Views on Traditional Festivals in China

Is it inevitable that almost all traditional festivals will fall into the predicament of being in name only?

For many years, people have always felt that the flavor of festivals is getting weaker and weaker. When the concept of "festivals" is replaced by "holidays", the holiday economy and the holiday consumption frenzy caused by it have become the most magnificent landscape of the times. The "political correctness" in the concept of festivals often leads our thinking to the just judgment of the national salvation court. It seems that the decline of local festivals is the ghost of foreign festivals, so there are prosperous warnings such as "defending the Spring Festival" that appeared around Christmas in 2005. People have been arguing about how to protect the cultural values of local ethnic groups for at least 100 years and will continue at the same level, which hides the crux of the problem.

In fact, almost all important traditional festivals, whether in China or Europe, are facing a huge crisis. As a cultural identity ceremony, festivals have been branded with too many commercial brands in the era of globalization. In the 1990s, European countries, including France and Denmark, were deeply troubled by the infiltration of consumer culture in the era of globalization, represented by the United States, and tried to resist it by promoting local cultural values. As you can see, the result is minimal.

On the surface, the prevalence of western festivals in contemporary China is indeed suspected of "cultural self-colonization". It's really incredible that a China native who speaks Chinese with yellow skin is keen on Christmas without any religious reasons. However, as our numerous interviews have shown, for most young people who ignore local festivals and admire foreign festivals, Christmas, like Hollywood blockbusters, Coca-Cola, LV and NBA, is just a fashionable consumer product from the West. The specific meaning of western cultural symbols has been confused beyond recognition by the desire of consumerism.

We don't understand why we celebrate festivals more and more. What we know and expect may be just a good sleep or holiday, just a good reason for shopping or crazy consumption, just an excuse for partying all night, or even just a symbol of our fashion attitude. Needless to say, festivals are a good opportunity for business promotion and a lever to stimulate domestic demand ... All these make the cultural atmosphere of our festivals very thin, and the ritual function of festivals in strengthening people's cultural identity consciousness is gradually losing.

Therefore, if the traditional festivals in China, represented by the Spring Festival, need to be protected and defended, then their imaginary enemies are not exotic festivals like Christmas, but all those things that have dealt a fatal blow to traditional values in the era of globalization.

Have a nice holiday and be ourselves for once.

18 opinion leaders' views on festivals

Looking back on the tradition, the local festivals of China people mean commemorative activities, or reunion, or celebration, or sacrifice. After the Spring Festival, there are Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Up, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival, off-year and so on. Gregorian festivals are generally anniversaries, such as Arbor Day, Labor Day, Children's Day, Army Day, Teacher's Day, National Day, off-year and so on. According to a survey conducted by China Social Investigation Institute, 53.6% of young people celebrate "foreign festivals" to "find a happy reason"; Regarding "What are the differences between foreign festivals and traditional festivals in China", 57. 1% of men think that "traditional festivals in China stay at the level of material enjoyment such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, while foreign festivals pay more attention to spiritual exchange", and 60.7% of women think that "foreign festivals are relaxed, while traditional festivals in China are too tired".

In today's China, there are two festivals on average every month. How do people treat these festivals? This survey involves Confucian scholars, religious professors, private school teachers, former ambassadors to Germany, media commentators, professors from institutions studying in China, young directors, musicians, foreign executives, beauty writers, international supermodels, magazine editors, foreigners in China, partygoers, professional priests, mountain climbers, overseas Chinese scholars and modern artists. (Coordinator/Dong Wei)

JASON ZHANG: "I don't know when the Dragon Boat Festival is."

The "sixth generation director" is one of the most sincere young film artists in the contemporary era. He has been faced with two major events recently, and his mood is likely to be in a delicate state: first, his film Sunflower won two awards in Spain on June 5438+ 10 last year, and second, the new film was released in China, and the box office was bleak. JASON ZHANG is indifferent to the topic of festivals.

"Festivals often mean that people get freedom and happiness for a period of time, while those of us who make movies are more free than ordinary people. For me, the festival is a happy day. "

JASON ZHANG thinks that the real festivals are mainly Spring Festival, New Year's Day, May Day and National Day. Christmas is more like a day for young friends to get together, but during the Spring Festival, many people have to go home. On the second and third day of New Year's Day, Zhang Yang often goes to Yunnan to get together with friends from Dali and other places. JASON ZHANG is basically just "Valentine's Day", which he thinks is a holiday that young people care about before the age of 20.

JASON ZHANG believes that festivals are related to people's growing experiences. Valentine's Day and Christmas didn't appear until after 1980s. People born after 1980s have more memories of these "foreign festivals".

JASON ZHANG knows when Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are respectively, but he doesn't know when Dragon Boat Festival is. JASON ZHANG doesn't think "foreign festivals" are "cultural aggression". "In fact, this just gives China people a reason to party. Its function is to provide an opportunity, but it does not change people's ideas. In the future, there will be no Christmas only for the Spring Festival, because people have historical heritage. " (Interview/Wei Wu)

Mianmian: "How formal Valentine's Day is!"

When I contacted Mianmian, a famous beauty writer, she was having dinner with her friends. The noise from the microphone laid a vivid background-it seems that Mianmian should be like this, and there are always a large group of friends around him, which will always be the focus of everyone. Such party animals must be full of interest in festivals. Every festival of hers should be a colorful day.

Mianmian actually said that she had planned to stay at home on Christmas Eve, but Rulu, a singer known as the female version of Xu Wei, asked her out for dinner, so she went to the "Happy Garden" together and later went to the famous DJ of Beijing Music Station to say hello. When she came out to pass by "Baby Face", Mianmian listened to her hunch, went in to find a boss who rarely showed up, and opened two bottles of champagne ....................................................... She said that she had no feeling about Christmas, but her little daughter was full of enthusiasm for Christmas, because she went abroad to spend Christmas with her father every year, just like a standard foreign child. Speaking of Valentine's Day gifts, I didn't expect Mianmian's answer to be "never!" She said that if a holiday was to be cancelled, it would be Valentine's Day. "What's the point? How fake and formal! Aren't you bored? "

The festival that impressed me the most in the past year, Mianmian thought for a long time, and seriously said that it should be the Spring Festival, "because I can be with my family", and the upcoming Spring Festival is also to "spend time with my parents". As for the happiest festivals, Mianmian said, one was the world's top DJ party hosted by her on the Great Wall two years ago, and the other was the Dutch Rock Music Festival not long ago. For mass festivals, Mianmian can neither tell the stories of foreign festivals nor remember any impressive traditional festivals. "I am a person who has no feelings for festivals." (Interview/Han Feng)

Wang Da III: "Our Christmas should be Confucius' birthday."

Wang Dasan, a doctor of the National People's Congress, attracted countless people in various forums with a book on the so-called Christmas problem. The so-called three things, the benevolent does not worry, the wise does not doubt, and the brave does not fear, are the three virtues of Confucianism. Wang Yong said that this is his goal and ideal. "I want to do these three things, hence the name." The scholar's anger is on my face.

Wang Yongjian insisted on using "Christmas" to refer to "Christmas". He said: "holiness is the holiness of Christians, not our holiness, so it is not Christmas, but Christmas." He called the Bible "Ye Jing" or "New Testament" or "Old Testament", and his tone was natural.

There is a Christmas party in his daughter's kindergarten. He didn't like the arrangement in the garden, so he didn't let his daughter participate. He also specially submitted written opinions to the kindergarten, but he was helpless when the stone sank into the sea. "Why do you want to have a holiday? We have our sage Confucius, and Christmas should be Confucius' birthday; We have our cowherd and weaver girl, and Valentine's Day should not be Valentine's Day in February. " He talked about exchanging gifts with his lover on Tanabata before, and smiled shyly.

As a defender of Confucianism, he still has a tolerant attitude towards other religions. There used to be a temple with Confucius in the middle, Laozi on the left and Sakyamuni on the right. No one thought anything was wrong.

"If there is one more Jesuit, there will be no less China," he said. "Confucianism is a spirit and thought that permeates the bones and blood of China people. It can't be washed down by another culture in ten or twenty years." In this regard, he still showed a worried vigilance. "This is a kind of national unconsciousness, national unconsciousness." Behind the custom is a sense of cultural identity and national belonging. "Intellectuals should shout loudly." He said, and took the lead.

In the coming Spring Festival, Wang Yong is going to spend it in the most China way: squeezing the train, going back to his hometown, kowtowing to his parents, having a reunion dinner and visiting the grave. His hometown is not too far away in Shandong, and it is also the hometown of Confucius. (Interview/Yu Yanan)

Jin Yijiu: "If Christmas is turned into a carnival day for China people every year, should we also introduce our Mid-Autumn Festival abroad?"

Just after McDonald's birthday in China 15, Professor Jin Yijiu from China Academy of Social Sciences stood up and said, "If you blindly support McDonald's, this nation will perish!" McDonald's, whose Happy Birthday is not over yet, has been put on the trial platform as a representative of foreign culture.

Referring to this inference that caused a great sensation, Professor Jin Yijiu smiled: "This sentence is not my original, but the words of an old teacher around me, but I am a little more famous than him, so I brought it out and got more attention and response." His gentleness is no different from that of many old professors in their 70s.

Because he often flies around the world, Jin Yijiu feels that the appearance of the music festival is very vague. Earth Festival? Foreign Festival? It's all festivals. Even the upcoming Spring Festival, in Professor Jin's view, is just an ordinary day.

When he was studying abroad, he caught up with Christmas and was just invited to a friend's house for dinner. In Jin Yijiu's concept, the so-called festivals are always spent with family members. After leaving his hometown of Shanghai for so many years, the concept of festivals has long since disappeared from his mind. Only when it comes to the Spring Festival as a child did he get a little excited. When he was young, he talked about his family wearing robes, going to relatives' homes to celebrate their birthdays on New Year's Eve, and what to make for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which seemed close at hand. "In fact, these traditional festivals in China are very good. It has its own culture in it, but now people don't know how to cherish it. " A deep sigh.

Professor Jin replaced "cultural aggression" with "cultural infiltration", and he greatly understood the young people's curiosity about foreign festivals. As a person who has no big festivals, he doesn't care much about what kind of festivals are the most popular at present. He just hopes that what should not be forgotten will not be forgotten. He mentioned in the article "Islamic Culture and the West": "Human society is constantly developing and advancing in the cultural blending of different nationalities."

In Professor Jin's view, if Christmas is turned into an annual carnival day for China people, should we also introduce our Mid-Autumn Festival abroad? "Integration is mutual." (Interview/Yu Yanan)

Cai Jiahe: "Whether it is Dragon Boat Festival or Halloween, we will hold activities to celebrate."

The Sino-American Cultural Research Center established by Nanjing University in cooperation with Hopkins University in the United States enrolls 50 students from China and 50 students from the United States each year: students from China (including Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao) are enrolled by Nanjing University, and students from the United States (including a few other international students) are enrolled by Hopkins University. Students receive interdisciplinary and cross-cultural education and training in a bilingual environment.

"No matter whether it is Dragon Boat Festival or Halloween, we will have celebrations," said Professor Cai Jiahe, deputy academic director of the China-US Cultural Research Center. "In this environment, festivals are a major way of emotional communication between students."

Professor Cai, who is busy preparing the dinner party, claims to be a very open-minded new school person. He is very enthusiastic about foreign festivals popular in China. "For today's young people, these western religious festivals, such as Christmas and Easter, have no religious significance, but only serve as an opportunity for cultural exchange and emotional communication. True religious believers naturally have different ways to celebrate festivals, such as going to church. " The first traditional festival that "China-America Center" recruits every autumn is the Mid-Autumn Festival party. Professor Cai said that the celebration was held to let western students know more about China and integrate into local customs.

The Christmas just passed was also a festival warmly celebrated by the China-US Center. The center specializes in organizing Christmas dinners, parties, Christmas movies and other activities. Professor Cai participated in the celebrations one by one, "because I also like to see the enthusiasm of young students." Speaking of the upcoming Spring Festival, Professor Cai affirmed that he would spend it in the most traditional way: visiting relatives and friends, having a reunion dinner and so on. "Of course, there are firecrackers." He added with a smile. (Interview/Yin Beibei)

Bao Yifeng: "When there are many festivals, the happiest thing is the merchants."

Bao Yifeng, general manager of Shanghai Linjie Fashion Company, is a senior party planner. He is an airman. After going to an art exhibition in Miami, USA, I went to a Dior brand launch conference in Beijing. Shortly after returning to Shanghai, he accepted an interview with our reporter.

The Christmas package was not deliberately designed, but spent at home. At first, I invited more than a dozen friends to drink and eat, and then more than 10 people came, just like a party. Bao Xiao misses the "Earth Day" he spent in a Shanghai alley when he was a child. "We China people must first inherit our own traditions." He mentioned that Hong Kong people will give their citizens holidays on traditional festivals, such as the winter solstice, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival, which is very humane, but not in the mainland.

Among traditional festivals, Bao Xiao attaches great importance to the Spring Festival, because it is a time to express filial piety. On New Year's Day and the next day, Bao Xiao will visit relatives and elders. After Grade Three and Grade Four, he may travel abroad and spend his holiday in a warmer place. "Due to the inertia of festivals, people in China generally don't go back to work until the 15th day of the first month. If you are at home throughout the Spring Festival holiday, you may not be able to stand it. " Valentine's Day is Hu Bing's birthday. Bao Xiao often celebrates Hu Bing's birthday.

Bao Xiao noticed that the prosperity of "foreign" festivals was actually influenced by businessmen. "They want people all over the country to celebrate festivals so that they can do more business." Bao Xiao cited the example of Shanghai. "On February 25th, 65438, it was said that there were 800 people dining at the Hilton Hotel, most of whom came from China (many foreigners went back to China for Christmas), and the sales exceeded 1 10,000, which was broken. Other five-star western restaurants are said to be full. Everyone went, and it is estimated that they can eat authentic western food. "

There are many festivals now, and I heard there is also a secretary's day. "Businessmen are happiest when there are many festivals," Bao Xiao said. China Mobile will make a lot of money from SMS every festival. One way for operators is to hire some SMS writers, write some funny SMS greetings, and then let these greetings spread among mobile phone users, so that information fees will roll into their pockets. (Interview/Wei Wu)

Chen Qing: "China's festivals are also celebrated by many people abroad."

The chief oboe player of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra is a handsome guy who often performs all over the world. Maurice Bourg (former head of the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra), Hansjorg Schellenberger (head of Berlin Philharmonic) and Anthony Camden (former head of the London Symphony Orchestra) are all his mentors.

As in previous years, Christmas Eve in Chen Qing was spent in a performance. As a professional actor, Chen Qing stands on the stage for most festivals in a year. He said: "The Spring Festival is the festival I look forward to most. This year's Spring Festival, we will go back to our wife's hometown Dalian. "

Friends around Chen Qing, like him, don't have much time for festivals, but they all attach great importance to traditional festivals in China. In their view, western festivals are just a ceremony for everyone to join in the fun. In Christmas 2005, Xinghai Concert Hall also held a reception outdoors. He said, "The concert hall itself is a westernized place."

Chen Qing also has some leisure time. On May 1 2005, he and his wife traveled to the Philippines. "The festival is just an excuse. It is a good choice to accompany your family or travel. " Chen Qing, who studied abroad, said, "Many people celebrate China Festival abroad. One year, my wife and I spent the Spring Festival in Japan. At that time, Chinatown was very lively, and the Japanese were particularly interested in this foreign festival. The business of China restaurants is very good, and handicrafts and food in China sell well. "

"The most touching holiday story," Chen Qing said without thinking, "is the story of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon is full of warmth and poetry, and also expresses his thoughts for his loved ones. " Although there are so many festivals, Chen Qing thinks that none should be cancelled. "Every festival has its rationality. As long as it is a festival, as long as it is a festival, I like it. " (Interview/Sun)

Ichiro: "The Double Ninth Festival must be celebrated."

He likes climbing mountains and almost turned his hobby into a career. Fortunately, he already understood. Now I work in a charity education foundation, thus releasing some vigorous love. Personal satisfaction: Assistant Commander-in-Chief, member of the Everest Climbing Team in 2003. He is also a member of chinese mountaineering association Outdoor Sports Committee and vice president of Shenzhen Mountaineering Association.

Ichiro works in Beijing and his home is in Shenzhen. He has many friends. In Christmas 2005, he was with a large group of famous netizens, swimming, playing table tennis, eating, playing cards and singing.

He is restless, but he must go home at the age of 30. He attaches great importance to festivals in China, leaving his family at home during the Spring Festival and getting together during the Mid-Autumn Festival. He recalled: "When I was a child, I celebrated the Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, but now it is rare. On the contrary, the Double Ninth Festival must be celebrated. The end of September and the beginning of October are the prime time for mountain climbing. Let's find a mountain of one or two kilometers with a group of mountaineering friends. Before and after the Spring Festival, you may choose some surrounding places to play for four or five days, climb ice or ski. "

After so many lively festivals, what impressed Ichiro most was Mother's Day in 2003. At that time, he was climbing Mount Everest. He wrote a postcard to his mother at the base camp of Mount Everest the day before his departure. This Mother's Day is particularly meaningful to him.

"The Spring Festival is a good time, and the holidays are longer, giving people time to repair and better plan for the next year. The original holiday was to find an excuse to add some changes to everyone's life. Many holiday stories are nonsense, but it doesn't matter. It is important to have an active atmosphere. The more impetuous you are, the more practical, happy and comfortable you must live. "

In addition, Ichiro said: "Christmas and New Year's Day can be merged completely because they are too close." (Interview/Sun)

The cultural connotation of Chinese and western festivals has been diluted by the tide of consumption.

Whether it is the traditional festivals in China or various festivals abroad, its cultural connotation has been evacuated. We can't live without festivals, and we can't bear to see all festivals become shopping festivals and eating festivals. We need to find the confidence to communicate with each other in tradition. & lt！ -inside page of science and technology -360*300 picture in picture->

Text/Wang Jian

Most of our traditional festivals are closely related to ancient agricultural production. When we bid farewell to the agricultural society and move towards the industrial society, the function of traditional festivals began to decline in the industrial production era, western learning spread to the east, and western festivals flourished rapidly in this land, and even had the momentum of usurping the role of masters! Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween and Thanksgiving seem to be glorious "China Festival", which is fueled by the shrewd propaganda of merchants and the blind follow-up of the younger generation-traditional festivals are drifting away and western festivals are popular.

Western festivals are fierce, but it may be a bit exaggerated to insist that they are as terrible as those in the past. Although the festival culture in the western world began to sprout before the birth of Christianity, its real growth was after Christian rule. Since Matteo Ricci used Confucian classics to spread the Bible in China in the 10th year of Wanli (A.D. 1582), Christianity has existed in China for more than four centuries.

In contrast, traditional festivals in China have not been effectively protected. After 1949, most festivals were abolished as feudal remnants, and only the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival survived, of which only the Spring Festival was listed as a legal holiday. Starting from 1949, our National Day holiday lasts only seven days. It was not until 1999 that the State Council issued the Measures for National Festival and Memorial Day that it increased to 10 days. This level is obviously too low compared with 69 days in China Song Dynasty, 15 days in Japan, 16 days in South Korea, 22 days in Macau and 23 days in the United States. The degradation of traditional festivals and the arrogance of foreigners' festivals constitute the most dramatic scene of this era.

People born more than 20 years ago still vaguely remember the seasons and festival dates marked in detail on the old imperial calendar that turns pages every day. Open many calendars at present, and the traditional festival is only the Spring Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship, Dragon Boat Festival funeral, Qixi's begging for cleverness, Chongyang's respect for the elderly, Shangsi (March 3), summer solstice, Central Plains, winter solstice, Laba, stove worship and other important festivals have all disappeared from the calendar. At the same time, special rituals such as agricultural sacrifice, ancestor worship, deity worship, exorcism and disaster elimination disappeared. Those splendid and romantic ceremonies for thousands of years can only be experienced by future generations in ancient books?

There is no denying that the traditional festivals do have elements that are not acclimatized, but if you regard them as my loss and immediately throw them into the arms of foreign festivals, it is tantamount to throwing a knife at the palace. Festivals are not only the adjustment of daily life, but also the link to maintain national identity. Interesting, but also annoying, UNESCO's World Teacher's Day, the United States' Teacher's Day, China's Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong's Teacher's Day are all set on Confucius' birthday, that is, September 28th, but we deliberately avoided this day.

Why are foreign festivals popular and traditional festivals deserted? Scholars believe that this is cultural self-contempt and self-colonization. Modern history has left people not only endless resentment and anger, but also deep-rooted inferiority complex. Backwardness and beatings have become people's habitual summary of modern history, and numbness, inferiority and even hatred have become the attitude of most people towards their own culture.

Human itself is only an accidental branch of evolution, and the iron law behind human history is only a hobby dominated by anthropocentrism. The process of modernization cannot be the inevitable destination in human history, let alone the "city of God" to save mankind. On the contrary, the invasion of modernization process may cause devastating damage to the "cultural ecology" of mankind. In this seemingly doomed situation, both traditional festivals in China and various festivals abroad have actually been evacuated and turned into ostentatious decorations. For example, when Christmas comes to us, it is also a consumer day, or a fashion label, which will not pose too much threat to the traditional festivals in China. On the contrary, the real danger comes from ourselves. A warm festival like Mid-Autumn Festival has become a showcase for mooncake merchants to show off their skills and a channel for unscrupulous politicians to corrupt and speculate.

Fei Xiaotong once suggested that China, as a world power and an ancient civilization, should have such a cultural mind and ambition: "Each has its own beauty, beauty of beauty, beauty and * * *, and the world is one." This ideal can also be used to express our attitude towards festivals, neither supercilious nor supercilious. Today, with the serious lack of cultural identity, our duty may not be to make money and spend money under the banner of festivals, but to live our traditional festivals with piety and seriousness.

Carnival of the gods under the holiday mask

Festivals are a part of culture and an extremely important part. They define a person's cultural identity and maintain the relationship between man and tradition in a ritualized way. Under the imagination of globalization, many human values are converging, and festivals may be the last barrier to maintain people's cultural identity. Maintaining traditional festivals is not to resist the invasion of Christmas and other foreign festivals with a simple and exclusive cultural conservatism, but to prevent the empty shell and commercialization tendency of national cultural values caused by the wave of globalization.

Text/Li Guoqing

Even though we are well-fed and running on the well-off road, we no longer expect to eat and drink during the Spring Festival, and we can even kiss the air in Europe at any time, the trend in Tokyo, the fashion in new york and the Disney in Hong Kong, our desire for festivals is still in a certain state of hunger-Christmas, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, Lantern Festival, Halloween, Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, April Fool's Day and Double Ninth Festival in ..................................... We still hold an absolutely super-global attitude towards traditional, imported and double ninth festival.

What makes sociologists uneasy is that, at least on the surface, traditional festivals show the trend of thelma and louise, while foreign festivals are rampant. This change will naturally lead to intellectuals' declaration of "defending the Spring Festival"!

Celebrate the China Festival.

"The so-called festival means that everyone puts down their work and troubles on this day and gets together happily. Singing, dancing, even eating and drinking. Of course, for people like me who don't like to join in the fun, festivals are a good day to study. " Shen Hongfei wrote an article called "Festival", which talked about the spiritual significance of the festival at the beginning.

This kind of interpretation is as plain as water, singing and dancing, and it has gorgeous spiritual significance, but it lacks the material significance that is facing the impact of desire and consumption, so it is difficult to go deep into the core of China festivals. For China people who love the new and hate the old, the significance of festivals is not static, but keeps pace with the times with the super girl of the whole people or Jay Chou's inarticulate singing.

The significance of festivals before the reform and opening up is absolutely different from that today. Just find an old man over 60, and he will tell you that the meaning of the Spring Festival is to wear new clothes and eat big fish and meat. Ask people born in the sixties and seventies, and they will tell you that the meaning of the Spring Festival is to set off firecrackers, hold the Spring Festival Gala and go home for the New Year. Ask the 80s again, and they will tell you that the meaning of the Spring Festival is to relax, travel, masturbate and collect lucky money.

When the whole world wears funny Santa hats, it also implies that China Festival is going downhill. I searched on Google and found that there are 20 important traditional festivals in China, including Zhonghe Festival (February 2), Shangsi Festival (March 3), January (June 6), Solstice Festival in summer, Valentine's Day in China, Solstice Festival in winter and so on. I believe many people know little about the names of these festivals, let alone participate in these festivals and Pierer at every festival.

So experts are very anxious and feel that modern people have lost their traditions. Because these festivals are closely related to our Chinese descendants, such as Spring Festival, beginning of spring, Lantern Festival, Zhonghe Festival, Shangsi Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tianzhu Festival, Summer Solstice Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Victory Festival on the seventh day of the first month, and Buddha Wash Festival on the eighth day of April (Sakyamuni).

From the root analysis, the emergence and even the inheritance and development of traditional festivals in China are rooted in the Millennium farming civilization, which is also in line with the three characteristics of experts' speeches: the China lunar calendar, which serves agricultural production, depicts specific seasonal nodes for it; China's philosophy of "harmony between man and nature" has excluded the externality and contingency of these seasonal nodes from the ancients.