Do China people criticize or tolerate foreign festivals?

First, the main "foreign festivals" popular in China at present:

1, before the Cultural Revolution: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Eid al-Fitr, May Day International Labor Day, etc.

2. Newly launched after the reform and opening up: Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day and so on.

Second, about cultural integration and independence.

As a festival culture, it belongs to the cultural category, so we should discuss festivals from the concept of culture. "Foreign Festival" is a western culture. Whether we want foreign festivals or not is a question of whether we want western culture.

As a part of human civilization, culture has always been cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic. Our China culture, including "traditional culture", is also the fusion of many cultures. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, we introduced Buddhism from the "Western Heaven", which made the philosophy (metaphysics) in the Wei and Jin Dynasties melt into pessimism and karma, thus enriching our philosophical thoughts. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that we completed the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism that the Tang Dynasty prospered. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, we introduced Christianity, and modern science and technology such as mathematics, physics and chemistry were introduced to China with missionaries, which led to our modern science and technology today. In the early Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi was far-sighted, allowing Catholicism to build a church in Beijing, and wrote a big plaque for it. During this period, we introduced more advanced western culture, which led to the prosperity of Kanggan.

The author believes that culture is a process of "transformation". Culture needs to be enriched and developed, which is the need of people and the need of culture's own progress. If you don't pay attention to people's needs, how can you talk about people-oriented? The attitude towards foreign festivals is manifested in the attitude towards human needs and the attitude towards cultural development.

3. What is Sinology? Is the decline of our national culture caused by the invasion of western culture?

A Sina netizen who insisted on boycotting foreign festivals said in a post on the author's blog: "Christmas is Jesus' birthday, and westerners should celebrate Christmas because they all believe in Christianity!" In China, most people don't even know what Christianity is, so they blindly follow foreigners for Christmas! They only know Grandpa Christmas, but they don't know the meaning of this festival.

China people have always believed in Confucianism and Buddhism since ancient times (I even think Mao Zedong Thought is also a kind of belief), but now they ignore Confucius, who left China with a thousand years' teaching, Chairman Mao, who liberated China, and even celebrate a birthday for someone who doesn't know who it is! Is it funny? Really! ! !

If you follow blindly, you will be laughed at by foreigners! Don't flatter yourself! Poor ignorant China people. "

This is a typical view of resisting the foreign festival theory.