Is Christmas a threat to Chinese culture

2021年1月25日发(作者：基础桩)


安徽大学


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课程名称：英语报刊选读






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期：
2015.12.25




Is Christmas a threat to traditional Chinese
culture?

As today is the Christmas day, it is no exaggeration to say
that
the
enthusiasm
of
Chinese
people
to
celebrate
this
great
festival
has
been
heated
to
a
peak
in
recent
days
with
the
colorful
Christmas
ornaments
and
posters
everywhere
in
the
streets,
the
colorful
festoon
lamps
shining
on
the
trees
in
the
evening, the beaming salesmen dressed as Santa Clauses in the
shopping
malls, the new tradition of holding Christmas parties
and
rejoicing
with
wild
excitement
at
Christmas
Eve,
the
exchange of gifts and postcards among families and friends, let
alone
the
ubiquitous
Christmas
caps
which
have
swept
over
among young people a couple of days ago. A survey carried out
in some big cities of China shows that 68.5% of correspondents
celebrate Christmas Day, and 61.8% celebrate Valentines
’
Day,
of
course
most
of
the
correspondents
are
young
people.
However,as Christmas in China is in full swing, the traditional
Chinese festivals are correspondingly losing their charm for the
fact that some of them such as Labor day and New Year
’
s day
are
nothing
more
than
vacations
to
most
of
Chinese
people
nowadays, which has led to a contentious issue
—
Is Christmas a
threat to traditional Chinese culture
？

As the debate goes, some hold the point that Christmas has
no
negative
effect
on
the
traditional
Chinese
festivals
while
others
are
strongly
opposing
them
and
maintaining
that
Christmas may undermine traditional Chinese culture. As for my
part, the increasing popularity of Christmas in China is a threat
to traditional Chinese culture to some extent. The reasons are as
follows.
In the first place, the increasing popularity of Christmas in
China
may
cause
the
loss
of
cultural
identities
(the
loss
of
self-confidence
and
self- respect)
towards
Chinese
culture.
To
illustrate,it
is
quite
a
ubiquitous
phenomenon
in
China
nowadays
that
a
great
number
of
young
men
almost
know
nothing
about
the
profound
implications
of
traditional
Chinese
festivals
but
are
familiar
with
the
western
festivals
like
Christmas and Valentines
’
Day and go after them like a flock of
ducks,
which
has
brought
about
a
serious
shock
to
Chinese
traditional
culture
and
the
sense
of
the
community.
It
is
quite
facile
to
conjecture
that
these
young
people
may
regard
the
celebration
of
traditional
Chinese
festivals
as
something
outdated and uninteresting while chasing the
“
fashionable
”
and
fascinating
western
festivals
rather
blindly
for
the
reason
that
western festivals like Christmas and Valentines
’
Day seem to be