What Is Festination?

Chinese Festival refers to the commemorative day, celebration day and international universal festival recognized by China.

Chinese festival

(Chinese festivals)

• Festivals are the hub of human social life and the carrier of human material civilization and spiritual civilization. The traditional festivals that have experienced vicissitudes for thousands of years are a microcosm of a nation's mature civilization. It reflects both the relationship between man and nature, and the actual human-to-human connection.

  In terms of Chinese festivals, it is not only the product of the Chinese people's unremitting exploration of the laws of nature, but also contains a large amount of scientific knowledge of astronomy, meteorology and phenology. It is also a concentrated expression of the philosophical ideas, aesthetic consciousness, and moral ethics of Chinese civilization in folk customs. . Our ancestors combined the relationship between the sun and the moon with people and nature to determine the time of the festival, which can be said to best reflect the relationship between people and nature.

  For thousands of years, festival folk customs have given the Chinese a well-ordered time rhythm and lively spatial distribution without losing scale. Although China is a country with a large population, ordinary people also live their lives in a diligent and frugal way, but the ordinary worldly life because of the lively festivals constitutes the complete life time of Chinese people Expectant, joyful and extraordinary.

  Modernization has motivated people to change their lifestyles. More and more people are gradually ignoring the cultural and spiritual values of traditional festivals. Many traditional festivals have gradually been "fade" and "dwarfed."

  The existence and development of festivals cannot be separated from the spiritual activities of a national subject.

  Primitive society, the most basic spiritual activity of people is primitive worship. Moon worship and moon worship have become the source of the moon-watching custom in the future Mid-Autumn Festival. One.

  In order to survive, people in ancient society carefully avoided many disasters and scourges, and derived many taboos. These taboos contributed to the formation of festival customs.

  If there is a lack of scientific understanding of natural fires, it is advisable to ban the use of fire and cold food, which can be regarded as the source of clear cold food. In spring every year, it is the season when the plague is easy to spread. ); And when the hot and hot May is approaching, it is also the period when the epidemic is prone and the incidence is relatively high. The ancients believed that this was a bad month, and May 5 was a bad month and a bad day. The children born were not auspicious, which led to the formation of a series of customs for the Dragon Boat Festival. Similarly, on September 9th, the main activity of the Chung Yeung Festival is hiking and climbing to avoid epidemics.

  Ancient festivals are almost all single days, especially single month and single day, such as Japanese yen on January 1, Shanghai Festival on March 3, Duanyang Festival on May 5th, Qixi Festival on July 7th, Chung Yeung Festival on September 9th . The Chinese regard twinning as auspicious, why are the festivals mostly single month and single day? In fact, these festivals are not so happy as the later generations have evolved, and they are called "good holidays". In the early days when festival customs were formed, these festivals were probably unlucky days. They were either "fierce" or "evil", so they needed taboos, and gradually formed festival customs.

  China's traditional festivals are the births of agricultural society and farming civilization. Most of the traditional festivals are rural festivals in nature. However, the society at hand is a rapid momentum towards urbanization. From this point of view, contemporary youth chasing fashion trends and liking Western festivals cannot simply be called "Chongyangmeiwai." The variation is worth a bit of fun.

  Traditional festivals are mainly passed down from generation to generation in folk and indigenous society. With the rapid development of contemporary media technology, modern media began to erode traditional festival culture on a large scale, first of all, changing the relationship between people in the traditional festival background.

  People's direct participation and personal experience in traditional festivals have become indirect participation and indirect experience. Coupled with the constraints of the maximization of commercial profits, the original connotation of the festival, which was originally full of human beauty, has disappeared. Instead, it has been copied, modeled, and mass-produced by the modern media under the drive of interests , Like, flat, and popular "artificial carnival". When technology as an extension of man is independent of man, the alienating force produced makes the folk culture including traditional festivals gradually mutate until disappearing or away from the original human authenticity.

  With the development of modern media technology today, it is inevitable that traditional festivals will be embarrassed. Although people of insight have proposed that the five traditional festivals of the year (Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chung Yeung Festival) be legislated as national legal holidays, just imagine that if the ecological environment of traditional festivals is not changed, Even if it is a holiday, is it still a vassal of the "artificial festival"?

  In an environment where modern media is flourishing, and where market consumption is dominant, the most important thing is to strengthen the attention and protection of the cultural and ecological environment on which traditional festivals depend. From the perspective of the relationship between natural ecology and people, and the relationship between people and culture, pay attention to those cultural ecology that live in harmony with nature and humanity, and protect the interdependent folk arts such as entertainment, sacrifice, and diet related to traditional festivals.

  Traditional Chinese thought has always been influenced by the philosophical concept of "harmony between man and nature." People's production methods, lifestyles, and cultural methods are adapted to nature as the standard. Folk culture is born under this environment. We now inherit such respect. The spirit of nature, closeness to nature, and coordinated development with nature is an important way to protect the ecological environment of folk culture.