民俗节日的继承和演变

民俗节日是每一个民族都有的重要民俗事象。各种不同的节日在历史长河中,呈现出不同的发展轨迹,有的产生了变形和变质。在中国,保存得最好的是过年习俗。然而年俗也在发展演变之中,行之数千年的年俗活动,随着时代的变迁而被打上某种新的印记,这是这一民俗风习具有生命力的标志,也是它至今犹存的重要原因。而今人可以做并应该做的,就是保存传统的节日习俗有利于现代生活的内容,并按现代、科学的精神去改善它们。

The Inheritance and Development of Folkloric Festivals

As an important folk-custom,the folkloric-festival is significant for each nation.And different folkloric-festival has different development in the long process of human history.Some of them come into the effect of formal or qualitative variety.In China,the custom preserved very well is spending the New Year.But it also keeps in the development.The activity of spending the New Year,which exists for thousands of years,is sure to be given new brands with the changes of the times.It marks the great vitality of the folk custom and gives reasons why it has been kept to this day.And what we can do and should do is to inherit the content healthy of modern life and modifies it according to modern,scientific spirit.