Foreign Festival in China Non-Chinese Festivals

Valentine’s Day, April Fool’s Day, Halloween and Christmas Day..., All these foreign non-Chinese festivals days of festivities are not longer a novelty strange to us now. to be precise, wWe are quite familiar with them. When they foreign festivals began first came to flourish, Chinese traditional Festivals ones were gradually left in the dust. gradually out in the cold.

It seems to me, on the one hand, celebrate celebrating these foreign festivals can help us know understand more about western culture, through the celebration, [redundant.  You have said it just now] and we broaden our horizons. It is fun participating in them. and relax ourselves.Foreign festival It is also a good moment way to say express our love to our parents and other family members in the more explicit western way. , family,mother and father,we all know in Chinese traditional festivals there is no specially festival for them. [Don't understand this.  Write in Chinese if you want an accurate way.  So I am guessing your intent.] Besides the Chinese festival of the Seventh Night, most other traditional ones are not so inter-personal celebrations.  Hence, On the other hand,people,especially the young are showing less inclination towards them.  and less interest in traditional festival.

It is so a pity that the young people could speak talk about so freely on these imported foreign festivals freely and frankly but they even not know the but does not know when the date of the Chinese Lunar Ghost Festival’s exactly time. [This is because you are no longer using the lunar calendar officially.  If you do, everyone will know it.  I don't even know the Lunar New Year unless I was being told.] These traditions have been here for thousands of years.  They shouldn’t be not fade away in our generation.

All in all,we have At the same time, there is no reason not to refuse celebrate foreign welcome festivals of other origins. By doing so, that may it shows our ignorance and tolerance. ,and at the same time we can’t lose the Traditional Chinese festivals, are part of our culture and life.  Losing them is to lose our national identity. Let a hundred flowers bloom. they are the treasure of our nation,we should cherish them and protect them.

PS：Please help me, even though the this topic is boring and old stuff. ^ ^ Thank you in advance.

When there is of commercial value, it won't die but flourish.  Look at Halloween!  It was never this celebrated until the gay community turned it into an adult entertainment.  Look how popular this has become.  In countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan etc, traditional festivals are on the rise.  The reason? It attracts tourism.  Many traditional festivals waned in Mainland China because of government policies of not too long a time ago.