Should people in China celebrate foreign festivals?

Should we in China celebrate this foreign festival? There have been some disputes between several factions recently. The reason is that there are rumors that the government will boycott foreign festivals, of course, this time refers to Christmas. They think this is the right policy and foreign festivals should be boycotted. One school responded immediately and firmly supported China people to celebrate Christmas, believing that it was a symbol of civilization's integration into the international community, and even linked to the lofty spirit of Christianity, believing that this spirit was enough to save lazy and degenerate China people. It is said that China people's lack of religious spirit is their biggest national cultural defect, thus cynically criticizing the former faction and the government. On the other hand, I spent my shopping and food festival, which is none of my business.

Well, I thought about it, but this third school is a bit interesting. When is your birthday? How do you feel, huh? Pull it over and make it a shopping promotion festival directly. No matter what foreign festival, we downplay it, we transform it and we dissolve it. Isn't it just a gimmick to sell things? Isn't that a reason to buy things? Why be so serious. We China people are extremely easy-going, whether foreign or local, we just need to use it, no matter what our background. If Christmas is foreign, then Labor Day, Women's Day and Children's Day are national? Isn't it foreign? If you have the courage to resist all this, but you can't, then accept it. Ordinary people are either squeezed by institutional units every day or work hard to earn hard-earned money for private capitalists. It is always good to have a holiday, do something new, eat and play in the street, just in case you have another day off. What does Christmas have to do with me? What are you grateful for? Who are all saints? Look down, it's no big deal. We in China have no obligation to copy western festivals according to western cultural habits, and we have no obligation to hold the "sacredness" of westerners above our heads and love them in our hearts. We live our own lives, and I just spend my own time living your western festivals.

As for the first faction, they are too nervous. If they want to boycott foreign festivals, it's too much. Foreign festivals have really invaded China society, and have had a great impact on our present real life and our own cultural customs, especially on children. Maybe we only know Santa Claus and Jesus, not Confucius and Mencius. But you can't blame the foreign festival, you have to find the reason from yourself. If you don't worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries, you won't create a cultural vacuum. If you do, you will naturally be alienated by the people and become a climate. It is precisely because of our own destruction of traditional culture that people, especially teenagers, don't know what traditional folk customs there are in their country and naturally follow the foreign festivals. Look at our festival. Today, how many customs and habits are left for the people to stick to? I don't think we have anything left except family reunion and a dead meal. How many people still worship their ancestors on holidays now? Still burning paper? With incense and candles? Even the government has taken the lead in saying that this is a bad habit, which should be banned and "reformed". But if customs and habits have no specific ceremony and no specific content, what is left? Children like Christmas, isn't it because they cheat him that there is a Santa Claus in a car and carrying a bag to deliver things? Isn't it because there is a Christmas tree with lights hanging? People who like Halloween just need to put on costumes and pretend to be ghosts. The maintenance of customs and habits absolutely needs rituals and specific content. Why else would Christianity go to mass? We destroyed our own culture, and now we blame others for celebrating the foreign festival. Why did we leave decades earlier? Moreover, the government did not want to boycott foreign festivals, but only said to encourage people to resume traditional festivals, which is far from boycotting foreign festivals and is not the same thing at all. So the first faction, taking chicken feathers as arrows, made a mistake.

The second faction has a bigger problem. I have read several articles in this school and feel that they fart in their nostrils. Because they all like to hum songs with their noses, there is a deep contempt in the gap between their nose hairs, which is the supremacy of foreigners' foreign culture. First of all, it has nothing to do with civilization or not, whether it is integrated into the international community, whether there is hope for the country and the nation, whether it is democratic and free, and whether it is religious. If a China person is a Christian, he can certainly celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving, because this is his freedom of belief, and we support him. But we ordinary non-Christians in China have no obligation to worship any saints in the West. Excuse me, Christmas is Christmas, what is Christmas? What kind of gratitude do you feel when you are grateful? I don't think I am a saint in China, and I don't feel the favor of China. So as long as I am not a Christian, there is absolutely no need to buy it. I respect you foreigners and China Christians for Christmas, which is your custom and religious belief, but the rest of us are free to make do with it.

Well, people like me will be labeled as disrespecting the great spirit of Christian fraternity, and even rise to the point where the whole Chinese nation lacks religious spirit, saying that China people have reached this position because they claim to have a civilization of 5,000 years, but they lack religious spirit and religious belief. The final conclusion is that China people have no religion and fear, so they need the redemption of Christian spirit. This argument is really older than my grandmother's feet. This is nothing new. I have no religion in China? I in China don't know how to be afraid. I am backward in China because there is no state religion? I think, as long as you are literate, read some books, don't listen to hearsay, and learn more from others, you know the correct answers to these three questions. Anyone who claims that China people need Christian spiritual salvation, except Christians, is a person who doesn't study.

China people's Buddhism, Taoism, Yin and Yang and folk religions have lasted for thousands of years. How can there be no religion? I, a China native, said, "Be respectful at home, deacons should be respectful", "Be respectful inside, be upright outside" and "be afraid of destiny, adults and saints". Neo-Confucianism pays special attention to respecting the Lord and avoiding fear. How can you not be awed? Do we have to regard Christianity as a religion? Do we have to take the Christian spirit as the spirit to make people respect? That's nonsense. In my opinion, it is not our sorrow that the people of China have not unified a religion like Christianity. On the contrary, this is our blessing and the virtue of our ancestors. We really want to thank a sentence in The Analects of Confucius, "When a child is silent, Machamp is distracted". China has a long history of extremely complicated nationalities and complicated political issues. Fortunately, it is not as serious as foreigners in religion, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. China may be the second Middle East, which is a mess. We have always been tolerant in religious culture, which is precisely the tolerance of our national culture. Otherwise, there will be several religious massacres in 5000 years of civilization. Our traditional cultural characteristics make us pay attention to the real world all the time, and it happens that we avoid falling into a completely illusory religious life, so we avoid religious disputes like those in the West, such as the Middle East. I have always been proud of this, which deserves our praise. Rather than as advocated by some Western supremacists, the absence of a state religion is the sorrow of China people and the reason for the low quality of China people. Westernization supremacists are still jabbering about the West without looking at Christianity. Already broke. How many people go to church now? Westerners want to live an illusory religious life, but unfortunately Christianity went bankrupt in the face of modern science. What shall we do? His illusory spiritual opium is gone. How can we solve the secular problems? How to relieve the pain? Ok, then use physical opium instead, so marijuana comes, heroin and cocaine come. Religion and drugs seem to be incompatible, but in fact, the core is the same, both of which have the effect of anesthetizing the spirit and diverting the attention of the world. We in China mainly care about secular life, and it doesn't matter to me whether we are gods or not. I pray to God and Buddha for secular life, so I don't seek illusory mental anesthesia. No matter whether religion is broken or not, I won't replace the lack of mental anesthesia with drugs. I think this is the benefit of China people and a good quality in national culture. If the quality of China people today is low, it is definitely not a problem of traditional culture. On the contrary, it is the result of not engaging in traditional culture, or wantonly destroying it or disobeying it.