As the season goes, there are twenty-four solar terms, but at the same time there are man-made festivals. Chinese treat these two items as a mixture, without distinction, such as Qingming and winter solstice are natural festivals, and Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chongyang are man-made festivals. In the festival, the Chinese add more myths and stories, so that the humanities and nature are more intimately coordinated, and the social customs are colorful and colorful with the solar terms.
It is also a kind of correspondence between nature and man, which extrapolates our daily life to the changes of nature and echoes it. The most significant ones such as the New Year have Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, which makes us think that this is the beginning of the renewal and continuous renewal of heaven and earth, and the beginning of life with the renewal of each day. Winter is gone, spring is coming, the old is new, and life is thriving with heaven and earth. The festival is man-made, but it is extremely natural, and there are no traces of man-made. This is how humanity participates in nature and evolves into oneness. There is faith, hope, entertainment, etiquette, artistry, tradition, enlightenment and education about national culture and beliefs.
But recently, people have no understanding and confidence in their own culture, so they feel that this kind of festival is not interesting and meaningless. In Chinese society, the New Year's festival is gradually abandoned, life is dry, and Christmas festivals are flourishing instead. Chinese society is not a religious society, and Chinese culture is not a religious culture, while China follows the West and celebrates Christmas. This is inevitably mixed with a lot of ruthless and unreasonable blind imitation.
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In the early morning of New Year's Day in the old calendar, the Yu family hung the statues of three generations of gods, including his father, grandparents, and great-grandparents. At that time, among the students, they would get together in the New Year, but they rarely performed such New Year's greetings. Yu Nianpei is old, because he went to his home to pay tribute, and also paid homage to the remains of his ancestors one by one. Before leaving, Pei Ruojian stayed for lunch, saying that there were only two people, and they could have a long talk. It is also said that there are ready-made dishes at home on New Year's Day, and they are not bothered to cook them, and the rest is left. The dishes are served, Pei Ruo asked Yu to sit first, saying that today's New Year's Day, I should worship the ancestral statue first.
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