Chinese and foreign traditional festivals

Author: Shen Lihua
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The natural cycles of day and night, the alternation of seasons, require people's production activities and daily lives to have a temporal and spatial basis. People's spiritual lives also seek refuge in space and time. Festivals are like bamboo joints, symbolizing meaningful transition points between temporal and spatial segments, and naturally becoming highlights and peaks in life. Festivals are indispensable; wherever there are communities of people in the world, there are festivals. Traditional festivals are the root of a nation's culture. They embody the emotions and aspirations of a people. Each traditional festival is, in essence, a spiritual totem of the nation.