Can modern western festivals replace traditional festivals in China?

In order to protect Chinese culture, 10 doctors jointly proposed to boycott the "foreign festival", and a famous professor shouted to defend the Spring Festival. On the occasion of the close collision between Valentine's Day and Spring Festival this year, 40 college students from Shaanxi Normal University/KLOC-0 contributed to the protection of traditional festivals, forming a big collision of views, showing the position of traditional culture in the eyes of young people and the influence of western culture on young people, which is worthy of the society.

Transforming traditional festivals VS sticking to their own coordinates

Many college students think that traditional festivals in China need to be transformed. Chang Yanfang and Wang Guiya analyzed the reasons why traditional festivals were neglected from the perspective of life: people used to like the Spring Festival, especially because it meant wearing new clothes and eating good meals. Most festivals in China are related to diet, such as eating glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival, zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now China people's living standards have improved, and most of what they expected in festivals in the past was obtained in peacetime, so people's enthusiasm for festivals has been greatly weakened.

"Traditional festivals are too complicated, and today's people will live as before. On August 1 1 day, 2005, Guangzhou opened the curtain of' Guangzhou Qiao Qi Culture Festival 2005', but it only reproduced the grand occasion of zhu cun Qiaoqi Festival in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Most citizens only stay at this level. " King illustrated his point of view with examples.

Gao Yuanyuan, Li Peifeng, Tian Qi, Jin and others believe that traditional festivals are basically handed down from feudal society, which inevitably bears the feudal brand: closed, family-style, hierarchical, centered on family activities, a bit rigid and inflexible, and incompatible with today's market economy and society; Western "foreign festivals" belong to a big society, self-centered, advocating individuality and embodying the characteristics of equality and freedom for all. These are just in line with the emotional requirements of all sentient people who want to release pressure in the modern fast-paced and fiercely competitive society. Therefore, we should transform our traditional festivals while retaining their original features. In recent years, there has been a strong "Chinese style" in pop music and clothing, and the important reason for its success is the packaging and reorganization of folk customs in a fresh and fashionable form.

Although there are not many people who oppose the reform, their reasons are quite convincing. He Wei, Zhou Rui and others believe that it is not that China people do not attach importance to traditional festivals, and the enthusiasm for celebrating the Spring Festival far exceeds that of Christmas. It's just that everyone gets together with their families on traditional festivals, not on the street, so there seems to be no "foreign festival". Some people always like to bring China's traditional culture into the coordinate system of western culture and give their traditional festivals the title of westernization. No matter whether the Chinese Valentine's Day is renamed as "Valentine's Day in China" or "Love Words in China", it reveals the loss of confidence in China's traditional culture, which is nothing more than letting Zhu Yingtai put on Juliet's clothes and learn English from Juliet. Therefore, she is neither like Juliet nor has the charm and temperament of Zhu Yingtai. Rigid packaging, transformation and even commercialization of traditional festivals and traditional culture will inevitably vulgarize traditional culture and destroy its purity and charm. We should have enough national self-confidence and stick to our own coordinates.

Commercialized Folk Festivals and Restoration of Traditional Features

Some college students think that the indifference of traditional festivals is related to commercial hype. Guo Yan, Yuhang, Rob Gezong, etc. It is pointed out that the prosperity of "foreign festivals" is related to businessmen's speculation for economic benefits. In recent years, every year before Christmas comes, businesses have to make a big splash, buy one and get one free. The streets are covered with Christmas trees, Santa Claus and colored lights, and the festive atmosphere is extremely strong. The combination of commercial culture and traditional culture is an inevitable trend in 2 1 century. We should do a good job in combining folk culture with business with a serious attitude, and let some discerning businessmen and entrepreneurs organize more traditional festival activities. For example, the Dragon Boat Festival, while selling zongzi, introduces the origin of the festival and the knowledge of why to eat zongzi, so that people know the connotation of traditional festivals in the motherland.

Another part of college students not only oppose the commercialization of traditional festivals, but also think that traditional characteristics should be restored. He Jia said that on the fifteenth day of the first month in China, people eat glutinous rice balls, put lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, enjoy the moon, set off fireworks, play dragon lanterns in pairs, dance lions, walk on stilts, dance yangko and play Taiping drums. They are much richer than Christmas, and their participation, entertainment and knowledge are far from comparable. Lantern Festival is not as good as ancient times, nor can it catch up with Christmas. First of all, some people have divorced the Lantern Festival from the basis of non-governmental participation. For example, on the Lantern Festival every year, we basically look at lanterns and occasionally guess riddles on them. The form is monotonous, and you have to buy tickets to enter. Some tickets are still very expensive and cannot mobilize the "spiritual cells" of the people. In this way, the traditional festivals in our country are gradually abandoned. If we restore the characteristics of traditional festivals in China, we can resist the impact of "foreign festivals" on traditional festivals in China.

"The Chinese Arts Festival really needs some new ideas. This new idea doesn't mean adding anything modern, on the contrary, it means going back to the past. Now it is often said that the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, and this' taste of the year' is powerless to abandon the customs. Many people in the city spend the New Year to save trouble. The family is having New Year's Eve dinner in the restaurant. Without the busy scenes of preparing New Year's Eve, stick grilles and steaming flowers, the intimate atmosphere of the family will be lost. " Zheng Jianying said.

Hou Jing Nan and Ma Yingying believe that traditional festivals have a strong human touch, naturalness and secularity. It is not backward, but its inherent potential and charm are still hidden under the mysterious veil. Tradition will be forgotten one day, no matter how valuable it is, if it is always at the bottom of the box. Therefore, it is urgent to restore the traditional festival culture. We should dig out its far-reaching significance and integrate it into our daily life year after year. It is gratifying that some universities have listed folklore as a postgraduate major. For example, graduate students enrolled by the College of Literature of Sun Yat-sen University have the direction of studying folklore.

Let nature take its course VS give support.

"In fact, almost all important traditional festivals, whether in China or Europe, are facing a crisis. In the 1990 s, European countries, including France and Denmark, were deeply troubled by the infiltration of global consumer culture represented by the United States, and tried to resist it by promoting local culture-as you can see, the results were minimal. " In Yang Lijun's view, it is inevitable that traditional festivals will be impacted.

Ma Ma and Liang Xiangling believe that time is the best discriminator of authenticity and quality. There have been foreign festivals in history, such as the Buddha Bathing Festival, but in the end, it did not form much climate, and the traditional festival of Spring Festival in China was also repeatedly persecuted. During the "Cultural Revolution", people were not allowed to wear new clothes and shoes, tie red ropes, have New Year's Eve dinners or worship their ancestors during the Spring Festival. On this day, people will go to the fields to take part in labor, which they call "the Spring Festival of the Revolution". But isn't the Spring Festival celebrated every year now? If western festivals have their advantages, let alone folk initiatives, even if they are explicitly prohibited by national laws, they cannot be contained. There are many kinds of festivals in China, and there are some stereotypes. Since they are bad things, naturally let them die. Those calls for boycotting Christmas are a sign of guilty conscience. It is useless to worry that traditional festivals in China can't bear the impact. In fact, "real gold is not afraid of fire", and good things will become stronger after the storm. We might as well take an "inaction" attitude towards "western festivals" and let them die.

Liu, Zhang Rong and others oppose the idea of letting nature take its course. The reason is that after the May 4th Movement, China people began to abandon Chinese studies, traditional culture and folk customs, thinking that "foreigners" are advanced, modern and scientific as long as they are western, while China's traditional things are backward and superstitious. Before the reform and opening up, many traditional festivals were banned, so many holiday customs were gradually replaced or even disappeared, leaving only uniform and monotonous activities. Therefore, when the door to the outside world was opened, people were fascinated by the dazzling things outside before they could publicize and understand the traditional culture and festivals in China. As traditional festivals in China have been treated unfairly in history, we should save them and give them special care today.

Sun Dan, Zhao Dan and others believe that the prevalence of "Western festivals" lies in the deviation of children's education, which emphasizes cultural knowledge over quality training. Therefore, it is necessary to intensify publicity, let Chinese people see the benefits and advantages of traditional festivals, and let the traditional culture and traditional festivals of the motherland be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, especially the young people. This requires the formation of a three-dimensional publicity model, from film and television to newspapers and magazines and even student textbooks. You can also do some exquisite and beautiful public service advertisements and hold prize-winning knowledge contests.

"Last year, in a folklore class, I found that there are so many interesting folklore in China culture. We have a lot to learn. Where is the time to soak the honey water of western culture? " Lareina C said humorously.

Han Cheng, Wang Ping, Lei Mingyuan and others. It is believed that the problem can not be solved by one or two scholars shouting. It is necessary to have the continuous support of policies, increase the capital investment in culture, and support and protect the folklore specialty in colleges and universities. Among the current legal festivals in China, only the Spring Festival is a national traditional festival, so it is urgent and necessary to appropriately increase traditional festivals as legal festivals. Establish relevant files to ensure that they can be passed on to future generations, and at the same time establish various cultural activity centers to cultivate various ethnic and cultural talents.

Go out and make foreign things serve China.

On Christmas Eve, the citizens of our city revel with foreign tourists. Although they are wearing Santa hats, they are dancing yangko with the traditional drums in China. (data picture)

"We have been defending, why not sell the dragon to the western hemisphere? It is a pity that we have such endless cultural treasures, but we have not made full use of them. " Lv Mengyao is full of confidence in the vitality of China traditional culture.

Jing Wong, Zhou Youxie and others believe that in the global economic integration and extensive cultural exchanges, the attack of western culture is inevitable. If foreign cultures are banned blindly, their status will become smaller and smaller until they disappear. Therefore, we should not only make China's traditional culture stand locally, but also go global.

More college students think that foreign things serve China.

Liu Qiuyao, He Wei and others said that in recent years, the "Chinese fever" is in the ascendant in the world, and 80 Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms have settled in 36 countries and regions. Why didn't people regard "Confucius going abroad" as "cultural output" and set up a corresponding "firewall"? The influx of western festivals is not terrible, but the narrow nationalism of China people. Therefore, we should build up confidence, make it China and turn it into a China festival.

Liu Xiaorong, Zhang Lili, Wu Di, Luo Shiwei, Zhang Haimei and Yan Fu. It is pointed out that the Han and Tang dynasties are the most powerful, brilliant and dazzling times of our national culture, and the times of active exchange and integration with foreign cultures. In fact, many festivals, such as Labor Day, Children's Day, Nurses' Day, Journalists' Day, Women's Day and New Year's Day, are international festivals, and no one abandons or resists them in order to defend national traditions. Some unique humanistic and humanized festivals in the West, such as Mother's Day, Father's Day and Thanksgiving Day, are not found in traditional festivals in China. China people are very reserved when expressing their feelings. On Mother's Day, they sent a bunch of carnations and a greeting card to make many people who are not good at expressing their love for their mothers. Therefore, "foreign festivals" are a useful supplement to our traditional culture, which can be used to improve our holiday system and publicize Chinese traditional virtues. It is very necessary to learn from them selectively, and we should not hesitate to make foreign things serve China.

Do more practical things VS change your mind

Who says the Spring Festival is not lively? (data picture)

Many college students think that something real needs to be done at present, instead of empty shouting.

Ren Chong and Song Jinliang suggested that every descendant of China people should "celebrate" traditional festivals and participate in them, at least to ensure the festive atmosphere. Even if you can't do great things, you should learn more about folk culture and spread it as widely as possible.

Zhou Rui and Talia Liu believe that the loss of China tradition is directly related to unpracticism. We always like to do some formal things, but we don't try to fundamentally change ourselves. /Dr. 10/0 called for boycotting the "foreign festival", which will not fundamentally change anything. Christmas just passed is still lively. If we really want to change the status quo of western cultural invasion, we should develop China's national strength. If our comprehensive strength is developed and we have a hard back in the world, are we still afraid of those "western festivals"?

Liu Qiuyao, Chen Yiqing, Yue Jia and others believe that the key issue at present is to change the concept, otherwise the more things you do, the greater the damage to national culture. Many people in our country are neither willing to accept culture nor willing to let it go. When other people's Valentine's Day and other festivals are for us to enjoy, we think it is cultural aggression and we should resist it. And South Korea's successful application for the Dragon Boat Festival, we are angry again, thinking that people have robbed us. This is a completely destructive mentality, intended to make everyone feel better. As long as we face the exchange and existence of different cultures with a peaceful mind, and seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, I believe our traditional culture will be well passed down.

Reporter's notes

140 college students put forward contradictory ways to protect traditional festivals and cultures because they have different attitudes towards "foreign festivals": 10% students resolutely resist "foreign festivals"; 59.3% students think that they can spend the "foreign festival" moderately under the correct guidance; 8.6% students think it doesn't matter if they can't pass the "foreign festival"; 7.8% students think it is a good thing to have a "foreign festival"; Students who hold other views account for 14.3%.