论春节的传统意义

On the Traditional Sense of the Chinese Spring Festival

对于春节日益淡化的现象,我们需要深入研究,而要研究,我们首先必须回答的根本问题是“春节是什么?”只有回答了这一根本问题,我们的研究才能深入。“春节是什么”这一问题与传统社会是分不开的,传统中国社会的主体是宗法社会,宗法社会是以血缘关系为纽带建立起来的注重身份等级的血缘共同体,而传统春节的核心意义正在于它是维系传统宗法血缘共同体和熟人社会得以和谐运转的一种节日仪式,它为具有强烈的宗法观念和情感的人们提供了一种亲情交流的契机和纽带。

What＇s the Spring Festival？ This issue relates to the traditional society. The main part of the Chinese traditional society is a society of patriarchal clan system, which is a consanguinity community stressing on the status grade with the relationship of consanguinity as its ligament. While the core sense of traditional Spring Festival lies on which is a kind of festival ceremony holding traditional consanguinity community of patriarchal clan system and acquaintance society together so as to make them harmoniously run. The ceremony provides the people with strong intention and emotion of patriarchal clan system the chances and ligament for relative intercommunion.