Traditional culture

I.M. Pryanishnikov . Common sacrificial cauldron on the feast day. (An example of a “secular”, ie community holiday in the traditional culture of the Eastern Slavs)

Traditional culture ( traditional values ) is the culture of a traditional society , sometimes the term is used in the meaning of folk culture . Traditional culture is a stable, non-dynamic culture, a characteristic feature of which is that the changes occurring in it are too slow and therefore practically are not fixed by the collective consciousness of this culture.

Traditional culture is a specific way of organizing life, based on the inheritance of dominant meanings, values, norms ^[1] .

Traditional culture is represented by fairy tales , traditions , images of heroes and other phenomena in which the memory of significant events in the life of large groups of people (including whole ethnic groups ) is intertwined and fiction . Most often, the samples of folk culture reflect everyday wisdom, which is complemented by specific historical circumstances, which are consolidated and transmitted from generation to generation by stories . In most cases, they do not reflect events that actually took place in reality, but social relations between people, supplemented by the imagination of the storytellers, their ideas about good and evil , an ideal society.

Moreover, already in the Middle Ages , works appear that are a separate phenomenon in relation to folk culture, in which abstract concepts - honor , valor , fidelity represented in the European tradition by knightly novels - the culture of the feudal elite (for example, the cycle about King Arthur) play an important role )

In modern society, ideas about folk culture are significantly affected by the work of nineteenth-century scholars who, in the framework of the paradigms of romanticism and positivism , collected and published samples of traditional culture (e.g. Brothers Grimm , Alexander Afanasyev ).