Who will pass on the Spring Festival customs?
China's Spring Festival is the festival that should apply for the world's intangible cultural heritage, and is the epitome of thousands of years of splendid civilization.
The Spring Festival customs are consistent throughout the country, such as setting off firecrackers, sacrificing ancestors, resigning from the stove, marrying out of the first two doors of the first year, etc., but other customs in various places are very different and colorful. For example: in Shandong, Chinese New Year's Eve put a bar in front of the door, rush to buy green bamboo to grind the eyes or in front of the door, wash your face with peach tree strips in hot water on the first day, do not eat meat on the first day, do not sweep the ground, sacrifice the land on the first day, sacrifice to the god of the road, sacrifice to the god of the river, kowtow to the elders and so on. These distinctive folk customs reflect the people's understanding of the Spring Festival and their wishes for a better future, and are an important cultural inheritance everywhere!
At present, the bearers of customs in various places are basically post-40s, post-50s, post-60s, after 70 years of people's understanding of customs gradually weakened, post-80s, post-90s, post-00s, due to urbanization, low births, the impact of network culture, the interest in traditional customs is reduced, many people know little or basically do not understand the Spring Festival customs, which causes cultural disconnection.
Now the 30s who know the most about festival customs gradually pass away, the 40s are gradually aging, many after 60 and 70 have entered the city, and fewer and fewer people can really inherit the Spring Festival folk customs. I am afraid that the genes of thousands of years of civilization will really be broken one day!
How to inherit the Spring Festival customs is a problem we should think about. The roots of Chinese civilization should not be broken!
