Why is Christmas becoming more and more popular in China?

1. Most traditional festivals in China lack the support of corresponding symbols (people) and the satisfaction of individual emotional needs. Most traditional festivals don't have that impressive feeling. Festivals also change with the times. The original festival may be a ceremony to celebrate the harvest, or to participate in group activities when the solar terms alternate. Now there is no need to celebrate the harvest. With the appearance of air conditioning, heating, mink coats and other tools and materials, the change of solar terms is no longer valued. Modern people often celebrate festivals to satisfy their emotional demands, such as Mid-Autumn Festival reunion and New Year's Eve dinner, which are enduring because they can satisfy people's emotional demands for home, while other festivals are relatively popular.

The current calendar is solar calendar, not lunar calendar. Traditional festivals are often associated with the lunar calendar, but modern people have gradually lost the concept of the lunar calendar, and the concept of festivals corresponding to the lunar calendar is getting weaker and weaker. It may also be that the moon in the city is getting blurred. We don't know the habit and mood of judging time according to the moon and astrology in the sky, and we don't know the solar terms that are extremely important for men to plow and women to weave. Traditional festivals are becoming more and more blurred.

3. Merchants' hype has played a vital role in the entry of foreign festivals into China. Of course, the entry of foreign festivals also fills the emotional needs of people with modern education rather than traditional education, such as Father's Day, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day and so on. In China's traditional concept, filial piety is an important event, and there is no need for another festival to express it. However, modern people really can't do it many times. At this time, there is no proper way to express this feeling in traditional festivals in China, so foreign festivals take advantage of it.