Mid-Autumn Festival and do not know what the cultural implications are. Thirdly, people are aware of the symbol of the spirit of western Valentine’s Day that is the rose. Poets and scholars have likened the beauty of their sweethearts to that of roses. At the same time, a great many people know that there are formed meanings of different colored roses in some cultures. For example, white roses are for true love and purity of the mind. Red roses are for love and passion. Yellow roses are for friendship. Black roses mean farewell .Pink roses mean friendship or sweetheart(代芊,朱昱,2006;21). But few people can understand what the symbol of the spirit of Chinese Valentine’s Day is and how to celebrate it. This is related to the current Chinese education. In the media, a large number of western festivals - related reports are published in magazines, but the traditional Chinese ones are few. A piece of newspaper even published a number of false news, and then reported the joke about April Fool’s Day. We can know that some really irresponsible media have played a role in the prevalence of Western festivals in China
D. Some advantages of western festivals
The prevalence of western festivals in China is related to the manifestations of the difference between the western festivals and the traditional Chinese ones. Chinese festivals mainly originated from the celebration, worship and other activities.(菲利普,斯帝尔,2004:38) However, most of the western festivals are related to the religions .For instance, Christmas is related to Christianity and Halloween is related to the Catholic.(安钠利.鲁费斯,1999:301) Many young people love western festivals usually not because of their cultural connotation, but because of more life fun, they would like to make the opportunity to express kindly feelings to the distinguished people .In their opinions , it is not important to know what cultural connotation is about Valentine’s Day ,St. Day ,Thanksgiving Day and so on. For the form of performance, what are the advantages of western festivals, compared with the traditional Chinese ones? Look at the difference between Christmas and the Spring Festival. On Christmas, people can prepare Christmas cards, Christmas trees and so on. Then they can hold Christmas evening, both spending a little money and having a good time .However, during the Spring Festival, people who live in the city watch television or play with friends. People in rural areas are busy paying a New Year’s call and so on. Generally speaking, people are generally linked with blood relation. There is no atmosphere of the formation of the same cultural roots. Due to spending a lot of money, time and energy, many people wish that there be no the Spring Festival. Look at western Valentine’s Day and Chinese one, Chinese people are quite shy and rarely directly express their feelings. Now young people influenced by western culture are no longer conservative, compared with their predecessors. With the changes of the material living standards, people express love with flowers, chocolate on Valentine’s Day that meet their needs .Chinese Valentine’s Day is a beautiful legend .Many young people do not like the outcome .Certainly, they are not interested in it. For the difference of the atmosphere of other festivals, they probably are related to the form of celebration.
Ⅲ .Effects of the increasing popularity of western festivals in China
With the development of society, western festivals are getting more and
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