Chinese Spring Festival Culture And Life Consciousness

Spring Festival is the most popular holiday in our country, which has a long history and the most grand, and relates our life closely. It produces under the agricultural tradition society background in our country, which is deeply influenced by Chinese traditional culture and has the strong life consciousness. The Spring Festival origin, folk custom, art as well as the Spring Festival cultural characteristic manifest the life idea of the existence and the immortal of life, the descendants multiplication and the soul eternal from different aspect. This article discusses the Spring Festival culture and the life consciousness relations from the Spring Festival origin, folk custom, art as well as the Spring Festival cultural characteristic and so on. The paper altogether divides four parts except the introduction and the concluding remark:First, the origin of Spring Festival and life consciousness. About the Spring Festival origin, the representative view in the academic circles is the idea of sacrificial offering, the witchcraft ceremony and the ghosts' festival. These views respectively have their reasonable place, but no matter which view approaches to the origin of Spring Festival, they all manifest a common characteristic that contains the life view which takes the Chinese tradition source philosophy as the foundation.Second, the life consciousness in Spring Festival folk custom. This part from the Spring Festival sacrificial offering custom, the food , shehuo lunar new year's painting custom and festival of lanterns custom analyzes the life immortal, the descendants multiplication and the soul eternal life idea.Third, art of Spring Festival and life consciousness. This part of mainly discusses the life multiplication and eternal in the paper-cut, the dance dragon lantern and life consciousness, the Yangko and the farming relations.Fourth,Spring Festival cultural characteristic and life consciousness. By studying the Spring Festival natural characteristic determins farmer season and serves the agricultural production. Spring Festival develops from the religious sacrificial customs and Spring Festival retained massive sacrificial offerings custom. The ancient times ancients put the hope on the God and implored them to bless the good crop weather, and the abundant harvest. The Spring Festival political characteristic is that a ruler formulates calendar to instructe farming in order to maintain own rule.In brief, the discussion of Spring Festival cultural and the life consciousness relations, is helpful to come up the under standing Spring Festival connotation from a deeper level and the intrinsic reason that Spring Festival is so popular until now.