Chinese should celebrate the foreign festival, this is a topic that has been debated by netizens for many years, with the development of the times, now the festivals in society are becoming more and more diversified, so that some traditional Chinese festivals are slowly replaced by Western countries, but for many netizens in the mainland, the influence of traditional Chinese festivals is still more extensive than foreign festivals.
Just before, Lin Junxian, a well-known veteran actor in Hong Kong, also publicly appealed through his social accounts, hoping that domestic netizens would not celebrate the foreign festival, especially Christmas, because the existence of this festival itself is our shame.
There are two main reasons why Lin Junxian said this
1.Christmas is a holiday that originated in Europe, and most of the people who celebrate Christmas believe in ** religion, and the children of Jesus are the original Eight-Nation Alliance.
2.Lin Junxian said that it was on Christmas more than 100 years ago that the Eight-Nation Coalition broke through Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace, causing countless treasures of China to flow out and destroying excellent culture.
Lin Junxian has also made a comment about the Old Summer Palace before, denouncing the aggression of the European coalition forces against China, and even saying that Christmas should be a day of national shame and we should not celebrate it.
Lin Junxian's patriotism has also attracted praise from many people, the key is that he is still a Hong Kong artist, and he is one of the few public figures who defend the imagination of the motherland, Lin Junxian debuted in Hong Kong in 1980, and actor Stephen Chow, Andy Lau and others, are all contemporaneous actors, Lin Junxian and Stephen Chow starred in many movies in the early years.
After 1990, Lin Junxian gradually withdrew from the Hong Kong entertainment industry, began to travel and live in the mainland, and saw the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and the ruins of the Old Summer Palace.
Lin Junxian's heart of fist, everyone can see it, but in fact, the burning of the Old Summer Palace and Christmas, in essence, has no connection, Christmas is on December 25, and the Eight-Nation Coalition broke through Beijing in September, until October 6 did not enter the Old Summer Palace, after the British and French troops entered the garden, they carried out a 15-day ransack, and the burning of the Old Summer Palace has also become a painful lesson in the history of Chinese culture.
Although Christmas has nothing to do with the Old Summer Palace incident, Lin Junxian's speech still attracted the attention of many netizens, and the topic of contention is:Chinese, should they celebrate the festival?
Some netizens believe that as a Chinese, we should live traditional Chinese festivals, we have 5,000 years of culture, and there are countless special festivals compared to other countries, so why bother to worship foreign countries.
More importantly, in recent years, traditional festivals have become less and less important, but Valentine's Day and Christmas abroad are becoming more and more lively year by year.
Of course, there are some people who feel that traditional festivals or Western festivals are people's freedom, whether they like traditional festivals or Christmas, it is essentially a personal choice, not to mention that the current earth is an era of diversification, which is originally a great integration of cultures, just like not long ago, the Spring Festival has officially become a legal holiday of the United Nations, which is the manifestation of our own cultural output.
I wonder what everyone here thinks about this?
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