Christmas and New Year’s Day both celebrate the New Year. Some people like a more foreign approach, while others stick to local culture. As a personal hobby, there is nothing wrong with it. However, once it is raised to the level of protecting traditional national culture, this topic becomes a bit heavy. "Christmas fever" has also been used as an excuse by the media and the public from time to time because of the suspicion of cultural invasion. So, is "Christmas fever" really so scary?
I think it’s not scary! It's not scary, because "Christmas fever" and "New Year's Day fever" cannot be compared. The traditional cultural elements of New Year’s Day are no less than those of Christmas. Red lanterns, red Chinese knots, spring couplets full of auspicious words, wisdom-filled riddles, lively firecrackers, etc., which are thousands of years of hobbies and customs of our ancestors, are not just a few Christmas trees. You can drive them away if you say you want to drive them away?
Another reason why it is not scary is because the rise of "Christmas fever" is a symbol of our nation's openness and confidence. In the past, we were closed and backward, and our cultural methods were monotonous and uniform. Now, through reform and opening up, our economic development, social progress, and the diversification of cultural life are naturally a matter of course. This is historical progress and a concentrated expression of cultural prosperity. It is a gratifying thing. How can it be terrible?
Therefore, "Christmas fever" is a scene painstakingly created by those who are worried about the loss of the status of traditional culture. It is even a feeling deliberately created by businessmen driven by profit. But if "Christmas fever" really burns into a fire, the fire is obviously not strong enough. When the door opens, there is always something new coming in. But once the novelty wears off, we will still find things that have been our nation’s for thousands of years the most valuable.
For Chinese young people, celebrating foreign festivals is just a formality. It is completely different from the psychological state of celebrating traditional festivals. It is impossible to have the same complex as celebrating the Spring Festival. " Liu Kuili said, "Today, cultural exchanges between China and other countries around the world are increasing day by day. Across the world, in addition to overseas Chinese, don’t many foreigners also celebrate the Spring Festival with us? ”
“Westerners will definitely stay at home during Christmas, but Chinese young people will not. Foreign festivals have no ceremonial significance to them. In fact, Chinese people’s foreign festivals are just a kind of form. "Liu Kuili said that foreigners celebrate the Spring Festival just to have fun. It is difficult for them to understand the core essence and spiritual aspects of the Spring Festival.
Therefore, there is no need to fight between traditional festivals and foreign festivals