Folklorists suggest including traditional Chinese festivals

时间：2007-02-25 00:48:29

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Chinanews, Nanjing, Feb. 16 – Some folklorists suggest adding traditional Chinese festivals to the lists of China’s legal holidays. “To list the Spring Festival, Tomb-sweeping Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival as the national intangible cultural heritages1 is far from enough as such traditional Chinese festivals are still excluded from the lists of legal holidays,” they said this at the Third “Eastern Taishan Mountain International Academic Seminar held recently.

 

Liu Kuili, director of Chinese Folklore2 Society, said that people’s resting time is different from the legal system. People have their own living schedules. On the Tomb-sweeping Day, people usually hold sacrificial ceremonies, and on Lunar New Year’s Eve, many people become busy preparing for the Spring Festival celebrations.

 

“Today’s legal holidays are meaningless from the cultural perspective. During those holidays people just go traveling, shopping or just staying at home, thus the functions of festival celebration cannot be reflected,” said Liu.

 

Huang Tao, associate professor from Renmin University of China, said that to include traditional Chinese festivals as legal holidays will be an effective way to protect “holiday culture.”

 
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1 heritages 45aeb1e4a564f23dea13d799007d5938     
遗产
参考例句：
  • English poetry is one of their great heritages. 英国诗歌是他们的伟大遗产之一。
  • It is necessary to rescue these industrial building heritages. 抢救工业建筑遗产，已是刻不容缓。
2 folklore G6myz     
n.民间信仰，民间传说，民俗
参考例句：
  • Zhuge Liang is a synonym for wisdom in folklore.诸葛亮在民间传说中成了智慧的代名词。
  • In Chinese folklore the bat is an emblem of good fortune.在中国的民间传说中蝙蝠是好运的象征。

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