Festivals are not just holidays.
Starting from 65438+1 October1in XX, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival were added as national legal holidays, which opened a new chapter in the protection of traditional festivals in China. Although this change has played a positive role in protecting national traditional festivals, it also faces the embarrassing situation of "chicken ribs": the fault of cultural inheritance leads to the failure of the original intention of adding festivals, and the festivals have become "festivals".
Regarding the "holiday" of traditional festivals, Feng Jicai, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, pointed out that festivals and holidays are different concepts: holidays are a kind of welfare to realize citizens' right to rest and do not contain specific cultural connotations. Festivals are quite different, such as the Spring Festival, which symbolizes family reunion and expresses yearning for a better life, so it contains the content of avoiding evil and welcoming happiness. Another example is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which expresses people's desire for reunion. The purpose of increasing traditional festivals as legal holidays is to create conditions for people to spend this festival better, not just to increase rest days.
The Cultural Connotation of "Slimming"
There are various traditional festivals and customs in China, such as offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, setting off firecrackers, posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, offering sacrifices to the Dragon Boat Festival, rowing dragon boats, hanging mugwort leaves and calamus, walking in Tomb-Sweeping Day and inserting willows. Through these behaviors, people express their wishes, fear nature, get close to their blood, miss their ancestors and reflect their values, which is also an important support of festival culture. However, under the background of modern civilization, the simplification of festival activities leads to the indifference of ceremonies and greatly reduces the cultural connotation of festivals.
The process of urbanization makes most people live in high-rise buildings like pigeon cages, and the ideal environment for enjoying the moon no longer exists. As for Tanabata, it was distorted as "China Valentine's Day"; The Double Ninth Festival is becoming more and more strange to young people ... No wonder some people exclaim that the traditional festivals in China seem to have only food culture left, and the Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival are even dubbed "Moon Cake Festival" and "Zongzi Festival".
For a nation, traditional festivals play an important role in strengthening cohesion, establishing core values and deepening cultural identity, and are collective cultural memories. How to save these cultural memories which have been passed down for thousands of years and are rich in connotation, and make them glow with new vitality in the new era, has been a concern of the whole society including experts, scholars and ordinary people in recent years.
Tao Siyan, a professor at the Art College of Southeast University, said: "The development of festival cultural industry and the inheritance of traditional festival customs can go hand in hand, which does not necessarily constitute the destruction of the former to the latter, but a timely supplement to the festival cultural life. Comparing' products',' industries' and' traditional festivals' not only meets the needs of the times, but also reflects the spirit of cultural innovation. "
It is also worth exploring to broaden people's channels of understanding festival culture. According to the survey report, more than 80% of the respondents learned about the traditional festivals in China mainly through "what the older generation said", and only 40% chose to "know in the media"; At the same time, nearly 70% of the respondents called on the internet, television, newspapers, magazines, books and other media to shoulder cultural responsibilities, increase publicity and breadth, and create a more positive holiday atmosphere.
First, fans
In March in the south of the Yangtze River, eagles fly high, the sky is blue and Wan Li is full of flowers, and the branches are surrounded by many dancing lives, which are butterflies! Look, they are like dancing flowers, playing in the wind, lingering among the flowers, intoxicated by the fragrance. Seeing them, even I was deeply intoxicated, and I couldn't help humming the song "become a butterfly" softly: green grass, green flowers in full bloom, butterflies lingering for a long time, eternal affection, Liang Zhu. ...
In a trance, I seem to see Shanren and Yingtai. They are brothers in the academy, and they seem to be inseparable scenes in the 18th meeting. Suddenly, a gust of wind and rain hit, mercilessly destroying the flowers on the branches, looking at the butterflies falling on the ground, I tearfully saw Yingtai jump down in her wedding dress, and her sweetheart stood there ... After the storm, the rainbow appeared, and I saw countless butterflies flying out of the deepest flowers. ...
I am fascinated, fascinated by this dream of becoming a butterfly, and even more fascinated by this excellent traditional culture of the motherland.
Second, hallucinations
Deep in the Red Chamber, who is sighing?
Singing "a piece of nonsense, a bitter tear, Dou Yun's author is crazy, who can solve the taste" alone, I can't help but sigh: who can solve the taste!
Sentimental Lin Daiyu, educated Xue Baochai, lively and impatient Shi Xiangyun, and the fairy wonderful jade on earth. ...
Strange girl, this is the essence of the sun and the moon, which is vivid in the author's works. I think Jia Baoyu, the son of Hongyi, was born in this gentle and wealthy town. How happy this is! But in the end, he chose to leave the world and return to the wilderness. Isn't the author telling us that life needs a process, and the choice of life should start with the soul?
Dream into the red chamber, see the luxury of fire cooking, and appreciate the pain of human warmth and coldness. Feeling the sadness of "a thousand tears, Wan Yan shares the same sorrow" and understanding the author's painstaking efforts, he became as detached and enlightened as Jia Baoyu.
Chanting "pure as fine", I gradually turned into a crimson pearl grass, accompanying my sister Lin. ...
The culture of the motherland is so profound that I am intoxicated in my dream and don't want to wake up.
Third, wake up.
The dream finally woke up. A dream that has been pursued for thousands of times has discovered many things, the excellent culture of the motherland, and the indifference and tranquility in my heart.
When I woke up, I looked around, and I was very happy that the lights were shining, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the country was moving forward step by step.
Look at the old buildings in Beijing as fresh as yesterday. The new "Bird's Nest" and "Water Cube" not only embody China's traditional thought of "a perfect place", but also show that our great motherland will continue to prosper and its excellent culture will spread to all directions! I think I woke up laughing from my dream.
I walked through Jiangnan.
Xiaoya
A vast country with 5,000 years of civilization, China's traditional culture is like spring rain, a dime a dozen. Peking Opera masks, dragons, phoenixes, auspicious clouds, embroidery and so on, which one does not contain the infinite wisdom of the people of China? Jiangnan itself is a symbol of China civilization, a monument that cannot be toppled.
I walked across the south of the Yangtze River, and the girl with an oiled paper umbrella and lilacs looked around the West Lake, not as slim as the willows on the lake. Jiangnan, which is as warm as jade, gave birth to the feeling of being as warm as jade, melancholy and distant. "Twenty-four bridges on a moonlit night, where are jade people called blowjobs?" Where even poets praise, it can be seen how many feelings have been precipitated.
I walked through Jiangnan, awning, apricot blossom and green wheat. The exquisiteness of Su embroidery burned my eyes. No wonder it has always been a tribute? Imagine that princes, nobles and concubines are all wearing Su embroidery. Can't you say they are nobles?
Gentle water town breeds gentle people. And strong-willed women like Li and Liu are also unique signs in the south of the Yangtze River-they fall into the land of fireworks, but they can lead an honest and clean life, care about national affairs and are unwilling to sink, and have no regrets about losing their lives. I'm afraid the fate of prostitutes will be rewritten here! Who says Jiangnan women are only gentle? If Li proves it to you, women will be strong!
The civilization of blue and white porcelain is also the pride of Jiangnan: the embryo outlines blue and white, and the pen is thick, and the peony depicted on the bottle is like a beauty's first makeup. Jiangnan is the hometown of celadon, which is the representative of Jiangnan, and porcelain is the symbol of ancient culture in China. So, can't Jiangnan be respected as a culture?