1. The festival is for blessings and commemoration.
I saw that the vigorous discussion on the Internet is actually based on the meaning of the festival itself, and few people are willing to go to the meaning of the festival itself in fast food culture and material life.
For example, is Thanksgiving in the West for roast chicken?Is the domestic Dragon Boat Festival for dragon boat rowing and eating zongzi?Therefore, people all over the world are now trapped in materialism and consumerism, forgetting that your birthday needs blessings for life, why don't you know that others also need blessings?For example, Qu Yuan commemorated by the Dragon Boat Festival, but few people understand the true history of Qu Yuan, and it is difficult to learn Qu Yuan's justice and patriotism. Thanksgiving and Christmas in the West are also meant to honor the people they want to commemorate and enlighten the heart, not just for gifts and a meal or even to drink and drink.
The nobility of people's souls, unlike other species, is not to say that they can eat, animals and plants can "eat", people's hearts commemorate others, and make their hearts magnify, do not focus on saying what I get for my birthday, every festival has its own inner meaning.
I didn't comment on whether Chinese festivals are good or foreign festivals, but there is no point in this boiling debate on material things, and if you return to the connotation of festivals, if you say that I am Chinese, you have to tell me what the origin of Chinese festivals is, and what kind of character people cultivate in order to cultivate them. In the same way, Westerners want people to be grateful and commemorate, which is also to cultivate people's morality. In this world of great material abundance and almost depletion of resources, what people generally lack is not things, but virtue.
2. How can festivals be linked to pathological materialistic over-propaganda?
So whether it is the so-called Santa Claus in the West, he is not everything that Christmas means, but he represents some blessings. However, it is used by some businesses as a means of sales promotion. Over the years, such things have been rampant all over the world, making the festival a sign of hypocrisy and ostentation at times, and an overwhelmed economic burden at other times, completely failing to fulfill human relationships.
Was Confucius trying to get others to package himself, so as to sell a school and a lesson?Therefore, the true believer cares about the soul itself, not with morality and feasts. Judas sold morality for money, and in this day and age people could sell anything, and all the festivals were labeled as material and consumer, in order to confuse people's hearts. Why don't you realize it later, why can't you be a prophet?Because your heart doesn't have this sober awareness and is carried away by these consumerisms. Do you think that if you give someone a gift, life will be good, and the holidays will be good?So how to respect the elderly during the Double Ninth Festival, how to promote patriotism during the Dragon Boat Festival, and how to welcome the new year with a new mentality during the Spring Festival. And it is not radical to engage in narrow ethnic racism and accept valuable commemoration from others. In the same way, people in the world need to be grateful, and you can't say that Thanksgiving is wrong.
3. Return to your heart and live a harmonious life.
We say that materialism is accompanied by narrow ethnic racism and local power groups. That is, you have a small area that is harmonious, and how are your neighbors. We know that the people now refer to the people, the people who are derived from certain surnames and clans for generations. Why do two families or peoples who originally live next to each other have a fight?If nationalism is emphasized on this basis, it is actually tantamount to excluding other nationalities from one's own nation or race, and more "people attacking the people" will be formed, because the spirit has already excluded others and excluded what others have remembered in their hearts.
Therefore there must be a kind of festival of remembrance that unites all mankind, and it must be above nationalism. I hope that everyone can reflect here and not get into superficial materialism and narrow national racism. Poverty can often be a reminder to us, so when we have something, we should also be grateful and love each other, thank everyone.