The Influence of Western Festivals in Respect of Chine Culture
1 Introduction
Every country has its own festivals. When a festival comes，all of the countrymen will celebrate it in a traditional way. With the development of the world, many countries not only celebrate its own festivals but also foreign festivals. The phenomenon is especially popular in China.
With the influence of western cultures, more and more Chine people prefer to celebrate western holidays rather than traditional ones. When Christmas or Valentine Day comes, youngsters flood into bars, restaurants, and department stores to celebrate the festivals which their ancestors know little about. Everything has two points. This phenomenon reflects both advantage and disadvantage. Maybe our traditional holidays are more boring than tho western holidays, so more and more people don't like to celebrate them. For an instance, nowadays Spring Festival is quite different from our parents' generation. And say some good points of it，First, obviously it can bring big income of economy to our country, it can make some people become richer, like business men. Second, our lives will become more meaningful, we get more chances to get together with our parents and friends.
In my opinion, the popularity of western festivals includes two aspects. First of all, it reflects that Chines小狗作文
e people's attitude towards countries has changed. We become more open, and we are more willing to accept foreign something different. It also reflects that western culture has more effects on us than ever before. Nowadays, people in China are increasingly interested in celebrating foreign festivals, especially tho western festivals. The reason why I choo this topic is that the coming Christmas and the whole holiday phenomenon make me wonder the factors that contributing to this craze.
闻字组词2 Analyzing the Status of the Western Festivals in China
Some critics are arguing that people are losing their traditional values and the respect of historical heritage. They insist that the popularity of foreign festivals should warn sociologists and educators nationwide. However, I do not completely agree with them. Foreign festivals in China today are celebrated for fun for they give people opportunities to relax. All of us have been familiar with festivals ever since our childhood. There are all kinds of festivals, from conventional ones such as spring festivals, Mid-autumn Day to national holidays like the Labor Day. The days, more and more people are turning into celebrating foreign festivals ------San Valentine‟s Day, Christmas. Although some people wonder whether it is necessary for our traditional festivals to exist. So I think it is esntial to find something exclusively reasonable to explain the strange phenomenon at hand. To discuss all the factors relating to this festival bizarre.
金鱼的画法I would like to begin this part with a survey conducted recently In it the hosts ask surfers about their attitudes toward Christmas. Among the 18222, 63.9% said celebrating Christmas is just another way of recreation, nothing rious while 17.85% surfers termed the festival as a fashion act, showing they were not “out”. The two parts clearly indicate the general opinion of the young. Only 7.8% of people define Christmas as a kind of festival colonization. The phenomenon of celebrating foreign festivals plays an important role with the advancement of Chine economy. When a major festival arrives, the business are trying every means to boost the atmosphere, thus finding opportunity to attract every possible customers. The atmosphere ro by the businessmen however, stimulate the public and rai their desire to celebrate the foreign festivals. They give people certain assumption that it is definitely necessary to be part of the celebration. Du ring the middle of the 90‟s, high school and college students in big cities are limited to celebrate Christmas and other foreign festivals. The young people studied English in class, had their own English names and possd understanding of the western culture. They usually go to McDonald‟s and KFC, drank coke, watched Hollywood films while they knew little about traditions of Mid-autumn Day---they even complained that the moon cake
tasted awful and should be derted! But they did remember Christmas, Sa n Valentine‟s Day and April fool‟s Day
Then the campus culture spread the so-called “middle class”. Celebrating foreign festivals ems to be a fashion and a trademark of the wealthier class. From this point of view, western festivals begin to show their s trong influence on people‟s values and thoughts. The combination of the acceptance of western culture and the desire of western world happened long before the business world enters this field.
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3 Analysis of Caus of the Popularity
安全图标图片大全Why are western festivals so popular in China? I think there are many reasons. The most important reason is that the cultural communication between China and foreign countries is more and more frequent. Since China started the “reform and opening up” in 1978, foreign cultures, certainly including festival culture, have affected many Chine people. Thus, we Chine can receive some western culture, such as some important western festivals. One reason is someone may try celebrating the important and meaningful festivals, and then more and more people celebrate them eventually. Another reason may be Chine people‟s curiosity about western festivals. Besides, I think only meaningful or interesting festivals may be accepted by most Chine people. The young people like celebrating V alentine‟s Day, becau the festival makes couples get together and is in favor of the development of the love between the lovers. In contrast, only a few Chine pe
ople celebrate the Easter. I think that is becau the culture of the Easter is a little far from our Chine culture.
二节棍Now people are facing one question: how to celebrate the Chine New Y ear in a way that could both maintain an ancient tradition and make it fit the new time and attractive to the new generation. family gathering and visiting miao hui are still dominantly popular, new activities like tourism, text message greetings and partying with friends are also gaining grounds. Meanwhile, other old traditions, such as worshiping ancestors and kneeling down in front of niors, have almost completely disappeared. However，some new changes are appearing。Firstly，the status of women in the society changes. For example, traditional Chine people think men and women
圣劳伦斯岛are not equal which is influenced by Confusion. Women‟s job is just taking care of babies or doing the houwork. However, the Western culture tells us we should give men and women the equal right. More and more talented women u their own ability to improve them—they can do what man can do. So we should thank tho people who fight for the women‟s right in t he early western counties。Secondly, lots of new science and technologies are introduced into our country, which indirectly improve our living condition and the quality of the society in recent years. We can e the lifestyle becomes different. It means our life become more colorful. At this aspect, it should be extre
mely necessary to put it into the spotlight, for it is the major achievement the western culture made. We no longer only wear Zhongshan fu, instead; we have more new modern clothes, different color, and different styles. We begin to know how the westerners celebrate their own festivals. So the are all very new and fresh for us, which we are more likely to imitate. The V alentine‟s Day enrich the life of lovers, and it is really so romantic. The Christmas let you experience the different custom. People become open, they want to take tho new and interesting and exciting things which they haven‟t tried before. T hirdly, some good elements of Western culture do affect Chine society. For example, in modern western society, the lives of most old and disabled people are cured by perfect social insurance system. We learned from them to establish the social insurance system, and accomplished it step by step, so more and more disadvantaged of people‟s life are insured in Chine society.
4 The Attitude to the West Festival
The attitude toward foreign festivals varies a lot from person to person. From what I can e, foreign festivals are popular mainly among the younger generation while the niors show little interests to them. As I have previously stated, the young people today are growing in the atmosphere of well acceptance of foreign cultures and increasing tolerance toward foreign festivals. They enjoy happily
nding greeting cards at Christmas, DIY chocolate to their beloved ones on valentine‟s day, and hug
their parents on Mother‟s day and Father‟s day. To them, foreign festivals enrich their lives, giving them more occasions to have fun and appreciate love.
While, the older generation show quiet indifferent attitudes toward foreign festivals. They still prefer traditional Chine festivals, during which the gathering of family is still greatly emphasized. They regard the young people‟s craze about Christmas and Valentine‟s Day as deceived by business‟ tricks. The m oney spent on gifts and flowers are, in their eyes, nothing but waste. As foreign festivals today still go with some economic interests, the people in poor places care little about them, or even do not know them. The wealthier the city is, the more festival atmosphere could be en there. Foreign festivals in china today are celebrated for fun. They give people occasions to relax and celebrate, to show appreciation and gratefulness. The acceptance of foreign festivals generally depend on the openness of the public, the familiarity with the western culture, and most importantly, on people…s economic status. China are celebrating foreign festivals for merely fun and curiosity; the fear of culture colonization is nonn.
5 Conclusions
What young people look for is to try a new way of living, a new t of culture in the foreign festivals. Christmas in Shanghai is viewed with Chine festival. The number of celebrating of Christmas here is over 70%. On other southern cities, to most enterpris, Christmas is not only a big business opportunity, but also a perfect occasion that boss connect with the clients and the staffs. Hotels make full u of the chance to offer luxurious Christmas dinner to make much profit; still, the luxuries are sold out in conds. Businessmen make u of all measures to make profit; some shopping centers redecorate their little gifts such as doll bear and chocolates to ll at special prices. We have no Christmas Whether a city celebrate Christmas is largely depend on the culture infrastructure of the city, the economic conditions and the extent of openness. In big cities like Shanghai, Guangzhou Christmas has become the matter of every people. But in some inland cities, especially tho in the west part of
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