The Spring Festival is the most traditional and lively festival in China, and the connotation and essence of the traditional festival are reflected in the continuity of the way of the festival, as well as the endless respect and persistence of the form. Let the festival become more ritualistic, so that the festival will not lose its due meaning. As a traditional festival with ancestor worship, thanksgiving and blessing, family reunion, removal of the old and cloth of the new, welcoming the jubilee and blessings, and praying for a good year, the traditional customs of the Spring Festival are supported by the traditional customs of the Spring Festival, such as drinking Laba porridge, sacrificing to the god of Vesta, sweeping dust, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year paintings, pasting blessing characters upside down, keeping the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve, eating dumplings, pressing New Year's money, greeting the New Year, and visiting temple fairs.
Ritual is not only a direct embodiment of form, but also a deep experience of the process, in which there are both norms and taboos. For example, what to say and what to do, there are different requirements, take the first day of the first month as an example, do not use a broom, so as not to sweep away luck and fortune, avoid taking medicine, because taking medicine symbolizes a year of illness, etc. These requirements limit people's free space, are neither reasonable nor humane, and will be violated if they are not careful, and it is difficult for young people to accept.
New year's customs are changing in the process of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and then form such a rich and vivid realistic picture today.
In the era of material scarcity, eating and drinking is the main color and theme of the Spring Festival, and the current way of celebrating the festival is more abundant, personalized and diverse. The immutability of rushing to the market, visiting temple fairs, visiting relatives, and eating flowing water banquets has been replaced by new New Year's customs. AI couplets, creative New Year paintings, electronic fireworks ......The "earthy" customs are more exciting due to the integration of new elements. WeChat, text messages, and ** have many channels for holiday blessings, high efficiency, and fast speed, and the content is also more abundant and creative. Sending red envelopes and New Year's gifts can be solved by an online payment, and sacrificial tomb sweeping also makes the festival clear because of green environmental protection.
The traditional lion dance, dragon lantern and fish-shaped boat have also undergone distinct changes at present, innovating more performance forms, making the image more vivid and more in line with the aesthetic taste of modern people. From a broader perspective, upgrading the purchase of New Year's goods to the Spring Festival Cultural Expo, turning the reunion and New Year's celebration into a "Spring Festival Gala" for the whole village, and hanging red lanterns in the blocks where fireworks are prohibited to create a festive atmosphere, all of which are to transform the old New Year's customs into a new form, and then become a new way of presentation and cultural phenomenon.
The emergence of some new festival scenes and forms has made the New Year's customs keep pace with the times. The "Internet + catering" model makes the choice of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner more diverse. "New Year's customs" such as online shopping for New Year's goods, cloud New Year's greetings, cloud gatherings, electronic red envelopes, collection of five blessings, travel for the New Year, and watching movies for the New Year have gradually penetrated into everyone's life, and various "New Year's customs" such as traveling with parents for the New Year, watching movies with children, young people's cloud gatherings, and cloud New Year's Eve are becoming the new normal. Travel for the New Year has also become a "new trend", Mafengwo big data shows that "where to play during the Spring Festival" is 350% hot, and is on the rise, and colorful ice and snow tours, cold travel, New Year's customs and so on are loved by people.
Even the thousand-mile rushing reunion of "rich or not, go home for the New Year" has a reverse rush solution - it is no longer a child who is away from home rushing back thousands of miles and returning after a hurried meeting, but parents rush to the place where their children work and live early to have a Spring Festival to feel the culture of a different place. There is a new solution to the family problem of "going back to your house for the New Year or going back to my house for the New Year", bringing the elderly of the two families together for the New Year, and enjoying the joy and excitement of the whole family reunion. The conflict between the living habits and concepts of the younger generation and the elderly, as well as the taboo of "not being able to sleep together with other couples", has also been properly resolved by "staying in a hotel during the New Year". Even the phenomenon of "severing relatives", which has caused heated discussions nowadays, is also a deep reflection on traditional customs by young people, and has become an opportunity to straighten out and rectify human relationships.
The customs of the year are constantly changing, there is inheritance and innovation, and only in the inheritance of innovation can a strong endogenous power burst out and maintain a strong vitality in keeping pace with the times.
The original title was "The Changing Customs, Endless in the Innovation" Author: Zhang Ziqing **South***