How to treat the composition of traditional festivals and western festivals in China?

Now we all like Christmas very much. Not only that, we also like to celebrate Mother's Day, Father's Day and other western festivals. Why?

The reason is that in these festivals, we can give gifts to warm our friendship and express our concern for our parents. In these festivals, we know how to honor our parents, and we know how to express our concern for our friends, which is a kind of harvest brought by festivals.

These are really meaningful, but students don't know much about these western festivals, and most of them know them through shops, newspapers and TV. These stores only introduce the gifts they sell, and seldom introduce the holiday culture. Obviously, businessmen do this advertisement in order to buy gifts for everyone and make money.

However, does this mean that there are no meaningful festivals in China?

In fact, many festivals in China are also very meaningful, such as Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival. During the Spring Festival, I get together with my parents, grandparents and so on, have a family reunion dinner and stay together as a family. Everyone is happy to pay New Year greetings to their elders.

If we understand the traditional festivals in China, such as Spring Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, we will find that every festival in the motherland has well-known legends and stories, which reflect the traditional habits of our nation. For example, there is a legend about the Spring Festival:

Keeping the old year is the custom of staying up late to welcome the new year on the last night of the old year. Also known as New Year's Eve, the common name is "Enduring the Year". Exploring the origin of this custom, there is an interesting story circulating among the people: It is said that a long time ago, a fierce monster lived everywhere in the deep mountains and forests, which people called "Nian". Its appearance is ferocious, its nature is ferocious, and it specializes in eating birds, animals and insects. It changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian". Later, people gradually mastered the activity law of "Nian", that is, every 365 days, people go to places where people live in concentrated communities to taste fresh food. The haunting time is after dark, and when the rooster crows at dawn, they return to the mountains. After the date of evil in the middle of the year was determined, people took this terrible night as a gateway, called the Year Pass, and came up with a whole set of ways to close the New Year's Eve: every family prepared dinner in advance, turned off the fire, cleaned the stove, tied all the cowpeas, sealed the front and rear doors of the house, and hid in the house for New Year's Eve dinner. In addition to inviting the whole family to have dinner together to show harmonious reunion, we should also worship our ancestors before eating and pray for their blessing to spend the night safely. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and chatted with courage. Gradually formed the habit of not sleeping on New Year's Eve.

This is just a legend about the Spring Festival. If students know about it, you will find that every traditional festival in China has beautiful legends and stories.

So how should we treat China traditional festivals and western festivals correctly? For western festivals, students should learn more about the legends and stories of western festivals, so that they can become caring and have a beautiful heart. At the same time, we should clearly realize that we are from China, so we should learn more about our great motherland civilization, and the people of China should learn from our traditional culture and celebrate our own festivals. Through the traditional festivals in China, we can learn to respect the elderly and honor our parents, so that the traditional virtues of the motherland can be carried forward in our traditional festivals.