Author: Our reporter/actress Hong Tao, born in May 1969, No.85.

At the second meeting of the 10th session of China People's Political Consultative Conference, some CPPCC members suggested in a proposal that Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and other national holidays should be added as legal holidays. The proposal points out that these traditional festivals have played and will continue to play a remarkable role in enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation, such as grave sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day, family reunion in Mid-Autumn Festival, mourning for patriotic ancestors in Dragon Boat Festival, and offering sacrifices to the elderly in Chongyang Mountain. The purpose of making these festivals statutory holidays is to affirm the national tradition and carry forward the national spirit. Some members further pointed out that at present, China's national strength is booming, but the construction of spiritual civilization still needs to be strengthened. Some people preach money worship, egoism and hedonism in the West, ignoring the traditional virtues of China, which worries many people of insight.

China is one of the countries with the most festivals in the world. According to statistics, there are more than 160 influential festivals in various ethnic areas in China. The profound Chinese civilization has created a rich and colorful festival culture. However, with the rapid development of market economy and the impact of foreign culture, the concept of traditional festival culture in China has gradually become indifferent among modern people. Even during the Spring Festival, which lasted for thousands of years, it seems increasingly difficult for people to find that kind of feeling, not to mention traditional festivals with strong national cultural atmosphere such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival. But Christmas, Valentine's Day and April Fool's Day from the west are very popular. According to this phenomenon, our reporter interviewed Feng Jicai, a member of CPPCC.

Reporter: What do you think of the proposal of some CPPCC members to designate traditional festivals such as Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chongyang as national statutory holidays?

Feng Jicai: Actually, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are the three traditional cultural festivals of the Chinese nation. But now we only celebrate the Spring Festival. I think that for any nation, its traditional festivals have specific cultural connotations. Traditional festivals are different from holidays. Holidays are the days when citizens enjoy welfare and the legal right to rest. They have no specific cultural connotation, such as Saturday and Sunday. Festivals are different Almost all festivals have specific cultural connotations, with special contents, ceremonies, activities, objects and folk customs. And there are holidays and no holidays. For example, Spring Festival and National Day are holidays; Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, March 8th Women's Day, etc. No holiday.

Festivals in any country can be roughly divided into three types: religious, political and cultural.

China is a secular country. Although there are religious festivals, they are not the main festivals. We have political festivals, such as National Day, Labor Day and August 1st Army Day. There are many cultural festivals, such as the traditional Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

This year, some CPPCC members proposed four festivals, all of which are traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Among them, Tomb-Sweeping Day's spring outing is mainly to pay homage to ancestors and sweep graves, which is not only a memory of ancestors, but also a wonderful experience of spring. One of the important reasons why the Chinese nation can last for five thousand years is the worship of ancestors, which fully embodies the beautiful filial piety of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival is passed down in memory of Qu Yuan, and this festival embodies great patriotism. The Mid-Autumn Festival has placed people's good wishes for a complete life and the survival of their families. The Double Ninth Festival expresses respect and love for the elderly.

These traditional festivals are very important to the Chinese nation, and the most important thing is that they can unite people's feelings. Festival culture is one of the important carriers of national spirit and emotional inheritance. Traditional festivals inherit many cultures, histories and legends, and fully embody China's broad philosophical thought of "the unity of man and nature". For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival and Qingming Festival, people can go outdoors to feel the vitality of nature. On the Double Ninth Festival, when the air is crisp in autumn, people can climb high and look far, and express their feelings directly in nature. Appreciating the moon, flowers and flowers in the Mid-Autumn Festival is the affinity between man and nature, among which there is a profound cultural tradition in China. Therefore, I am very much in favor of this proposal.

Reporter: As far as you know, what are the cultural differences between traditional festivals in China and some western festivals?

Feng Jicai: The festival culture in western countries is basically not much different from that in China. There are more religious festivals in the west than we do, and most folk festivals are also blind dates between man and nature. However, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day, which are popular in the west, did not exist in China in the past, although the Double Ninth Festival in China is a festival to take care of the elderly. In China, there are few people-oriented festivals; On the contrary, in some of our ethnic minorities, there are love festivals similar to Valentine's Day.

Reporter: So, what do you think of the phenomenon that modern China people are keen on western festivals?

Feng Jicai: Western festivals in a specific period are actually exotic festivals. Every country has imported festivals, such as the Dragon Boat Festival in China, which later spread to Viet Nam, Japan and North Korea. Festivals of various countries and nationalities sometimes spread and influence each other. Halloween in America is also called Ghost Festival. Europeans didn't celebrate this festival in the past, but now they celebrate it. This is because of the influence of American cultural globalization. I have seen Americans celebrate Halloween; In France, I also caught a ghost festival. In China, the more popular imported festivals are Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and so on. This phenomenon is mainly due to the increasingly indifferent cultural connotation of our own traditional festivals, that is to say, we have taken time out by ourselves, and even the very important National Day has nothing to say. Ordinary people just watch TV at home. In this way, ordinary people have to attend those "foreign festivals", such as Christian Christmas, which young people like, but they don't know its connotation and just find themselves an opportunity for entertainment. I don't think Christmas should be regarded as a scourge. Young people just have fun. It will not be a festival for China people, because it has no cultural foundation. I think those "Mother's Day" and "Valentine's Day" that can enhance human affection might as well be introduced.

Reporter: How do you view the holiday phenomenon in recent years?

Feng Jicai: Indeed, our festivals are becoming more and more like festivals. Many festivals have no cultural content and become pure festivals.

In the past, we had many ways and forms of festivals, but now many festivals have become food festivals. Just like the Spring Festival every year, it seems that people will not spend it more and more. After discussions in newspapers and suggestions from experts, it was finally called "Golden Week" by merchants, and even the National Day became the Golden Week. In fact, many countries regard National Day as a day to increase citizens' patriotic enthusiasm, including the United States. Festival culture is an important part of a nation's spiritual civilization, but now it has become a hype operation of merchants, which is our fault. Because festivals have an extremely important relationship with a country's civilization, and festival culture is actually a national culture. If the younger generation doesn't know, understand, remember and have no feelings about this, it will indicate the disappearance of our deep cultural foundation and the interruption of cultural memory and inheritance, which is very regrettable.

Reporter: In the traditional China New Year, people always set off firecrackers to express the festive atmosphere. Since the government banned it, it has been discussed by the media every New Year. what do you think?

Feng Jicai: I think setting off firecrackers in the New Year is people's aspiration for culture. A nation has a national cultural system. Why do we have to set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival? It is to find the feelings of the year, express the feelings of the year, and vent the emotions of the year. This is the return of culture. Without it, people's emotions will have nowhere to put. Therefore, we should be people-oriented and care for people, otherwise people will feel the loss of culture. If the traditional cultures of all ethnic groups are not well protected, the future era of globalization will be an era of weakening and diluting our culture.

Reporter: So, how to promote traditional festival culture in China?

Feng Jicai: We should rebuild our festival culture. In the past, during the National Day, the relevant units organized many activities, but now there are no more, and this tradition should be restored; The Spring Festival can further enrich colorful folk customs. In addition, when people have the desire to attach importance to traditional festivals, relevant departments should support them. For example, grave-sweeping, hiking and other activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day will resume, and there are other traditional festivals with rich national cultural connotations.

In Japan, I caught up with the Cherry Blossom Festival. It was raining at that time, and the viewers were holding a transparent umbrella in their hands, which fully reflected people's love for nature. In a park full of cherry blossoms, I saw many people wearing national costumes, singing songs and drinking wine. I was very happy. They effectively passed on their own cultural customs through festivals. However, our festival culture was interrupted in the revolutionary era and lost its historical memory. Our national memory and heritage have been lost too much. We have the responsibility to connect the interrupted history and restore the beautiful folk festivals. This cannot be solved by holding several activities, it is a long-term process. Folklore is very important because of its established characteristics. For example, people who go out must go home on New Year's Eve, even if they can't, they should make a phone call. This is a psychological set. With this festive feeling, people will naturally do it on this day, which takes a long time and is a systematic project, including the education of the ninth grade of primary school and the festival culture. In short, the relevant units should try their best, and the media should also cooperate with the publicity and strive to create an atmosphere.

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Looking for the vane of traditional culture

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Traditional festivals carry China people's attachment to traditional culture and national feelings, and the change of "frugality" also makes people worry about the loss of traditional culture. Under the background of economic globalization, where should traditional culture go?

● Inherit traditional culture,

The most important thing to reflect on is how to make people from generation to generation consciously accept the essence of national culture without breaking cultural traditions.

In the final analysis, traditional culture exists in the relationship between people. Simple preaching is not helpful to guide people to appreciate the cultural connotation accumulated in traditional festivals and to retrieve traditional virtues from the actual needs of life.

It's Mid-Autumn Festival again. The media reports about moon cakes are overwhelming, and the crowds buying moon cakes in the shops are bustling. Some people can't help but sigh that the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a moon cake festival, leaving only a culture of "eating". At the same time, there has been a climax of voting for the Mid-Autumn Festival to declare the world cultural heritage on the Internet recently, with more than 700,000 netizens signing in favor of the application.

Traditional festivals carry China people's attachment to traditional culture and national feelings, and also give rise to worries about the loss of traditional culture. Recently, there is public opinion that the whole traditional culture of China, including traditional festivals, is facing great challenges from western lifestyles and cultures. In real life, there has been a phenomenon of "only westerners follow the lead, only westerners are right, and only westerners follow the example". Under the background of economic globalization, where should traditional culture go?

"Taste rescue" has been overwhelmed by "commodity tide"?

Traditional festivals should embody national culture.

Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the Central Civilization Office and other relevant departments recently issued the Opinions on Promoting the Excellent Tradition of National Culture by Using Traditional Festivals. The opinions call for highlighting the cultural connotation of traditional festivals, especially organizing the most extensive and representative festivals such as Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival, and actively creating a strong atmosphere of respect, love and participation in traditional festivals.

However, when we regain the cultural memory of traditional festivals, we find that the "frugality" of traditional festivals has been submerged by the "commodity tide". More and more people in China begin to give gifts to each other at Christmas and Valentine's Day, and celebrate their birthdays at McDonald's and KFC. Many people don't know Daafu, have never rowed a dragon boat, have never heard of suona, and don't know what wormwood and calamus are.

Wang Fanfang, who works in the office, told reporters that the Mid-Autumn Festival has evolved into a kind of "trust" to some extent. Everyone takes this opportunity to give gifts and eat. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, it is difficult to see traditional programs such as offering sacrifices to Yue Bai, playing all over the sky and performing shadow play, and even the time for the whole family to enjoy the moon is getting less and less.

Mr Hu Peng, who works in a publishing house, doesn't agree that Tomb-Sweeping Day should hold a memorial ceremony in his hometown. Dazzling sacrifices are flying all over the sky, from traditional paper money and incense sticks to "Fu", "Miss" and "Da Ben". Some people even use "gold ingots" to lay a long carpet leading to the graves of their ancestors. How many memories do you have of this memorial service?

Although the reality is not satisfactory, people still have deep feelings for traditional festivals. Netizen Li Wei wrote on the message board of the Mid-Autumn Festival application: "Promoting the Mid-Autumn Festival to become a world cultural heritage is a continuation and affirmation of Chinese culture, and its merits are boundless." Some netizens said: "The Mid-Autumn Festival bears the historical achievements of China's ancient civilization and represents the humanistic feelings of the Chinese nation." The traditional festivals in China contain the common points in China people's hearts, such as Chongyang's respect for the elderly, Mid-Autumn Festival reunion and Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship. These feelings cannot be easily abandoned, let alone alienated.

Sun Kezhi, an associate professor of history at Fudan University, studied at Korea University. In his eyes, many traditional customs that are increasingly neglected are often regarded as treasures by Koreans. South Korea will have a three-day holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which will be celebrated all over the country, because South Korea has 1? With a population in Seoul, many people will go back to their hometown for the Mid-Autumn Festival from Seoul, which will trigger the "national luck" of the whole country. In addition, every family will hold an ancestor worship ceremony on the Mid-Autumn Festival to thank their ancestors for their bumper harvest. At the same time, the Cultural Association will hold an annual wrestling festival in Seoul Award-winning Gymnasium to select the "World Heroes". South Korea has traditional festivals all year round, and the lively scenes and people's enthusiasm are far higher than those of western festivals. "They integrate their sense of identity and belonging to their own national culture into these traditional festivals and continue and carry forward their own culture through festivals." Sun Kezhi explained the enthusiasm of Koreans for traditional festivals.

Hutongs and alleys have become "European gardens"

Do we still need traditional culture?

Nowadays, young people are eager for Christmas and Valentine's Day, but they are increasingly indifferent to their traditional festivals. Hutongs and alleys have become "European gardens" and "American towns"; Students lack interest in classical poetry, but they often hold English books in their hands; The country barber shop also began to be called "Mona Lisa Hair Salon" ...

Do we still need traditional culture?

Xie Xialing, a professor of sociology at Fudan University, believes that people's adulation of western culture is mainly "seeking novelty", and traditional culture is the representative of backwardness and decay, which hinders social development. However, it is very one-sided to simply classify traditional culture as "feudalism, superstition and backwardness". History cannot be cut off. Tradition is closely related to modernity. If modern people can actively transform and absorb traditional culture and make it renew itself, tradition is not a burden, but a wealth.

"Traditional culture is an important nutrient to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit. We should inherit rather than return to traditional culture, firmly base ourselves on modernization and carry forward a brand-new spirit. " Professor Xie said to me. In his view, facing the tradition does not mean only looking at the past, but looking for contents that can enhance the national spirit from traditional cultural resources, such as national feelings, national cohesion, national characteristics, appealing figures and so on.

The reason why some people, especially young people, are not interested in traditional culture now is that Professor Xie thinks that the dislocation of traditional culture and education in real life has caused young people's rebellious psychology. A Chinese Odyssey is regarded as a classic. At first, I was confused. Later, when I watched the Tang Priest in the movie, I realized that young people now hate preaching and blind indoctrination. "

To inherit traditional culture, the most important thing to reflect on is how to make people from generation to generation consciously accept the essence of national culture without breaking the cultural tradition. Nowadays, many parents are willing to spend money to let their children learn English and music, but few people take the initiative to let their children receive China traditional culture education. "In the final analysis, traditional culture exists in the relationship between people. We should start from the actual needs of life and guide people to appreciate the cultural connotation accumulated in traditional festivals and find back traditional virtues. Simple preaching will not help. " Professor Xie said.

Protecting traditional culture requires rational understanding.

Sublation is crucial.

"China's task of learning from the West has not been completed. We must absorb the essence of all human cultures with an open mind. Without this basic point, it is difficult to promote the healthy progress of China society. Such as market economy, rule of law, science and technology. China must learn from other countries, and China's traditional culture will only have vitality if it constantly absorbs the advanced cultures of all countries in the world. " Gu Jun, a professor of sociology at Shanghai University, believes that "protecting traditional culture" has been misinterpreted to some extent. The most fundamental problem now is that "we haven't finished the cultural renewal, and we are still clinging to many backward traditional ways of thinking".

Professor Gu gave an example. At present, many places hold activities to commemorate Confucius and hold "Four Books and Five Classics" chanting classes. "This is actually a' cultural activity' with no cultural background under the banner of protecting traditional culture." He believes that the attitude towards traditional culture should be sublation-critical inheritance. If we don't sublate, we will be busy with "cultural revival", which is not conducive to the inheritance and modernization of traditional culture.

Professor Xie also believes that casually mentioning the slogan of "protecting traditional culture" is easy to go to the other extreme, that is, exaggerating the influence of western culture and blindly excluding foreigners. On the one hand, there has been a trend of "convergence" all over the world in recent decades. In all countries, regardless of ideology or cultural tradition, young people like to dance disco, drag racing and sing pop songs ... In recent years, it is actually the influence of "technical culture" or "technological ideology" rather than "western culture" that has become popular. At the same time, "technical culture" has long existed in China culture. Fundamentally speaking, it is not "foreign" but "own".

On the other hand, China has a stable connotation in political culture, legal culture and moral concept, and people are also unconsciously pursuing our own cultural traditions. The so-called "western culture" is superficial, incomplete and even misinterpreted to some extent. Imagine, when the China culture we live in is not so easy to penetrate, how can we treat western culture lightly? We need more rational understanding of the protection of traditional culture.

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Dragon Boat Festival and China Traditional Culture

Author: Zhang June 0, 2006103: 32 | Why is there a Dragon Boat Festival in China? Why is there no "Christmas" in China? These are two sides of the same question. "Dragon Boat Festival" reflects the rich thoughts and feelings and special spiritual realm of the Chinese nation. The main content of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. To commemorate Qu Yuan is to admire and admire the gentleman's personality, to satirize and spur the villain, and to persuade and expect the king. Supporting yang and restraining yin, restraining evil and promoting good, strengthening the body and eliminating evil, upholding justice, educating the people and changing customs are the important connotations and basic spirit of the Dragon Boat Festival! In this special festival, it is very meaningful to taste the taste of Zongzi, life and taste of china culture. How much should we feel?

Dragon Boat Festival and China Traditional Culture

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It's another Dragon Boat Festival, with fragrant zongzi and dragon boat races, and holiday greetings are constantly coming from mobile phones. Friend: In this fleeting festival, have you ever thought about what spirit the Dragon Boat Festival embodies in the traditional culture of China?

Comparing the western Christmas and Valentine's Day, the traditional festivals of China people are worth studying.

The most important festivals of the Chinese nation are Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, which are the festivals of the sky, the sun and the moon (Spring Festival is the festival of the sun and Mid-Autumn Festival is the festival of the moon). Under the influence of the idea of "harmony between man and nature", the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also festivals between man and nature. At this point, we can see the basic characteristics of China traditional culture, and the "24 solar terms" fully embodies this idea. Comparatively speaking, China culture is a culture of "harmony between man and nature", while western culture is a culture of "separation between man and nature". This difference can be clearly reflected in the cultural characteristics of the "New Year Festival".

However, according to folklore, "Dragon Boat Festival" seems to be just a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. However, from the perspective of national history and ideological culture, the problem is not so simple and subtle, and its ideological and cultural connotation is intriguing.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival and Tianchang Festival. It can be seen that the Dragon Boat Festival is by no means a simple festival. It embodies the basic feature of China traditional culture: the unity of man and nature. "Humanism" and "Heaven" are combined into one, and the ideal of "harmony between man and nature" is skillfully realized again.

Moreover, if we only look at the commemoration of people, there are many outstanding figures of the Chinese nation. In addition to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, saints such as Confucius and Laozi, their dates of birth and death are not as grand as Qu Yuan's anniversary. Why?

Why is there a Dragon Boat Festival in China? Why is there no "Christmas" in China? These are two sides of the same question. "Dragon Boat Festival" reflects the rich thoughts and feelings and special spiritual realm of the Chinese nation.

Qu Yuan is a great poet, a great writer and politician. His ambition and character, his pure feelings and noble spirit, and his aboveboard ideological realm can be called the so-called gentleman in China traditional culture and the model of China traditional personality. However, Qu Yuan, who had no talent and no way to serve his country, was envied by villains, framed by traitors, and was not tolerated by the world, and finally died unjustly! Qu Yuan's literary talent and character are the miracle of China traditional culture! Qu Yuan's spiritual realm and life experience just become a typical example, which can condense many important contents of China traditional culture.

Liu Changqing, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Crossing Jia Yijia in Changsha", which can show the special feelings of the Chinese nation towards Qu Yuan:

Jia Yi lived here in exile for three years, which is a tragedy of tens of millions of generations.

I look for traces of human existence in autumn grass and watch the sunset slowly tilt in the cold forest.

If even a good Wendi has a heart of stone, can you still expect the slow Hexiang to understand you?

These desolate waters, these silent mountains, when you come, like me, so far away? !

"Chu Ci Wan Nian" is China people's deep affection for Qu Yuan, and it is also the profound meaning of "Dragon Boat Festival".

Liu Changqing wrote in "From Xiakou to Yingwuzhou, watching Yueyang at night and sending Yuan loyalty":

Nautilus Island floats in the Yangtze River without waves and smoke. I miss Cheng and feel more distant.

The setting sun sets in Hankou, and birds return to their nests; Autumn eyes in Dongting Lake, misty clouds and distant blue sky.

The cold horn sound coming from the desolate mountain wall reminds me of being parked next to an abandoned fortress.

That year, Jia Yi wrote to Emperor Wendi, all of whom were worried about the Han Dynasty. It's a pity that he was demoted to Changsha.

What a profound and complicated historical feeling it is to "forbid him to go to Changsha and be an exile"? Cherish talents, respect gentlemen, pray that all heroes in the world are in their proper places, hope to achieve something, give full play to their talents, and advise leaders who have the power of life and death to be close to gentlemen, stay away from villains, respect talents, value righteousness over profit, distinguish loyal subjects and traitors, and prevent the tragedies of Qu Yuan and Chu Huaiwang from repeating. Isn't this the special significance of the Dragon Boat Festival?

To commemorate Qu Yuan is to admire and admire the gentleman's personality, to satirize and spur the villain, to persuade and expect the king, and to promote yin, evil and good, to strengthen the body and eliminate evil, to uphold justice, to educate the people and to change customs. This is the important connotation and basic spirit of the Dragon Boat Festival!

When it comes to festivals, people in China are always inseparable from food and drinks. In the process of eating and drinking, they can "appreciate" the spiritual connotation of China traditional culture and better "taste" the ideological realm of China traditional culture. Having said that, I want to ask again: Dear friend, did you eat zongzi today? In this special festival, it is very meaningful to taste the taste of Zongzi, life and taste of china culture. How much should we feel?

"Dragon Boat Festival" embodies the high unity of ideological, scientific and artistic features of China traditional culture, the integrity, comprehensiveness and uniqueness of China traditional culture, and the vigorous vitality of China traditional culture.

In addition to the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival are the main supplements of traditional festivals in China. There are festivals in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and they are full of poetry and painting all year round. In the realm of "the unity of man and nature", in the "exhaustive" exploration, in the deep aftertaste and in the awakened mind, the Chinese nation has created a great festival culture between man and nature, which is a timeless historical culture and an eternal cultural creation with the universe of heaven and earth.

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China's traditional cultural thoughts reflected in the folk customs of the Spring Festival

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According to The Times, after the noisy Christmas Eve, the city was cleaned by cleaners and restored to its former cleanliness. However, thinking of the "madness" of Christmas and the "indifference" of the Spring Festival, some scholars have started their worrying actions-even some domestic scholars have issued a declaration to defend the Spring Festival!

"Chinese New Year is a wonderful memory. Is this memory fading away? Will we still celebrate the New Year? " Recently, Professor Gao Youpeng, a folklorist in Henan Province, raised questions in his Declaration on Defending the Spring Festival.

Pessimism and optimism, the contrast of two attitudes

On the evening of June 5438+February 65438+March 2005, Gao Youpeng gave a speech entitled "Declaration on Defending the Spring Festival" at Henan University. He believes that the Spring Festival, as a representative of China's traditional culture and an important "intangible heritage" of national culture, should be protected under the cultural background of globalization.

Professor Gao first expounded that all nationalities in the world are saving their own culture. For example, Koreans took the lead in applying for the World Cultural Heritage of the Dragon Boat Festival this year, which caused a great shock to China and exposed the embarrassment of protecting the traditional cultural heritage of China.

Professor Gao said that "Year" is our nation's commemoration of the bumper harvest and a special symbol of our national emotion and life. As a symbol of hope, the Spring Festival is the best opportunity to rectify the mood for a year, which should lead to a special understanding of 2008 and the Spring Festival for a better future.

"Chinese New Year is a special commemoration of human emotional memory. However,' If you want to destroy the country, destroy its history first', in the face of the prevalence of the west wind and the increasing penetration of western culture, we must establish a sense of national traditional culture, start from now, start from small things, defend the Spring Festival and defend the traditional cultural heritage. " Professor Gao said that to defend the Spring Festival is not to return to the previous special days, but to consciously safeguard the dignity of national culture.

However, this report on "Defending the Declaration of the Spring Festival" doesn't seem to cause much disturbance. According to the Henan media colleagues present, there were only a hundred people in the lecture hall at that time. The photographer of a TV station who heard the news had to signal several students to sit in the empty chairs behind the speaker to fill the lighting background for the sake of shooting effect.

Contrary to Professor Gao's anxiety, in early 2005, the Assistant Minister of Culture of China said in an interview with Looking at the East that the Spring Festival was about to become an international festival.

Ding Wei and his colleagues have been thinking about how to develop the Spring Festival into a festival that transcends national boundaries. Ding Wei believes that there is a certain foundation for the development of the Spring Festival into an international festival.

He believes that economic globalization has promoted cultural diversity and pluralism. The Spring Festival is a festival with strong national color in China, which condenses the rich connotation of thousands of years of civilization in China and attracts foreigners with its unique charm.

In addition, the Spring Festival, as a traditional cultural custom, does not have any political color, which reflects people's expectation for spring, good wishes for life, love for family and cherish friendship. It is the return of human nature, embodies humanistic thought, and is easily accepted and appreciated by people with different cultural backgrounds.

The prosperity of traditional festivals is related to national self-confidence

It's too late to get excited about Ding Wei's grand vision, because after witnessing the madness of "Chinese Silent Night", everything in front of us seems to make us more inclined to Gao Youpeng's pessimism. The Spring Festival, the most important festival of the Chinese nation, is indeed increasingly marginalized.

The most criticized is the lack of "flavor of the year", followed by "festival economy theory". For example, Feng Jicai once expressed his own views on this: holidays are different from festivals. Holidays are a kind of civic welfare, which has no cultural connotation. You can live as you like. But festivals are meaningful and have cultural connotations. So when it comes to the economy, we can't treat the Spring Festival with the most "China characteristics" as a slave to the economy. We should "celebrate" the New Year from the aspects of cultural connotation and national spirit, and keep the cultural flavor.

Also, "Our holiday props are too few, and the symbols are too abstract"-although there may be many cultural connotations, because there are no props symbols, it gradually loses the memory of the public.

The above views are naturally reasonable. However, the main reason may not be here. For example, aren't the "props" and "symbols" of the Dragon Boat Festival obvious enough? The "flavor of the year" is more "the venting of a string of firecrackers"; As for the economy, it seems that it cannot be the reason for the decline of the Spring Festival.

Professor Bian Zhaoming from the History Department of Southwest University was unwilling to judge this easily when interviewed by this reporter. But he believes that this is related to the national mentality and economic status.

At the same time, he also cautiously believes that the Spring Festival will not fall to the point where it needs protection; However, it is unlikely that the Spring Festival will become an international festival and form a "strong cultural festival" that attracts worldwide attention.

Professor Bian said that the protection of traditional festivals should be divided into two types: one is passive protection; Extremely closed, completely exclusive. The second is active protection, which is Professor Gao's view.

However, Professor Bian believes that Professor Gao need not be so pessimistic. He believes that "this is a process that we must bear and experience" for the situation of traditional festivals in China in today's globalization context.

"The real big countries are those countries that can radiate to the whole world with their own institutional models and cultural models." This is the view of Xu Jilin, a professor of history at Shanghai Normal University.

Protection or innovation is a question.

In any big city in China, the architecture has been completely westernized.