Why are too many people excited about Western holidays while the traditional Chinese New Year is slowly fading away!

1. Most traditional Chinese festivals lack the support of appropriate symbols (people) and the fulfillment of individual emotional needs, and most traditional festivals do not have that impressive feeling. Festivals also change with the times, the original festival may be a celebration of the harvest or in the alternation of the festival produced a collective participation in the activities of a ritual, and now there is no longer a need to celebrate the harvest, with the emergence of air-conditioning, heating, mink coats and other tools and materials, the festival is no longer valued, the modern people over the festival is often to meet the emotional demands, like the Mid-Autumn Festival of the people and the moon two reunions and the Lunar New Year's Eve dinner because it can satisfy people's emotional appeal to the home and has been flourishing, while other festivals are relatively weaker in this regard.

2, now using the calendar is the Gregorian calendar, do not use the lunar calendar, traditional festivals are often associated with the lunar calendar, and modern people gradually have no concept of the lunar calendar, and the lunar calendar corresponds to the concept of festivals is also becoming more and more diluted. Perhaps it is also because the moon in the city is getting fuzzy, we no longer have the habit and mood to know the time according to the moon and stars in the sky, and we will not understand those festivals that are incredibly important to the era of men farming and women weaving, and the traditional festivals are getting more and more fuzzy.

3, the business hype, this point for foreign festivals into Chinese life plays a crucial role, of course, foreign festivals, but also to a certain extent, to fill the modern education rather than the traditional education of people's emotional needs, like Father's Day, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day and so on. In Chinese tradition, filial piety to parents is a great thing, there is no need for a festival to show, but there are many cases in which modern people can not do it, and at this time in the traditional Chinese festival and can not find a suitable to express this feeling, foreign festivals have taken advantage of the situation.