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Xie Weifeng, Current Affairs Commentator, China Net
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival is celebrated with colorful folk customs. Recently, in Longyun Village, Liubei City, Yunyang District, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, folk artists performed the traditional opera “the fisherman and the clam”; In Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, the local sports and cultural team performed the dragon dance; in Shandong In Zhushan Road Community, West Coast New District, Qingdao Province, children make lanterns at the community festival and mass service station; At the Third Experimental Primary School in Huaibei City, Anhui Province, children are guessing riddles with flashlights with great interest. .. How to spend the traditional festivals is a glimpse of the national temperament The best window. The colorful Lantern Festival activities in various locations not only inject a strong festive atmosphere into the local area, but also interpret the traditional culture behind the Lantern Festival, allowing people to experience the traditional festival with a ” cultural flavor “up close.
Our country is vast and people from all over the world have different ways of celebrating the Lantern Festival, but the cultural identity and values contained in the traditional festival are closely related. For example, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, eating Yuanxiao is definitely an important custom for the Chinese. If you look at it carefully, this delicacy is also divided into “the north is called” Yuanxiao “in the north, and the south is called” bao tangyuan “, but whether it is Yuanxiao or glutinous rice balls, people have high expectations. for the prosperity of the country and the people. There is also the lantern of the dragon dance, which is also one of the important folk customs of the celebration of the Lantern Festival. The Chinese nation, which originated in the agricultural culture, admire the dragon and regard the dragon as a symbol of auspiciousness, looking forward to a mild and rainy year. Don’t forget the classic Lantern Festival, “Tree of fire, silver flower, bridge of stars. The Lantern Festival is like a bond that connects Chinese children living in the vast land of China and inherits the common cultural genes of the Chinese nation. This feeling of family and country, also due to the arrival of traditional festivals, is even more fascinating.
“The family is the smallest country, and the country is made up of tens of thousands of families.” In the heart of all Chinese, “home” and “country” complement each other due to the integration of traditional family and national sentiments and modern fighting spirit. . “After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Chinese New Year has ended.” After eating a plate of hot and sweet Yuanxiao and glutinous rice balls, the struggling people have to set out on the path of chasing their dreams: the machine rumbles from the Poverty Alleviation Workshop, hard farming in the fields, A la forefront of the scientific and technological front, and the infrastructure construction site, you can see the excitement of “spring is coming and people work early” everywhere. Establishing yourself at the micro level is working hard for the happy life of the family, looking at the macro view is making a personal contribution to the development and construction of the country. As an important part of the traditional festival, the Lantern Festival embodies the traditional culture of the Chinese nation and overlooks the struggling trajectory of hundreds of millions of people. This annual traditional festival also witnessed the sublimation of our feelings from “home” to “national”.
The love of reunion is also the family and national condition. In the history of the Lantern Festival there is always the dimension of advancing with the times. With the passage of time, people’s lifestyles are becoming more and more diversified and the material base is more and more abundant, at this time the look of traditional festivals is inevitably reexamined. In the Lantern Festival, red lanterns are hung high, the joy of cultural activities, bowls of Yuanxiao glutinous rice balls and aroma, all of which fully interpret the richness of the good life for the sense of people. “It is undeniable that the connotations of many traditional festivals, including the Lantern Festival, were forgotten by people. Many people simply regard these traditional festivals as a good time for entertainment and consumption, as if the festivities had no other meaning than eating, drinking and drinking.In fact, whether it be the poems and songs of the Lantern Festival or recognizable personalized activities, these rich historical and cultural meanings have endowed the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation with a great charm, an absolute cultural heritage.
When it comes to the Lantern Festival, the feelings of the family and the country are always the same. Today, we are able to achieve the development achievements of “wow the world” largely because we have absorbed the power to advance from the bright traditional culture. That is why we now give more importance to traditional culture. After living an extraordinary 2020, the Chinese people have better understood the close connection between “small home” and “big country”, realized the harmony of individual values and national interests, and everyone will appreciate traditional festivals more. . Every minute, every second. This year is the first year of the “XIV Five-Year Plan”, and it also marks the centennial of the Communist Party of China. In the season of “vegetative vegetation, spring mountains to be expected”, all those who struggle are notable. After the Lantern Festival, the Xin Chou New Year will end here, but in the long run, all of Yan and Huang’s descendants will be vigorous and carry on.
