The Characteristics Of Traditional Chinese Festivals

Festivals are special days which involve relative activities, and they are have periodicity, mass characters and regional characters.This thesis comprises of introduction and content. Introduction consists of 5 tips:①Intent and meaning of the topic;②introducion of corelative theories and concept;③Corelative situation of the research;④Basic research method of this thesis paper;⑤Main contents of the thesis paper.The text contents 6 chapters, and every chapter will talk about one characteristic of Chinese traditional festival.Chapter 1. Long history, contiues imparting. This chapter revealed historic stories of Eve of Spring Festival, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chongyang Festival and their imparting.Chapter 2. Abundence and profoundity. The abundence of Chinese traditional festivals exhibate on there are thousands of traditional festivals of all the ethnics in different areas. About the profound aspect of the these festivals, it is involved with the varies activities. The auther enumerated more than 20 activities: adhibiting Menshen, Nianhua, Spring Ox pictures, Menzhan, Chunlian,Papercuttings, The Chinese character Fu, and visiting templefairs, sitting up in New Year Eve, ancestor worshiping, seperating Yasui money,passing Sanqiao bridge, prepairing New Year Eve dinner and dumplings, Bainian, sending New Year gifts, Shua Shehuo, Playing Cloth Dragons and lions, fireworks, family union, animal signs activities and colorful lanterns. And the auther explained the cultural meaning of these activities.Chapter 3. One body multisystems, hormony and blending. Of this part, the auther will take Spring Festivals and Ethnic Minorities' New Year festivals as main examples, compare the same festivals of different regions and different ethnics, and take further explainations.Chapter 4. Base on farming, attach importance to farming, two arguments are: there are little commerce festivals and more fanning festivals (include agriculture, pasturage , fishery, forestory, avocation) of traditional festivals. The author takes respecting Ox festivals and tasting new rice festivals examples for illustation .Chapter 5. International influnces are more and more.There are two reases for this phenomenons. On the one hand, more than 20 countries publish birth annimals stamp of China; on the other hand, with the enhance of comprehensive national strength, opening up to developed countries, through traditional festivals activities of China, communicates and traditional culture of China, made great contributions to establish multiculture and harmonious mix in world.Chapter 6. New changes, new problems. New changes include:①There are many ethnic minorities' festivals are being celebrated in big cities, which is good for introducing these festivals to others, and accelerate to the balance society career;②Some of the traditional are held by the local government, injected new contents, that would be a contribution to the invest and tourism. There are three main new problems: People pay to much attentions to the food, but ignore the spirit values; People pay to much attentions to the profits, but ignore the cultural connotation; Festivals activties give birth to corruption phenomenons. Pay attentions to overcome the hotspot problems of china festivals, not only be propitious to exploit traditional festivals, but also be favorable to carry forward excellence traditional culture of China and to develop health festivals culture.