Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - How to treat Chinese and western cultures correctly 1000 word composition

How to treat Chinese and western cultures correctly 1000 word composition

Since 1990s, people in China have suddenly become interested in celebrating foreign festivals. Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day, romantic plot, Thanksgiving Day and Mother's Day are flourishing year by year abroad, while traditional festivals in China, such as Cold Food Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival and Double Ninth Festival, are gradually becoming indifferent. "Foreign festivals" are popular, while local festivals are "cold". How about the transoceanic festival 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.

Liu Shahe, a famous writer, lamented that traditional festivals are in an awkward situation at present, but foreign festivals are highly respected. Every time a foreign festival is held, it makes people stunned. Moreover, every Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival is quite deserted and sad. Two kinds of festivals are also the challenges of two cultures. With the increasing pace of urban life, western festivals seem to have a slight advantage. What we are afraid of is not the invasion of western culture. The progress of every culture is based on absorbing and drawing lessons from foreign cultures. We are afraid that people will abandon traditional culture and their thoughts will be completely occupied by foreign cultures. Wei Minglun, a famous scholar, said that the apathy of traditional festivals can be regarded as the rupture of national culture, and the reasons for this situation are very complicated. But in any case, China people should not watch traditional festivals disappear from our lives.

Faced with the phenomenon that China people ignore traditional festivals and pursue western festivals, many people can't help asking: What happened to the Chinese nation with a long history? What happened to the kind and wise people of China? What happened to China's time-honored traditional culture? How to treat the cultural exchange between China and the West? Should China people love Western festivals? How can we protect traditional festivals?

From the closed-door policy in Ming and Qing Dynasties to the reform and opening-up policy of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, China experienced a long period of turmoil. A large number of western cultures flooded into China, and a large number of "foreign goods" flooded into the China market. All kinds of western religious beliefs and humanities are impacting the eyes of China people. The stimulation of new things makes people more and more blind, but it leads people to ignore traditional culture.

Western festivals such as Christmas are becoming more and more popular, while our traditional festivals in China, such as Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, are getting more and more boring every year. Western culture has changed from gentle breeze and drizzle to violent storm in China. The most direct and concentrated embodiment is the quiet rise and increasing popularity of Christmas in China. Young people are selective about foreign festivals. Their favorite festivals are mainly Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day to promote friendship, love and affection between friends and relatives. There is nothing wrong with enjoying foreign festivals, but it will be sad if you alienate your traditional festivals. Traditional festivals are gradually disappearing in the minds of China people. Except for the complaints from merchants and the media, everything in the Spring Festival seems to be a mere formality. Strangely, the yellow-skinned China people living in the western world attach great importance to the festivals left by their ancestors, which is in sharp contrast with the declining situation of the local rivers. This is a great irony and sorrow for our nation!

What we are afraid of is not the invasion of western culture, but the progress of every culture is based on absorbing and drawing lessons from foreign cultures. What we are afraid of is that people abandon traditional culture and their thoughts are completely occupied by foreign cultures. The apathy of traditional festivals can be regarded as the rupture of national culture, and the reasons for this situation are very complicated. But in any case, China people should not watch traditional festivals disappear from our lives.

China's culture is a culture produced by continuous integration, so the inclusiveness of culture is a major feature of China's culture. For example, there is a very interesting phenomenon abroad, that is, there are few countries where several religions are popular without conflict. China is different. There are Buddhism, Catholicism and Taoism in China, and the sects are not single. Take Buddhism as an example. There are both Zen Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism, but there is no sectarian conflict in China. In addition, China people's beliefs are also very tolerant, that is, they believe in both bodhisattvas and immortals. An obvious evidence of mixed belief is the exchange of Taoist immortal system and Buddhist immortal system in The Journey to the West. This is extremely rare in foreign literary works. Therefore, tolerance is the biggest feature of China culture. Therefore, I think that in the face of the rolling ocean currents, we should be tolerant, but we should not forget our unique traditional culture. The Japanese have done a very good job in preserving traditional culture and treating western culture, so we should learn from Japan how to protect our traditional culture. In recent years, South Korea has used China's neglect of traditional culture to declare the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in China, as a cultural heritage of South Korea, which is a great shame for the people of China. Therefore, when we accept foreign cultures, we can't give up everything and keep our splendid culture for 5,000 years in our own hands. Revitalizing national culture is our greatest responsibility now.

China's traditional culture has the natural view of harmony between man and nature, the group view of self-sacrifice and altruism, the view of valuing righteousness and interests over profit, the view of attaching importance to harmonious interpersonal relationship, the cultural values and humanistic spirit of "striving for self-improvement and attaching importance to morality". Under the impact of western ideas, we need to adhere to the cultural concepts and values of the Chinese nation and correct the weak mentality of being obsessed with foreigners; Enhance national self-confidence and pride. Only the national is the world. The more national characteristics, the more valuable and vital it is, and the more it can go to the world. Therefore, carrying forward national traditional culture is the most powerful weapon to resist western cultural hegemony.

In the past, our ancestors advocated "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", and later there was a saying that "learning from foreigners to strengthen themselves". In fact, this change implies that we should be good at ourselves first and then resist foreign aggression. Today's TV market in China may be impacted by American TV dramas, Japanese TV dramas and Korean TV dramas to some extent. But this is not necessarily a bad thing, because there is no progress without competition. And all we have to do is take the essence and discard the dross. As college students, what we can do is actually the same. Nowadays, watching foreign TV plays is a way to absorb and understand culture. Through the spread of this language and pictures, we get psychological communication, and we can further communicate and learn from other audiences and even screenwriters about its content. However, this kind of research is not based on invasion and anti-invasion, but on a technology, a viewpoint, a life attitude and even a life concept. So as to improve their ideological depth and provide such a communication platform for all audiences.

In the face of globalization, the inheritance and return of culture mainly depends on our young people. We should deeply understand the profoundness and profound historical background of China culture, the legend, origin and long history of China festivals. I think we will fall in love with the ancient China culture and find a harmonious way to combine with western culture. Under the impact of complex multiculturalism, we can learn to examine and distinguish clearly, learn to take the essence of each family, enrich our minds and experiences, and find the correct coordinates of life. Only by adjusting our mentality can we become qualified socialist successors.