Chinese Traditional Festivals And Jieling Poetry

With a history of hundreds of years, traditional festivals of china as the crucial content of traditional culture still retain charming. They exert a subtle influence on national ethos and express people's pursuit on ideality, wisdom and ethic. They're important carriers to hand on conventional virtues from generation to generation. All kinds of festivals like the Spring Festival, the Qing Ming Festival, the Dragon-Boat Festival , the Mid Autumn Festival and the Double Ninth Festival combine into a beautiful and poetic picture.This paper focus on the origin of Chinese traditional festivals and the "Jieling" poetry derived from these festivals , and attempt to excavate the deep culture in these traditional festivals, to carry forward the conventional festival culture . First, it points out that nowadays Chinese traditional festivals fall into an awkward place .Festivals become westernized and traditional festivals are disregarded. Second, it presents the origin of Chinese traditional festival and development , and it's culture connotation and social function. Third, it cites abundant example of "Jieling" poetry, addressing itself on the origin ,development, important role and artistic characteristic of "Jieling" poetry. At the end, it indicates the new development orientation of "Jieling" poetry,and gives several suggestions.