Well, I thought about it, but this third school is a bit interesting. When is your birthday? How do you feel? Pull it over and have a shopping promotion festival directly. No matter what foreign festivals, we downplay them, we transform them and we dissolve them. Isn't it just a gimmick to sell things? Isn't that a reason to buy things? Why are you so serious? We China people are very easy-going, whether foreign or local, we just need to use it, regardless of our origins. If Christmas is foreign, are Labor Day, Women's Day and Children's Day national? Isn't it foreign? If you have the courage to resist all this, but you can't, then accept it. Every day, ordinary people are either squeezed by institutions or work hard for private capitalists to earn hard-earned money. It's always good to have a holiday, do something new, eat and play in the street, and take another day off just in case. What does Christmas have to do with me? What are you grateful for? Who is a saint? Look down, it's no big deal. We in China have no obligation to copy western festivals according to western cultural habits, and we have no obligation to hold the "sacredness" of westerners above our heads and love them in our hearts. We live our own lives, and I just spend my time in your western festivals.
As for the first faction, they are too nervous. If they want to boycott foreign festivals, it's too much. Foreign festivals have really invaded China society, and have had a great impact on our current real life, which has had a great impact on our own cultural customs, especially on children. Maybe we only know Santa Claus and Jesus, but not Confucius and Mencius. But you can't blame the foreign festival, you have to find the reason from yourself. If we don't worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries, if we don't create a cultural vacuum, foreign festivals will not enter. Even if we do, we will naturally be alienated by the people and become a climate. It is precisely because of our own destruction of traditional culture that people, especially teenagers, don't know what traditional folk customs are in their country, so they naturally follow foreign festivals. Look at our festival. Today, how many customs and habits are left for the people to adhere to? I think we have nothing left except a family reunion and a dinner. How many people still worship their ancestors during the holidays? Still burning paper? With incense and candles? Even the government has taken the lead in saying that this is a bad habit and should be banned and "changed". But if customs and habits have no specific ceremony and no specific content, what is left? Children like to celebrate Christmas, isn't it because they lied to him that there was a Santa Claus driving a car and carrying a bag to deliver things? Isn't it because there is a Christmas tree full of colored lights? People who like Halloween can dress up as ghosts. The maintenance of customs and habits absolutely needs rituals and specific content. Why else would Christianity go to mass? We destroyed our own culture, and now we accuse others of celebrating foreign festivals. Why did we leave decades earlier? In addition, the government does not want to boycott foreign festivals, but only says that it wants to encourage people to restore traditional festivals, which is far from boycotting foreign festivals and is not the same thing at all. So the first faction, taking chicken feathers as arrows, made a mistake.
The second faction has a bigger problem. I have read several articles in this school, and I feel that they fart in their nostrils. Because they all like to hum songs with their noses, there will be deep contempt in the gaps between their nose hairs. They are the supremacists of foreigners' foreign culture. First of all, it has nothing to do with whether it is civilized or uncivilized, whether it is integrated into the international community, whether there is hope for the country and the nation, whether it is democratic or free, and whether it believes in religion. If a China person is a Christian, he can certainly celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving, because this is his freedom of belief, and we support him. But we ordinary non-Christians in China have no obligation to worship any saints in the West. Excuse me, Christmas is here. What is Christmas? When you are grateful, how do you feel grateful? I don't think I am a saint in China, and I don't feel the elegance of China. So as long as I am not a Christian, there is absolutely no need to buy it. I respect you foreigners and Christians in China for Christmas, which is your custom and religious belief, but the rest of us are free to make do with Christmas and do whatever we want.
Well, then people like me will be labeled as disrespecting the great Christian spirit of fraternity, and even rise to the point where the whole Chinese nation lacks religious spirit, saying that the reason why China people are in this situation today is that they claim to have a civilization of 5,000 years, but they lack religious spirit and religious belief. The final conclusion is that China people have no religion and don't know how to fear, so they need the redemption of Christian spirit. This argument is really older than my grandmother's feet. This is nothing new. I have no religion in China? I in China don't know how to be afraid. I am backward in China because there is no state religion? I think, as long as you have a little culture, read some books, don't listen to hearsay, and learn more from others, you all know the correct answers to these three questions. Anyone who claims that China people need Christian spiritual salvation, except Christians, is a person who doesn't study.
China people's Buddhism, Taoism, Yin and Yang studies and folk religions have lasted for thousands of years. How can there be no religion? I, a native of China, said, "Be respectful at home, respect deacons", "Respect inside, the essence outside", and said, "I am afraid of fate, adults and saints". Neo-Confucianism pays special attention to respecting the Lord and avoiding fear. How can we not fear? Do we have to treat Christianity as a religion to be religious? Do we have to take the Christian spirit as the spirit to be awesome? That's nonsense. In my opinion, it is not our sorrow that the people of China have not unified a religion like Christianity. On the contrary, this is our blessing and the virtue of our ancestors. We really want to thank a sentence in The Analects: "Zi does not speak, Machamp does not speak". China has a long history of extremely complicated nationalities and complicated political issues. Fortunately, it is not as serious as foreigners in religion, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. China may become the second Middle East, and this faction is in a mess. We have always been tolerant in religious culture, which is precisely the tolerance of our national culture. Otherwise, there will be several religious massacres in 5000 years of civilization. Our traditional cultural characteristics make us always focus on the real world, but we just avoid falling into a completely illusory religious life, so we avoid religious disputes like those in the West, such as the Middle East. I have always been proud of this, which deserves our praise. Unlike some Western supremacists who advocate that there is no state religion, it is the sorrow of China people and the reason for the low quality of China people. Western supremacists are still talking about the west endlessly. They don't look at Christianity. It has already gone bankrupt. How many people go to church now? Westerners want to live an illusory religious life, but unfortunately, Christianity went bankrupt in the face of modern science. What shall we do? His illusory spiritual opium is gone. How can we solve the secular problems? How to relieve pain? Ok, then use physical opium instead, so marijuana and cocaine appear. Religion and drugs seem to be incompatible, but their core is actually the same, both of which have the effect of anesthetizing the spirit and diverting the attention of the world. We in China mainly care about secular life, and it doesn't matter to me whether God is God or not. I pray to God and worship Buddha for secular life, so I don't seek illusory mental anesthesia. No matter whether religion breaks down or not, I won't replace the lack of mental anesthesia with drugs. I think this is in the interest of China people and an excellent quality in national culture. If the quality of China people today is low, it is definitely not a problem of traditional culture. On the contrary, it is the result of not engaging in traditional culture, or wantonly destroying it, or not obeying it.