New Year's Mode of Civilization Exchange and Mutual Learning
2025-02-08
New Year "is a cultural concept of time with universal significance in human history, embodying the wisdom of humanity towards the future and conveying the spiritual tradition of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. Every civilization has created its own New Year, with its own unique New Year rituals and festival symbols. The world has jointly constructed a human New Year cultural system centered on "praying for blessings", promoting rich and diverse cultural exchanges. This is also the Chinese New Year's vision of peaceful development and "beautiful coexistence". Rich and diverse: The power of cultural exchange during the New Year. Looking around the world, we will find that humanity has such a rich and colorful New Year tradition, which is dazzling and breathtaking. The shared human nature and ideals of new vitality, unknown imagination, and praying mood run through the empathy consensus of the human New Year cultural system, becoming the deep driving force for mutual attraction between ethnic groups, countries, and people: from the countries near the Arctic to the primitive tribes of the oceanic islands at the top of the Southern Hemisphere; From Christian faith in Western civilization to ancestor worship in Eastern civilization; From ancient ethnic memories to recent modern life, the power of cultural exchange during the New Year is crossing all boundaries, tightly connecting humanity into a cultural whole of a 'global village'. The Spring Festival with red as the main color is the life practice of Chinese people to celebrate the traditional New Year, and has constructed a three-dimensional New Year symbol system of "landscape behavior value": landscape symbols with Spring Festival couplets, lanterns, New Year pictures, fireworks as the elements, behavior symbols with group New Year meal, Shousui, New Year's greetings, red envelopes as the elements, and value symbols with kitchen, ancestor, blessing words, taboo words as the elements. The New Year's view of "conforming to natural laws and valuing human ethical order" is demonstrated from landscape to behavior and then to value. The practice of celebrating the New Year in European and American countries shapes a two-dimensional system of "God Man": the divine symbol centered on Christmas and the human symbol centered on welcoming the new year are integrated, emphasizing the revelation and regulation of secular time by divine time. The New Year symbol structure from God to Man symbolizes the New Year view of "holy religious sentiment" and "enterprising humanistic spirit". The New Year in other parts of the world, such as the traditional Egyptian New Year's Breeze Festival, is determined by worshiping the sun god with a pyramid as the coordinate. It happens to be the time when the sun shines directly on the equator. During the festival, people prepare traditional foods such as boiled eggs, lettuce, onions, and salted fish, and go out together to enjoy the happy life of hiking and welcome the arrival of the warm spring breeze. The traditional Indian New Year's Red Festival takes place between February and March each year, where people take to the streets to freely throw colorful red pollen, throw water balloons, and celebrate the festival to their heart's content. The New Year celebration has a strong cultural symbol, symbolizing the revival of all things and the harvest of the grain year, and so on. These unique and colorful forms of the New Year together constitute the colorful civilization creation of humanity at the cycle nodes of natural and cultural time. The contemporary practice of celebrating the traditional New Year, with the lifestyle of "bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, praying for the future", provides humanity with social beliefs, life dreams, and a sense of practical happiness, becoming a beautiful form of human civilization exchange and the most direct, effective, and festive force of civilization exchange. Inclusiveness and Openness: The Power of Civilization Dialogue in the New Year. The New Year has both the meaning of opening up and the meaning of the unknown. The meaning of "new" in the New Year first refers to the new knowledge about "future time" invented by people in the historical practice of nature and society. People start from these new knowledge year after year, bidding farewell to the knowledge that was once new and is now old. Secondly, "new" also refers to the novelty of facing the "unknown world". Novelty is not just a concrete psychological perception, but also the most valuable curiosity of humanity towards the unknown world. Each New Year tradition has different New Year expressions due to their curiosity about the unknown world. The Chinese express it as a scary "New Year beast", the Vietnamese express it as a warm "New Year tree", the Ethiopians express it as a flaming campfire, and the rural people in central England express it as "auspicious water"... The expectations of the New Year are organically combined with specific cultural traditions to produce interesting customs. Some have become cultural memories, and some are integrated into modern life, becoming the time nodes for people to think about groups and individuals, nature and society, the other and self, opening the New Year's journey of mutual growth and decline of difficulties and hopes. Almost all civilizations give the New Year a positive, optimistic, and eagerly anticipated meaning, welcoming new things in the future with an open attitude, and bidding farewell to the people and things of the past with an inclusive attitude. Time flows endlessly, and the past has already passed. Civilizations can fully re-examine themselves with tolerance, discover the communicability and communication paths of different civilizations, and demonstrate the power of civilization dialogue in the New Year. The natural experience and perception of winter passing and spring coming are essentially the laws that humans instinctively recognize as natural creatures. The perception of spring in human nature is ritualized through the celebration of the arrival of spring by humans. People celebrate the return of spring to the human world, and the revival of life once again activates people's open spirit. In this sense, all civilizations embrace the spirit of openness due to spring and the New Year, which in turn promotes the possibility of dialogue between civilizations. The passionate and unrestrained spring life is enough to break through all traditional closures and conservatism. The creative energy of the New Year towards the future can melt the prejudices and customs between civilizations, enhance cultural dialogue, and promote human development. Looking to the future: The power of civilization mutual learning in the new year. Humanity is always on the road to the future, and with a positive and optimistic spirit, we will form a cooperative driving force for a community with a shared future for mankind. The New Year is not just a ritual invention of a certain civilization tradition, but also a force for all mankind to look forward to the future of civilization and learn from each other. The mutual learning power generated by the New Year is extremely valuable because we share the hopes and dreams of the future, and the rights and responsibilities of the future together. Civilization mutual learning can be based on history or exploration towards the future. The former is to engage in cooperation and dialogue from existing material and spiritual achievements, inspiring and achieving each other; The latter involves establishing consensus and boundaries based on future concepts and systems, supporting and collaborating with each other. Looking forward to the future of mutual learning among civilizations, it can minimize misunderstandings, avoid conflicts, and prevent wars among different civilizations, and optimize the cooperation mechanism for different civilizations to work together to overcome difficulties. The novelty of the future has become the fundamental driving force behind the New Year's form. The Chinese people's social practice of celebrating the traditional New Year has become a representative project of human intangible cultural heritage shared by the world, which has witnessed the common experience of human beings in celebrating the New Year and being optimistic and enterprising, and has demonstrated the great value of the New Year tradition in the development of human civilization. In this sense, the successful application for World Heritage status during the Spring Festival has created a "New Year model" of cultural exchange and mutual learning. Whether it is agricultural civilization, industrial civilization, or information civilization; Regardless of skin color, language, or regional beliefs; Whether in physical space or virtual cyberspace, and so on, humans can regain new vitality from the New Year's symbolism of joy, auspiciousness, blessings, and health, and embrace a better life in the future with more bold and solid steps. (New Society)
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang er dong
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