Who is tampering with millennial traditions! Subvert traditional Chinese folk customs! Chinese culture and traditional customs.
Today is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, in this day of Vientiane renewal, I was attracted by a widely circulated ** and related copywriting in the WeChat circle of friends, they reminded everyone in unison that today is the auspicious day to welcome the return of the god of the stove. However, this is different from the traditional customs that are deeply imprinted in my memory, because in my memories of growing up, every year on the 30th night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every family would set off firecrackers and burn incense in the kitchen, and take the god Vesta home in a solemn and warm way to celebrate the New Year.
When I was a child, this ceremony, like many traditional customs of the Spring Festival, was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and passed down from generation to generation. However, the "Welcoming Stove God on the Fourth Day of the First Lunar Month" I saw this morning seems to have broken my inherent cognitive framework. After consulting the information, it was learned that the custom of receiving the stove god on the fourth day of the first lunar month was not universally followed throughout the country, but the characteristic folk customs of some areas in the north.
This phenomenon vividly reveals the power of ** and its impact on people's cognitive habits. The speed and scope of information dissemination in modern society are far from comparable to those of the past, and the popularity of online social platforms has allowed certain ideas or practices to spread rapidly, and sometimes even reshape people's perception of traditional culture. Originally regional customs, under the promotion of mass media, may be misinterpreted as universal traditions, and then quietly change people's daily behavior and habits.
Therefore, in the face of complex cultural inheritance and evolution, we need to maintain a cautious attitude, not only to respect and protect the rich and colorful folk traditions of various places, but also to rationally deal with the changes in customs brought about by the dissemination of information. At the same time, we should actively advocate in-depth research and correct interpretation of folk customs, so as to avoid distorting and deforming the long-standing historical and cultural connotations in the rapidly changing flood of information due to the misleading one-sided information. After all, thousands of years of traditional customs have accumulated the profound cultural heritage and spiritual sustenance of the Chinese nation, and their value cannot be easily shaken.