【Commentary】On April 4th, a series of activities of the Spring Festival Confucius Festival in Nishan was held in Qufu Nishan, Shandong.
【During the same period】 Kong Kai, executive director of the Nishan Spring Festival Confucius Ceremony
Our Spring Festival is mainly to give everyone confidence, self-confidence and hope when (all things) are born, so that people have a new feeling to carry out this year's life and goals. It is to express our thoughts by offering fresh fruits and vegetables in spring to our ancestors, and to express our thoughts with the most springy creatures and vitality.
【Commentary】The 79th generation grandson of Confucius, who is currently living in Taiwan, the president of the Confucius Association of the Most Holy Teacher of China Dacheng, and the president of the Most Holy Confucius Foundation, Kong Chuchang, specially came to Qufu, Shandong Province to participate in the Confucius Festival and serve as the chief priest.
【Contemporaneous】Confucius's 79th generation eldest grandson Kong Chu Chang
Our set of excellent traditions of Chinese culture has been passed down for many years, and it can be passed down for so long, it must have its reason. So I want to come to Nishan, especially when we come to Nishan Confucius Temple today, we really feel its solemnity throughout the ceremony, then I think this solemnity, it is not only a sacrificial ceremony, I think from this solemn ceremony, you can deeply precipitate your heart, then I think after precipitating your mind, there will be a good development for anything you do in the future.
【Commentary】Since Qufu resumed the Spring Festival in 2008, the Nishan Spring Festival has become a rich Confucian cultural feast, which is not only the inheritance and promotion of traditional culture, but also the enrichment and improvement of the Chinese national intangible cultural heritage, which greatly enriches the cultural experience and spiritual feelings of Chinese and foreign tourists in Qufu.
【Commentary】The Confucius Festival greatly enriches the cultural experience and spiritual feelings of tourists in Qufu, and has also aroused strong repercussions and widespread attention at home and abroad, so more attention should be paid to the promotion of traditional culture.
【Contemporaneous】Confucius's 79th generation eldest grandson Kong Chu Chang
To carry forward traditional culture, in addition to the ritual of confucius worship or your familiarity with the Four Books and Five Classics, and familiarize ourselves with the Analects, I think we should go international, and we want people all over the world to see the excellent side of our Chinese culture. Maybe many foreigners do not understand the whole Chinese culture and its breadth and depth, then I think we have this responsibility and this obligation, to promote our Chinese culture abroad, so that foreigners can better understand how our 5,000-year-old culture has been passed down.
Qi Jianyue reported by Jining, Shandong (part of the material from Hu Shizhong)
Responsible Editor: [He Sanli]