Western Festivals in China
Jun 17th 2010 00:19
Now in China, many people like to celebrate the western festivals. But I this is nothing surprising because of the following reasons.
The first one is the internationalization. Big cities like Shanghai and Peking, people there they adhere to the world’s trend, and really it absorb not only fashion, sense of value, hot money but also culture which is certainly unavoidable.
Secondly, western festivals are more insetting and enjoyable. On Christmas you can hang a stocking at the rear of your bed and wait for the Santa Claus to fill it with presents. On April fool’s day, you can make fool of all people even a most respectable and solemn professor. Also on Halloween, you can make up yourself very funny and play “treat or trick”. The most popular one surely is the Saint Valentine's Day, when you can show your love and money to your sweetheart. But most Chinese traditional festival are boring. The dragon boat festival, as an example, is in memory of 屈原, but actually few young people know anything about him. Some of them even think that 屈原 was a 汨罗er. Another gorgeous example is the 乞巧节, namely the Chinese lover’s day, the counterpart of Saint Valentine's Day, is very welcome in China.
Additionally, I suppose the media be more lenient to such a phenomenon. Because what the world will be is what we are doing today.
The first one is the internationalization. Big cities like Shanghai and Peking, people there they adhere to the world’s trend, and really it absorb not only fashion, sense of value, hot money but also culture which is certainly unavoidable.
Secondly, western festivals are more insetting and enjoyable. On Christmas you can hang a stocking at the rear of your bed and wait for the Santa Claus to fill it with presents. On April fool’s day, you can make fool of all people even a most respectable and solemn professor. Also on Halloween, you can make up yourself very funny and play “treat or trick”. The most popular one surely is the Saint Valentine's Day, when you can show your love and money to your sweetheart. But most Chinese traditional festival are boring. The dragon boat festival, as an example, is in memory of 屈原, but actually few young people know anything about him. Some of them even think that 屈原 was a 汨罗er. Another gorgeous example is the 乞巧节, namely the Chinese lover’s day, the counterpart of Saint Valentine's Day, is very welcome in China.
Additionally, I suppose the media be more lenient to such a phenomenon. Because what the world will be is what we are doing today.
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The first one is the internationalization. [[When we first mention something and identify it, English speakers don't use 'the'. After the thing is identified and the audience knows about it, THEN we use 'the'.]]
But most Chinese traditional festivals are boring.
Another gorgeous example is the 乞巧节, namely the Chinese lover’s day, the counterpart of Saint Valentine's Day, is very welcome in China. [[This is the first mention of 乞巧节, so we don't use 'the'. Also, Names usually don't ever need a 'the' - we never say 'the John" or 'the George Washington'.]]
Nice article - and really good English!