The Folk Custom Of Jinyi-A Study From The Past To Modern Times

Mr.Zhong Jingwen thinks that culture is a complex material and spiritual achievements accumulated in human life,and the production in the process of the culture is hierarchical,which can be generally divided into upper,middle and lower culture.It has a profound meaning and unique significance for a country or a nation.Traditional festival culture is an important branch in numerous cultures.To commemorate a festival about an important historical events,or to commemorate one of important historical figures,or to celebrate a great season is the content of the culture.Festival culture for a person,a nation or a country,has a special significance.First of all,festival culture is the continuation of history.We often say that Chinese culture is more than a disruption of the culture in the course of history.We must objectively look at this point.Our traditional festival culture has a lot of faults to a certain extent.How do we think of holidays?What is the meaning of our holidays?How should we correctly treat these festivals?People in modern society have a serious bias.Secondly,peoples' enjoying our nation's culture,is the key to increase the cohesion of the Chinese nation.China has a unique language system and Chinese people have their own national holidays,and all of these are our folk customs,and they formed our culture.Outside the country,people who grew up in the same culture,they will always find freemasonry,a strong sense of belonging and identity.And our traditional today's culture can play this role.Every individual,every nation,all of them will be proud of their own traditions,the sense of pride is always of unity,cohesion,and they will arouse the core of what a nation of spiritual strength.Finally,the significance of festival culture is to enhance the country's soft power,to strengthen our competitive ability in the world through developing traditional activities.An American professor named Huntington made a point:after the ending of the ideological struggle,the conflicts between different cultures,different ethnic groups will become very common in the world,the main reason they are different from the traditional struggle.In this sense,we should acknowledge a point-how a nation will gives great influence to the world,that will be the strength of a nation's the force,and they exist in the progress of anation's development.Based on the above three points,this article from Mr.Lin Yaohua's JinYi--a sociological research work,it describes the old China's folk customs in 1930s.That is a case study about the history of the process of old China's development.Today,when we come into the times of economic globalization,the foreign festivals culture and customs appear to all of us.They greatly affect our Chinese traditional culture nowadays.The discussion exists in that when we face the complex forms,how will our China traditional culture go?...