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There is still some time before Christmas, but the rich Christmas flavor comes first. Santa Claus and Christmas trees in large and small shops ... I don't know when some western festivals began to become popular in China.
April Fool's Day and Valentine's Day are very lively, but the traditional Valentine's Day and Dragon Boat Festival in China are deserted. Some people can't help thinking: Who moved our traditional festivals?
First, fight against western festivals
1, Tanabata vs Western Valentine's Day
Tanabata: The legendary day when cowherd and weaver girl meet, which is the traditional Valentine's Day in China. In ancient times, the golden wind and jade dew met, and there were countless poems that won the world.
Advantages: traditional culture.
Disadvantages: because the literary color is too heavy, it is not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Western Valentine's Day: February 14, a festival established in ancient Rome to show respect for Jonah.
Advantages: globalization, flowers, chocolates, sweets and other items are linked to the interests of businesses.
Disadvantages: after all, it is imported and has no cultural origin.
Win or lose: From the popularity of business in these two days, it can be seen that the Western Valentine's Day won.
2. Spring Festival vs Christmas
Spring Festival: In traditional folk festivals in China, people attach great importance to it. It symbolizes unity, prosperity and hope for the new year.
Advantages: Traditional festivals in China are deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Disadvantages: The form of festivals is too rigid to attract young people's attention.
Christmas: the biggest festival in the Christian world. In many countries in Europe and America, people attach great importance to this festival and associate it with the New Year. The excitement and solemnity of the celebration greatly surpassed the New Year and became a national festival.
Advantages: Globalization is on the rise, which caters to the young people's psychology of seeking novelty and accords with the businessmen's mentality of making money.
Disadvantages: only form, it is difficult to have a western cultural atmosphere.
Success or failure: Christmas in China is too commercial, just to satisfy the freshness of young people. After all, the traditional Spring Festival is deeply rooted and irreplaceable in China. Win the Spring Festival.
3. Double Ninth Festival vs Thanksgiving Day
Double Ninth Festival: On September 9, the sun and the moon meet in the sun, and the two phases are heavy, so it is called Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival, which is a festival to honor the elders and respect the elderly in China.
Advantages: It has a deep historical origin and represents its own culture.
Disadvantages: gratitude is too narrow and limited to respect for the elderly.
Thanksgiving Day: An ancient holiday created by the American people. Most Americans should thank God for his kindness in the past year. Traditionally, people should entertain their relatives and friends with seasonal fruits.
Advantages: This is a festival to be grateful to anyone, and food such as turkey makes businesses profit.
Disadvantages: after all, it is a foreign culture, which is popular with young people and cannot be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Win or lose: The Double Ninth Festival is mainly a festival for the elderly, and Thanksgiving Day is a festival for the young, which is tied.
Question 2: Please write an argumentative essay of not less than 800 words on the topic of "local festivals and foreign festivals". People are always looking for what they want in this world. The less they get, the more they want. Because there is a distance, because it is very * * *. Pursuing perfection is a beautiful thing, but we must be desperate, otherwise it will become a morbid state, and it is very important to grasp it properly. I have been trained many times since I was a child, and the most vivid memory is the second day of junior high school. A girl of 14 years old knows nothing. When we stepped into the gate of the army, we felt a serious airflow coming towards us. Since then, we don't like this place, because we like lively things. As the training goes on day by day, some female students in our class admire the instructor very much, thinking that the instructor is very dignified and much more powerful than dad. Is it? I don't think so. Maybe it's because my dad is a soldier I didn't care at that time, thinking that they were just on a whim. Until the night we were leaving, several girls quietly shed tears. I panicked and had to comfort them: "It doesn't matter, what's so great about the instructor?" When we grow up, we will be several times stronger than them! " I can't laugh at how naive we were. After all, it is a feeling cherished in my heart and the most beautiful. Distance is a wonderful thing. Because of the distance, we have the direction to pursue, and we will not be black and blue on the road of life. Children as old as us have some rebellious ideas more or less. Therefore, we never like anything we do until we gradually become interested in it. There is a distance, very near and far away. Because of the distance, there are so many touching stories in the fairy tale world. An ugly duckling spurned by everyone turned into a swan admired by everyone. The distance between the ugly duckling and the swan is both near and far. But it created a beautiful story: the eggs laid by the swan fell to the ground and rolled into the group of duck eggs. The mother duck didn't know that the egg she hatched was an ugly duckling. There is also Cinderella, who changed from the apple of the rich to a servant girl, and then had an identity envied by all girls-the bride of the prince, and lived a happy life from then on. I want to ask, where did these beautiful and moving stories come from without these distances that are close at hand and far away? Therefore, distance is a condition of beauty. Everything beautiful has a beautiful distance. This distance is very close and far.
Question 3: Traditional festivals in China are old-fashioned, while foreign festivals are interesting. How to refute any festival actually provides people with an opportunity to get together and communicate, whether at home or abroad. Some customs of traditional festivals in China may not be used to by modern people, so new ways to celebrate festivals are advocated now. Some festivals, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, remind people to be filial to their parents in China, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival for family reunion. Such a festival is very meaningful. In addition, if the foreign festival is celebrated, can there be so many holidays besides Christmas and New Year's Day? I hope it helps you!
Question 4: Why do middle school students forget traditional festivals but attach importance to foreign festivals? Middle school students are in the stage of growth and learning. One of the reasons is that the Internet has reduced the world into a "global village", and various foreign cultures have entered, forming a situation in which "Chinese and foreign festivals" have infiltrated each other. In addition, middle school students are inevitably rebellious and curious in their thoughts. Another reason is that while introducing western technology, culture will inevitably enter, so don't think that this will destroy national culture. After five thousand years' baptism, China's traditional culture shows great vitality and fusion. Nowadays, young people do not know enough about the historical evolution, characteristics and social significance of Chinese traditional festivals, and lack a sense of identity. Young people are curious, fashionable, imitative and blindly pursue western culture. There is not enough publicity and education guidance for festival culture at all levels.
Faced with the grim reality that more and more young people are keen to celebrate foreign festivals and ignore traditional festivals in China, and the alarm that South Korea's successful declaration of the Dragon Boat Festival has sounded for the world cultural heritage, we have to propose for the third time to increase the Qingming Mid-Autumn Festival as a legal holiday. Increasing the Qingming Mid-Autumn Festival as a statutory holiday is based on four advantages: First, it is conducive to inheriting the traditional culture of China. Secondly, it helps to support China folk culture. Third, it is conducive to enhancing the national cohesion of Chinese people at home and abroad. Finally, it is also beneficial to declare China's traditional festival culture as a world cultural heritage.
For many years, people have always felt that the flavor of festivals is getting weaker and weaker. When the concept of "festivals" is replaced by "holidays", the holiday economy and the holiday consumption frenzy caused by it have become the most magnificent landscape of the times. The "political correctness" in the concept of festivals often leads our thinking to the just judgment of the national salvation court. It seems that the decline of local festivals is the ghost of foreign festivals, so there are prosperous warnings such as "defending the Spring Festival" that appeared around Christmas in 2005. People have been arguing about how to protect the cultural values of local ethnic groups for at least 100 years and will continue at the same level, which hides the crux of the problem.
In fact, almost all important traditional festivals, whether in China or Europe, are facing a huge crisis. As a cultural identity ceremony, festivals have been branded with too many commercial brands in the era of globalization. In the 1990s, European countries, including France and Denmark, were deeply troubled by the penetration of consumer culture in the era of globalization, represented by the United States, and tried to resist it by promoting local cultural values ―― as you can see, the results were minimal.
On the surface, the prevalence of western festivals in contemporary China is indeed suspected of "cultural self-colonization". It's really incredible that a China native who speaks Chinese with yellow skin is keen on Christmas without any religious reasons. However, as our numerous interviews have shown, for most young people who ignore local festivals and admire foreign festivals, Christmas, like Hollywood blockbusters, Coca-Cola, LV and NBA, is just a fashionable consumer product from the West. The specific meaning of western cultural symbols has been confused beyond recognition by the desire of consumerism.
We don't understand why we celebrate festivals more and more. What we know and expect may be just a good sleep or holiday, just a good reason for shopping or crazy consumption, just an excuse for partying all night, or even just a symbol of our fashion attitude. Needless to say, festivals are a good opportunity for business promotion and a lever to stimulate domestic demand ... All these make the cultural atmosphere of our festivals very thin, and the ritual function of festivals in strengthening people's cultural identity consciousness is gradually losing.
Therefore, if the traditional festivals in China, represented by the Spring Festival, need to be protected and defended, then their imaginary enemies are not exotic festivals like Christmas, but all those things that have dealt a fatal blow to traditional values in the era of globalization.
Have a nice holiday and be ourselves for once.
18 opinion leaders' views on festivals
Looking back on the tradition, the local festivals of China people mean commemorative activities, or reunion, or celebration, or sacrifice. After the Spring Festival, there are Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Up, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival, off-year and so on. Gregorian festivals are generally anniversaries, such as Arbor Day, Labor Day, Children's Day, Army Day, Teacher's Day, National Day, off-year and so on. A survey conducted by China Social Survey shows that ... >>
Question 5: Should China people celebrate foreign festivals? The story of Lantern Festival has a long history. Lantern Festival has existed since the Han Dynasty, and gradually formed today's program. At the beginning, Emperor Han Ming saw that Buddhists would light lamps to see the Buddhist relics on the Lantern Festival. Emperor Han Ming took this day as a festival, and imitated monks to light lamps on this day, gradually forming the Lantern Festival.
In my opinion, foreign festivals should not be excluded, and our traditional festivals should be adhered to, carried forward and preserved. With the improvement of China's status in the world, now our festivals have gone abroad and gone to the world. Now many countries also have holidays and celebrations during the Spring Festival, which is the best proof; But at the same time, many foreign festivals have also influenced our way of thinking. Many young people blindly "accept", which is contrary to our traditional festivals. They think that domestic festivals are meaningless, but it is interesting to spend Christmas abroad, but they don't understand the meaning and have a way of thinking that they shouldn't have. To be exact, don't take foreign things and China things. The traditional festivals in China are the "essence" selected through long years and natural selection. Why go to it? If we can correctly guide and publicize the festival culture of the motherland, teenagers can understand and accept it; Through study, we should know our motherland and nation and love our nation. We should carry forward the fine festival traditions of our own nation. In this way, the meaning of the whole festival will form a harmonious atmosphere, and the spiritual adjustment will play a relaxed and interesting role, so that we can understand various festivals and inherit and continue them. `
The reasons for strengthening the foreign festival culture and weakening the traditional festival culture in China are as follows: First, the contemporary young people have insufficient understanding of the historical evolution, characteristics and social significance of the traditional festivals in China, and lack a sense of identity. Young people are curious, follow the trend, love to imitate and blindly pursue western culture; There is not enough publicity and education guidance for festival culture at all levels.
Last year, hundreds of China lanterns in London, England lit up the downtown area of Soho; New york, USA, designated New Year's Day as a legal holiday and took the lead in setting off firecrackers. Paris, France, celebrates the Spring Festival for the Spring Lion; China New Year celebrations are held every year in Sydney, Australia; Melbourne produces the longest dragon in the world; Brazil followed China's example and posted the word "Fu" for good luck.
Faced with the grim reality that more and more young people are keen to celebrate foreign festivals and ignore traditional festivals in China, and the alarm that South Korea's successful declaration of the Dragon Boat Festival has sounded for the world cultural heritage, we have to propose for the third time to increase the Qingming Mid-Autumn Festival as a legal holiday. Increasing the Qingming Mid-Autumn Festival as a statutory holiday is based on four advantages: First, it is conducive to inheriting the traditional culture of China. Secondly, it helps to support China folk culture. Third, it is conducive to enhancing the national cohesion of Chinese people at home and abroad. Finally, it is also beneficial to declare China's traditional festival culture as a world cultural heritage.
The setting of traditional festivals in China has formed the relaxed life rhythm of China people. Spring Festival is the first traditional festival in China and the beginning of a new year. /kloc-The Lantern Festival on 0/5 is actually the end of the Spring Festival. After this day, people who should go to work will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in a few months (the autumn harvest is over), and then the end of the year, looking forward to the Spring Festival in the new year. It can be said that the traditional life in Zhang Chi is well-known and busy, which accords with the characteristics of agricultural economy. The characteristics of western festivals are chaos, disorder and strangeness, which are determined by the influence of western multiculturalism and are different from the relatively simple Confucian culture in China. The influx of foreign festivals will definitely change the life rhythm of China people. Before the Spring Festival dinner is finished, there will be Valentine's Day consumption. What Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Carnival Night and New Year's Day holiday are closely linked? This unreasonable holiday setting has disrupted the life rhythm of Chinese people. Moreover, the mentality of China people has become fashionable. It seems that celebrating foreign festivals is modern life and fashion, thus diluting traditional festivals.
We should cherish and inherit traditional festivals of our nation. China Festival, with its subtle and profound characteristics, embodies a profound national complex: thinking of virtuous ministers during the Dragon Boat Festival, loving relatives in Qiu Si, respecting the elderly in Chongyang, and remembering old people in Qingming ... these virtues, which have enjoyed high reputation for thousands of years, will never disappear. In fact, when we celebrate traditional festivals, we are also promoting the spirit of national culture! One side's soil and water nurture one side's culture, and one side's culture edifies the other side. If we worship "foreign" more than "local", then we are blind. If we worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries and emphasize "local", that is to be inclusive, learn from each other's strengths and improve ourselves. Therefore, between "foreign festivals" and "local festivals", we should grasp the appropriate scale. For western culture, we should take its essence and discard its dross, never westernize completely, let alone stick to the rules. Let me ... >>
Question 6: The influence of foreign festivals on us. Whether it is the traditional festivals in China or various festivals abroad, its cultural connotation has been evacuated. We can't live without festivals, and we can't bear to see all festivals become shopping festivals and eating festivals. We need to find the confidence to communicate with each other in tradition.
Most of our traditional festivals are closely related to ancient agricultural production. When we bid farewell to the agricultural society and moved towards the industrial society, the function of traditional festivals began to decline in the industrial production era, and western learning spread to the east, and western festivals spread rapidly in this land, even leading! Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween and Thanksgiving seem to be glorious "China Festival", which is fueled by the shrewd propaganda of businessmen and the blind follow-up of the younger generation ―― traditional festivals are drifting away, and western festivals are popular.
Western festivals are fierce, but it may be a bit exaggerated to insist that they are as terrible as those in the past. Although the festival culture in the western world began to sprout before the birth of Christianity, its real growth was after Christian rule. Since Matteo Ricci used Confucian classics to spread the Bible in China in the 10th year of Wanli (A.D. 1582), Christianity has existed in China for more than four centuries.
In contrast, traditional festivals in China have not been effectively protected. After 1949, most festivals were abolished as feudal remnants, and only the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival survived, of which only the Spring Festival was listed as a legal holiday. Starting from 1949, our National Day holiday lasts only seven days. It was not until 1999 that the State Council issued the Measures for National Festival and Memorial Day that it increased to 10 days. This level is obviously too low compared with 69 days in China Song Dynasty, 15 days in Japan, 16 days in South Korea, 22 days in Macau and 23 days in the United States. The degradation of traditional festivals and the arrogance of foreigners' festivals constitute the most dramatic scene of this era.
People born more than 20 years ago still vaguely remember the seasons and holiday dates marked in detail on the old imperial calendar that turns pages every day. Open many calendars at present, and the traditional festival is only the Spring Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship, Dragon Boat Festival funeral, Qixi's begging for cleverness, Chongyang's respect for the elderly, Shangsi (March 3), summer solstice, Central Plains, winter solstice, Laba, stove worship and other important festivals have all disappeared from the calendar. At the same time, special rituals such as agricultural sacrifice, ancestor worship, deity worship, exorcism and disaster elimination disappeared. Those splendid and romantic ceremonies for thousands of years can only be experienced by future generations in ancient books?
There is no denying that the traditional festivals do have elements that are not acclimatized, but if you regard them as my loss and immediately throw them into the arms of foreign festivals, it is tantamount to throwing a knife at the palace. Festivals are not only the adjustment of daily life, but also the link to maintain national identity. Interesting, but also annoying, UNESCO's World Teacher's Day, the United States' Teacher's Day, China's Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong's Teacher's Day are all set on Confucius' birthday, that is, September 28th, but we deliberately avoided this day.
Why are foreign festivals popular and traditional festivals deserted? Scholars believe that this is cultural self-contempt and self-colonization. Modern history has left people not only endless resentment and anger, but also deep-rooted inferiority complex. Backwardness and beatings have become people's habitual summary of modern history, and numbness, inferiority and even hatred have become the attitude of most people towards their own culture.
Human itself is only an accidental branch of evolution, and the iron law behind human history is only a hobby dominated by anthropocentrism. The process of modernization cannot be the inevitable destination in human history, let alone the "city of God" to save mankind. On the contrary, the invasion of modernization process may cause devastating damage to the "cultural ecology" of mankind. In this seemingly doomed situation, both traditional festivals in China and various festivals abroad have actually been evacuated and turned into ostentatious decorations. For example, when Christmas comes to us, it is also a consumer day, or a fashion label, which will not pose too much threat to the traditional festivals in China. On the contrary, the real danger comes from ourselves. A warm festival like Mid-Autumn Festival has become a showcase for mooncake merchants to show off their skills and a channel for unscrupulous politicians to corrupt and speculate.
Fei Xiaotong once suggested that China, as a world power and an ancient civilization, should have such a cultural mind and ambition: "Each has its own beauty, beauty of beauty, beauty and * * *, and the world is one." This ideal can also be used to express our attitude towards festivals, neither supercilious nor supercilious. In today's serious lack of cultural identity, instead of making money and spending under the banner of festivals, it is better to be earnest and pious ... >>