constant additions and enrichments of practices. Since it is a product of practice, it must be inherited and developed in accordance with changes in practice. Without development, tradition will be detached from practice and become rigid and meaningless. Especially in today's great age of change, everywhere is the rapid progress, everywhere is the fresh and lively creation, rigid in the elimination, the old in the disappearance of the new in the sprout, active in the growth of new morals, new customs, new spirit in the life of the growing influence, it is bound to give great impetus to the progress of the tradition and creativity.