In fact, many Chinese are as ignorant of the Spring Festival as Vietnamese: they only know the number of rituals and do not know the etiquette

Recently, an article published on the official website of a government in Vietnam annoyed many Chinese, saying that the Spring Festival originated in Vietnam. In fact, the crux of the matter is not to refute Vietnam, to argue that the Spring Festival originated in China, but why do Vietnam, South Korea, And Japan, former vassals of Chinese culture, now lack basic respect for Chinese culture? It has even become a rebellion against Chinese culture.

Let's not talk about How vietnam is, as far as China itself is concerned, does it really respect the Spring Festival? Aren't many traditional Spring Festival elements slowly disappearing, and isn't the New Year's flavor fading?

"The lady will insult herself, and then the people will insult her", if China itself is disrespectful to its own traditional culture, or even negative, what qualifications do it have to ask others to respect it. Since the New Culture Movement of the Republic of China, China has begun to completely negate traditional Chinese culture, viewing it as backward and ignorant.

Therefore, we do not have to be indignant about the disrespect of Vietnam and South Korea for Chinese culture, but should regain cultural self-esteem, self-respect, and self-confidence.

To respect the Spring Festival, we must first understand the essence of the Spring Festival. Confucius said, "Li Yun Li Yun, Jade Shu Yun Hu Zhao? Leyun Leyun, Bell And Drum Yun? The liturgical pleasure is not in its external form, but in the heart of the person who performs the ceremony, and should be sincere, respectful and respectful to the recipient, and the external form is to express the sincerity and respect of the heart. To put it more bluntly, Lilly is an expression of mutual respect between people, or a way of getting along with mutual respect as the cornerstone.

The core of the Spring Festival is reunion, and all etiquette revolves around reunion. Our ancestors told us that once a year, people who should be close to you, especially those who are related by blood and in-law, reunite and express mutual thoughts and respect.

What is mutual respect? Mutual respect respect for what? Answer: Respect at the level of the human heart is true respect, and mutual respect is the real heart to heart, which is what Confucius called "benevolence." Therefore, the basic premise for people to truly understand mutual respect is to have an independent concept of the human mind, an independent concept of the mind, and a concept of righteousness.

Looking down on the entire history of human civilization, only Chinese civilization has achieved this, and only Chinese civilization has emerged with the concept of independent mentality and righteousness, and has taken mentality and righteousness as the cornerstone of civilization and culture and as the cornerstone of society. Based on the heart and righteousness, liturgical music and Spring Festival were developed.

Although the fringes of Chinese culture, such as Vietnam, Korea, and Japan, have long been influenced by Chinese culture, they have also long studied Chinese liturgical music culture. But unfortunately, they only learned the form of liturgy, but did not learn the essence of liturgy: the nature of the mind, the righteousness.

The Book of Rites says, "Where the rites are respected, their righteousness is respected." Lose its righteousness, show its number, and wish history a thing. Therefore, its number can be Chen Ye, and its meaning is difficult to know. The core and key of the ritual lies in the righteousness of the ceremony, that is, righteousness, mentality, and benevolence, and the number of rituals is the external form, which is what Confucius said about "jade, bells and drums." Vietnam, Korea, and Japan only learn the number of rituals of the Chinese liturgical skin, but do not learn the essence of the Chinese liturgical music.

That is to say, vietnam, South Korea, Japan and other countries, the cognition of Chinese liturgy and Confucianism, although there have been thousands of years of study, but only stay at the level of ritual numbers and the history of blessings, but not at the level of etiquette and Confucianism.

Ancient Vietnamese do not understand, modern Vietnamese do not understand, they only know the number of spring festival ceremonies, and do not know the etiquette of the Spring Festival, can only superficially and ignorantly look at the Spring Festival from the level of etiquette, pipe in the leopard, sit in the well and look at the world, the unique Spring Festival ceremony in Vietnam as the Spring Festival itself, and then say that the Spring Festival originated in Vietnam.

In fact, modern Chinese has also degenerated, and many people only know the number of Gifts of the Spring Festival, but do not know the etiquette of the Spring Festival. Heavy on the number of gifts and light on righteousness. Emphasis on etiquette and gifts without understanding the sincere respect for people. The fading of the New Year and the withering of the Spring Festival are not because the government prohibits the release of firecrackers, but because people generally do not know what it is to sincerely respect each other, what the righteousness of the heart is, but only know how to earn money and compare with each other.

So, the real trouble is not in Vietnam or South Korea, but in China itself. "I am afraid of the worries of Ji Sun, not in the shadows, but also within the Xiao Wall."