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, asour country and

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 celebratingwesternfestivals 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 ofCentral 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 knowother western f estivals’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 blessor 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

faith four

anda characteristics:

passion for universality,particularity,blind

consumption

As the saying goes,1000readers have 1000Hamlets in mind.people have different viewson whether Chinese should celebrate western holidays.Some people who are keen on Western festivals,argued that China's traditional festivals are too rigidand there are many festivals with feudal thinking.On the

contrary,westernfestivalswhich

flamboyantand reflect are excitingadvocate

Opponents believe thatChina 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 losttraditional culture. Celebratingwestern holidayswill shake the traditional culture’sstatus 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 knowChinese Lovers’s Day.In addition,owing to the cultural invasion,many countries arewary of foreign holidays .Toguarantee 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 .Theeffectof cultural exchanges isn’t obvious.In addition,the blind pursuit of consumption and enjoyment causesmoney worship,hedonism and other bad ideas.

Just my personal opinion,we should celebrate western holidays withrational thought,and we shouldn’t lose ourselves.Towards western Festivals, we should take its essence and discard the dregs.For instance,ThanksgivingDaycan be advocated for making our culture advance as it reflects one of Chinese traditional virtues-gratefulness;others,such as Halloween,should be treated calmly because it’s religious.Cultural integration is the trend of the historical

development.So we should not implement "isolationism". Under the premise of enhancing awareness of traditional culture and revitalizing Chinese culture, we can activelyenter the world that has frequent cultural exchanges.

Festivalsare important means of cultural transmission which host the important cultural.They’re the crystalliz ation of human wisdom. Rich festival lights up our lives, for our life has various colors. Let us take the broad mindand

appreciate the colorful festivals!