Do you celebrate Western holidays?
Why do you think people celebrate festivals?
1.Yes, I celebrate western festivel.
2.Firstly of all, celebrating festival means cultural heritage.People can feel the charm of festival, too. What's more, It is a good choice to have fun in festival.Through this way, people can relax themselves and take a rest from working during those few days. Furthermore, festival is a tool, which makes life become a rich and passionate state.
1、Yes,I celebrate some of Western holidays, such as Christmas.
2、Firstly, people now think highly of western festival than Chinese festival.
I agree that people should learn a little western culture from their festival. But we should not forget our traditional festival such as Mid Autumn Festival, national day and spring festival. we should remember its history for a long time.
Besides, now people celebrate festival is just for fun, who don't know the significance of the festival.
Last but not least, people prefer to celebrate the festival with their friends rather than their family.
1.If I were still a junior student, I would say yes without any doubt. But at my age, I have seldom celebrated Western Festivals. Because I can't figure out the true meanings to do this. Instead, when I celebrate the Spring Festival I feel the comfortable sense of companying my families and a sense of belonging.
2.I argue that people can break their repeated agenda and add some sauces to their life. Without question it also provides a chance to bridge a solid gap between each other.
Yes, I do. I had celebrated Thanksgiving day and Christmas day.
Actually,It is universally acknowledged that more and more Chinese people have celebrated Western Festivals. The reasons for it is that celebrating western holidays is more relaxing and romantic. As we all know, Chinese holidays mostly need to be celebrated grand which bring some stress and inconvenience.
1. Yes, I celebrate the Western holidays as Christmas.
2. Firstly, from where I stand, celebrating western festival is a trendency, which we can learn more about other cultures. However, there is no doubt that traditional festival is more important than Western holidays to us, so we must inherit tradition firts.
1. Yes.
2. I think it is mainly because western festivals seem to be more attractive and special to us. Compared with Chinese traditional festivals which mostly regard uniting with family as important, western festivals are regarded thinking highly of freedom and independence which really attracts the youth.
1. Little, beside the New Year' s Day, I hardly not celebrate by myself, while others would invite me to join them. For one factor, I believe western festivals are just the show time for those chats or supermarket to persuade others to purchase their things. In addition, I am not a God-fearing Christian now, not knowing the meaning of the festivals.
2. Firstly, people now think highly of western festival than Chinese festival.
I think people should learn a little western culture from their festival. However we should not forget our own traditional festival such and we should remember its history for a long time. If we couldn't get a good command of our own festival culture, we are the murder of our people.
In addition, now people celebrate festival is just for fun, for shopping, who don't know the significance of the festival.
Last but not least, people prefer to celebrate the festival with their friends rather than their family.
1.Yes,I do.I usually play with my friends in Christmas.
2.Firstly,festivals privide a chance that people can have fan ang have a rest after working.Therefore,we can have time to company our parents.
Secondly,for some shops,it's a great chance to offer and attract consumes.
The most important,every festival has it own history,we celebrate festivals to commemorate.
1.Yes, i celebrate some western festivals.
2.At first, the celebration of western festivals has added more fresh and joys to our life. For example, on valentine's Day, many young people will give their gifts to each other to extend their love and strengthen their relationship or expess their admiration.
Secondly, the celebration of western festivals provides a chance for us to communicate with others and develop our relationships.
Thirdly, the celebration of western festivals has also added some fresh blood to our traditional chinese cultures.
1 Yes,I celebrate the western festival.
2 first of all, I argue that celebrating the festival provides people with a opportunity so that they can communicate with their friends and improve the friendship.Secondly,We should attach the improvement to the chinese tradition festival, beacause it is our own culture and we have the responsibility to inherit the traditional festival.
1, Yes, I celebrate Western holidays such as Christmas. On Christmas Day, I will always have fun with my friends, we will watch a movie and have a dinner together. It's always a wonderful time that I cherish it every year.
2, I think people celebrate holidays not only for fun, but also for memory. We will keep the Dragon Boat Festival for memorizing Qu Yuan, and the Qingming Festival for memorizing the ancestors. By celebrating this kind of festivals, we can remember our origins and culture. It's a efficient path that we will remember who we are and what we should do.
1.Actually,I only don't exclusion to celebrate western festivals.And sometimes,I would celebrate western festival because of others around me.
2.On the one hand,some western festivals is funny and people can relax themselves by celebrating those festivals.On the other hand,people like keeping in line with the people around them.
1. Yes, I do. However, actually I am not accustomed to celebrating festivals.
2.
(1) Young people want to know the profound and long history of western countries.
(2) Young people would like to identity with western people who indulge in the joys of celebrating the festival.
(3) We all want to bridge the gap between two countries and two kinds of culture.
1. Yes, I celebrate western festivals.
2. People celebrate them for fun. Western festivals appear to be chances for people to escape from their chores and get together with thieir relations. So people are filled with anticipation and excitement about the wetern festivals, even though some of them don't really know about the original meaning of the festivals.
1.Yes, I do. I celebrate the Western holidays like Christmas, christmas Eve and so on.
2.The reason why people celebrate festivals is that the festival is the hope that the family will be able to get together. And it can also cultivate the emotion between people and bring happyness for them.
1. Yes, I celebrate some western festival.
2. First of all, celebrating western festivals is a chance to have a good time with my friend and my family. Secondly, I think we can learn western culture when we celebrating western festival. Thirdly, we will be happy because some western festivals are very interesting. After all, I think we should celebrate our traditional festival.
1. Yes, I celebrate western festivals such as Christmas but I seldom send others Christmas gifts.
2. As a Chinese, I think I celebrate festivals is due to Chinese cultures and customs primarily. The traditional festivals spread down from ancient time and now they become a critical part of Chinese lives. Mast Chinese festivals are meaningful and have great effects on linking family. As for western festivals, people have known them and celebrated them since our country reform and opening up. In this short time people were impacted strongly by western cultures. Western festivals are interesting and different so that many people specially young people are attract by western festivals.
Yes, I do celebrate western festivals alone. This does not mean others don't celebrate. I just feel lonely when I celebrate festival.
There're many different reasons for different people to celebrate. Someone is for fun and someone is for cultural. There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. I have no ability to know everyone. I can only say my reason for celebrating is just I need a way to dispel loneliness。
1.Not sincerely celebrate actually, but I also send wishes to friends.
2.In the one hand, because festivals are the traditions of culture, and the culture release the ratification of someone's nationality in a way. In the other hand, festivals are the ways for people to fresh themselves and spend time with family or friends.
1. I am very glad to celebrate Western holidays.
2. I think there is a significance reason for people to celebrate Western holidays,especially for young people. Western holidays are different from the china traditional festivals,which means you could have fun all night with friends or lovers without family' restraint. The meaning of Weatern holidays to me is spending a good with great friends and enjoying myself.
2. People celebrate holidays to memorize the events occurred on that particular day and inherit the traditional culture. Besides, people can have a fresh start with new hope they look forwards towards life.
1.Yes, But I have celebrated Christmas for only one time. As the man say in the video, I just celebrate the Christmas for having a chance for fun and I think there are should many young people like me.
2.At the first, the significance of festivals is honouring our ancestors and commemorating the special things and events. However, as time went on, many people especially the young people have forgotten the meanings of our traditional festivals. Now the festivals are tend to be regarded as a chance to relaxe ourselves.
1. If I were still a primary student, I would say yes and I did celebrate western festivals, such as Christmas and Hallowmas. But actually, I didn't have a clear idea of their meanings, and I just take them as entertainments. As I grow up, I no longer celebrate these western festivals, and I prefer our traditional festivals on account of it brings family reunion and happiness.
2. Celebrating festivals does benefit to let people temporarily put down their work, relax and recreat theirselves. More importantly, they have the opportunity to reunion with family and friends, this canbe attributed to people's sense of belonging and homesickness.
1.Maybe I has celebrated some western festivals. Actually I think those were not celebrated, but took those as an excuse to have fun.
2.I think that celebrating chinese festivals is for traditional culture, faith and wishes. celebrating western festivals maybe is for understanding western culture, interest and having fun.
1.Yes, I celebrate Western holidays ,such as Christmas Eve and Valentine's Day.
2.I celebrate these western holidays for having a get-together with my friends and beloved, having fun with them and releasing our stress. It's the holiday makes us have time to enjoy our lives, and get close to each other.
1. Yes, I celebrate Western Festivals like Christmas, Valentine's Day and so forth.
2. There are many reasons account for it. Firstly, it seems that embracing Western Festivals has become a trend or a fashion, especially for us, young people. Apart from it, it also provides a great chance for us to learn other countries' culture and customs.
1.Yes, I do. Almost every year I spend Christmas. I would send presents to my friends and receive presents from them.
2.To my way of thinking, the resons why people celebrate western festival may be as follows.
Firstly, for us, foreign festivals have a new sense of freshness.
Secondly, some people strongly advocate foregin cultrual festival, and many people follow suit, they offen mistake that is a trend.
Of course. I celebrate certain Western Festivals, such as Thanksgiving Day, New Year's Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day and Christmas Day.
On the one hand, it provides an opportunity for people to develop relationships. On the other hand, it helps people relax and adjust their mindset to a better life.
1.I sometimes may celebrate the western festivals. I think the Thanksgiving Days is very interesting. We can learn lot from this festival. We can express our feeling of gratitueon that day. I will also have the Mothers' Day and the Fathers' Day. So I think we can have some western festivals which are very meaning.
2.Because I think that China is a country which take serious in the family and expression. We all want to get together with family and share our emothion with others. So we all want to have the festivals.
1.Yes, I do.
2.We want to celebrate the festival because life needs ceremony. A lot of things are going to go away. The festival will reinforce the impression of feeling and demand. In the future, in the memory, life is not just plain water, there are special memories, special pieces, familiar flavor and the people who spend the holidays with them.
1.Yes,I always celebrate Western holidays like Christmas. I really think it is an interesting festival which can make me happy.
2.It seems to me that people celebrate festivals because everyone need some time to spend some wonderful time with their families or their friends. It not only can make them happy but also can relax themselves and have more energy to face to the next days.
1、Yes, I celebrate Western Festivals. But I just celebrate Christmas with my schoolmates, because they aren't holiday in western festivals.
2、In my opinion, people celebrate festivals is to commemorate great man such as Quyuan. The Dragon boat festival is the special day to commemorate him. Furthermore, to have get rid of obsolescence and welcome to lucky. Take spring festival for example, spring festival is the end of the last year and the first day of new year in lunar calendar. Therefore, people compare it as the lucky day of the whole year. Apart from these, people celebrate festival in order to relax. We have to work and work to make a living but we don't have time to enjoy ourshelvies, which lead to our inefficiency and inquietude. There must be some time for us to have fun.
1.Yes I celebrate some western festivals, like Christmas Day and Thanksgiving Day.
2.Most people celebrate western festivals for fun, because it is something out of ordinary for them. Other people, including me, celebrate western festivals just for opportunuties to gather with family or friends.
Yes, I will celebrate the Western holidays. I
think that whether it is Eastern or Western, the first point in
celebrating the festival is that it has a special meaning. People will
commemorate this day through a series of activities, such as traditional
festivals. The second reason is that because people are under more stress now, they need some justified days to find some fun.
In my opinion, besides being influenced by Western culture, the Chinese people’s Western holidays are more likely to have a reason to relax & express their love for family, friends & people around them. When faced with Western holidays, we should also face an open angle, without worrying too much about the cultural invasion that comes with it. This is also a confident expression of our Chinese culture.
Yes, I do celebrate Western Festivals.
I believe that it should not be criticized to celebrate western festivals. However, many merchants try to mislead us that the western festivals means consumption, which causes many Chinese to dislike them.As far as I am concerned, we are supposed to figure out the cutural background behind the western festivals when we celebrate them.