Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, who is always keen to comment on hot issues, posted three consecutive posts on Weibo on Christmas Eve to publicize his views on celebrating Christmas.Hu Xijin said that in his more than ten years as the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, the promotion of Christmas has always been discouraged in his memory.However, he had never heard of the directive to boycott Christmas.He asked back: I don't know where the policy basis for boycotting Christmas in very few places comes from?Or are those all false reports?
Hu Xijin also posted the scenes he took in the cafeteria at the west gate of the People's Daily in the past few days. In the photos, Christmas trees and many Christmas decorations are clearly visible.He pointed out that in the cafeteria of this newspaper where foreign experts patronize, I think these decorations are very normal.
In another Weibo post on Christmas Eve, Hu Xijin showed a scene of his elderly parents celebrating Christmas, with a huge Christmas tree in the photo.He wrote that Lao Hu's parents are Christians, and my family and I always sent them to church for the holidays in the past few years.But now my mother is 91 years old and can't go to church.That's why he bought this Christmas tree and brought Christmas to the old man back home.He also wished parents and their church members a Merry Christmas.
In a video released by Hu Xijin that night, he said that Christmas in China has become two completely different things. One is a Christian festival, and the other is a fashion consumption festival for young people, which has nothing to do with religion.He believes that China has traditional culture as well as Christians, and his parents became Christians in rural Henan when they were young.He also emphasized that the state guarantees freedom of religious belief and neither encourages the promotion of Christmas nor boycotts it.Just because someone advocates boycotting Christmas, it cannot be put on the line.
