In fact, sometimes when I think about it in the middle of the night, I feel like a person without roots.
I was watching a short video at the moment, and what I saw was that the faces modified by filters seemed to be singing the same song. Then I ordered a takeaway, and found that the spicy hotpot delivered to Harbin from Chengdu actually tasted exactly the same. My mother kept talking on the phone, you loved watching your grandfather write Spring Festival couplets when you were a child, but what about now? Look at these days, even the word "福" is printed, full of the cold neatness that comes from the machine. This feeling is really strange, as if something has been lost, but it is not clear what it is.
This is not hypocrisy, it is the collective confusion of our generation.
While we were criticizing the Spring Festival Gala, we also lamented in our circle of friends that the flavor of the New Year has become less interesting. This is not our own problem, but that the world is moving too fast, so fast that our souls are left behind. People of my grandfather's generation firmly believe in "benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust" and believe that it belongs to the scope of heavenly principles; in our generation, the standard used to measure everything seems to be only two words: useful.
Tradition is a mountain, but we almost blew it up
To be honest, let’s not just blame the present.
This kind of crisis did not just appear today. More than a hundred years ago, when the West's powerful ships and cannons opened the country, the intellectuals at that time were much more desperate than we are. They found that the Four Books and Five Classics, which we have always been proud of, could not defeat other people's foreign guns and cannons. That kind of blow was of the type that would draw fuel from the bottom of the cauldron.
Since then, "tradition" and "modernity" have been placed on opposite sides, as if if you want to enrich the country and strengthen the army, you have to smash the "Confucius Store" to pieces. To this day, this kind of "black and white" thinking is still affecting us. Is it because the difficulty of learning English is because the language is too difficult? Does this logic sound familiar?
The fork in the road of education: We teach our children to take exams, but forget to teach them to be human beings
Is education to be blamed for this? A little bit, but not quite.
Ask today's children what the "twenty-four solar terms" are? They can memorize the twenty-four-character formula to prepare for the exam, but they do not know when it is appropriate to plant melons and beans, and they have never seen the color of the seedlings during the Grain Rain season. The music class in the school teaches music theory examination content, but does not teach an authentic and pure hometown folk song.
We have broken down traditional culture into a series of cold test questions and filled them into children's heads, but we have taken away the warmth from it. As a result, they can memorize the "Disciple Rules", but they never give up their seats to others on the bus.
Fast food love and fast food culture: Can we still calm down?
Today’s entertainment is too “smart”.
In such a short video, there will be a climax every fifteen seconds, stimulating your dopamine accurately. What is the contrast with traditional art? A Kunqu opera performance can last for ten minutes with just the lady and the maid pacing on the stage. How can such situations be compared? There is no comparison at all.
The Internet has flattened the world, but it has also suppressed culture into pieces. We ridicule the elderly for their slow speed in watching movies, but they see that we are equally tired when browsing our mobile phones. Such "crushing" is not a matter of who is right or wrong, but a misalignment of the two rhythms of life. When everything is chasing "fast", those things that need to be savored slowly are naturally pushed into the corner.
Don't cry in a hurry, there is a solution to this matter
As I write this, my heart is filled with panic, but we are not here to cry in the grave.
In fact, this situation is not without improvement. Look, in recent years, has it become more and more common to see people wearing Hanfu walking on the streets? When young people wear Hanfu to go shopping, no one thinks that they are different, but rather that they are quite beautiful. What does this mean? It means that the root has not disappeared, it has just changed a way of existence.
Effective protection does not mean placing intangible cultural heritage in a museum for enshrinement, but returning it to daily life. Just like the Miao drum in western Hunan, if it can only be beaten on the stage for leaders to watch during the holidays, it will eventually die. However, if it becomes an interactive content that tourists in the scenic area can go up and tap twice, then it can continue to survive with hands that are not very precise and even tap the wrong rhythm.
For this reason, the crisis faced by traditional culture is not that it is not good enough, but that we were too eager to get rid of it in the past. Now, it's time to slow down, lean down, pick up the dusty book, and brush off the dust.
Even if you don’t understand it, even if you think it’s pedantic, don’t throw it away in a hurry.
Because that is the way back and the way back.
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