Why do middle school students forget traditional festivals but attach importance to foreign festivals?

Middle school students are in the stage of growth and learning. One of the reasons is that the Internet has reduced the world into a "global village", and various foreign cultures have entered, forming a situation in which "Chinese and foreign festivals" have infiltrated each other. In addition, middle school students are inevitably rebellious and curious in their thoughts. Another reason is that while introducing western technology, culture will inevitably enter, so don't think that this will destroy national culture. After five thousand years' baptism, China's traditional culture shows great vitality and fusion. Nowadays, young people do not know enough about the historical evolution, characteristics and social significance of Chinese traditional festivals, and lack a sense of identity. Young people are curious, fashionable, imitative and blindly pursue western culture. There is not enough publicity and education guidance for festival culture at all levels.

Faced with the grim reality that more and more young people are keen to celebrate foreign festivals and ignore traditional festivals in China, and the alarm that South Korea's successful declaration of the Dragon Boat Festival has sounded for the world cultural heritage, we have to propose for the third time to increase the Qingming Mid-Autumn Festival as a legal holiday. Increasing the Qingming Mid-Autumn Festival as a statutory holiday is based on four advantages: First, it is conducive to inheriting the traditional culture of China. Secondly, it helps to support China folk culture. Third, it is conducive to enhancing the national cohesion of Chinese people at home and abroad. Finally, it is also beneficial to declare China's traditional festival culture as a world cultural heritage.

For many years, people have always felt that the flavor of festivals is getting weaker and weaker. When the concept of "festivals" is replaced by "holidays", the holiday economy and the holiday consumption frenzy caused by it have become the most magnificent landscape of the times. The "political correctness" in the concept of festivals often leads our thinking to the just judgment of the national salvation court. It seems that the decline of local festivals is the ghost of foreign festivals, so there are prosperous warnings such as "defending the Spring Festival" that appeared around Christmas in 2005. People have been arguing about how to protect the cultural values of local ethnic groups for at least 100 years and will continue at the same level, which hides the crux of the problem.

In fact, almost all important traditional festivals, whether in China or Europe, are facing a huge crisis. As a cultural identity ceremony, festivals have been branded with too many commercial brands in the era of globalization. In the 1990s, European countries, including France and Denmark, were deeply troubled by the infiltration of consumer culture in the era of globalization, represented by the United States, and tried to resist it by promoting local cultural values. As you can see, the result is minimal.

On the surface, the prevalence of western festivals in contemporary China is indeed suspected of "cultural self-colonization". It's really incredible that a China native who speaks Chinese with yellow skin is keen on Christmas without any religious reasons. However, as our numerous interviews have shown, for most young people who ignore local festivals and admire foreign festivals, Christmas, like Hollywood blockbusters, Coca-Cola, LV and NBA, is just a fashionable consumer product from the West. The specific meaning of western cultural symbols has been confused beyond recognition by the desire of consumerism.

We don't understand why we celebrate festivals more and more. What we know and expect may be just a good sleep or holiday, just a good reason for shopping or crazy consumption, just an excuse for partying all night, or even just a symbol of our fashion attitude. Needless to say, festivals are a good opportunity for business promotion and a lever to stimulate domestic demand ... All these make the cultural atmosphere of our festivals very thin, and the ritual function of festivals in strengthening people's cultural identity consciousness is gradually losing.

Therefore, if the traditional festivals in China, represented by the Spring Festival, need to be protected and defended, then their imaginary enemies are not exotic festivals like Christmas, but all those things that have dealt a fatal blow to traditional values in the era of globalization.

Have a nice holiday and be ourselves for once.

18 opinion leaders' views on festivals

Looking back on the tradition, the local festivals of China people mean commemorative activities, or reunion, or celebration, or sacrifice. After the Spring Festival, there are Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Up, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival, off-year and so on. Gregorian festivals are generally anniversaries, such as Arbor Day, Labor Day, Children's Day, Army Day, Teacher's Day, National Day, off-year and so on. According to a survey conducted by China Social Investigation Institute, 53.6% of young people celebrate "foreign festivals" to "find a happy reason"; Regarding "What are the differences between foreign festivals and traditional festivals in China", 57. 1% of men think that "traditional festivals in China stay at the level of material enjoyment such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, while foreign festivals pay more attention to spiritual exchange", and 60.7% of women think that "foreign festivals are relaxed, while traditional festivals in China are too tired".