Christmas is a little incredible in China. According to my knowledge, most Chinese people do not believe in Christianity; and the concept of Chinese traditional festivals gradually fade in young people, even in the most important Spring Festival, people go home and relatives to relatives Get more and shorter.
The New Year is approaching, this time, people around the world celebrate the arrival of the festival in different ways.
Global integration not only promotes international commercial trade, but also affects the tradition and custom habits of people in various countries in various countries to varying degrees. Taking the United States as an example, every city in the United States has Chinese restaurants. I believe that no Americans have never had a Chinese meal, while restaurants, Greece, Thailand, Mexico or other national flavors are also located in the United States.
Christmas is a very incredible in China
Just like Americans accepted diet culture around the world, China's young generation is also absorbing Western culture, such as they are keen to celebrate Christmas, Valentine's Day and other Western Festival.
Anything will change due to the transition of time and space, and culture is no exception, especially when it needs to be integrated into another culture, it will inevitably change the top appearance. For example, in the United States, the Chinese food will be different from it in China, because it should adapt to the dishes of Americans. Similarly, according to my personal experience in China, the Chinese celebrates the way the Western Festival is also very different from the traditional way of Americans.
4 years ago, I have taught two years in a university in China. During the coaching, I found that celebrating Christmas is very popular among students.
Students not only give each other cards and gifts, they will also hold a dance on Christmas night or Christmas. In addition, there are many shops to decorate with Christmas trees, and even invites people to dress as Santa Claus. These and Americans celebrate Christmas's way, but it is not exactly the same. But in any case, I feel that Christmas is very incredible in China, because Christmas is a religious festival, and as far as I know most Chinese don't believe in Christianity, I don't understand the true connotation of this festival. Christmas is Christians to celebrate the celebration ceremony in the birth of Jesus, so in the United States and some other Western countries, only Christians celebrate Christmas. However, until today, Christmas has become a mixture of religion and traditional culture. During Christmas, people will not only go to the church like the past and give each other gifts, and they will erect the Christmas tree, hang on the fireplace, waiting for Santa's gift. If you look at all as a Christmas traditional celebration, it is wrong. In fact, approximately 200 years ago, the Christmas tree began to become a part of the celebration, and the appearance of Santa Claus can only be traced back to the 1930s. The celebration with Chinese young people is that Western countries don't have a large party and dance, because in the Western tradition, Christmas is a day with family reunion, just like China's Spring Festival. A family will get together, enjoy a meal, then remove the gift under the Christmas tree, then go to the church.
At the moment, the Western Festival of the Chinese is passionate celebrated not only Christmas, but also the Valentine's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc., but only, China's young generation has been transformed into localization, regarding it as a kind of Friends gathering opportunities.
Don't make the tradition of the "Ocean Festival"
At the same time in these foreign countries, China's traditional festival has also changed some changes. One year, Mid-Autumn Festival was one of the most important festivals in ancient China. On this day, the whole family will enjoy the moon together and enjoy the delicious moon cake, and many famous celebrations are poetic. However, today, the concept of "Mid-Autumn" has gradually faded in young people. Even in China's most important traditional holiday Spring Festival, people return home and relatives are getting shorter and shorter, usually have not waited for the 15th day of the first month, people have dragged the tired body back to work.
The festival is an aspect of culture, and culture is changing with the jump of the world pulse. Every time we celebrate the festival, we are interested in helping this festival tradition in culture, or make it change to meet with the times. As people have changed with age growth, life experience will also be different, cultural and traditional changes are also taken. With the increasingly closeness of global intercom, cultural traditions have become one of the shared resources of the world. The foreign culture wants to get root in a certain place, which must also need to adjust to adapt to the new environment. As far as the culture itself, there is no good or bad. But in any case, the loss of ancient tradition is indeed painful. Today, young people in the world speak English, wearing jeans, listening to English songs, and even the religious festivals such as Christmas began to prevail in many non-religious areas. I am not saying that this is not good, but it does mean that the traditional culture of many places has not fallen. Each culture and tradition have its irreplaceable value, which should not be forgotten with the process of modernization and globalization. Many people think that modern and tradition are incompatible, but in fact, cultural traditions can continue to survive in modern society. Just like farmers in traditional farming methods, they can adapt to modern lives of mobile phone can't leave. The ancient tradition and holiday culture can also be carried forward in this developed modern society. However, this will depend on the person. If people decide to abandon the tradition, then it will gradually fall; if the tradition gives people attention, it will inevitably glow new brightening in modern society.
(Youth Reference author once resident in Hong Kong, Thailand, Russia, etc., in 2001, in China, I studied Chinese culture in Nanjing. Now I have educated economics in the University of Columbia Normal University. )
