Chinese boycott Christmas from the perspective of legal culture

In recent years, whether foreign festivals can be celebrated or not, and how to celebrate domestic traditional festivals have been discussed from time to time. Whenever Christmas and Valentine's Day are celebrated in the West, the voice of argument rings from time to time. Some experts and scholars suggest that China Mother's Day and China Father's Day be established to replace the Western Mother's Day and Father's Day, which are popular among young people. This is due to people's awareness of protecting and promoting China's traditional culture. Recognizing that "foreign festivals" are likely to have a negative impact on traditional culture, the education departments and schools have taken measures, and teenagers themselves have taken actions. Compared with "celebrating festivals" and "celebrating festivals blindly" a few years ago, this attitude change is undoubtedly commendable.

However, in order to protect and promote China's traditional culture, it is worth discussing whether it is necessary to "boycott Christmas" and who should "boycott". In this regard, Northwest University said that some students think that "foreign festivals" are fashionable, while traditional festivals in China are "old-fashioned". "This is a sad phenomenon". In fact, regardless of China or the West, festivals bear the cultural and historical memory and national feelings of their own nation, and in the eyes of others, festivals of their own nation are first and foremost a cultural spectacle. In the residential areas of China in western countries, it often happens that local residents spend the Spring Festival with the Japanese out of love and curiosity. There is no distinction between "fashionable" and "old-fashioned" in Japanese festivals, only "novelty", "strangeness" and "being used to it".