中西方传统节日对比英语作文

Second English papers

Each nation has its own characteristic festivals that

reflect the culture of itself.In China, as our country and western countries become increasingly closer, more and more chinese accept western culture.

However, some western festivals sometimes even more popular than traditional festivals, foreign cultural’s influence should not be underestimated. The main The main group of celebrating western festivals is youth group which takes students as the main force.People celebrate festivals such as Valentine's day, mother's day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. In fact, because of the Chinese way of thinking, western holidays in China is just popular for Christmas and Valentine's day, not all western holidays attract people's attention. According to a survey of Central China Normal University, many college students know the existence of western festivals, but little of them know about their cultural connotations. In addition to Christmas, respondents who know other western festivals’meaning are less than 10%. Referring to the way to celebrating, in General, during the Festival, people send gifts such as flowers and greeting cards.They sing with friends, and bless or send

messages to each other;lots of people are going to relax during the festival:shopping, inviting friends to restaurants, dancing, and so on. On the whole, Chinese celebrate western holidays with the following four characteristics: universality, particularity,blind faith and a passion for consumption As the saying goes,1000 readers have 1000 Hamlets in mind. people have different views on whether Chinese should celebrate western holidays. Some people who are keen on Western festivals, argued that China's traditional festivals are too rigid and there are many festivals with feudal thinking. On the contrary,western festivals which are exciting advocate the flamboyant and reflect freedom. In addition, western holidays make people who’re under heavy social pressure have a chance to relax. At the same time, some experts believe that the celebration of Western holidays are an inevitable trend of cultural exchanges. Huang Kemin, a Sociologist believes that celebrating western holidays is a form of cultural communication. In some cases, it’ll fill vacancies in Chinese culture. Some students believe that celebrating Western festivals can enhance the friendship of classmates and make the classes more solidarity.During a festival, Most of the supermarkets and restaurants provide promotions that benefit consumers, these

festivals also has a catalytic role to economic development.

Opponents believe that China has its own history and local culture for thousands of years, the Western Festival don’t suit China's needs for cultural development.Also, due to blind worship, people often lost traditional culture. Celebrating western holidays will shake the traditional culture’s status in the minds of nationals and endanger the inheritance and development of traditional culture. For example, many young people celebrate Valentine's day, but they don't know Chinese Lovers’s Day. In addition,owing to the cultural invasion ,many countries are wary of foreign holidays .To guarantee Chinese cultural’s independence, western holidays cann’t be allowed to develop freely. At the same time, many people celebrate Western festivals for following the fashion .The effect of cultural exchanges isn’t obvious. In addition, the blind pursuit of consumption and enjoyment causes money worship,hedonism and other bad ideas.

Just my personal opinion, we should celebrate western holidays with rational thought, and we shouldn’t lose ourselves .Towards western Festivals, we should take its essence and discard the dregs.For instance,Thanksgiving Day can be