First, there is a tendency to simplify the annual customs activities. In the history of the Spring Festival, there are many rich connotations and various forms of folk etiquette. Starting from Laba, sweeping dust, offering sacrifices to ancestors, posting Spring Festival couplets, eating New Year's Eve, observing the New Year, setting off firecrackers, paying New Year's greetings and visiting temple fairs, and it was not until the fifteenth day of the first month that the Lantern Festival was celebrated. Now the activities of the year-end festival have been simplified, and some contents are disappearing. In the city, the transition link and preparation process of daily time and space and holiday time and space began to be out of touch. Many families didn't have New Year's Eve dinner at home, and the original family reunion dinner became a reunion dinner for several people. The simplification of annual custom activities reflects some cultural changes in China during the transitional period.
Secondly, the secularization of sacred connotation. Experts believe that the Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors throughout the Shang Dynasty. Specific rules and sacrificial methods also gradually change with the development of the times. As a religious sacrificial activity, temple fair has increasingly become a folk festival for people to revel. At present, the sacred connotation in the custom of Spring Festival is getting weaker and weaker, while the secular meaning is getting stronger and stronger.
Third, the commercialization of vacation time and space. Nowadays, the Spring Festival is filled with a strong commercial atmosphere. The things sold at temple fairs are similar to those sold in shops, and festivals are becoming more and more commercialized.
Fourth, the change of festival function. The original intention of the Spring Festival is to eliminate disasters and pray for evil spirits, but now the sacred ceremony is gradually secularized, and the traditional functions of the Spring Festival have undergone subtle changes. Now, the Spring Festival has lost many original religious and folk connotations and social and cultural functions.
With the progress of society and the changes of the times, it is normal and inevitable that some festivals and folk customs change in history. People's needs are changing, and folk customs should also retain their traditional connotations in the change. The social basis and cultural environment for the emergence and existence of festival customs have changed, and it is bound to change and adjust accordingly. In recent years, foreign festivals such as Christmas have gradually entered our lives. This is an example of multicultural coexistence, not a negative cultural invasion, but a normal phenomenon of cultural value exchange and collision in the era of globalization. There is no need to make a fuss. Someone shouted the slogan "Defend Spring Festival travel rush", but I think it is better to inject new vitality into Spring Festival travel rush and give it a free living space.