Comparative Study Of Spring Festival And Christmas

Spring Festival is China’s most important traditional festival in China, people’s minds occupy animportant position, on its formation several theories have different origins, most scientific argument is theChinese New Year is determined by the age of moral courage; Similarly, Christmas Day is the most solemnin Western countries, most people’s favorite holiday, it produces a certain religious factors is tocommemorate the birth of Jesus. Based on the New Year and Christmas origins, customs and other aspectsare compared, and then find the differences and similarities between the two. New Year and Christmas arethe people the family reunion, but also people looking back and looking forward to the future moments, butthey also bear with the different connotations in Western culture, Chinese and Westerners different beliefs,Chinese people ’s religious beliefs presents a wide range of features, and more consistent belief Westerners,mostly Christian.Now in the West increasingly close exchanges in the cultural aspects are exerting influence each other,festival culture is no exception. Christmas, Valentine’s Day and other Western festivals after entering China,has evolved into a fashion culture, its strong color and entertainment, people full of individuality in thefestival, enjoy the carnival, and therefore attract more people to participate. Therefore, the West has astrong universal festival and cross-cultural portability, which makes today from tradition to open more andmore people have liked one of the reasons foreign section. Therefore, the Western holiday especially for theyounger generation of Chinese who have a strong attraction, communication range of young people tofriends and classmates mainly traditional festivals relatives patterns start to become stiff and old-fashioned,and Western festivals entertainment and more to meet their needs and interact with peers, so it has becomeso popular. For this phenomenon, do not excessively worry, and do not turn a blind eye, it should be arational approach, attention to the construction of China’s traditional festival heritage and culture, thetraditional Western festival festival seen as necessary for our useful supplement, absorption, lively andharmonious integration of the Western festival fun part, enable it to carry forward for our festival withcultural development. Not only Western holiday festivals generate cultural influence on China, China’s traditional festivals have begun to receive a warm welcome from the West, along with China ’s rising status,Westerners began to focus on Chinese culture, so the festival to promote our culture should take advantageof this opportunity, the our outstanding cultural festival spread out, is China’s first-year culture, so thatmore Westerners to understand Chinese culture festival in publicity and promotion role in strengthening theprotection of self-awareness of traditional culture, depicting enhanced sense of national identity andcohesion.