Ji'nan folk custom
a few days from the Mid Autumn Festival, Wang Ying, a Ji'nan citizen, was already busy. A reunion dinner at the mid autumn night, 6 year old children want to eat pizza hut, the husband is the mid autumn festival for the 3 days of the short tour, buy some things for the male parents, but also to explain to their parents why the Mid Autumn Festival is not staying at home to go...
"the festival did not change, it turned out to be human." When asked how Wang Ying would like to spend her holidays, she could not remember how she passed the Mid Autumn Festival when she was young. Under the "mid autumn economy", there are more and more people who have lost their memory in the Mid Autumn Festival.
"the rabbit king" goes away, lost Chinese taste
"son ten years ago, anyone who said the Mid Autumn Festival is how, everyone knows. Now, it's called "folklore". Ma Aikui, who has retired for many years, is a "old Ji'nan" familiar with the traditional customs. When his intestines and stomach can not afford more and more greasy moon cakes, the memory of the children's festivals also becomes precious.
"back to 40 years, the Mid Autumn Festival and the new year are also important days. The Jinan people call it "August Festival" or "August fifteen". When they enter the lunar calendar, they begin to prepare for the festival in August. The fresh fruit shop and the dim sum shop selling moon cakes began to arrange the shop and decorate the shop windows. On the counter of the big dim sum shop, the moon cakes stacked up to the top of the pot and small pieces are stacked into pyramidal shapes, and they are sprinkled with colored paper and colored stripes. Ma Aikui recalls.
in the mid autumn custom of old Ji'nan, "rabbit king" is more important than moon cakes. The rabbit king, who is called "rabbit son" in Beijing, is actually the clay sculpture of the rabbit's first person. He wishes to thank the jade rabbit in the Moon Palace for removing diseases and eliminating calamity. "
" like the Spring Festival firecrackers, when the main streets in the city are sold "rabbit king", some stores on a generous table to a step, spread on the white cloth, the size, the shape of the "rabbit king" level on the level. Ma Aikui said, "at that time, giving gifts is to mention fresh baskets, two boxes of moon cakes, and add only" rabbit king "to the children. Now the rabbit king has long gone, and the children seem to be more interested in the rabbit.
on the day of the Mid Autumn Festival, the Jinan people usually eat dumplings at noon, then the whole family sit together to eat a reunion dinner at night, and also have the custom of visiting friends and relatives in the daytime. But
in Ma Aikui's memory, the reunion of the Mid Autumn Festival is all in the worship of the moon at night.
"old Ji'nan worship is also simple, is on the Bank of" rabbit king ", fragrant stove, and then put some moon cakes, pomegranate, apple fruit plate, but Ji'nan has' men do not worship the moon no kitchen 'saying, worship' the rabbit king 'is a woman. After the worship, we eat the supply together, the moon cake is not divided into men, women and children must eat, and the worship of the 'Rabbit King' has become the best toys for children. "
missing Mid Autumn Festival, the memory of the broken
today, the mid autumn night, a plate of moon cake, a pot of tea and some melon and fruit, "one round the sky is held out, human surnames look up", is still the traditional scene of the mid Autumn Festival, but the past has a taste of mid autumn memory, but no longer clear.
in the view of Professor Chen Yan, Vice Chancellor of Shandong University in the history of Chinese thought, the Mid Autumn Festival, which is now lost in the memory of the people, is the manifestation of the fracture of the traditional and modern civilizations.
professor Chen Yan believes that the Chinese native culture of Confucianism and Taoism embodies the characteristics of the fusion of Chinese people's sensibility and reason, which makes the country still need ethics and etiquette in addition to the regulation and Policy Governance. "For example, the idea of China's home state is to build
political system on the basis of consanguinity and affection, so China uses the" five Lun eight morality "as the standard of human being in society, and like a festival like the Mid Autumn Festival, the role of" filial piety "is highlighted with family reunion, which contains the gathering of people with festivals and ceremonies. To maintain the meaning of unity. "
the Mid Autumn Festival in the cultural, living level,
"and the religious meaning of western festivals, our traditional festivals are more secular and more related to family ethics. The reunion blessing, respecting the old and the young, as well as the dusting and bathing of the Spring Festival, the old and the old, and the worship of heaven are the reflection of the ethnic ethics and spirit of the Chinese nation. Liu Kuili, vice director of the Expert Committee on non material cultural heritage of the Ministry of culture, and director of the Chinese folk society, said, "the national holidays of traditional festivals and the restoration of traditional festivals are an important way for the continuation and development of national culture." The vitality of a culture and tradition can be passed down from generation to generation only when it is recognized by the masses and is internalized as a kind of cultural memory in the daily festivals.
in 2006, the State Council published the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, which included Spring Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid Autumn Festival, Tanabata, Chongyang and other people's intangible cultural heritage list. In 2007, the State Council, after a long period of investigation, decided that the Spring Festival (including new year's Eve), Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid Autumn Festival as statutory holidays began in 2008.
although the Mid Autumn Festival has occupied an important position in the national holiday system, Liu Kuili still believes that "holidays as a
can not only benefit economically but also receive benefits at all levels of culture, society, and life, on this issue," Do they pay too much attention to the income from the economic level, ignoring the role of these holidays in improving social relationships and creating a harmonious society in society and culture? "