Original title: The cultivation of spiritual quality by traditional festival culture.
Traditional festival culture is the spiritual inheritance of a country or region, carrying historical culture and values. Spiritual quality is related to the inner cultivation and spiritual growth of individuals, and traditional Chinese festival culture has a positive impact on the cultivation of spiritual quality, which can cultivate people's good spiritual quality and promote the harmonious development of society.
Cultivate filial piety and family values. Happy Chinese New Year, family reunion is an eternal blessing and the unchanging flavor of the year. Etiquette, music and heaven and earth. Whether you go home for the New Year, or celebrate the New Year with your family, celebrate the New Year with the family etiquette of respecting the old and loving the young. Spring Festival greetings, greetings in turn. New Year's greetings should be said auspiciously, wishing "all the best" and "Wishing you prosperity", and the worshipper should also use auspicious words to express thanks. The elders of the Spring Festival rites and customs give the younger generations New Year's money, and the younger generations pay New Year's greetings; The elders look forward to the children growing up strongly, and the younger generations wish the old people a long and healthy life, creating a harmonious and happy family festival atmosphere. Traditional festivals are times of family reunion, and through the celebration of festivals together, the feelings between family members are strengthened, so that traditional values can be inherited and promoted, and family cohesion and affection can be cultivated. Chinese New Year's Eve Celebration, family gathering, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, enjoy the gala party, relatives around the fireplace chatting, all night vigil, welcome the New Year. The traditional festival folk customs of the Spring Festival help to cultivate family values, cultivate emotional experience and deepen feelings through family reunions, visiting relatives and friends. On the second day of the first lunar month, I returned to my parents' home, and relatives and friends also greeted each other. In these exchanges, we introduce each other's situation, exchange production and life experience, help each other and learn from each other, and make progress together. Traditional festivals emphasize family reunion and affection, which helps to cultivate people's sense of family and responsibility, and enhance emotional exchanges and mutual assistance between family members, relatives and friends. Chinese New Year culture emphasizes family reunion, and home is a warm harbor for spiritual comfort. People welcome the New Year, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, abandon their worries and sorrows, leave happiness and joy, new year and new atmosphere, and start a new journey. Festivals and customs such as the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Chung Yeung Festival all emphasize reverence for ancestors, attach importance to family reunions, cultivate filial piety and family concepts, and enhance family cohesion.
Enhance cultural confidence and identity. Traditional Chinese festivals are the inheritance and continuation of history and culture, and through the celebration of traditional festivals, people can feel the cultural heritage left by their ancestors, enhance their understanding and respect for history, and cultivate their love and awareness of traditional culture. Some festival legends, such as the legend of Qu Yuan on the Dragon Boat Festival and the legend of Jie Zitui on the Qingming Festival, are vivid materials for patriotic education for young people. Traditional festivals are the carrier of culture, and participating in traditional festival activities such as dragon boat races and lion dances can feel the special charm of the culture to which they belong, which can enhance the individual's sense of identity with culture and enhance cultural self-confidence. Qingming Festival organizes civilized tomb sweeping activities, thinking about the past and nostalgia, thanking the ancestors, expressing heartfelt awe for the heroes and sages of the Chinese nation, and comforting the ancestors, today's China, as you wish: the motherland has beautiful mountains and rivers, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the nation is proud of it. People's participation in traditional festivals can help individuals understand and experience their own national cultural traditions more deeply, enhance their self-confidence and sense of identity with Chinese culture, and enhance their sense of self-worth and belonging. By celebrating the festival together, we can promote communication and exchanges between members of the society, enhance social cohesion, cultivate the feelings of the family and the country, create a harmonious and stable social environment, and enhance cultural self-confidence.
Foster solidarity and social responsibility. Some traditional festivals emphasize the importance of generosity, helping others and caring for the disadvantaged, prompting individuals to pay more attention to social responsibility and cultivate the quality of helpfulness. For example, large-scale festival activities such as the Spring Festival party, the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival lion dance, the dragon dance, the Mid-Autumn Festival tea party, the Dragon Boat Boat Race, and the Chongyang Ascending Festival must be completed in unity and cooperation. By participating in the festival activities together and establishing common goals, it is necessary to strengthen the understanding and trust between team members, promote communication and understanding, support and tolerance each other, and cooperate in front of and behind the scenes, in order to ensure the successful completion of the festival activities. Organizing singing and dancing artists in the community to rehearse and perform these cultural and artistic programs, through participating in or organizing activities, can cultivate people's spirit of unity and cooperation and sense of social responsibility.
Enhance emotional communication and interpersonal relationships. Many traditional festivals have a cultural connotation of thrift and gratitude, teaching people to cherish what they have, learn moderation and gratitude, thus cultivating a mindset of humility, tolerance and contentment, and cultivating emotional experience. For example, the Qixi begging folk activities are actually to teach the women's red textile skills and wisdom, warm the Qixi Festival, convey the yearning and pursuit of a better love life, and at the same time guide people to observe the astrological nature and increase astronomical knowledge in the telling of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but also praise and pursue diligence and love. Traditional festivals are important moments for people's emotional exchanges, and through holiday blessings, gifts and other behaviors, friendly relations and friendship between people are enhanced. Participating in the activities of writing and sending Spring Festival couplets organized by the community can not only enrich their festival and cultural life, but also enhance mutual understanding between neighbors and deepen mutual emotional exchanges. As for the village evenings currently held in various places, they are also a big stage for the performance of rich and colorful folk culture, and the village evenings written and directed by villagers in many places have enriched the festival and cultural life of residents. Traditional festivals contain a wealth of emotional experiences, such as nostalgia for hometown, longing for relatives, expectations for a better future, etc., through participating in traditional festival activities, people can experience these emotions and enhance emotional experience and emotional communication skills. Contemporary society has put forward higher requirements for the mental health of individuals, emphasizing a positive attitude, the ability to cope with stress, and the ability to manage emotions. People need to have the psychological resilience to cope with challenges and adversity, as well as the ability to seek psychological balance and health, and we need to have the ability to empathize and continuously improve our spiritual quality in order to meet the requirements of social development.
Promote traditional virtues and morals. Traditional Chinese festival folk activities and festival etiquette emphasize good virtues such as integrity, friendliness, modesty, and diligence. For example, China's traditional Spring Festival couplets often focus on the themes of integrity, harmony, frugality, honesty, hard work and prosperity, reflecting people's value recognition for thousands of years. By participating in traditional festival activities, people maintain public order and good customs, cultivate good moral sentiments, and promote Chinese virtues, and traditional festival culture is of great significance to the cultivation of spiritual quality. By inheriting and promoting the traditional festival culture, people can enhance the cohesion of unity and friendship among family members. On the occasion of the Lantern Festival, the whole family shares the Lantern Festival and celebrates the festival together. On the night of the Lantern Festival, the city and countryside are full of lights, fire trees and silver flowers, people help the old and the young, go out to watch the fireworks, guess the lantern riddles, and have a good time.
In short, traditional festival culture helps to cultivate people's spiritual qualities and promote the all-round development of individuals and society by inheriting historical culture, cultivating family values, enhancing social cohesion and cultivating emotional experience. Traditional Chinese festivals turn with the rhythm of the year, moisturizing things silently, helping individuals to better integrate and develop in social life. We should adhere to creative transformation and innovative development, deepen the theme activities of "our festival", and inherit and carry forward the excellent spiritual character of the Chinese nation around traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival.
Ma Fuzhen, Author's Affiliation: School of Philosophy and Public Administration, Henan University).
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