Festivals Question

The Formation of Traditional Chinese Festivals

China's traditional festivals are varied in form and rich in content, and are an integral part of the long history and culture of our Chinese nation.

The formation process of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of the history and culture of a nation or country. None of the festivals listed below was developed from ancient times, and from these festivals and customs handed down to the present day, one can still clearly see the wonderful picture of the social life of the ancient people.

The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, subtle refinement, and slow penetration into social life. It is the same as the development of society, is the product of the development of human society to a certain stage, these festivals in ancient China, most of the astronomical, calendrical, mathematical, as well as later divided into festivals related to the literature can be traced back at least to the "Xia Xiaozheng", "Shangshu" to the period of the Warring States period, the division of the twenty-four festivals of a year, has basically complete, and the subsequent traditional festivals, all of them and the festivals are closely related to these festivals.

The festivals provided the preconditions for the emergence of festivals, and most of the festivals were already in their infancy during the pre-Qin period, but the richness and popularity of their customary content required a long process of development. The earliest customary activities were related to primitive worship and superstitious taboos; myths and legends added a touch of romance to the festivals; there was also the impact and influence of religion on the festivals; and some historical figures were given eternal remembrance to penetrate into the festivals, all of which fused and coalesced into the festival's content, giving the festivals in China a deep sense of history.

By the Han Dynasty, China's major traditional festivals had already been finalized, and it is often said that these festivals originated in the Han Dynasty, which was the first period of great development after the unification of China, with political and economic stability, and great development of science and culture, which provided good social conditions for the final formation of the festivals.

Festivals developed to the Tang Dynasty, has been freed from the primitive worship, taboo and mysterious atmosphere, turned into entertainment ceremonial type, become a real festival of good times. Since then, the festival has become joyful and festive, rich and colorful, many sports, enjoyment of the content of the activities appeared, and soon became a fashionable popular, these customs have been continued to develop, enduring.

It is worth mentioning that, in the long history, the generations of literati, poets and artists, for a festival composed many ancient masterpieces, these poems and texts are popular and widely celebrated, so that China's traditional festivals permeated with a deep cultural heritage, wonderful and romantic, the great vulgarity in the great elegance, elegance and vulgarity **** appreciation.

Chinese festivals have a strong cohesion and broad inclusiveness, a holiday, the country celebrated together, which is a valuable spiritual cultural heritage with the long history of our nation's long history.

Here are just some of the larger traditional festivals of the Han Chinese people, China is a multi-ethnic country, each ethnic group has its own cultural practices, numerous ethnic festivals, is a cultural treasure to be mined.

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*The phenomenon of "westernization" of society and thinking

The traditional Chinese festival culture has a long history, stretching back thousands of years without decline, and has a wide and lasting impact on Chinese people at home and abroad. Chinese traditional festivals are the stage for inheriting national culture, supporting national feelings and embodying national identity, and they are cultural treasures rooted in folklore. Traditional festivals in different seasons and with different characteristics are of great significance in renewing the national spirit, enhancing national centripetal force and cohesion, and building a civilized society. However, in today's modernization and global integration, we have to face the embarrassment of the gradual marginalization of traditional Chinese festivals. Since the reform and opening up, with the frequent foreign exchanges in China, western culture, including festival culture, has been entering China, changing the concepts and behaviors of contemporary Chinese people, especially young people. Western Christmas, Halloween and other foreign festivals are more and more favored by our young people, while our traditional festivals have been left out in the cold, and even become more and more uninterested. Especially the young generation in the city, foreign festivals become a natural fashion, while the traditional festivals, many young people either do not care or simply do not know. For China with 5,000 years of civilization history, this is not sad? This foreign festival culture impact on our traditional festival culture phenomenon caused the world's concern, worried that the development will change the Chinese national cultural characteristics, weakening the national spirit. Save our traditional festivals, awaken our historical memory, retain our cultural roots, has been imminent. In fact, some knowledgeable people have long been awake to the problem of the decline of traditional festivals, and for this loud and clear, but due to the lack of rise to the national consciousness, national consciousness, often can not produce substantial impact.

The reasons for the emergence of strengthening the culture of foreign festivals and weakening the traditional Chinese festival culture: First, the contemporary young people do not know enough about the historical development of China's traditional festivals, their characteristics and their social significance, and lack of sense of identity; second, China's traditional festivals are not innovative enough in terms of cultural innovation, the content of which is outdated, the form is monotonous and lacks cultural connotations, which is unattractive to the young people; third, the young people are inquisitive and fashionable, and they love to imitate. Blind pursuit of Western culture; Fourth, the Western festival culture of strong human flavor, strong personalization, attractive to young people; Fifth, the festival culture at all levels of publicity, education and guidance is not enough. People's praise of Western culture is mainly "chasing the new", that traditional culture is backward and corrupt representatives, hindering the development of society, but simply put the traditional culture as "feudalism, superstition, backwardness", is very one-sided. Facing tradition is not the same as only looking at the past, but rather looking for content from traditional cultural resources that can enhance the national spirit, such as national sentiment, national cohesion, national identity, and appealing characters. History cannot be cut off, and tradition and modernity are linked by flesh and blood. If modern people can take the initiative to transform and absorb traditional culture so that it can realize self-renewal, tradition will not be a burden but a treasure. Traditional culture is an important nutrient for promoting and cultivating the national spirit, and we need to undertake rather than return to traditional culture

Culture, firmly anchored in modernization, to elaborate a whole new spirit. Nowadays, many parents are willing to spend money to let their children learn English and music, but few take the initiative to let their children receive traditional Chinese cultural education; young

people are attracted to Christmas and Valentine's Day, but are becoming increasingly indifferent to their own country's traditional festivals; and students are not interested in classical poetry, but English books are often in the palm of their hands. Inheritance of traditional culture, the most worthy of reflection is how to let a generation of people consciously accept the essence of the national culture, rather than allowing cultural traditions to break. The reason why some people, especially young people, are not interested in traditional culture nowadays, Prof. Xie believes that it is mainly because traditional culture education has been misplaced in real life, which makes young people have a rebellious mind. On the other hand, in terms of political culture, legal culture and moral concepts, China has a stable and unchanging connotation, and people are unknowingly practicing

our own cultural traditions. The so-called "Western culture" is superficial, incomplete, and even misinterpreted to some extent. How can we talk about Western culture when we can't even penetrate the Chinese culture in which we live so easily? We still need more rational understanding of the protection of traditional culture.

The traditional festivals of Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Ching Ming Festival carry thousands of years of cultural memories and national memories of the Chinese nation, and centrally display our national character, national temperament, customs and spiritual traditions, and are important symbols of cultural identity, national identity and national identity. It is an important symbol of cultural identity, national identity and national identity. The protection and inheritance of traditional festivals cannot be overemphasized.

For how to inherit and carry forward the fine tradition of Chinese festival culture, I here especially

Excerpts from the Tian Aixi's "on the promotion of traditional Chinese festival culture proposal" in a few suggestions:

One, all levels of party committees and governments should attach importance to the construction of festival culture. Included in the leadership work agenda, the division of a leader in charge, tasked with the implementation of the relevant departments, to improve the traditional festival culture as an important way to strengthen the spiritual civilization, enhance the quality of the nation and content, strengthen the investigation and research, sum up the lessons learned, the implementation of strong guidance.

Two, increase the publicity of Chinese festival culture. Combined with the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and other traditional festivals, the use of various media to publicize the fine traditions of Chinese festival culture, showing the different customs of various ethnic groups, regions, all types of festival culture, different styles and styles. Make the characteristic festival activities on stage, into the radio and television, and even into the TV station New Year's Spring Festival Gala, in order to create a strong festive atmosphere, strengthen the influence of festival culture.

Three, improve the quality of festival culture. To adhere to the times, reform and innovation, and constantly enrich the content of holiday cultural activities, create novel forms of activities, abandon the old, monotonous, backward activities; at the same time, we must adhere to the people-oriented, increase the cultural connotation of the festival, highlighting the personalized characteristics of the traditional festival culture, endowed with more modern awareness and the flavor of the times, and enhance the attraction of the festival culture of young people.

Four, to seriously deal with the background of economic globalization, the relationship between Chinese culture and Western culture. Both to see the inevitability of Western culture into China, but also to study the impact of Western culture and harm the Chinese culture of countermeasures. The understanding of western festival culture should be conscious, not blind, to distinguish between good and bad, remove the weeds and keep the best, not a blanket absorption, not a blanket rejection. To the western festival culture in the civilized, suitable for China's national conditions, conducive to the physical and mental health of young people absorbed into the traditional festival culture in our country, compatible with the East and West culture, the development of Chinese culture, to achieve the combination of East and West, ****exist **** integration, to promote the healthy development of Chinese festival culture. At the same time, we also need to promote the development of Chinese festival culture to the world, and further enrich the holiday life of overseas Chinese compatriots, in order to arouse their homesickness, send Chinese national sentiment.

Fifth, the establishment of incentives. The festival activities carried out in a variety of forms, colorful, civilized and healthy, broad and deep, the masses are satisfied with the region and unit, to give praise and reward, the festival cultural activities carried out in good practice and experience, to be actively promoted; those who do not carry out the cultural activities of the festival, the masses of the unit, the region should be criticized to help raise awareness, attention, consciously guide the masses to carry out the good festival cultural activities.

These are the best ways to promote cultural activities in the country.