Lohas consists of the first letter of each English word in a healthy and sustainable lifestyle sentence. That is, "a healthy and sustainable lifestyle". "Health, happiness, environmental protection and sustainability" is the core concept of Lohas. As Lohas concept conforms to the general trend of social development, Lohas lifestyle has long been popular in developed countries in Europe and America, but it has just begun to become popular in China.
In today's increasingly rich material, the totem ceremony of the Spring Festival has gradually faded out of the core of traditional folk customs. As an increasingly simplified symbol, there is only one very simple and clear reference, that is Lohas-Happy Life.
Happiness is a belief, a living method and an experience-in China, the Spring Festival is Lohas Festival.
From ceremony, eating and drinking to having fun
Spring Festival is Lohas Festival.
The form of celebrating the Spring Festival is ever-changing with the progress of the times, but it is only a symbolic form, and what remains unchanged is the spirit of China people's happiness first.
People with a little age and experience can easily change the way China people celebrate the New Year in recent decades: the era of eating meat and wearing new clothes; The era of going home for reunion and the whole family going out for dinner; Eat if you want, sleep if you want, and play if you want, so that you can find a happy era. When the material basis of the Spring Festival is constantly changing, the traditional etiquette and customs of the Spring Festival have become a symbol of happiness, so that "as long as you are happy, celebrate the New Year every day" has become the mantra and philosophy of life of many people.
Happy compensation in the era of material scarcity
Chinese New Year is always festive and joyful, but the more festive it is, it often reflects the scarcity of happiness at ordinary times.
A post-60 s netizen recalled in his blog that what impressed him most when he was a child was helping his parents queue up. In the1970s, when there was a shortage of materials, people lined up all over the country to buy food and meat, which meant "snapping up". In order to grab a hearty dinner, people have to compete with patience. About the Spring Festival, the news of eating is always the headline of the newspaper, from "sufficient supply of grain, oil and meat" to "a large number of live chickens and ducks on the market" to "chocolate biscuits on the market". Clothes such as dacron and gabardine in department stores have also become the top grade for people to buy in the New Year. Su Tong wrote in "Women's Wear" that girls at that time would "attract the eyebrows of old women and old men" as long as they put on a white "Dacron" skirt.
We should not only snap up things, but also organize the distribution of ticket sales or "restricted purchases" to see model operas, revolutionary songs and dances and revolutionary movies, which is the only entertainment during the Spring Festival. After 1977, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival began to come alive. With temple fairs, dances, and literary evenings, domestic films such as Ashima and Peach Blossom Fan reappeared, and foreign films such as San Xiao and Zhuishe also appeared one after another. Watching movies is a spiritual luxury. Hu Mei, the director of "Qiao Family Courtyard", once recalled that young people had the experience of running in the city in the middle of the night because of chasing "internal movies", and they also had the idea of "making their own movies" because they witnessed the tragedy of a boy climbing a window to watch a foreign movie being killed.
Long queues and rare spiritual luxuries have not affected people's enthusiasm for festivals. Children's favorite lanterns, firecrackers and facial makeup must be bought, and young people's favorite bell bottoms and pop songs tapes are indispensable. It is essential for adults to buy jiaozi, give lucky money and exchange New Year greetings. The material guarantee of food and clothing directly affects the warmth and stable happiness of reunion.
From eating, drinking and having fun.
"1984, February 16, Lunar New Year's Eve. At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Hong Kong and Taiwan singers first met. " My China Heart sings the voice of the people of Hong Kong and Taiwan who love the motherland, and I applaud it. An old man in Liaoning Province recorded the 66 Spring Festival holidays he spent in the form of a diary. The contents are as follows.
1983, the first live broadcast of the Spring Festival Evening was an instant hit, and color TV immediately became a hot commodity. Peisi Chen's naivety of "eating noodles" created the sketch fever that continues to this day. A song "Unforgettable Tonight" has almost become the ending song of every subsequent party, and the Spring Festival Evening has also become a symbol of the convention of the Spring Festival. The same is the New Year's Eve, but the meaning of "eating" is different.
As a traditional way of Chinese New Year in China, the way of eating is also changing quietly. 1In the mid-1990s, the red note of "Spring Festival break" in front of restaurants suddenly disappeared collectively, and it became fashionable to go to restaurants to eat. Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, hot pot ... merchants have made distinctive signs to attract customers.
The dining table is becoming more and more colorful, and people who are full of food and drink are looking for more fun than eating. It has also become a trend to take off the black, gray and blue coat, put on a beautiful jacket, jeans and fur coat, and rent a suit in a photo studio to take pictures. The British "Guardian" also reported this in April 1980. From 1985 on the eve of the Spring Festival, individuals can buy an imported camera, and taking a New Year family photo has become a pleasure. Refrigerators and washing machines enter the family, which solves the problem that housewives are troubled by washing and storing for the New Year.
When the thermos bottles and washbasins that used to be gifts were replaced by more cultural New Year cards and calendars, the Spring Festival couplets originally posted in the farmyard were also posted in the unit buildings in the city. Compared with the old Spring Festival couplets, the words full of the flavor of the times, such as "the new Long March begins with bright spring scenery and modernization begins with golden drums", are more popular. People who have just lived a good life and are full of longing for the future are full of happy symbols of the Spring Festival. In an interview, Zhao Zhongxiang was asked to use an adjective to describe people's expressions in the1980s. He used a song by Guo, "Laughter in Members' Dreams is Sweet" as an analogy. "I think people's expression at that time was that laughter in dreams is sweet. "
The Upgrade of Games and the Evolution of Music
A survey of 1994 shows that eating and drinking is no longer the theme of the Spring Festival. People spend less than 1/5 on food, but 1/3 on communication and entertainment. The five young people who went to Harbin together during the Spring Festival are still news figures in 1992. However, after the Spring Festival of 1996 was changed to a seven-day holiday, the number of travelers in Spring Festival travel rush soared, and all domestic routes were full. The Spring Festival changed from off-season to "Golden Week", and the practice of 50% discount on air tickets in Spring Festival travel rush was recorded in history.
In fact, the revolutionary significance of dispelling the symbolic meaning of the Spring Festival reunion custom by the way of Chinese New Year travel was realized later. At first, people noticed that "good health" became the most commonly used greeting in1990s through paging, telephone calls, postcards, voice calls and songs. "Spring Festival Evening" is still on time, but 1997, the birth of the first real New Year movie, has given people new excitement. Xiaogang Feng's "A, B, C and D" made the masses enjoy watching it, and also raised their expectations for the annual New Year film.
The emergence of "new folk custom" after 2000, that is, greeting the New Year through SMS, refreshed the traditional interpersonal network again. According to statistics, in 2006, more than 85% people used short messages to pay New Year greetings, and the number of short messages in China reached 654.38+02 billion. Accordingly, children who are busy working overtime or far away from home can video chat with their families as soon as they sit in front of the computer; Singles who can go home but are worried about not having a partner can rent a "lover" to meet their parents by opening the webpage; I didn't want to start cleaning in cold weather, so I called an hourly worker to solve all this; Ikea-style rooms are not easy to paste New Year pictures and Spring Festival couplets. Buying a Q version of the zodiac doll can also add joy; Have a car to travel by car, and experience suburban farmhouse music without a car; It's too difficult to catch up with the dinner. Just turn off your cell phone and disappear.
The Spring Festival no longer has a traditional form, a fixed sense of ceremony and a folk core. As an increasingly simplified symbol, it only leaves a very simple and clear reference, that is, to live happily. No wonder some experts have called loudly for defending Spring Festival travel rush in recent years. Although many people hold their own opinions, the connotation of Lohas is everyone's basic knowledge. Feng Jicai, a writer with a unique opinion on folk customs, said that those who talk about the decline of some traditional folk customs just mistake the taste of old customs and the appearance of the New Year for the core of the New Year, and confuse the interpretation form of the Spring Festival symbols with the humanistic connotation of the Spring Festival symbols. Although there are now 1000 people who can celebrate the New Year in 1000 ways, in fact, what everyone wants is happiness.
China Lohas Declaration
1. Have DIY spirit. Install your own furniture (bought by IKEA), grind your own coffee (made by Starbucks), listen to your own songs (sung by KTV), and open your own restaurant (a private kitchen for yourself and your loved ones).
2. Write less blogs and text messages, and stay away from the Internet and chat tools. Remember, chat records, mobile phone mailboxes and blog search engines will all bring hidden dangers.
3. Master more inefficient ways to make friends. Watching TV, playing with tractors and talking with family and friends are all cliches, but long-distance calls, cafes and dining tables can enhance feelings more than text messages.
4. Live an organic life. Pay attention to the environmental protection of the body and refuse junk food; Pay attention to the environmental protection of the earth and refuse to litter. At any time, choosing an exquisite shopping bag to go shopping may bring a good mood.
5. Learn to find happiness in others. After two hours of boredom, you can laugh at and discuss blockbusters; Similarly, always pay attention to Song Zude, Wang Shuo and Wu Zongxian who create entertainment.
6. Learn to care about others. Buy gossip magazines, become fans or anti-fans. There are idols, or goals.
7. Smile at everyone. Including the traffic police who came to copy the license plate, the tax collectors, the political opponents in the office, and the conspirators who tried to steal your girlfriend/boyfriend.
8. If you have no money, rent a small house, live a small life, be with a woman with a small chest or a man with a big belly, and be a little man or woman. Before becoming a successful person, it is pragmatism, not the spirit of Ah Q, to make friends with Penguin QQ and go to Huanshi Road with Chery QQ.
9. Learn to enjoy single life. During the Spring Festival, I travel alone, regardless of whether my relatives are married or not. I create a single recipe in the microwave oven and secretly raise1kloc-0/Dalmatians or Garfield in the building.
10. Enjoy the ordinary. Wear clothes that feel good, not China people who wear Prada. Don't be a slave to Logo, and don't be a vain common people in vanity fair.
1 1. Pay attention to creation. Fantasy dreams may come, forget the college entrance examination, education, salary and secular vision. Internet, camera phone and talent show are all your stages.
12. Learn to use public transport. Especially when your private car has to be put in the garage because of parking fees, gas prices and traffic jams.
13. Learn to disappear from the heavy life, swipe your card in the pedestrian street, go to Yunnan, go to Southeast Asia, or daydream about buying an island by yourself.
14. Learn to reuse resources. A good-looking disc, watch it for the first time by yourself, watch it for the second time with the person you like, and watch it for the third time with your good friends.
15. Grasp the realm of happiness. The low level of happiness is self-deception and happiness; The middle level of happiness is that when you are obviously happy, someone is happier than you; The advanced realm of happiness is to find happiness in unhappiness-Lohas is not to live, Lohas is to know life happily, but also to live.