Study On The Spring Festival Custom Culture In Xuchang Area

The Spring Festival is the Chinese scale every year in the largest, longest andmost grand cultural festival, festival including worship gods and ancestors, Fu YingJubilee then, pray for good harvest and the main content. Henan Xuchang area SpringFestival of folk culture, which has a side throughout the country and customs of SpringFestival cultural commonality, side has its unique charm. In this paper, using thetheory and method of folk culture, to give a systematic study on the Xuchang region ofthe Spring Festival custom culture, in today’s multicultural society, has significantcultural value.Xuchang has a unique natural environment and rich humanistic environment,which is the basic factor of lasting inheritance spread to the traditional Spring Festivalfestival. Xuchang Spring Festival customs including kitchen, sweeping dust, couplets,dumplings, staying-up, firecrackers, pay New Year’s call, give gift money, back home,day, lantern, February two, from the beginning until February next year, reflects thetraditional sequential culture, custom culture, etiquette celebration of communicativeculture, leisure cultural connotation. At the same time in the "moisten things silently"Xuchang new year, vividly reflects the folk social function: enlightenment function,regulation function, maintaining and regulating function. This year, the core stageperiod, a continuation of the Spring Festival period of three stages, a systematicexposition of Xuchang spring festival. The traditional festival embodies the "timing"culture, is the Chinese characteristics of Chinese culture with understanding, on thetiming conventions and cultural invention, but also the contribution to humancivilization; the "Culture Festival", in the ancient society is mainly the rituals andceremonies, in respect to the universe, in gratitude; modern society is to celebrate,harmonious interpersonal relationship, family reunion activities, permeated with afestive and peaceful, advocating new, rich color and harmony family atmosphere ofhuman relations. Yinianzhiji is spring, new breeds new hope. People wish each othergood luck in everything, everything looks fresh and gay. Look, pray. Warmly celebratethe new year with etiquette, not only strengthen the family ethical relations, enhancethe family affection, and make people’s social relations adjustment. Therefore, the accumulation in the thousands of years of culture and heritage, the Spring Festival isthe most rich connotation and special significance of the traditional cultural heritage.Of course, affected by various factors the impact of the wave of global culture andeconomy during the transition period, the traditional Spring Festival Customs inXuchang have great change trend, in fact this is the inevitable result of cultural change.Whatever it takes, as National Cultural Heritage Festival festival its essence still needto inherit and carry forward.