The status and role of national festivals

National festivals are important carriers of cultural traditions, which carry and transmit traditions; national festivals are important symbols of national identity, containing cultural factors such as local customs, religious beliefs and morals and ethics in the life of the nation, and are the long-term accumulation of the history and culture of a nation. The celebration of national festivals is a concentrated display of national culture and a concentrated expression of national emotions.

National festivals are days of celebration or rituals of a certain significance formed by an ethnic group in its long-term historical development. The many festivals of different ethnic groups in China can be broadly categorized into six aspects: production festivals, youth festivals, commemorative festivals, customary festivals and religious festivals.

Ethnic festivals are mostly born out of folklore stories, and people of various ethnic minorities have produced their own festivals in honor of the people and events in the stories. Festivals closely related to the change of seasons in nature, praying for a good harvest, honoring heroes, talking about love, traditional customs, religious beliefs and other festivals are the living fossils of national history, the concentrated expression of the national way of life, and a vivid demonstration of the traditional culture of the nation.

Although the festivals of various ethnic groups are very different in terms of date, content, significance, and ways of celebrating the festivals, they are all characterized by stability, mass, ethnicity, and inheritance of the **** same characteristics. Many national festivals have a history of hundreds of years, and some have even experienced thousands of years, becoming a cultural phenomenon y rooted in the earth, but also need to be further excavated cultural treasure trove.