Chapter 15 new year's news

It doesn't matter where you celebrate the Chinese New Year.Firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, and rice cakes are things that symbolize the New Year; since they are symbols, you can’t see real firecrackers, real Spring Festival couplets, and real rice cakes, but you can still think of these things in your heart, causing the symbolic function and effect.Chinese living abroad may not see these things during the Lunar New Year, but they will still miss them in their hearts.Speaking of culture, that's it. French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss said that the less a culture communicates with other cultures, the more it can avoid mutual corrosion and lose-lose; however, a culture cannot embrace other cultures without communicating with other cultures. The rich connotation and far-reaching significance of this culture.This is a dilemma, and there is no way to have both.Therefore, Susan Sontag said in a special article on Levi Strauss that people who seriously study human culture cannot get rid of the feeling of "homelessness". The pain of confusion (intellectual vertigo), and then use various methods to excuse yourself and affirm your own identity.The old Chinese scholars see through the state of the world, put their love on mountains and rivers, indulge in poetry and wine, and want nothing more than peace of mind; the era is refurbished, and the strange dawn breaks the window to disturb the old dream of culture.That's the reason, Chinese and foreigners are the same.No wonder Dickens's Christmas story is told, acted and read every Christmas, never getting tired of it; how can it be easy for foreigners to get rid of the traditional Christmas spirit?

Culture more or less depends on this spirit to continue.Over the past eighty or ninety years, certain schools of thought in Europe have advertised cutting off the past and breaking away from tradition. The word "modern" means that the era has nothing to do with history; modern architecture, modern music, modern philosophy.Modern science all aims to establish itself, and even insists that "modern" is definitely not the opposite of "classical".In fact, this is exactly what the author of "Vienna at the End of the Century" called the "crisis of liberalism" phenomenon; Freud's theory finally entered the traditional Western academic Don Orly, and connected it with the entire cultural history.Hegel made more sense: Only by absorbing national history can we be included in the "big self" (we), complete the "small self" (I), and become an independent adult.

As for the exchange and contact of different cultures, as long as the respective traditional consciousness is preserved.The traditional spirit will not be corrupted even if you think about it. These consciousnesses, these spirits, of course, do not necessarily refer to the magnificent orthodox thoughts and classic works.A string of firecrackers, a pair of Spring Festival couplets, and a piece of rice cake during the Chinese New Year will all arouse this awareness, this spirit.I have never forgotten the feeling of reading "Yanjing Years" in a library in London a few years ago: Although I felt the pain of "displacement", I also found sustenance and "name" between the lines.After all, that day is Lunar New Year's Day!

"On New Year's Day, it's hard to socialize. Let's ask the age is getting deeper and the time is getting shorter, adding a lot of joy, and adding a lot of emotion. Zhuangzi said: The big ones work hard to make a living. This is what it means! What I take: Shu The air is close to the door, and the wind is blowing on the face; the farming work in the eastern suburbs has a fixed time; the river plums and willows are decorated with spring work; Life is fast." In such a state of mind, it doesn't matter whether there are firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, or rice cakes.Although "reading the age is getting deeper", there are a lot of "sentiments", and I have experienced the "hardship of entertainment", but I don't want to cut off the past, break away from the tradition, and oppose the New Year; instead, I got the first-line news of New Year's Day, and I am full of calm and smart aura in the millennium culture. .