How to look at foreign festivals and traditional festivals

The reason why young people nowadays are keen to celebrate foreign festivals is inseparable from the wider cultural openness and exchanges and the freedom and openness of the media in recent years. Some Western festivals "in" is also in line with the young people seeking change, seeking new psychology and thinking, so "foreign festivals" is inevitably favored. People who celebrate foreign festivals are self-congratulatory, those who do not think it is regarded as "foreign", but the word "foreign" is too shallow and simple to summarize. Young people like to celebrate the festival is not only fashion, but also a cultural phenomenon, which reflects the cultural choices and the pursuit of values under the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures.

The reason for the "invasion" of Western festivals is, on the one hand, related to the strong economic and cultural background of the West, a sweetness that we have tasted in China during the Tang Dynasty. On the other hand, it is due to the market to these foreign festivals full of freshness, as a business opportunity, vigorously speculation, held up as fashion. On the other hand, it is due to the over-emphasis on the political content of life in the past decades, and the one-sided intensification of political festivals, downplaying the festivals of folk customs and traditions. Nowadays, social life back to normal, people's pockets and time are rich, at this time the need for a festival to bring the interest of life and climax, the results found that our festivals have long become poor, limited, difficult to cope with the needs of the people, and then there is a gap.

Chinese festivals follow the natural rhythms and form a closed space based on the family; Western festivals are part of the larger society and go beyond the family. Compared with the two kinds of festivals, the former is necessary for family reunion, and it adapts to Chinese society. The large-scale festivals that have been preserved now have a strong meaning of family reunion, while festivals with less reunion atmosphere, such as "February 2nd Dragon Heads Up", are gradually fading away; the latter is a product of interpersonal communication, which pays more attention to contact with non-blood relatives, and the increasing preference of Chinese for foreign festivals is an inevitable change in the structure of the Chinese society. With the urbanization of Chinese society, this kind of communication using "foreign festivals" as a way of gathering people should become more and more popular.

The fusion and collision of cultures at an unprecedented rate is an inevitable trend of globalization. The Chinese people have always been open-minded, and there is no lack of foreign things in the traditional Chinese culture. However, foreign festivals flocked to, there is a trend of overstepping the bounds of traditional festivals through thousands of years of wind and rain inheritance, why instead of going downhill?

Five thousand years of history has left the Chinese people a lot of things, traditional customs is an important part of them, customs in addition to a habit, but also represents the traces of civilization and national identity. But it is a pity that modern Chinese people are becoming more and more familiar with Western festivals and at the same time forgetting their own history at a more alarming rate. Some people think that this is the result of the invasion of foreign cultures, others think that this is the inevitable result of globalization, but few people have ever thought about what contribution we Chinese have made to the preservation of these traditions and customs. Looking back at the history of China since its founding, we have never recognized the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, or the Chung Yeung Festival as national holidays at the formal institutional level, and it can be said that with the exception of the Chinese New Year, the entire Chinese population has been isolated from China's 5,000-year history by the powerful forces of our own government in their daily lives.

With the deepening of the modernization process, the traditional culture of the Chinese nation and people's way of life are being subjected to the fierce impact of Western culture and lifestyle and a strong challenge, in the face-to-face confrontation between Western and Chinese culture, how can we grasp the essence of the absorption of Western culture and the inheritance of China's unique traditions, the "degree"? How can we grasp the "degree" of absorbing the essence of Western culture and inheriting the unique Chinese traditions? In this collision, how can we stand firm and hold on to our own classics, showing the deep and heavy cultural "base" of the Chinese nation?

In fact, Chinese culture has a strong cohesion and appeal, and its cultural values are more open and acceptable. What we need to consider is to fully enhance this potential cultural internal drive. Properly handle the extension and enrichment of traditional culture, and as a base, find a new program to open the way out, and reasonably build a benign, new national cultural mentality and connotation, so as to provide a healthy soil for the enhancement of the quality of the nation, to do some meaningful exploration and attempt are very necessary and timely.

Festivals, as the centralized manifestation of specific cultural traditions of various ethnic groups, always have multiple social reasons for their prosperity and decline, both ancient and modern. With the development of society, China's festivals are also bound to "survive the changes", some of which will be diluted, some of which will be more intense, and some of which will be given new meanings and connotations. Of course, this change is the result of the people's choice, is a little bit of social life continues to accumulate results.