Research On The Changes Of Festival Life In Cities From The Late Qing Dynasty To The Early Republic Of China

Festival life is endowed with the meaning of "peaceful image".It becomes a symbol of an era and the the desirable days of past.As a unique cultural carrier and symbol,the rich and colorful culture contained in festival customs is often a comprehensive reflection of various social factors such as economy,politics,and culture.The modernization of tradi tional society is a concentrated reflection of economic,political,social,cultural,and other aspects of the transformation process,and China has achieved a transformation from a tra ditional society to a modern society and a transition from an agricultural society to an ind ustrial society since the modern times.Modern times was the most intense period of west ern culture collision and also the beginning stage of China's modernization process.The C hinese people's spirit and life have experienced unprecedented impact.When society is un dergoing tremendous changes,the changes in customs and people are the most significant.With the development of society,the customs of China and the West have gradually mov ed from conflict to integration.In this process,the new trend and the old customs are div ided into courtesy and anti-corruption,reflecting the distinctive characteristics of the times."The modern newspapers and journals have entered the field of study of social and c ultural history and are of great significance for understanding the folk cultural life of mod ern cities,and have important historical values for reconstructing people's daily life history and social and cultural history."" Shun Pao" is a famous newspaper of modern and mode rn China.It records and reflects comprehensively the changes of the society during the pe riod of its modernization.The object of this study is the transition from the late Qing Dy nasty to the early years of the Republic of China's festival life.It attempts to outline the basics of the old age in the period from the late Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China by studying the modern newspapers and periodicals represented by "Sh un Pao".The characteristics of the face and its changes,a brief analysis of the main fact ors affecting the change of festival life at the age of the year and its impact.In the first chapter,the modern newspapers and periodicals,represented by the declaration,are the research centers.First,the media of the festival activities in the late Qing Dynasty are presented in"Shun Pao" bamboo branch words,the main supplement "free talk" and "the Pak Shi Zhai pictorial",which reproduces the overall appearance of the festival life at the time of the national age,and analyses the "Shun Pao".The second chapter expounds the general table of the traditional festivals in the late Qing Dynasty on the basis of the ancient festival system in the late Qing Dynasty,and the third chapter,through the analysis of the reports of the modern newspapers and periodicals,such as "Shun Pao",focuses on the period of the Republic of the Republic of China in the early period of the Republic of China.The reform of the festival customs and the integration of western culture are mainly manifested in the reform of the calendar and the new trend of the old festival,the simplified trend of the custom,the gradual decrease in the composition of the belief and custom in the festival,the enhancement of the entertainment function,the introduction of the western festivals,and the fourth chapter of the analysis of the characteristics of the modern festival customs in modern times.The western learning of Chinese traditional festivals has made Chinese traditional festivals rich in content,more complex and more colorful,and the new features of transplanting,variability and inheritance constitute the important characteristics of modern festivals.The changes of society are thought through the changes of festivals and vulgarity.On this basis,the changes of the festival life in our country are explained on this basis.Finally,it explores the basic trend and inherent rule of modern festivals in the period of social transformation.Concretely speaking,it is embodied in the following aspects:the cultural characteristics contained in the traditional festival vulgarity are varied from a variety of changes,the traditional festivals and vulgar cultural traits vary from one to another,the rate of the traditional secular culture characteristics change from the fast to slow,the local and the whole variation of traditional festivals and vulgarity,and the traditional festivals and vulgarity.The change rate of cultural characteristics from the rapid to slow,the combination of local and overall variation,the traditional festivals and popular changes from the small crowd to the public,analyzed the internal rules of the change of the festival customs at the end of the late Qing Dynasty and the early days of the Republic of China,and revealed the origin of the changes in the age of folk culture from the aspects of social variability and the impact of foreign culture.It further explains the impact of festival changes on the society.