Only by making folk culture "audible", "visible" and "feeling" can folk culture be more vigorous; keeping up with the pace of the times and constantly giving traditional folk customs a new look, the excellent traditional Chinese culture behind folk customs can be better inherited , to nourish life today.
"Three suns begin to unfold, and four seasons begin to bloom." The Spring Festival is a day of family reunion, and it is also a time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.
Drinking Tusu, exchanging peach charms, setting off lanterns, dancing fish and dragons, and a variety of folk activities make the beautiful festival vivid and bright.
The sound, light, and color of festival folk culture condense the local customs and customs, and embody people's pursuit of a better life.
Taking "Sound" as an example, folk music plays an important role in festival folk activities.
Deeply digging into folk music traditions and revitalizing music items in folklore activities can make folklore "audible".
"Add a piece of plum blossoms on the drums, laugh and worship the New Year at five o'clock", in the family reunion and celebration of the lively Spring Festival, musical instruments are always indispensable.
The "Bamboo Suona" in Dazhu County, Dazhou, Sichuan, has a crisp, clear, fresh and pleasant sound, creating a festive atmosphere for the festival.
In Lianshan Zhuang and Yao Autonomous County of Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, the "Niannian Gong" is a competition of barrel drums, big gongs, bangongs and cymbals, which intensifies the taste of the new year and embodies the joy of people saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.
In Guangxi Zhuang's song market activities, folk songs such as "Chuanzhai Song" and "Welcome Song" may be high-pitched or tactful, humorous and full of competition. They are not only entertaining but also inherit local folk customs.
"Dongfeng puts flowers and thousands of trees at night, and blows them down, and the stars are like rain."
The use of lanterns, bonfires, and tower fires light up the "light" of festival folk customs.
The Xiushan lanterns in Chongqing, the fish-playing lanterns in Anhui, and the water lanterns in Jiangsu, the grand lantern activities carry people's good wishes and make the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival extraordinarily strong on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
In addition to the lanterns, there are also iron flowers in Queshan County, Henan Province. The local people use the homonym of "flower" and "fa" to mean "beating flowers and flowers, the more you fight, the more you hit", to wish the business prosperity.
Color can bring people the most intuitive visual experience. Natural colors decorate the four seasons, and folk "colors" make festivals and folk customs more eye-catching.
The Spring Festival couplets and paper-cuts posted on the New Year, the clothes and accessories carefully prepared by people, and the interior decoration are mostly red. Red, which means festive and auspicious, is an important symbol of folk culture.
In addition to red, Henan folk New Year paintings have a tradition of using yellow tones such as pagoda yellow and orange to add a warm, bright, enthusiastic and unrestrained temperament to New Year paintings.
Nowadays, more and more people consciously go deep into the treasure house of excellent traditional Chinese culture and feel the charm of continuous culture.
Especially during traditional festivals, the old folk customs have the old taste, and the new folk customs have a new look. The old and new folk customs are wonderful, enriching and nourishing the festival life of contemporary people.
This includes excavating and stimulating the "sound", "light" and "color" in folk culture, integrating modern acousto-optic technology and contemporary aesthetics, making festival folk customs more "loud", "bright" and more brilliant, enriching contemporary people's understanding Feeling and understanding of folk culture.
Walking around the city during the festival, the musical fountain show on the square attracts people to stop. It naturally integrates music, lighting and changes in the shape of the fountain. Some music with festive atmosphere and local characteristics makes people sing and dance along.
Ice lanterns are described as "silent poetry, three-dimensional paintings, and frozen music". Appreciating ice lanterns is a unique festival folk custom in Northeast China.
In recent years, technologies such as lighting control, laser decoration, and 3D printing have been applied to ice lantern art, and many ice lantern works are crystal clear and radiant.
The well-known Sichuan Zigong Lantern Festival actively introduces digital technology. The production combines traditional and modern craftsmanship, which is full of fashion. The organization method also combines folk spontaneous festivals and entertainment activities with the development of characteristic cultural industries.
In Guiyang, Guizhou, Changsha, Hunan, Shangli, Jiangxi and other places, "drone + laser technology" weaves auspicious patterns in the night sky, sending New Year blessings to people and making the festive night sky colorful.
In Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and other places, young people wander in the immersive folk culture exhibition, the application of 3D holographic projection, virtual reality, augmented reality and other technologies, supplemented by installation art and folk performances, etc., leaving an unforgettable impression among the light and shadow cultural experience.
The inheritance of China's excellent traditional folk culture is inseparable from personal experience, so that folk culture can be "audible", "visible" and "feeling", and continuously enrich the contemporary people's personal experience of folk culture, so that folk culture can be more vibrant; People's cultural recognition of Chinese folk customs, while keeping up with the pace of the times, and constantly giving traditional folk customs a new look, can the excellent traditional Chinese culture behind folk customs be better inherited and further nourish today's life.