Burning admission notices, graduation theses, and property certificates? Young people want to celebrate Zhongyuan Festival as "Journey to Dream Ring"
Yesterday was the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, a traditional Chinese festival for ancestor worship. Some young people have alternative choices: some bring their graduation certificates and certificates representing their grades to visit graves, some light incense to have a conversation with their ex friends, and some bring photos of their deceased loved ones to the places they want to go. On the Internet, "turning Zhongyuan Festival into" Journey to Dream Ring "has become a hot topic today.
Once known as the "Ghost Festival", the original frightening image of Zhongyuan Festival Festival is changing. Some citizens have expressed that many cultural traditions are actually built on simple emotional values and are worthy of systematic research, exploration, and inheritance, and their emotional core should be passed down in a more contemporary way.
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The residential area where Ms. Luo lives is close to Central. The age of her house is about ten years, which is not old. But every year before the Tomb Sweeping Day, Zhongyuan Festival, the Winter Solstice and the Spring Festival, she can always see a circle drawn with chalk in the corner of the residential area. Inside is the yellow and black traces left by burning paper money. "I used to think that this was a bad habit. Burning paper money also has potential security risks. If we really want to honor the elderly, why don't we treat them better when they are alive?" However, when we took our 6-year-old daughter out in the morning, Ms. Luo was asked what these chalk circles are. Her daughter's sentence "We can't forget our ancestors" inspired Ms. Luo differently: "Rather than being secretive, we should explore the cultural significance behind Zhongyuan Festival."
Search the video and reading websites for keywords such as "half of July", and find out a lot of content related to "ghost" and "terror", but now some young people have begun to correct the name of Zhongyuan Festival Festival. Mr. Chen, who has just graduated with a master's degree and joined a state-owned enterprise this year, brought his graduation certificate, degree certificate, and labor contract with him when he paid his respects to his grandfather. "I am the first master's degree holder in my family, and my grandfather is very proud. I hope he can see me graduate and successfully find a job. I want to tell him that I will continue to work hard."
There are many young people like Mr. Chen who do not burn paper money but bring various documentary evidence to comfort their deceased. On the Little Red Book, a netizen in Jiangsu wrote down his own Zhongyuan Festival Festival this year: in March this year, my grandfather died without warning, and could not witness her graduation and entry into work. She copied all the documents, and wrote down the events that have happened at home in recent months, "Don't forget to show off your precious granddaughter to your old comrades in arms." Others printed out their graduation thesis and burned it to the deceased elders, "I chose this major because of your influence". Some even brought their property certificates to sweep graves, saying, "Life is getting better and better now, please rest assured."
On Xiaohong's book, a netizen brought copies of several documents to his deceased grandfather on Zhongyuan Festival, making the netizen "cry" in the comment area
Others see Zhongyuan Festival as an opportunity to communicate with their dead relatives. Mr. Lu, whose hometown is Xuancheng, Anhui, did not go back to his hometown, so he lit a stick of incense at his home in Shanghai that he could use every day, and told his dead mother in mind what he had encountered in the year. From a failed relationship to a difficult client, tears flow from thought to thought. "I told my mom, 'Look, you keep pushing for marriage, and the result is mutual harm.' I also told her, 'The first party can handle things with just one word, and they insist that I go around asking people in circles for two months, but you still insist on letting me go home.' In the dead of night, he wanted to finish with a glass of wine and found that there was only cooking wine at home. So he brewed a cup of coffee and sprinkled it on the balcony, 'Anyway, she loves coffee more.'". In the morning, he woke up and found that the shape of the coffee stain was very unique. As a designer, he immediately took a photo and said, "Is this the inspiration my mom gave me?"
Mr. Lu said frankly that his action was not a "feudal superstition". "Rather than letting the living communicate with the dead, Zhongyuan Festival is a time for the living to open their hearts to their relatives who can never return. Many of our traditional festivals have the tradition of ancestor worship, but in modern times, there are only parties and eating and drinking, lacking reflection and self-examination."
On the Internet, "turning Zhongyuan Festival into" Journey to Dream Ring "has become a hot topic. Although set against the backdrop of the Mexican Day of the Dead, the story of searching for and re understanding a deceased loved one also resonates with Chinese audiences, with nearly 1.7 million viewers giving it a high rating of 9.1 on Douban. Many citizens also hope that the "horror" atmosphere of Zhongyuan Festival Festival given by some hearsay stories and fabricated films and TV plays can be removed, and the value of Zhongyuan Festival Festival can be reshaped from a modern perspective.
Citizen Haoqu recently heard his father tell a story about his ancestors: at that time, his family was poor, but his brother-in-law was very wealthy. When the two son-in-law accompanied their wife back to their mother's house, their father-in-law stewed chicken to entertain them, and the brother-in-law ate meat, while the ancestors could only eat chicken bones. He asked his mother-in-law if he wanted to put bones in a bag and bring them home. He would carry them with him during farming every day. When he felt tired, he would throw out the bag and continue farming until it fell into the bag. Then, he would throw out the bag and continue farming, ultimately becoming rich through hard work.
"This story touched me far more than my parents had told me in the past." Haoqu sighed that many people now lack understanding of their families. "If a traditional festival like Zhongyuan Festival can make people really understand their relatives as in Journey to Dream Ring, perhaps it can make young people feel more deeply."
At the "Why China" exhibition, multiple "heavy objects" were used for worship
In the "Why China" series of cultural relics and archaeology exhibitions held at the Shanghai Museum, whether it is the first exhibition "Henan Xia Shang Zhou Dynasty Civilization Exhibition" or the ongoing "Songze Liangzhu Civilization and Archaeology Exhibition", the most exquisite and magnificent cultural relics are often used for worship. In the eyes of experts, this is a way to gather spiritual strength.
"I was wondering how to explain to the next generation why the family sacrifice never forgets to tell Naiweng, and can they still understand why the Nephew Sacrifice Manuscript writes like this?" Ms. Luo said that she would think about how to arrange traditional festivals like Zhongyuan Festival in the future. "The sense of ritual has its meaning behind it, which is actually the simple emotional needs of human beings."
Tianjin citizens put lanterns beside the Haihe River to pray for their blessings on Zhongyuan Festival
Some places also maintain this sense of ceremony while ensuring environmental protection and safety. During the Spring Festival, Chaoshan, where traditional dance English songs were popular on the Internet, set up a stage and offered fruits and melons during the Zhongyuan Festival, also spread on the Internet. In Singapore, some people organize paid worship activities, and in some places, public tin drums are also set up for people to worship and burn paper.
