What are the similarities and differences between the Spring Festival in China and the West?

First, the difference between the Spring Festival in China and the Western "Spring Festival" (Christmas):

1, different voices:

The sound of Spring Festival in China is "noisy", while Christmas in the West is characterized by "quietness". The Spring Festival in China is approaching, and there are voices everywhere, which is an affirmation of the world. Shouting New Year greetings, not to mention the crackling fireworks in urban and rural areas. The characteristic of Christmas in the west is "silence". From the street to the church, from the forest to the snowfield, everything is as quiet as a desert.

2. Different colors:

The color of Spring Festival in China is red. In the face of red and noise, everything should be truly safe and prosperous. The red color of the Spring Festival shows the optimism of China people and their expectation for future happiness. The keynote of Christmas should be white. Everyone is looking forward to a snowy "White Christmas". The white snow flowers whirled down on the quiet Christmas Eve, leaving the world white, pure and naive.

3. The connotation of holiday items is different:

In the process of development, the religious significance of Christmas has been weakened, and it has gradually become a festival full of fairy tales, allowing adults and children to enjoy the same happiness, fairy tales, Santa Claus who gives gifts, and beautiful emotional expressions and blessings. The most important cultural connotation of the Spring Festival is reunion, and this national complex has become something in the bones.

Second, the similarities between China Spring Festival and Western Spring Festival (Christmas):

1, everyone buys "new year's goods": when China enters the twelfth lunar month, it smells like the Spring Festival, so it is essential to buy new year's goods. Christmas trees and presents are everywhere in the Christmas shop, small yellow lights and colored lights are hung on the trees in the street, and the image of Santa Claus is everywhere.

2. Reunion: On Christmas Eve, people outside rush home to reunite with their parents, just like having dinner on New Year's Eve in China.

3. Gift-giving: In Europe, people give Christmas presents to each other, just like the Spring Festival in China. Old people give their children lucky money, and children give them lucky money to celebrate their birthdays.

Extended data:

Correctly face the cultural integration of eastern and western festivals;

Chinese culture has lasted for more than 5,000 years, and its formation process is the constant tolerance and integration of various cultures. It should be said that in the information age, the integration of eastern and western cultures is the general trend. If we want to stand on the world, we must continue to maintain this open mind.

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China since ancient times, and it has an irreplaceable position in everyone's heart in China. Even if we start celebrating foreign festivals, it doesn't mean that we don't love our own culture. On the contrary, after understanding the western culture, we are more identified with our own cultural traditions.

In Europe, every family will buy a Christmas tree at Christmas, just like every family in China will put up couplets, hang red lights and set off firecrackers. Although China in the East and Europe in the West are separated by Qian Shan, people hope for good luck and peace and look forward to the annual family reunion. The happy world is so close.

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