Cultural Elements Of Traditional Chinese Festivals

China is a multi-ethnic country with 5,000 years of history, in the historical process of continuous development, forming a lot of unique festivals, diverse, rich in content, widely spread in people's lives, it is a spirit of national character, important carrier of emotions and behavior modes. Reflected in the Festival people of changes of value orientation, cultural psychology, ideology, Festival explain the history of a new resource to study people's awareness of important clues. Through in-depth analysis and interpretation, is the ability to bring out its moral political and social content. Festival involving all aspects of social life, is more fully reflected in the prevailing political, social customs and cultural characteristics. Through the study of the Festival, you can not only reveal the historical value of Festival and its influence on later culture, can also deepen understanding of the social culture of the time. This article includes four parts:Despite their common ground of Chinese and Western traditional festivals but because of their development and growth in its different cultural systems, so each has its unique manifestations of the distinctive and different. Comparative study of both to our more in-depth reflection on historical destiny and future trend of traditional Chinese festivals and meticulous and thoroughly grasping the characteristics of Chinese and Western cultures are positive.partⅠ:generality analysis of Chinese traditional festivals. Pointed out that customs process of the formation of the Festival is roughly based on the needs of life, and agriculture, mostly by Astronomical Almanac and religious beliefs are closely linked.PartⅡ:differentiation factors formation of four traditional Chinese festivals. Cultural factors explain the method of formation of the Chinese new year, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival. And witchcraft of James Frazer theory analysis of four traditional Chinese festivals and customs.PartⅢ:the cultural function of four traditional Chinese festivals. Pointed out that traditional festivals culture function of many, Mainly the coordination function of coordinating function and coordinate the relationship between man and nature and function of social relations, education is knowledge propagation and cultivation of the moral sentiments of experience, and so on.PartⅣ:comparison of Chinese and Western traditional festival culture. Pointed out that the Chinese and Western festivals have in common such as associated with naturism, associated with the calendar. Also noted that differences of Chinese and Western cultural reasons, China is ancestor worship, is a Christian cultural influence in the West. Culture of Chinese traditional festivals in the world in a wide field of vision, cultural differences in Chinese and Western, more profound understanding of national characteristics of Chinese ancient festivals.