Should we Chinese celebrate foreign festivals or not?

Should we Chinese celebrate foreign festivals or not? Several factions have had a bit of an argument recently. It started with a rumor that the government is calling for a boycott of foreign festivals, which at this time of year, of course, means Christmas. They believe that this is the right policy and that foreign festivals should be boycotted. One faction then reacted by strongly supporting the Chinese celebrating Christmas as a sign of civilization and enlightenment and integration into the international community, and even linked it to the noble spirit of Christianity, believing that such a spirit is sufficient to save the country from laziness and degradation, and that the lack of a religious spirit among the Chinese is said to be the biggest national cultural flaw, thus making cynical remarks about the former faction and the government. The other faction, I live my shopping and food festival, foreign or not, what is the matter with me.

When I think about it, the third group is a bit more interesting. The first one is about the birthday of the first person in the world. The first is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the situation, and that you have a good understanding of the situation. The first is the "Pinky", which is a new type of festival, and the second is the "Pinky". No matter what kind of foreign festival, we dilute it, we transform it, we dissolve it, is not a gimmick to sell things? It's just a reason to buy things, isn't it? Why take it so seriously? We Chinese were originally easy to the extreme, foreign or earth, pull to be able to use on the line, regardless of the origin. If Christmas is foreign, then Labor Day, Women's Day and Children's Day are national? It's still not a foreign festival? Have the guts to boycott it all, but can not, then accept it. Small people, every day either by the institutional units of the pressure of labor, or to the private capitalists to earn hard-earned money. It's not easy to have a festival, so it's always good to have something new, to eat and play on the street, and to have a day off in case you have another day off. What do I care about Christmas? What's Thanksgiving about? What's holy about Halloween? Look down on it, it's no big deal. We Chinese, there is no obligation to follow the cultural habits of Westerners original copy of foreign festivals, there is no obligation to the Westerner's "holy" held in the head, love in the heart, we live our own, I just borrowed your foreign festivals to spend my own time only.

The first faction is too uptight to boycott Western festivals. Foreign festivals have indeed invaded Chinese society and had a great impact on our current reality, which has a great impact on our own cultural practices, especially on children and teenagers will have a negative impact, and may not only know Santa Claus only know Jesus, but not Confucius and Mencius. But this can not be blamed on foreign festivals, the reason still have to find from their own body. If we do not pander to foreigners, if we do not make themselves into a cultural vacuum, foreign festivals can not come in, even if they come in will be the people of natural alienation, can not become the climate. It is because we have destroyed the traditional culture, the people, especially young people do not know what traditional folklore in their own country, then they naturally with the foreign festival in the past. Look at our festivals, today, how many customs are left for the people to adhere to? I don't think we have much left, except for family reunions and eating a meal to death. Nowadays, how many people still offer sacrifices to their ancestors during festivals? Do they still burn paper? How many people still offer incense and candles? Even the government has taken the lead in saying that this is a bad habit and should be banned and "changed". But what is left of customs and traditions if there are no specific rituals and no specific content? Children and teenagers like Christmas, is not because of lying to him Santa Claus in a car with a backpack to deliver things? Isn't it because there's a Christmas tree with lights? If you like Halloween, isn't it because you can dress up in costumes and pretend to be a ghost? The maintenance of customs and traditions absolutely requires rituals and specifics. Why else would Christianity have a mass? We destroy our own culture, and now we blame others for celebrating foreign festivals, why did we do it so many decades ago? Moreover, the government is not trying to boycott foreign festivals, but only encouraging people to resume traditional festivals, which is far from boycotting foreign festivals, and not the same thing at all. So the first group of people, using chicken feathers as a token of authority, have got it wrong.

The second faction has an even bigger problem. I've read several articles by this faction, and I feel that they put their farts in their nostrils. Because they all like to grunt from the nose out, a thick contempt from the gap between the nose hairs drilled out, they are foreigners foreign things foreign culture supremacy. First of all, whether or not to celebrate foreign festivals, and enlightened or not, and whether or not to integrate into the international community, and the country's people have no hope, and whether or not democracy and freedom, and whether or not there is the spirit of religion, there is no half a penny relationship. If a Chinese is a Christian, he can of course celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving because it is his freedom of belief and we support him. But we non-Christian Chinese in general are not obliged to venerate any saints in the West. What kind of saints are we celebrating when we celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving? What kind of grace is there to be thankful for? I don't think it's my Chinese saints, and I don't think it's my Chinese grace. Therefore, as long as I am not a Christian, there is no need for me to buy into it at all. I respect you foreigners and Chinese Christians for having Christmas, it's your custom and religion, but the rest of us are free to have it and not have it and how we want to have it.

Well, then people like me will be put on a big hat of disrespecting the great spirit of Christianity and love, and even more from this will rise to the lack of religious spirit of my entire Chinese nation, saying that the reason why the Chinese people are in such a situation today is because of the claimed 5,000 years of civilization, but the lack of religious spirit lack of religious beliefs. The final conclusion is that the Chinese people do not have religion, do not understand reverence, so is in need of Christianity to save the spirit. Such arguments are really older than the feet of my housewife. It is not a new thing. I Chinese people have no religion? My Chinese people don't know how to be reverent? I Chinese people backward because there is no national religion? I think, as long as a little bit of culture, read some books, not hearsay, pick up the wisdom of others, these three questions, all know the correct answer. Anyone who advocates that the Chinese need the spiritual salvation of Christianity is not a Christian, but an uneducated person.

My Chinese Buddhist, Taoist, yin-yang and folk religion have been going on for thousands of years, so how come there is no religion? I Chinese people talk about "living in a respectful place, the executive respect" "respect to straight inside, righteousness to square outside", talk about "fear of the fate of heaven, fear of adults, fear of the words of the saints", science, especially to the main respect, fear as the culmination of kung fu How can there be no reverence and fear? Does one have to take Christianity as a religion in order to have a religion? Does it have to be the spirit of Christianity in order to have reverence? This is nonsense. In my opinion, the fact that the Chinese people do not have a unified religion like Christianity is not only not our sorrow, but on the contrary, it is our blessing, and it is the virtue of our ancestors. We really have to thank the Analects of Confucius for the saying, "The son does not speak of strange powers that confuse the gods". China has a long history of extremely diverse ethnic groups and complex political issues, and it is fortunate that we have not been as serious as the foreigners in terms of religion, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable, and China might be the second Middle East, where this faction and that faction are in a state of chaos. We have always been more tolerant in religious culture, which is precisely where the inclusiveness of our national culture, otherwise five thousand years of civilization, just how many religious massacres can be. Our traditional cultural identity has always made us focus on the real world, and it has also prevented us from getting caught up in a completely unreal religious life, so we have avoided religious strife like in the West and the Middle East, which I have always been proud of, and which is worthy of our praise. Instead, as some westernized supremacists advocate, the lack of a state religion is a cause of sorrow and inferiority of the Chinese people. Westernized supremacists are still twittering and advocating the West even now, without looking at the fact that Christianity has long been bankrupt and how many people go to church now? Westerners want to live an illusory religious life, but alas, Christianity is bankrupt in the face of modern science, so what to do? With his illusory spiritual opium gone, how can he solve the problems of the present world? How can he relieve his pain? Well, then replace it with physical opium, so marijuana came, heroin cocaine came. Religion and narcotics are incompatible on the surface, but their core is actually the same, both have the effect of anesthetizing the spirit and diverting attention from the present world. We Chinese, mainly concerned about the present life, God is not God's, and I do not have much to do with me, I pray to God and worship the Buddha, but also for the present life, so do not seek illusory spiritual anesthesia, religious bankruptcy or not bankruptcy is the same, and I will not be lack of spiritual anesthesia to go to the drug substitute. I think this is a good thing about the Chinese people, a good quality in the national culture. If today's Chinese people have a low quality, it is definitely not a problem of traditional culture, but rather it is precisely the result of not engaging in traditional culture, either by destroying it in a big way or by acting against it.