Every year on the first lunar month, the vast majority of families in China gather together to happily watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala on the television. As one of the most important programs during the holiday, the Spring Festival Gala undertakes the important task of enriching the cultural life of the people and showing the style of the Chinese nation. However, there is room for improvement in everything.
Recently, some netizens questioned the "dumpling-making" link of the Spring Festival Gala, hoping to consider the feelings of the southern audience and not always emphasize the dumpling culture in the north, which led to a big fight among netizens in the comment area. The questions raised here are worth pondering. Where are the doubts of vloggers?
What triggered this "discussion storm" was a criticism of the Spring Festival Gala by a video blogger. He believes that there are many sketches and opera programs in the Spring Festival Gala every year, which will emphasize that "making dumplings" and "eating dumplings" are important parts of celebrating the New Year.
For example, the classic line "No matter where you are, no matter what you do, as long as we eat a hot dumpling, it will be considered the New Year". This certainly reflects the traditional customs of the northern region, but it inevitably ignores the feelings of the southern audience.
As a southerner, the blogger bluntly said that he has no special feelings about dumplings, let alone that eating dumplings is a necessity for the New Year. He hopes that the Spring Festival Gala can take into account the cultural differences between the north and the south, and not always promote the dumpling culture of the north one-sidedly, making people feel that "is the Ming Dynasty only half of the world?"
It seems that this southern netizen can't agree with the frequent occurrence of "making dumplings" and "eating dumplings" in the Spring Festival Gala. In his opinion, this places too much emphasis on the food traditions of the northern regions and does not take into account the feelings of the southerners.
Netizens from the north and the south come and go, and the comment area explodes. As soon as this question came out, it immediately sparked heated discussions among netizens in the north and south.
Netizens in the north mostly have an understanding and defensive attitude. They said that in the northern region, dumpling making is indeed a very important tradition for the Spring Festival, and the Spring Festival Gala uses artistic means to display and inherit, which is normal and should not be the focus of controversy. Some netizens said for example, just like southerners eat dumplings during the New Year, eating dumplings is also a tradition in the north, and if you don't eat dumplings for the New Year, you will lose some meaning.
Some netizens explained in detail that northerners eat not only dumplings during the New Year, but also a variety of dishes on the table, but dumplings are more ceremonial and New Year's flavor, so they will appear frequently in the Spring Festival Gala. They said that they understood the feelings of the southern audience, but also hoped that southern netizens would respect the traditions of the north.
Among southern netizens, there is no shortage of voices that agree with the views of bloggers. They have said that they really don't eat dumplings, and they don't think dumplings are the highlight of the New Year. Some netizens said for example that they eat rice cakes, glutinous rice balls and other foods during the New Year, and dumplings have no New Year's flavor at all for them. Some netizens bluntly said that every time the Spring Festival Gala mentioned eating dumplings, he felt that it had nothing to do with his New Year.
As a result, there was a discussion in the comment area between netizens from the north and the south. Both sides insist on their own words, and from the perspective of their own cultural customs, they express their inability to agree or understand the frequent appearance of "dumplings" in the Spring Festival Gala.
What do we think of this dispute? How do we view and deal with the discussion between netizens in the north and south triggered by the existence of this "dumpling-making" in the Spring Festival Gala?
First of all, we need to be objective and clear that it is normal for cultural diversity to exist. China is a vast country, and it is natural that there are differences in food culture between the north and the south. We must not generalize and use the traditions of one region to negate the cultures of other regions.
Second, we need to learn to put ourselves in the shoes of others. Northerners can't imagine not eating dumplings during the Spring Festival, and southerners can't understand the idea that dumplings must be eaten during the Spring Festival. We should respect each cultural tradition and understand the meaning behind different customs.
Furthermore, integration fosters understanding. A single emphasis on a particular tradition of the North or the South can easily lead to antagonism. If the Spring Festival Gala can reflect the customs of the south while making dumplings, such as glutinous rice balls and rice cakes, it will make the national audience empathize with it and enhance cultural exchanges.
Finally, living in a modern society, we should be tolerant and open-minded. The production team of the Spring Festival Gala should also realize that it is necessary to take the culture of the entire Chinese nation as its basis, not to overemphasize the traditions of a certain region, and to take into account the feelings of all parties.
To sum up, the frequent controversies of netizens in the north and south about "making dumplings" in the Spring Festival Gala reflect cultural differences. We need to understand cultural diversity, think from each other's perspectives, and look at different customs with an inclusive mindset. If the Spring Festival Gala can reflect the traditions of the north while taking into account the culture of the south, it can make more audiences feel the connection between this program and themselves, and enhance the integration and interaction of people across the country.
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