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What year? In the era of natural economy, people's life cycle is inseparable from natural rhythm. The renewal cycle of time series on the earth is about 365 days, which gradually becomes the cycle of human life year.

China has a tradition of celebrating the New Year for about 3,000 years. Said: "The year is ripe." The original meaning of "year" is the bumper harvest of crops. In ancient times, when the grain ripened once a year, people called it a year when the grain ripened once. This is the habit of the ancestors of farming nations. Erya Shi Tian: "Summer is the year, business is the worship, Zhou is the year, and Tang Yu is the load." It can be seen that the natural cycle was officially called "year" in the Zhou Dynasty.

Since the door was repeatedly bombarded by foreign powers, the ideological trend of Chinese people belittling their traditional culture, including traditional festivals, has fluctuated from time to time, affecting modern times for about a hundred years.

I remember in the early days of the Cultural Revolution 1967, the authorities announced that there would be no holiday during the Spring Festival. At that time, as a young college teacher, I was in the countryside with college students. In order to get rid of the old customs and habits of "New Year" for teachers, students and commune members, I was ordered to work in the fields on the first day of the New Year. However, in civil society life, people still continue the blood of national culture and refuse to give up "Year". In the eyes of ordinary people, New Year greetings, New Year's Day and New Year's Day always refer to the Lunar New Year.

So far, china national radio and CCTV have reported two calendars at the same time at the beginning of daily news broadcast: solar calendar and lunar calendar.

365 days a year, cycle after cycle, is a natural part of life. Year is a big natural section, and several small sections in a year are called festivals, and year is a commanding festival. If there is no year, the festival will be leaderless. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, it is time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. "Days will make people live longer", so saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new is always the theme of the New Year and the core of the old customs.

China New Year is a time to celebrate the achievements of the year, plan the life of the new year and ignite new expectations. Year after year, rituals, carriers and activities have accumulated into the custom of "celebrating the New Year", accumulating cultural connotations, and forming an annual custom culture, which reflects people's "longing" for life. It is full of wishes, ideals and psychological prayers for life, and accumulates national culture, national psychology, national spirit and national feelings. If we lose the concept of "Nian", all Nian customs will lose their center and soul.

Thousands of years of China folk culture has accumulated rich national psychological aspirations. In terms of choice, one is well-fed and the other is harmonious and auspicious. Have a reunion dinner, spend your old age safely and enjoy family happiness. Respect for the old and love for the young, reciprocity, mutual congratulations, unity and harmony, full of affection, friendship and warmth, posting Spring Festival couplets, pasting the word "Fu", cutting window grilles, hanging lanterns, setting off firecrackers, visiting temple fairs, enjoying lights and watching performances, which is full of universal happiness and harmony between man and nature.

It is the need for the Chinese nation to confirm its own cultural identity and also the expression of cultural consciousness to maintain the annual custom culture. We should take the intergenerational inheritance of traditional culture seriously and don't let it be interrupted in our time. The loss of cultural subjectivity will mean the loss of national spirit and tradition and the demise of nationality. Chinese New Year is an important ceremony and link of national cultural identity, which is indispensable for cultivating national spirit and promoting Chinese culture.

In recent years, our public opinion has paid more and more attention to the traditional festival-Spring Festival. It is of great significance to try to dig out the cultural and spiritual connotation of traditional festivals from the activities loved by the masses.

For example, we can carry out more group worship activities. During the Spring Festival, unit group worship has become very popular now. In fact, friends can also worship collectively. Some young people say that traditional festivals are spent with family members and are very disciplined; The foreign festival is spent with friends, which is very relaxing. Why can't we spend traditional festivals with friends? Party, AA system, etc. , can be done correctly in the group worship of friends, but also can be done easily and lively! We can learn the advantages of foreign festivals! Carry forward the tradition of "respecting your neighbors", and relatives can also worship collectively, and neighbors can also worship collectively. You can "sit in the village by turns", once every n years, and be a good host; Neighborhood worship can also be sponsored by the community, with everyone participating, and close neighborhood relations are also an indispensable part of a harmonious society.

Another example is to use the opportunity of Chinese New Year to create a family culture. All enterprises have corporate culture, and family is the cell of society and family culture. "Busy year" should not only be busy with the material construction of families, but also pay attention to the cultural construction of families. Not only should we be busy with the cultural atmosphere of the New Year, but we should also consider the long-term family cultural inheritance. Material life is limited, and spiritual life can be infinite. China people pay attention to "keeping a wild goose's voice and others' names", "keeping a childlike heart, making history" and "keeping a lasting legacy". This country has national history, local chronicles, family genealogy, personal biography and epitaph ... from national politics to family chores, all good people have the opportunity to be immortal. For every family, everyone's good words and deeds have the opportunity to be written into the family tree and passed on to future generations, forming a family style and history. Conditional families can keep a "family chronicle" during the Spring Festival, record the good deeds of family members in a book, become the carrier of family culture, and become family history after several generations of accumulation. What a good way, it inspires people to enhance the value of life and improve their living standards.

For another example, from the past Taofu to the Spring Festival couplets, to today's mobile phones and online poems, it is to keep pace with the times and maintain folk culture. As early as before the Qin and Han Dynasties, China folks had the custom of hanging peach symbols around the gate during the Spring Festival. During the Five Dynasties, dialogues were carved on mahogany boards instead of the names of gods. After the Song Dynasty, red boards were gradually replaced by paper, and the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets spread all over China. In the Ming Dynasty, Fu Tao was officially called "Spring Festival couplets". This is a unique art of combining poetry and calligraphy of the Chinese nation, which should be vigorously developed. Nowadays, contemporary people have expanded to online Spring Festival couplets contest, mobile phone Spring Festival couplets poetry contest and so on, which is worth popularizing.

On the occasion of the Spring Festival, let us engrave precious friendship on the historical rings and sow the seeds of hope in the fields of the new year. Li, director of the Art Festival Committee of China Folk Writers Association.