The Traditional Festival July7th Evolvement And Modern Transformation

In the national development process, traditional festivals contain abundant culturalconnotation. July7th day as festival has a long history, with the development ofsociety, July7th day already could not satisfy the modern people’s spiritual needs, itdue to attach the love story is called " the Chinese Valentine’s day". Although the July7th Festival has many elements of love, we can not simply inherit and develop it as"Valentine’s Day".This paper traces the July7th Festival’s origin and development,contact its modern transformation, and strive to make it have better play its due role inthe ethical culture without losing its own cultural connotations of the premise.The introduction part introduces the reason and significance of the research, anoverview of the legend, and the literature and domestic research on July7th culture.The first chapter introduce the formation and development of the July7th section,from the three periods: the first is the budding period; second period is the two HanDynasties, July7th Festival had further development, the legend had graduallyimproved; third period is after the Han Dynasty period, July7th Festival and thelegend began to collect, finally matrued in the Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties.The second chapter analysis the cause of July7th day affective factors why haverestricted. The analysis includes three aspects: July7th day from the beginning hasnothing to do with love; the difference between July7th Festival and the WesternValentine’s day, Valentine’s day has only a single nature of love, but the July7th is acomprehensive festival, it has very rich cultural connotations except love; due to theConfucianism ’s influence, the July7th Festival has a variety of national spirit.The third chapter shows the July7th festival’s modern transformation. In themodern society, people have the July7th day as China ’s tendency of love from acollection of the public view and celebration way on July7th section. According to thisphenomenon, analyzes the July7th day why inclines to the Valentine’s day frominternal and external two aspects.