Differences and Contrast between Chinese and Western Festivals

Now let's compare the festivals in China and the West. First, I compared the biggest festivals in China and the West, and found something. I didn't see China's New Year's Eve. I just have a family reunion. I will never invite outsiders. Even my closest friends know this very well. I won't break into other people's family dinners this evening. I have to celebrate the new year on the first day of the first month. This has almost become an established custom, which has a history of at least thousands of years. Christmas in the west is different. The night before was Christmas Eve. Santa Claus will come tonight, bringing gifts and good wishes to everyone. Like China people, this evening is also a time for family reunion. The difference is that this annual festival often invites friends and even foreign friends to participate. If it is New Year's Eve, when the New Year's bell rings, people will jump for joy and can't help running into the street to hug everyone they meet, whether they know them or not. Thanksgiving is equivalent to the Spring Festival in China, and it is a festival for the whole family to get together to welcome the New Year. But both of them are family reunions, which fully embodies family affection and kindness; They are both important traditional festivals for people to remember their ancestors and thank the earth for raising them, but the difference between them lies in the form of celebration. Before the Spring Festival, families in China will make a lot of preparations, clean the house and cook special food. The red scroll is hung on the wall, and China people believe that the words on the scroll will bring them health, longevity and happiness. Not only that, all China people in the world like yangko and firecrackers during the Spring Festival very much. But when Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, eating turkey and watching professional football on TV are typical Thanksgiving activities. Walking is also an important part of the holiday. Reform and opening up have broadened our horizons, and people's social contacts have become more and more frequent. In addition to family, there is a broader social space. Christmas Eve provides a place for family and friends to get together. Western customs just complement China's customs. How can they be unpopular?

In recent years, fireworks and firecrackers have been banned in many places. Fireworks and firecrackers, which could have been exciting, have left us with a "bad habit", which makes the Spring Festival lose the traditional festival color of "firecrackers kill the old year" and we can only stay at home day after day and watch the Spring Festival party, the first month party and the Ministry of Culture party ... Perhaps because of our actions, the charm of traditional culture has been invisibly discounted in the hearts of young people.

Any festival has its regionality or uniqueness. In America, there are Halloween, Thanksgiving and so on. In America, they spend almost a quarter of the year celebrating festivals. In contrast, many traditional festivals in China, such as Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival, are more elegant, with deeper cultural connotations and less "madness". This is why many young people are keen on western festivals instead of traditional ones. Of course, we can't ignore the subtle role of western economic strength and commercial speculation.