First, make dumplings on the 30th night, then set off firecrackers at 0:00 on New Year's Day, wear new clothes, pay New Year's greetings, pass on relatives, perform, perform, dance with dragons, play lions, big-headed dolls, walk on stilts, rock land boats, eat Lantern Festival, watch fireworks, guess lantern riddles, and we have many traditions every year.

Festivals, from the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival at the beginning of the year, to Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and until the Winter Solstice, these festivals are concrete manifestations of rich traditional culture, an important way of inheriting national consciousness, and an image manifestation of the national spirit.

It is in the transmission of these festivals from generation to generation that the Chinese nation keeps its national culture alive.

However, in recent decades, national culture has been gradually dispelled in the process of modernization, and more and more young people do not know what national cultural traditions are.

In order to inherit the excellent traditions of festivals, gradually cultivate a Chinese festival culture system with the characteristics of the times, and allow more people to understand, accept and adhere to the national cultural traditions, the "Huashan" edition will launch a "Talk about Chinese Festival Culture" starting from this issue

" column, it is planned to select traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival, March 3rd, Qingming Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival that are closely related to public life for large-scale discussions. The content includes: How to promote civilized festivals during the Spring Festival, insist on posting couplets, hanging red lanterns, dragon and lion dances

and other customs; how to restore traditional song fairs on March 3rd and carry out mass antiphonal singing activities in counties and rural areas; how to commemorate martyrs and worship ancestors during the Tomb Sweeping Day without engaging in feudal superstitious activities; the Mid-Autumn Festival promotes family reunions and avoids extravagance and waste

etc.

Readers are welcome to actively contribute articles and engage in lively discussions, so that national cultural traditions can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Festivals are a kind of culture, which is already common knowledge to everyone, so traditional festivals are of course a kind of traditional culture.

The basic conclusion on how to treat traditional culture has long been reached, that is: first, it must be inherited, and second, it must be developed.

The reason is very simple, because traditional culture is a product created by the ancestors in the era in which they lived, and has been selected, discarded, enriched and retained by generations of generations. However, they cannot but be influenced by the material and spiritual aspects of that era.

Due to the constraints and limitations of conditions, the inheritance of culture is naturally accompanied by the issues of development and innovation.

This is the law of the development of national culture and even human society, and it is not subject to human will.

If we use this rule to observe the most important festival of the Chinese nation, the Spring Festival, the conclusion is that elements of modern culture must be injected into the traditional culture of the Spring Festival.

In fact, the term "Spring Festival" was used when the People's Republic of China was founded. In the past, the first day of the first lunar month was called "New Year's Day" or "New Year's Day" because it was the first day of the new year in our country's lunar calendar.

However, in order to integrate with international standards, the country uses the Gregorian calendar, so that there are two new years in one year and two new years in one year.

So the Lunar New Year was changed to the Spring Festival.

The first month of the year is exactly the month of "beginning of spring" among the 24 solar terms, and spring is the beginning of spring, summer, autumn and winter of the year, so the change to the Spring Festival is natural and people are happy to accept it.

This is a typical example of traditional festival culture being infused with modern elements.

However, in recent years, some discordant voices have been heard every Spring Festival: "Spring Festival is really boring now." "Desolate and quiet, not lively." Someone made up a jingle to summarize: "TV "Spring Festival Gala", family

Reunion, a New Year's dinner, New Year greetings on the phone, walking around in the streets, crowded in the park, and a few naps, this is the New Year. "Nowadays, middle-aged and elderly people are always nostalgic for the colorful New Year in their childhood, like a beautiful year.

The dream remains in the memory.

Relatives are reunited, people interact with each other, large pieces of meat are eaten, large bowls of wine are drunk, and all kinds of elegant and popular folk customs are overwhelming.

At the beginning of the new year, everything takes on a new look. Relatives and friends meet each other as if they are getting to know each other again. They greet each other with greetings and smiles, wishing each other happy New Year and wishing each other good luck.

The house is cleaned, New Year couplets are pasted on the door, New Year paintings are pasted on the walls, the children wear new clothes, and new lanterns are hung in front of the door. Everything is really renewed.

During the day, auspicious lions wander from house to house to the sound of gongs and drums, and at night, fire dragons dance amid firecrackers.

A small stage was set up in the village, and farmers used pot ashes and red paper to perform the tune "Wang San Beats Birds".

The children happily ran around the village, visiting each house in groups to pay New Year greetings, singing the auspicious "Ling Ling Le" and shouting congratulatory jingles. The head of the household was so happy that he gave candies and packets, and then went to the village store to buy firecrackers and fireworks.

"Have a good time!

It wouldn’t be a Chinese New Year if they didn’t make the whole village lively!

Old people say: Spring Festival is the world of children.

It is a pity that this kind of joyful and festive atmosphere is rare nowadays, and this feeling is even more serious in the city.

Tradition is not in place and modernity has not entered. It is really a bit unfashionable, foreign and nondescript, so it has become a topic that everyone wants to talk about.

I think we should start from the perspective of culture. The Spring Festival must first rekindle the highlights of traditional culture; it must also introduce the brilliance of modern culture to make it a veritable "cultural Spring Festival".

For example: Family reunion is the highlight of the Spring Festival with the most oriental cultural flavor.

Parents look forward to the return of their wandering children, and their children are anxious to return home.

Some travel thousands of miles across countries and oceans for the purpose of reuniting family members, fathers and sons, grandparents, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts, nephews and uncles... There is so much family love in China!

The complexity of titles and the rigor of seniority make Westerners stunned.

In English, just one word "uncle" covers all relatives.

Although the traditional family reunion is good, hundreds of millions of people are returning to their hometowns for reunions in these few days, and it is difficult to complete all land, sea and air transportation.