What causes more and more young people, especially college students, to be keen on celebrating foreign festivals, which makes China's traditional festivals face various difficulties and be in an embarrassing position? As the backbone of China's traditional culture, what do college students think and do?
65438+February 25th, 2006 is a traditional Christmas in the West. In view of the fact that "more and more young people in China are keen on Christmas", ten doctors of philosophy or education from famous schools or scientific research units such as Peking University, Tsinghua University and China Academy of Sciences issued a joint signature proposal, calling on netizens to be cautious about Christmas. As a result, a debate about the overheating of foreign festivals and the abandonment of traditional culture by Chinese people was once again reported by major domestic media. Many reasons make young people keen on foreign festivals.
Eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival, Zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival and Yuanxiao in the Lantern Festival can be found in every festival. Traditional festivals in China seem to have only the element of "eating", and there are not many other features except eating. However, the excessive emphasis on diet has turned traditional festivals into "food festivals". Traditional festivals seem to leave only food for modern people, but a lot of beautiful national culture and unique folk artistic conception in festivals have become increasingly weak. In such a well-fed society, eating has lost its appeal to modern young people.
"I think every family in China is similar in these festivals. Nowadays, many people are basically not so interested in eating. On many festivals, people can't go home and have to live on campus, which is basically ok, "said Li, a graduate student of Xinjiang Normal University.
Perhaps the relaxed and cheerful atmosphere of western festivals gives young people more space. The reporter visited several universities in Urumqi, and more than 30% people said that foreign festivals can relax themselves after being tired and nervous, but traditional festivals can't satisfy them.
Most college students say that when it comes to Christmas, they feel cheerful and relaxed. It is a day to have fun with friends.
In fact, in fast-paced cities, besides Christmas, foreign festivals such as Valentine's Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving Day are becoming more and more popular. "Foreign Festival" provides people with rich commercial, entertainment and cultural consumption, and gradually becomes a carnival day in urban life. Compared with the popularity of "foreign festivals", the traditional festivals in China are eclipsed. Some festivals slip away quietly in daily life, while others become routine. Two festivals, two situations
"Every festival in China has a strong cultural connotation. Most students in school have less and less contact with traditional festivals, so they naturally know little about the cultural connotation of traditional festivals. How many college students know the cultural connotation of traditional festivals in China? " Qi Yan, a student in the history department of Xinjiang University, talked about the current college students' understanding of traditional festivals. Perhaps people born in the sixties and seventies still have some memories of turning pages every day. On thin and transparent paper, the old imperial calendar marked the dates of various seasons and festivals in detail. However, opening the currently published calendar, except for the Spring Festival, other traditional festivals are basically ignored, and some foreign festivals are added. In fact, in the history of China, traditional festivals include not only Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day and Double Ninth Festival to respect the elderly, but also Shangsi (March 3rd), Summer Solstice, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice and Wax Festival.
Eight, offering sacrifices to stoves and so on are all important festivals. In these festivals, people will hold special ceremonies, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, worshipping God, exorcising evil spirits and avoiding disasters. These ceremonies have been brilliant and romantic for thousands of years. Although seemingly superstitious, it has a traditional cultural connotation in China. Unfortunately, these cultural connotations are being ignored by more and more college students. About setting off firecrackers and posting Spring Festival couplets in the New Year.
Even fewer people know the source. But college students know what Christmas is all about, and they are also familiar with various rumors of some western festivals and various festivals. "The legends of traditional festivals in China are rarely mentioned around, but the legends of some western festivals are different. People around us are talking and doing, and naturally we will know.
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This is the knowledge of many students at school. Ethan, a doctor of folklore, believes that we live in such a society where material dominates everything. We only consider the material meaning of many things, but ignore their spiritual meaning. For example, it is forbidden to set off firecrackers on the grounds that firecrackers will produce garbage, cause air and noise pollution and cause harm to the body. However, we didn't see its inner spiritual significance. In fact, the spiritual value of setting off firecrackers is great. "Spiritual things are invisible, but being invisible does not mean that it is meaningless to society, and it does not mean that its social significance is small.
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College students' treatment of foreign festivals: the root of perceptual rationality western festivals is actually a cultural invasion. If it is not stopped, the consequences will be unimaginable. This cultural invasion is more serious than economic invasion. This view is also recognized by most college students. The Cultural Society of Xinjiang Agricultural University recently held a special discussion on college students' festivals. What the organizers didn't expect at first was that in the first half, everyone's views were all about the benefits of foreign festivals, and they spoke highly of foreign festivals, and then they criticized domestic traditional festivals. But when one of the hosts put forward such a view, everyone's reaction changed.
"I don't know, students here, have you seriously thought about such a question: We blindly accept foreign festivals and western culture, so what should we do with our traditional festivals and traditional culture?
"This language, they were silent. No one spoke for a long time.
Later, everyone expressed the same view that college students should not blindly cross the ocean festival and give up traditional festivals.
"I didn't think so much at first, but I just thought foreign festivals were fun and interesting. Some traditional festivals don't appeal to me much, they are too rigid. Later, I thought that the traditional festivals in China were more meaningful, and the foreign festivals were over. In fact, sometimes I am only in perceptual knowledge, and college students should be rational.
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Yan Wang, a student of the Psychological Research Association of Xinjiang Normal University, made such an impromptu speech at the debate. Win the applause of everyone at the scene.
Professor of Psychology Society of Xinjiang University said that college students are active in thinking, sensitive to new things outside, mostly in perceptual knowledge, without rational thinking, and like to accept new things. After a long time, they lost interest in some traditional festivals in China, and suddenly found this exotic festival very novel, so they spent the foreign festival in a daze. Traditional culture depends on the youth market.
In 2004, South Korea took the lead in proposing the Dragon Boat Festival to the United Nations as the country's cultural heritage. In the end, the "gangneung danoje festival" declared by South Korea was officially adopted by UNESCO, which ended in South Korea's "victory" in the dispute between China and South China over the application for the Dragon Boat Festival, which really dealt a heavy blow to people. On the other hand, young people are keen to pursue western festivals, and our traditional culture is gradually forgotten, which also makes some sociologists worry too much about China's traditional culture.
"Young people should be the inheritors and promoters of China's traditional culture, but now we are really worried.
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Teacher Wang of Xinjiang University said in an interview that "more and more young people are keen on overseas festivals and are indifferent to our traditional festivals, which is terrible."
In xinjiang university of finance, the views of many students are basically the same as those of teachers, that is, young people should be the inheritors and promoters of traditional culture. "Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. It was originally to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. However, such a cultural festival, which was born and raised in China, was first registered as a cultural heritage by Koreans. This caused great repercussions among our classmates.
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"If we young people don't care about our traditional festivals now and blindly pursue western festivals, I am afraid that in a few years, not many people really know that China's Tanabata and other twists and turns of good festivals may be registered in another country."
Zhang from Xinjiang University talked about the worries of many college students.
Source: Chen Xin.