The influence of foreign festivals on us

Since the 1990s, people in China have suddenly become very interested in celebrating foreign festivals. Foreign Valentine's Day, romantic scenes, Mother's Day, etc. Every year is very prosperous, but their own festivals, such as Cold Food Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day and Double Ninth Festival, are getting cold. What is the reason why the "foreign festivals" are popular and the local festivals are "cold"? How about celebrating foreign festivals? There are different opinions in the media, and the author makes a brief analysis here, which is summarized as follows:

Nowadays, the prevalence of "foreign festivals" has its inevitable factors: First, after China's reform and opening up, foreign cultures infiltrated into it and countries blended with each other. This is a natural phenomenon; Second, global economic integration has accelerated the influence of foreign cultures on China. It is human nature that many foreigners work and spend holidays in China. Third, the media and commercial speculation have promoted the "foreign festival" to continue to heat up, mainly behind the huge commercial profits; Fourth, it is inevitable for our people to live a rich life and pursue a colorful spiritual life; Fifth, many young people and college students pursue fashion and follow suit. When foreign festivals came, they had a good time. Moreover, foreign festivals pay attention to humanization, are more relaxed and romantic, and pay attention to emotional appeal, such as sending roses on Valentine's Day and Christmas Eve on St. Salim's Day, which are easily accepted by young people.

However, the traditional festivals in China are generally educational, monotonous in form, and some are feudal, and at the same time they are not valued by the government. Various reasons have caused the situation of "foreign festivals are hot and cold".

In fact, it is not wrong for China people to experience foreigners' festivals and appreciate foreign cultures. Isn't there a China Festival abroad? I am also interested in the Dragon Boat Festival. Therefore, it is unnecessary to worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries in foreign festivals. Everything will disappear after the holiday is warm.

However, it is still necessary to remind the Chinese people that there is a limit to everything, and it is the eternal truth to exaggerate everything and truly make it a world of foreign festivals. On the eve of Christmas, the national 10 doctoral students jointly appealed to the public to be cautious about Christmas. 10 doctors of philosophy or education from Peking University, Nankai University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other famous schools or scientific research units issued a joint proposal, calling for being cautious about Christmas. They believe that "Christmas Carnival" is a collective unconscious behavior of Chinese people after the loss of subjectivity of traditional culture in China.

Ten doctors boycotted Christmas.

Recently, this proposal entitled "Going Out of the Cultural Collective Unconsciousness and Facing the Subjectivity-Our Views on Christmas" appeared in a prominent position on major websites. The first sentence of the article is "Western culture has evolved from a light breeze and drizzle to a storm in China. The most direct and concentrated embodiment is the quiet rise and increasing popularity of Christmas in China. " Wang Dashan, a self-proclaimed "folk scholar" and doctor of philosophy, believes in his article that every Christmas in China, shopping malls, restaurants and hotels will hang "Christmas trees" and employees will wear them, and the posters of "Christmas balls" in schools will occupy a prominent position; It is a collective unconscious behavior for people to meet and wish each other "Merry Christmas". The fundamental reason lies in the loss of theme and the sinking of subjectivity in China culture.

Therefore, doctors called on "China people to treat Christmas with caution, get out of the cultural collective unconsciousness and bravely face the cultural subjectivity of China". The article also suggests that relevant government departments should re-examine and rationally regulate the increasingly popular "Christmas frenzy" in shopping malls, media, schools and other departments and industries within the scope of respecting freedom of religious belief and legal framework.

Confucius is called Santa Claus.

As one of the sponsors of the proposal, Chen, a 2005 China doctoral student at the School of Philosophy of Wuhan University, said that he saw on the Internet that on September 28 this year, when a teacher led primary school students to pay homage to Confucius in front of the statue of Confucius, some primary school students pointed to the white-bearded saint and said, "This old man is Santa Claus!" This matter has a great influence on him. It is associated with the fact that many college students are keen on Christmas now, and even primary and secondary school teachers organize students to engage in various Christmas activities, which further urges him to think. "We also know that our strength is limited, and we don't expect any immediate results," he said. "We just urge our people to seriously reflect on their lives and whether they have done it right."

Scholars and netizens have different opinions.

Zheng Dandan, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, believes that the prevalence of foreign festivals, such as Christmas, occurs in the context of globalization or the infiltration of western civilization in the world, and is the result of the blending of different civilizations. Crossing the foreign festival is often a means of individual identity construction. Due to the strong position of western civilization, overseas festivals may be labeled as tasteful, fashionable and fashionable. In a sense, this is a kind of cultural hegemony.

By 9: 40 last night, 17334 people had participated in the survey of an online website, 53.8% people opposed the idea of China people celebrating foreign festivals in the west, 29.68% people agreed that people were just looking for opportunities to relax and were not brainwashed by western culture, and 17.24% people were indifferent.