中国民间剪纸微刊2024年英文第二期

    Mr. Fei Xiaotong said in"Hometown China": Everyone's "present" not only includes the projection of his personal "past", but also the projection of the entire nation's "past"... Culture needs to rely on memory. It is necessary to connect the past and the present, and to build bridges between the ancient and modern society, otherwise there will be no culture in modern times.

      Academic circles have been calling for the Spring Festival to be applied for World Heritage status. The famous writer Feng Jicai once put forward three reasons to support the Spring Festival's application as a World Heritage Site: First, the Spring Festival spans a long time, about 40 days before and after; secondly, the Spring Festival is a period of concentrated folk activities, including almost all Chinese folk elements; finally, the spirit of the Spring Festival It embodies the core values of the Chinese nation, including ideals, unity, evil avoidance and peace concepts.

      In Nanjing, Chen Jing, a senior expert on Chinese New Year customs and culture and a professor at Nanjing University, also began calling for the Spring Festival to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List more than ten years ago. When it comes to why the Spring Festival is important, he believes that the Spring Festival has a history of more than 3,000 years. It is the most popular, solemn, lively and rich festival in the long history of mankind, and should be protected and inherited. Spring Festival culture covers all aspects of clothing, food, housing, transportation, and use, and is a concentrated expression of the traditional lifestyle of the Chinese nation; the Spring Festival includes the Chinese nation’s continuous pursuit of the ideals of fortune, wealth, longevity, joy, wealth, and happiness. A specific interpretation of traditional Chinese virtues such as loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and etiquette; the Spring Festival can be said to be the fullest and most abundant feeling of the country, clan, hometown, neighbor, family, and family in a year. A strong expression.

    On December 22, 2023, the 78th United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to designate the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) as a United Nations holiday.

     Chen Jing said that although the Spring Festival has not yet been declared a world intangible cultural heritage, the United Nations has designated it as a holiday, which shows that the importance of the Spring Festival has been recognized by the world.

     Today, many countries and regions have listed the Spring Festival as a legal holiday, and about one-fifth of the world's population celebrates the Spring Festival in different forms. After the Spring Festival was designated as a United Nations holiday, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna, etc. also officially celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year for the first time recently. In Belarus, the New Year Symphony Concert to celebrate the Chinese Year, performed jointly by Chinese and Belarusian musicians, kicked off; in Heidelberg, Germany, the “Spring Festival Gathering” attracted groups of tourists; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the United States In the museum, celebrations to welcome the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon have also begun...

   ——Excerpted from Chen Yin’s Arctic Pavilion Lookout

           Jiangsu Ruijian: Maintaining and changing New Year traditions

2024-02-15

  Gao Yingfeng, a paper-cut researcher at the Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Nanjing University and an outstanding inhertor of Shaanxi intangible folk paper-cut, Chang Yangyang, a paper-cut researcher at the Institute, deputy director of Intangible folk paper-cut Alliance and an excellent folk paper-cut inhertor in Henan, was appointed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to carry out cultural exchanges in Tunisia, South Africa, Morocco, Zimbabwe and other countries in early February, and performed paper-cut on site. Spread Chinese folk paper-cut culture.