1、1Should Chinese Celebrate Christmas？The lively and busy Christmas has pasted for few days, still, the happy atmosphere of Christmas is everywhere, especially in Internet, shopping mall and schools. It remains unknown that since when Chinese start celebrating Christmas as foreigners do, together with
2、 the emerging of presents and gifts symbolizing auspiciousness, such as peace fruit, namely apples. Meanwhile, opposing voices come along, for example, one college in Xian closed school at this years Christmas Eve, forbidding students going out and celebrating it; Wenzhou also forbade schools conduc
3、ting Christmas parties. Therefore, what should we do about it?People who support on celebrating Christmas hold on the idea that celebrating Christmas doesnt mean to worship foreign things and fawn on foreign countries. They think that it is simply the outcome of the intimating exchange of Chinese an
4、d Western culture. Similarly, many foreigners now celebrate Spring Festival. They claim that they didnt forget Chinese traditional culture while celebrating foreign holidays. Besides, Christmas is focus on the festival atmosphere ,it provides a chance for those people who are under great pressure an
5、d need to relax and enjoy accompany of family. And the merchants can seize the opportunity for sales promotion. Those who holds different opinion claims that young people nowadays show more interests in foreign holidays than Chinese traditional festivals, which is the indication of worshiping and fa
6、wning foreign countries and neglecting traditional culture, causing one day the whole Chinese culture would be ignored. Christmas in workday may distract employees and students from working hard, they both think how to spend their festival. For the merchants , they will hold some sales promotion act
7、ivities ,which will cause a certain extent waste ,it will be better if we donate that part of money to Hope project ,help more people who is seeking help.So ,should we celebrate Christmas? At present, those who celebrate Christmas mainly are young teenagers. The reason why they are willing to celebr
8、ate Christmas, apart from the advertising influence of merchants on holidays, is more related with their own life. We celebrate our traditional holidays mainly by visiting relatives and friends, beer and skittles, 2exchanging gifts, in which case, traditional holidays are nicknamed “Disaster Day”, a
9、nd gradually lose fun and leave developing space for foreign holidays. Foreign holidays are filled with youth and energy, which is closer to the essence of relax and have fun in holidays, thus it caters for young teenagers appetite. Personally, given the society environment in which Chinese and west
10、ern world share a solid and increasing exchange, its good to have culture communication. We are proud of that more and more foreigners are begin to celebrate Spring Festival ,in the contrary ,why cant we accept Chinese people celebrate Christmas? So we should welcome the foreign culture with a open mind. Instead of banning it blindly, we should take effective measures to guide peoples attitude and study how to celebrate it in a Chinese characteristic way so as to change it into a chance that we can relax and enjoy.
