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Almost all traditional festivals have inevitably fallen into the predicament of existing in name only, is this inevitable?

For many years people have been lamenting that the taste of festivals is getting fainter and fainter, and when the concept of "festivals" has been replaced by "holidays", the holiday economy and the popular vacation consumption frenzy thus provoked have become the most magnificent landscape of the times. Festivals on the view of "political correctness" often leads our thinking to the national salvation of the court of justice without new ideas, it seems that the decline of local festivals are foreign foreign festivals to do ghosts, so, there is a 2005 Christmas around the emergence of the "defense of Spring Festival" The "defense of the Spring Festival" emerged around Christmas 2005, a kind of dangerous words. People have been arguing for at least 100 years about how local national cultural values should be protected, and will continue to do so at the same level, which obscures the crux of the issue.

In fact, almost all important traditional festivals, both in China and in Europe, are in great crisis. Festivals, which are rituals of cultural identity, have been marked by too much commerce in the age of globalization. In the 1990s, European countries, including France and Denmark, were y hurt by the penetration of consumer culture in the era of globalization, represented by the United States, and tried to resist it by promoting local cultural values - with little success, as you can see.

On the surface, the prevalence of Western festivals in contemporary China does seem to have a strong suspicion of "cultural self-colonization. It's hard to believe that a yellow-skinned, Chinese-speaking Chinese person would be keen to celebrate Christmas without any religious reasons, but as our numerous interviews have shown, for the majority of young people who disregard local festivals in favor of Western ones, they have no idea that Christmas is just a trendy consumer product from the West, like Hollywood blockbusters, Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton, the NBA and so on. It is a fashionable consumer product from the West. The specific meaning of Western cultural symbols has been muddied by consumerist desires.

We've become less and less aware of why we celebrate. We know and look forward to what may be just a good sleep or vacation to de-stress, just a good reason to go crazy shopping or spending, just an excuse to party all night or even just a symbol used to show our fashion attitude, and of course it goes without saying that festivals are more of a good opportunity for commercial promotions or a lever to stimulate domestic demand. ...... All these have made the cultural flavor of our festivals very thin, and the ritual function of festivals in reinforcing people's sense of cultural identity is being lost day by day.

So if traditional Chinese festivals, represented by the Spring Festival, need to be protected and defended, their imaginary enemies are not imported festivals like Christmas, but all those things that deal a fatal blow to traditional values in the age of globalization.

Have a good holiday and take ourselves seriously.

18 Opinion Leaders on Festivals

Traditionally, Chinese native festivals mean commemorations, reunions, celebrations, and rituals, and after the Spring Festival, there are the Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Lifting Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Lunar New Year's Day, and so on. In addition, in recent years, Chinese people are also keen to celebrate "foreign festivals", such as Christmas, Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Easter and Halloween. According to a survey conducted by China Social Survey Office, 53.6% of young people celebrate "foreign festivals" in order to "find a reason to be happy"; on the question of "What is the difference between foreign festivals and traditional Chinese festivals? In terms of "What is the difference between foreign festivals and traditional Chinese festivals", 57.1% of men think that "traditional Chinese festivals stay on the level of material enjoyment such as food and clothing, while foreign festivals pay more attention to spiritual exchanges", and 60.7% of women think that "foreign festivals are relaxing and easy-going, while traditional Chinese festivals are tiring! "

In today's China, there are on average two festivals every month, how do people treat these festivals? The survey involves Confucian scholars, professors of religion, private tutors, former ambassadors to Germany, media commentators, professors at Chinese study institutions, young directors, musicians, foreign executives, beautiful writers, international models, magazine editors-in-chief, foreigners in China, party-goers, professional clergymen, mountain-climbing enthusiasts, overseas Chinese scholars, modern artists and so on. (Coordinator/Dong Wei)

Zhang Yang: "I don't know what day the Dragon Boat Festival is."

"A sixth-generation director" and one of the most sincere young film artists of our time. He has recently faced two major events, and his mood is most likely in a delicate state: first, his own film "Sunflower" won two awards in Spain last October, and second, his new film was released domestically at a dismal box office. Zhang Yang has been rather blasé on the subject of festivals.

"Festivals often mean that people get a period of freedom and happiness, and those of us who are in the movie business have a freer time than the general public. For me, a festival is a day to be happy."

Zhang Yang considers the real festivals to be mainly the Spring Festival, New Year's Day, May Day and National Day. Christmas is more like a day for young friends to get together, while on the Spring Festival, many people have to go home. On the second and third days of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Yang often goes to Yunnan to get together with friends in Dali and other places. Zhang Yang basically do not "Valentine's Day", which he believes is a holiday that young people before the age of 20 care about.

Zhang Yang believes that festivals are related to a person's upbringing, and that Valentine's Day and Christmas only appeared after the 1980s, and that people born after the 1980s have more memories of these "foreign festivals".

Zhang Yang knows what day Qingming and Mid-Autumn Festival fall on, but he doesn't know what day Dragon Boat Festival falls on. Zhang Yang does not think that "foreign festivals" is a "cultural invasion", "in fact, it is only so that the Chinese people can find a reason to revel in, its function is to provide an opportunity, and did not change the concept of human beings. In the future, there will not be only Christmas but not Spring Festival, because people have a historical heritage." (Interview / Wu Wei)

Motton: "Valentine's Day more holidays more formalized ah!"

Contacted the notorious beauty writer Cotton when she was having dinner with her friends, the hubbub coming from the microphone paved the way for a vivid backdrop - as if Cotton should be like this, always surrounded by a large group of friends, always the center of attention. Such a party animal must be full of interest in the festivities, and each of her holidays should be Colorful Days --

Cotton went so far as to say that on Christmas Eve she had planned to stay home, but the singer Jiang Xin, known as the female version of Xu Wei, asked her to go out to dinner, and so together they went to the "Happy Garden", and later went to the Beijing music station's famous DJ to Say Hello, out of the past "Babyface" when cotton and listened to their own hunches to go in to find the owner rarely appear, and opened two bottles of champagne! ...... In this way, the cotton intended to be quiet at home cotton had a noisy Christmas Eve. She said she didn't feel much for Christmas, but it was her youngest daughter who was passionate about it because every year she goes abroad to spend it with her dad, just like a standard foreign kid. Speaking of Valentine's Day gifts, Cotton's answer was "Never!" She said that if she were to cancel a holiday, it would be Valentine's Day, "What's the point? It's so fake and formalized! Don't you think it's boring?"

The most impressive holiday in the past year, cotton thought for half a day, seriously said it should be the Spring Festival, "because you can be with your family", the upcoming Spring Festival is also intended to "accompany mom and dad". As for his most happy holiday, cotton said one is two years ago in the Great Wall above the world's top DJ Party, another is not long ago in the Netherlands rock festival. For the masses of the festival, cotton can not say what the origin of foreign festivals, nor can I think of any impressive traditional festivals celebrations, "I'm a person who has no sense of festivals". (Interview/Han Feng)