Why is Christmas Eve "bloody"?
It's Christmas Eve, but don't think it's just a Western holiday. Behind it is the blood of the Chinese People's Volunteers, a historical battle of Changjin Lake.
The shocking history of the Battle of Changjin Lake.
In 1950, from November 27 to December 24, an earth-shattering battle took place in the Changjin Lake area. The Chinese People's Volunteers fought valiantly, not only annihilating an entire regiment of the US army, but also recovering large areas of land and reversing the tide of the Korean War. But the price is too great, the volunteer army is heavy, and the heroic scene of the "Ice Sculpture Company" is exciting. Rows of soldiers are on the position at minus 40 degrees Celsius, holding steel guns and grenades, as if they are group portraits of "ice sculptures" jumping up. This is not fiction, but a brutal portrayal of history. This is the victory of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and it is also the Christmas Eve stained red with blood.
Compare the differences between China and the West on Christmas Eve.
However, at this time, the GIs of the West were enjoying canned food and wine, talking about ending the battle and going home for Christmas. As fate would have it, on Christmas Eve on December 24, the US 10th Army was evacuated from the port of Hungnam and spent a failed Christmas Eve. Their Christmas Eve is a mixture of defeat and defeat, but ours is paved with blood and victory. Seventy-three years have passed, and the beautiful meaning of Christmas Eve was bought by the blood of the Chinese people's volunteers, which is worthy of our deep nostalgia.
How to choose an anniversary.
Some people may say that Christmas Eve is not a Western festival?Why do you want to be involved with the Chinese People's Volunteer Army?But this is not simply a question of the festival, but a question of choosing to commemorate it. Is it a Western festival or a victory day to commemorate the Chinese People's Volunteers?Standing at this crossroads, as Chinese, do we still have to get lost in the tide of foreign culture?
The urgency of cultural assertiveness.
Nowadays, although Christmas Eve is not a legal holiday in our country, it has become a day of national commemoration, but this is only because it is Christmas Eve in the West. It made me feel a little uneasy. Why do we always tend to commemorate foreign festivals and ignore our own heroes, our own history?This is a sign of cultural inconfidence. We are immersed in the carnival of the foreign festival, celebrating Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day, Halloween, and even taking pride in recruiting foreign students. It's not cultural self-confidence, it's cultural disorientation.
A symbol of cultural self-confidence and national strength.
However, a recent resolution gave me a glimmer of hope. How shocking is that the United Nations has adopted a resolution designating the Spring Festival as a United Nations holiday. This is not only a respect for traditional Chinese culture, but also a symbol of the country's strength. The Spring Festival, a festival that carries thousands of years of tradition, is now valued internationally, and our traditional culture has also occupied a place on the international stage.
The need for cultural assertiveness.
All this made me deeply aware of the importance of a strong country. The country is not only politically and economically powerful, but also culturally internationally recognized. This is not a coincidence, but an inevitable consequence of the strength of the country. Cultural self-confidence is not to discard other cultures, but to have enough self-confidence and no longer blindly imitate and follow trends. Just like today's Christmas Eve, we have had a lot of foreign festivals, but behind her is the blood of our ancestors. We should wake up to the fact that culture is not something to be lost, but something to be inherited and carried forward.
Cultural self-confidence and awakening.
Cultural self-confidence is not achieved overnight, it requires the efforts of each of us and the whole country. Just like today, if you don't say it, you may only know that today is Christmas Eve, but you don't know that it is also the victory day of the Battle of Changjin Lake. This requires each of us to spread and proclaim. And for learning other people's culture, we do not gain nothing, on the contrary, it can enrich our own cultural connotation and make us better to go to the world.
The path to awakening. Finally, let's revisit Christmas Eve tonight. She is not only a Western festival, but also a victory day for the Chinese People's Volunteers. This night is engraved on the rings of history with blood and victory. Today's Christmas Eve was won by the efforts of those heroes, and it was by no means "imported" from abroad. The Chinese people should wake up, and the Chinese people should be confident!Let us move forward hand in hand and work hard for a more confident and stronger China!