The annual Spring Festival has passed vigorously, this is the most solemn festival of our nation, is the most complete inheritance of national culture, many people also have a negative view of the Spring Festival, thinking that the Spring Festival will disappear, I agree with this view.
The Chinese New Year in the countryside is still very lively.
First of all, it is very important to visit relatives in the agricultural era, because it is very poor, and everyone needs to be warm in a collective to survive, and this collective is the family, including in-laws. Therefore, the relationship between relatives and family is very important, and it is closely related to the life and death of a family.
All people, all families must be attached to the family this big collective, the family is the umbrella, in the past, everything in the countryside was to rely on the fist to speak, without the blessing of the family can be miserable, everyone has a boy, all hope that there is a big family to protect their family.
The Chinese New Year is an important opportunity to maintain family relations and maintain in-law relations, and visiting relatives and friends during the New Year is an important behavior to consolidate family relations and consolidate in-law relationships, and it is an important behavior to strengthen one's position in the family.
The family ancestral hall and the patriarch of the family are a symbol of the cohesion of a family.
Nowadays, the elderly still attach great importance to it, and urge the children to go to visit relatives during the New Year, and the children are not willing to go, so they get angry and say that the children are not sensible, and it will be difficult to be a person in the future. In fact, it is still the inheritance of this idea.
An important part of the Spring Festival etiquette is to inherit the tradition of respecting the elderly, for example, children will pay New Year's greetings to their families and deceased elders, parents and in-laws, and kowtow to give gifts.
Many people do not understand the meaning of this ceremony because the conditions of modern society are good, and there seems to be no special meaning, but in the farming society, white flour is a valuable item and a big gift, and many people can't eat it several times a year, so this is the real embodiment of filial piety.
In the eastern Henan region, I sent my parents to Zaoshan for the New Year.
This etiquette is no less valuable than earning 100,000 yuan this year and giving 10,000 yuan to your parents for the New Year. How many people can do it?
Kowtowing to the elders during the Chinese New Year is the inheritance of the Confucian idea of filial piety.
Agrarian society, winter is farming, are cat winter, so there is enough time for the New Year, anyway, idle is also idle, so the Spring Festival starts early, ends late, we here originally entered the wax moon began to have the atmosphere of the New Year, firecrackers began to sound, as the saying goes, into the wax moon is the year, to the fifteenth day of the first month is really the end of the New Year, there is a full month and a half, after the end of the spring ploughing.
Therefore, the ultra-long Spring Festival in traditional culture is not closely related to the characteristics of farming culture.
We are no longer a traditional agricultural society, the society has undergone great changes, but not completely changed, is now the coexistence of agricultural civilization and industrial civilization, there are still many remnants of agricultural civilization, the Spring Festival is one of them, but industrialization is the trend, is the general direction, after the completion of industrialization, as one of the remnants of agricultural civilization of the Spring Festival will also disappear, although it will not disappear completely, but the customs will change, the scale will change, the meaning and core will also change. In fact, this is also a change in progress.
Modern civilization is coming, and we have entered the information age.
First of all, our New Year's greeting tradition has changed, although it is also very solemn now, but more and more young people do not go home, go home and do not participate in New Year's greetings, and the New Year's greeting group is getting smaller and smaller.
New Year's greetings have also changed from real kowtow to auspicious words, just talking, everyone is polite and left, the form has changed, the core has also changed, and it has slowly become a habit, the inertia of customs is only, and it is no longer so important.
I believe that many young people will not go if it is not urged by the elderly, a few strangers who are related by blood are really tired of performing politely to each other, and the guests are tired of the host's house, and going to relatives has become a burden for everyone, hurting the wallet, and there is mental pressure. It is believed that with the passage of time, after the death of the current elderly, the tide of family severance will continue. The custom of visiting relatives will become less and less.
Visiting relatives is becoming a burden for many people, and the phenomenon of family separation is becoming more and more serious.
Now the Spring Festival time is getting shorter and shorter, because there is no agricultural leisure in the industrial society, everyone has work every day, almost all industries are suspended during the Spring Festival, this loss is very big for individuals, so, now people's Spring Festival holiday has become shorter and shorter, many people go home on the 29th of the lunar month, and return on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and start working on the eighth day of the first month at the latest, and the holiday is about ten days, I believe that this time will be shorter. The characteristics of the times determine this change.
We are in a period of transition from an industrial society to an agrarian society, and now is a period of coexistence, so various cultural phenomena coexist, and over time, the legacy of agricultural society will disappear, or although it will not disappear, but the name has changed at the core, and the Spring Festival is undergoing this change. The core and form of the Spring Festival are changing every year, and in a few years, the name of the Spring Festival holiday may not disappear, but the customs have changed qualitatively.
Agricultural civilization is coming to an end.
All social phenomena are cultural phenomena, people are cultural and environmental products, it is difficult to change, the Spring Festival is the inertia of farming culture, for example, I said kowtow to the New Year is that traditional culture will disappear, many people oppose it, in fact, everyone is affected by traditional culture, and this influence is getting smaller and smaller, and then support the person who bows, I want to ask him have you bowed? Bowing down is almost gone, but the cultural influence is still there, and most people still agree with it. When there are fewer people who agree, the Spring Festival will be completely over. I believe it won't be long. The post-90s and post-00s generations have slowly become the main force in society.