The Spring Festival is the most emotional and ideal festival for the Chinese nation's daily life

2024-02-13

Among all the traditional festivals celebrated by Chinese people, the Spring Festival is the most emotional and ideal festival for the Chinese nation. Therefore, celebrating the Spring Festival has a more special significance. China is an ancient country of agriculture. Agricultural production follows the rhythm of nature, which is to sow in spring, cultivate in summer, harvest in autumn, and store in winter, while the laws of life are consistent with the pace of production. For this reason, people attach great importance to the annual cycle, the time node when winter passes and spring arrives - the year. Every Chinese New Year, I release my enthusiasm for the new year. Over time, the culture and customs gradually accumulate into a new year. From the beginning of the eighth lunar month every year to the 15th day of the first lunar month, nearly 40 days, we have formed a whole set of customs: cleaning the house, buying New Year's goods, pasting decorations such as Fu characters and Spring Festival couplets, and then ushering in the most important New Year's Eve dinner, as well as New Year's greetings, temple fairs, community fires, Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), etc. The whole festival is like a big drama of life! After thousands of years of creation and inheritance, it encompasses rich and excellent traditional Chinese culture, reflecting the adorable and admirable spirit and national character of the Chinese people. It's like a key - as soon as you enter the Spring Festival, you know what Chinese people are doing. As a writer, I can't help but want to write about this passion for life. As a worker in the protection of folk cultural heritage, I feel even more that we should promote the Spring Festival culture well. The culture of the Spring Festival is so profound and colorful. In my opinion, three themes are the most crucial: reunion, prayer, and welcoming the spring. Reunion is the first theme of the Spring Festival. Family reunion is a dream of Chinese people. Indeed, reunion is also the theme of some other traditional festivals, such as the Mid Autumn Festival. But as the Spring Festival is still a festival that symbolizes the growth and decline of life, the psychological need for reunion is particularly profound. Therefore, reunion must be achieved on the night of the Chinese New Year, when the old year is over and the new year is over. This kind of reunion sentiment brings together an emotional magnetic field on the land of China in December. Every time I see people on their way home during the Spring Festival travel rush, I am deeply moved by how deeply Chinese New Year culture is engraved on them. What other culture can mobilize such a large, vast, and passionate population once a year? Can it highlight the strong cohesion between hometown and family? From this perspective, New Year is the warmest day to soothe people's homesickness. The character "Fu" is the most representative symbol of the Spring Festival. The words "fu" are pasted on the door, engraved on the hanging money, cut on the window decoration, and printed on the gift box everywhere. There are so many auspicious Chinese characters, and during the Spring Festival, people only have a special fondness for the character "fu". Fortune is both a good thing and good luck. There is no word like "fu" that embodies people's strong desire for a happy life. In traditional agricultural societies, the beginning of a year and the renewal of everything are the beginning of all expectations for a better future, and "praying for blessings" has become an indispensable ceremony during the Spring Festival. In a broad sense, spring is the beginning of a new life, so the content of praying also includes the meaning of welcoming spring. But welcoming spring also has another layer of meaning, which is to welcome new gifts from nature, reflecting reverence for nature. During the Spring Festival, people call for spring, look forward to it, and welcome it. Therefore, they refer to door couplets as "Spring Couplets" and wine as "Spring Wine". They even write a big character "Spring" on red paper and stick it on the door. Welcoming Spring embodies the Chinese people's pursuit of "harmony between heaven and man" and "harmonious coexistence between humans and nature"

Edit:Chen Jie    Responsible editor:Li Ling

Source:People‘s Daily

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