Dragon Boat Festival is one of the flowers with far-reaching significance. As Zhu Jun said at the opening of the recording scene of the special program "China Festival Dragon Boat Festival", "We are gathered at the Hemudu site 7,000 years ago, on the beautiful land of Yuyao and the clear Yaojiang River, not only for an annual memory that lasts for thousands of years, but also for the drums of dragon boats and the smell of wormwood and incense.
Origin and creativity
At the pre-planning meeting, Zhu Jun said,' Every time a festival comes, there will always be various ideas hovering in my mind. Why celebrate such a festival? Why is this our festival? How did people live in the past? What do we see from it? What have you ever lost? What else to inherit? Can you take this Dragon Boat Festival opportunity to invite some of my friends to a quiet place to share with you the influence of China's traditional culture in their minds, so that more friends, friends from all over the world, can understand the traditional culture of developing China and our Chinese nation, and let us share the happiness brought by traditional culture and the happiness of the festival ...'
So, I decided to find a place to experience it and invite some foreign students to experience the Dragon Boat Festival on the spot ... Yuyao, a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, entered the planning field of vision at this time, not only because Yuyao is located in the land of wuyue, close to the birthplace of water sacrifice culture, but also because it has a history of Hemudu-7,000 years of rice cultivation culture, which is enough to present a sense of program thickness in the depth of time. It may be more interesting to invite some cultural scholars to the scene, talk with foreign students present in the form of forum speeches and dialogues, and interpret the China Cultural Festival interactively, which may better reflect the significance of "cultural identity" and "cultural enjoyment" ...
Background of Dragon Boat Festival
The solstice festival in summer is the time basis for the initial start of the Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in the pre-Qin period. During the Han and Wei Dynasties, the Dragon Boat Festival broke away from the shackles of festivals and became an independent festival. After the Six Dynasties, Dragon Boat Festival really became a traditional festival with strong folk customs in China.
Since ancient times, there have been many sayings about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as "exorcising evil spirits", "Dragon Boat Festival", "commemorating Qu Yuan", "commemorating Gou Jian's naval battle", "commemorating Wu Zixu" and "commemorating Cao E". It conveys the personality and spiritual orientation of China people: the legend of Wu Zixu is a memorial to the sacrifice of loyal ministers, the legend of Cao E is a respect for the sacrifice of filial piety, and the legend of Qu Yuan is a memorial to those who died for their country ...
It should be said that these statements are tributaries, but they enrich the Dragon Boat Festival from different angles.
In the process of thousands of years' inheritance and cultural accumulation, the Dragon Boat Festival has formed its own characteristics and diverse customs in different water and soil areas of China, such as offering "rose cakes", wrapping zongzi with reed leaves, inserting mugwort leaves to ward off evil spirits, wearing colored silk tapestries to pray for longevity, sticking gourd flowers to avoid "five poisons" and playing "fighting herbs" for children …
In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has various aliases, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Tianchang Festival, Zhuming Festival, Chongwu Festival, Evil Day Festival, Magnolia Festival, Poet Festival and Dragon Boat Festival ... From all kinds of names, you can really feel the colorful customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition, the asymmetry of many customs, events and things can't be explained by Qu Yuan, Dragon Boat Festival, Wu Zixu and Cao E.
The belief of "cherishing home and inspiring spirit" in the Dragon Boat Festival shows the humanistic core values of China traditional culture, and the feelings, feelings and feelings coming from the dust of history have penetrated into the blood hearts of China people. It can be said that the Dragon Boat Festival is not only a lingering complex for China people to remember their national culture, but also a unique cultural heritage of oriental folk culture.
As Professor Yu Dan said in his later speech: "In fact, every festival will remind people of many memories and things they are interested in. There are various cultures in the Dragon Boat Festival. Celebrating such a festival is to give us a reason to pay tribute to the different cultures in our hearts. "
Unforgettable party
After communication, the Yuyao Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government received positive response and full assistance from almost all aspects at the creative level and in the subsequent implementation process, which made the recording of the whole program go smoothly.
When more than 200 international students from Tongji University, China Academy of Fine Arts, Ningbo University and other universities sat in the seats of Hemudu special program on the banks of Yaojiang River, they entered a two-day experience tour of China Festival and felt the beauty of China's diverse and integrated culture, and a forum-style gathering at the beginning of the experience tour will also become a memory node of their lives.
At this time, seven cultural scholars and experts, including Fang Zhouzi, Li, Ji Lianhai and Nie Weiping, who have made extraordinary achievements in their respective academic fields, arrived here by boat from the other side of Yaojiang River. Under the leadership of Zhu Jun, they came to the glass terrace surrounded by trees and sat down with the applause of overseas students. The dragon boat festival words woven with roses at the back of the stage are extremely eye-catching ... Zongzi lanterns wrapped in red silk float among the green leaves on the trees, and the sun is blocked.
The connotation of tradition
Professor Li, one of the main promoters of the national holiday system reform recognized by the society, talked about his childhood in his speech.
Custom memory of Mid-Autumn Festival: When I was a child, during the Dragon Boat Festival, adults ordered some realgar wine or drew a king's word on the child's forehead. At that time, every household had Ai Hu and Pujian, especially in rural areas. Ai Hu put the cut tiger on the door, and Pu Arrow cut Pu's leaves into arrows and hung them at the door.
He went on to say: Dragon Boat Festival is approaching the solstice of summer, actually welcoming the arrival of summer ... The weather is hot, all kinds of insects and bacteria multiply very fast, and it is also the time for infectious diseases and epidemics to develop ... When summer comes, epidemic prevention and disaster avoidance activities are carried out. The earliest origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to adapt to the changes of weather and seasonal climate ... Later, some humanistic thoughts were added, which were linked with the stories of local celebrities and sages, adding humanistic connotation and culture. Finally, he came to the conclusion that "traditional festivals are the essence and crystallization of China culture."
Since the Han Dynasty, people have commemorated different historical figures around the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Qu Yuan of Chu, Gou Jian and Cao E of Yue, and Wu Zixu of Wu. These commemorative activities are based on sages and local legends. These bases and legends not only come from the simple feelings of the civil society, but also come from the long-standing feelings of China people about home and country. In the long history of elutriation, China people finally chose Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan also became a national sage and a world celebrity, and became a patriotic figure who sacrificed during the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu stood out because of his feelings of worrying about the country and the people, loyalty to the quality of the motherland and the charm of pure personality. It is precisely because of the legend of the national sage culture and the influence of the sage Si Qi that it is difficult for the Chinese nation to flourish and stand firm. I am really proud of China's culture when I think of such a festival created by my ancestors, which combines personal life and feelings of home and country.
Delicious zongzi
China's food is world-famous. Cai Lan, a famous Hong Kong film producer and gourmet, talked about eating zongzi, and he couldn't help thinking of a famous slogan of foreign fast food: We are not selling steak, but sizzling fried steak. Mr. Cai Lao told the foreign students at the scene the best zongzi: there is the best zongzi in a small place in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. Why? There are egg yolk, mung beans and fat in it. The fat was soaked in honey all night, and then taken out the next day, chopped and wrapped in zongzi. After steaming, all the oil went into the rice, and it was delicious to eat in one bite.
Learn another trick, and do it again with a gourd ladle on the Dragon Boat Festival. The taste should not be too bad.
Mr. Cai Lao also talked about zongzi from all over the world. Three words are dedicated gourmets: chaozhou people's zongzi, with bean paste on one side and meat on the other, salty and sweet. Fujian people put a lot of spiced powder in zongzi, which is very fragrant. Zongzi in Taiwan Province Province is made by chopping rice and wrapping it with jam, which is also delicious. As for the size of zongzi, it is also different: "the shape of zongzi is different. I have seen zongzi as big as a pillow. Very small, the Thai package of jiaozi is even smaller. They are strung together, so I will bring two when giving gifts to others. "
In fact, all kinds of changes and performances of Zongzi are accumulated life wisdom and food culture bit by bit.
Such a romantic culture.
Professor Yu Dan's speech can be said to be eloquent and clear. Perhaps because of facing foreign students, her speech is much slower than usual, which sounds a bit slow.
"When I was a master, my graduation thesis was about Qu Yuan and Chu culture. Personally, I like Chu culture very much and I am very grateful. Fortunately, in China's childhood, there was such a splendid culture, a culture of infinite sadness and joy, a culture of wanton and vigorous, and a culture close to life and nature, which endowed our character with fantasy ... Qu Yuan wrote so many myths, and he wrote so many mighty gods in Nine Songs, which is remembered today. It will still make us feel sad ... Jiuge is still such a gorgeous and irreplaceable scenery in front of us ... Look at Dong Jun's trip to the sun, Hebo's praise of life, Xiang Jun and his wife, a pair of beautiful gods waiting for each other on the water in Hunan ... When this picture is spread out in front of your eyes, you will feel different from the Central Plains culture, full of romance, magnificent colors and whimsy, just right. When we hold a happy celebration, there will always be some people coming into our lives. They smiled silently before the ages and nourished the civilization of later generations with their body temperature ... Today, when we look at the Dragon Boat Festival, we know that it is a happy festival and a unrestrained festival. We need a cultural heritage to nourish our temperament. "
"Why should we celebrate the festival? Festivals are an ancient ceremony. In modern civilization, give yourself some reasons to cherish the memory of handicraft era ... Wrap zongzi with edges and corners, the red line may be red dates, the green line may be red beans, the blue line may be egg yolk, and the yellow line may be bacon ... "
Yes, after the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, except Huzhou Zongzi, which is frozen or heated in the supermarket, praying and praying are done bit by bit through uneven Zongzi, handmade sachets and colorful silk threads on the wrist. In the slow pace, we can have more warmth brought by simple hands and recall a fragrant and distant memory. If we like, all these things from legends, classics and folk can be the reason for us to spend the holidays together now.
A character who travels through time and space.
People who know Jay Chou may not know vincent fang, but if he is the lyricist of Lady, Nunchaku, Answer Straight, Hair as Snow, Chrysanthemum Terrace and Blue and White Porcelain, I'm afraid all strangers will vanish.
Fang Gang's lecture is about the cultural system of Chinese characters. He said: "All the characters in the world are pinyin characters, and only Chinese characters are ideographic characters. Pinyin is an auditory word because the structure of the font spells the meaning, which requires accurate pronunciation. But Chinese characters are visual characters and the only ideographic characters still in use on the surface. Chinese characters are also a writing system that transcends time and space. The so-called hyperspace means that the structure of glyph meaning has remained unchanged throughout the ages. Suppose that the writing and meaning of the word "He" before 1000 and before 2000 are the same. This writing system is very special. For example, a stone tablet was unearthed 1500 years ago, which is about the time of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Eastern Jin and Wang Xizhi. This stone tablet has been unearthed. High school students in China can read inscriptions directly as long as they have been trained in classical Chinese. However, if stone tablets of the same nature are unearthed in France and Britain, their high school students will not understand them.
Vincent Fang feels that he relies heavily on writing. In the long-term creative process, he felt the unique and special beauty of Chinese characters. He said: "Every culture has something special, especially Chinese characters. All of you present today are friends from afar. Most of you came to China to learn Chinese. I am willing to share with you the origin and uniqueness of this writing, which is a very distinctive cultural wealth. "
Dragon Boat Festival and Dragon Boat Festival
Since it is a forum, in addition to speeches, there are naturally questions and answers. When Zhu Jun announced the beginning of the question, he said that the interviewees can be designated one by one, or the interviewees can be recommended by the guests after the question. Then, the scene was full of excitement. In some ways, the problems spoken in half-baked Chinese are really different from the thinking of China people, which has caused some difficulties. Fortunately, there are some experts and scholars sitting on the stage, and the answers are not only equivalent, but also meaningful from time to time.
After the lively question and answer, it is the beginning of personal experience.
It seems to have been said that recording programs at Hemudu party is only a part of the activities of international students in Yuyao, and getting on the boat with local dragon boat drivers to feel the passion of rowing dragon boats, beating drums and making zongzi, and visiting historic small towns and monuments ... Happiness is self-evident. After several Spring Festival, the international students in the school danced happily in the street, causing people around them to stop and applaud …
In fact, festivals are the anniversary of a nation's expression of its life character and the birthday of a national culture.
As Zhu Jun summed up at the end of the program: "After more than two thousand years, we have not forgotten our deep respect in our hearts, nor have we forgotten the touch of the same strain. More than 2,000 years later, the zongzi is still fragrant, and the dragon boat is still ringing. When we walk all the way from such a continuous tradition to today and feel the mentality and character of the nation, perhaps we can truly understand the deeper meaning of the sentence "Only the nation is the world" and let this changeable world truly feel the confidence of the peaceful development of the Chinese nation and truly accept the resulting strength and influence ... "
Yuyao Dragon Boat Festival ended, and other ideas began.
After all, the Dragon Boat Festival is a form of totem sacrifice in ancient wuyue. Later, it was integrated into the legend and was given traditional sacrifices.
Diwan Festival is a lingering commemorative connotation and humanistic spirit. China people pay attention to "harmony but difference", the essence of "harmony" and the interpretation and deconstruction of "difference" in the times, which gives us an open mind. This mentality helps us to rebuild some new patriotic qualities, rebuild a self-confidence to revive traditional culture, and glow a nation's competitiveness in striding forward.
This may be the original intention of "Art Life" as "China Festival Dragon Boat Festival" in Yuyao.
After watching this program that embodies thinking, hard work and self-expectation, please don't forget to tell them your feelings, because your feelings are the most important.
As for what Peking University professor, middle school teacher Ji Lianhai and Go master Nie Weiping said at the scene, how did they perform ... and how did they answer questions from students from all over the world with vincent fang, Li and Li ... After the recording, how did several guests evaluate the special program Art Life ...
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