How to treat western festivals
First of all, respect western festivals and learn western culture. Influenced by history, religion and culture, most western festivals have obvious religious colors, such as Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Most religions persuade people to be good, and their good things can promote our progress. For those festivals that are full of romantic feelings in the west and conform to the traditional virtues of our Chinese nation, such as Mother's Day, Father's Day and Thanksgiving Day, we should vigorously advocate and promote them, constantly improve our own quality and speed up the process of social civilization!
Secondly, the connotation of these foreign festivals should be more important than the external form. For example, on Christmas Eve, students can feel a strong Christmas atmosphere in the streets and major shopping malls-for example, in the lobby on the first floor of Smile Hall, there are Christmas trees filled with candy and gifts, kind and lovely Santa Claus, and cheerful Christmas carols, and so on. These are the external manifestations of Christmas, so do students know how "Christmas" came from? When did it rise? Which colors are Christmas colors? If you can basically answer these three questions, can you raise your hand? Unfortunately, only a few students have explored these deeper cultural issues. The name "Christmas" is the abbreviation of "Christian Mass". We celebrate Christmas as the birthday of Jesus, so it is also called Jesus Day. This was stipulated by the Christian church in the middle of the 5th century. Christmas was originally a Christian holiday. Because people attach great importance to it, it has become a national festival, the biggest festival in western countries in a year, similar to the Spring Festival in China. Westerners use red, green and white as Christmas colors. When Christmas comes, every family should decorate it with Christmas colors. Not only Christmas, but also other exotic festivals contain many historical and cultural backgrounds and customs. I hope that students will pay more attention to their cultural connotations when watching these festivals, so that you can appreciate them better.
Furthermore, while celebrating the foreign festivals, don't forget to carry forward the excellent festival cultural traditions of the Chinese nation. We should uphold, preserve and carry forward our traditional festivals. China's culture is profound, especially many traditional festival cultures, which contain rich essence of national culture: for example, the Spring Festival is a traditional festival for the Chinese nation to celebrate reunion! Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival for hiking, sweeping graves, remembering revolutionary martyrs, and mourning for deceased relatives; Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, we can have a family reunion again. It's fun, in heaven! ..... In a sense, these festival cultures not only show the local customs of a certain time and place, but more importantly, show the traditional virtues of respecting the old and loving the young, being hardworking, kind, brave and wise, and the simple, pure and profound folk culture of the Chinese nation. However, with the development of the times, these traditions and cultures are gradually forgotten or declined. If they are not rescued, inherited and carried forward in time, when they disappear completely, they will leave irreparable defects and regrets! Therefore, every Chinese descendant with a sense of responsibility, justice and foresight must stand on the height of history and the world to understand this issue. Make the past serve the present and make foreign things serve China. They neither worship foreign things nor stand still, but appropriately absorb the essence of western festival culture.
Finally, we should use a famous sentence in Lu Xun's famous political essay "Takeism" to summarize our attitude towards western festivals: use your head, open your eyes, take the essence, discard the dross and take it yourself!