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Before Christmas this year, the debate of whether the festival should be over in China is as expected.Not only China, the United States has repeatedly staged a certain Christmas battle over the years.Americans use a more intense and funny tone to describe this kind of controversy, calling the war on Christmas.
Let's talk about China ’s Oceanic Festival disputes first.In fact, as early as 2006, 10 post -doctoral letters from famous universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University issued an open letter, calling on the Chinese people to regard Christmas as the invasion of Western soft power, call for resistance to Christmas, and support our own culture.
In the past two years, with the requirements of cultural self -confidence, such voices have risen to official platforms.In January 2017, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued a opinion on the implementation of the development of the inheritance and development of the excellent traditional culture of China, requiring the revitalization project of traditional Chinese festivals such as the Spring Festival and Qingming.
At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party News Network called on party members and cadres to not over the Western Festival, and a stone stirred thousands of waves, and it has also become the basis for some local agencies, schools and group organizations to ban members and students from spending Christmas Eve and celebrating Christmas.
Similar to rejection of the foreign festival, the ridiculous slogan from me came into being.Judging from the discussions present on the Internet, this year, more universities and primary and secondary schools are prohibited from crossing the foreign festival, and kindergartens require parents to not Christmas with their children.
Observer who disagreed with this believes that resisting Christmas is exactly a manifestation of cultural unconfidence.Another netizen spoke to ridicule: This Christmas is not good, and it is recommended to resist it directly.
However, the shopping malls in the big cities are still lit, and the Christmas activities of religious places are still, reflecting that although Chinese seniors do not encourage major events to celebrate Christmas, they are not banned.
Christmas has fallen into China ’s confusion in cultural self -confidence, the correct political politics and the tap of the global trend, and the ideological dispute between ideology, but not only China politically politically?Opening the history of Western, the essence and Christmas battle on the tongue have been performed several times.
In 1647, the England Parliament, mainly Puritans, passed the abolition of the festival regulations and officially banned Christmas. It is stipulated that the stores must be opened as usual, the people work as usual, and the church must be closed.
The purpose of the parliament is to remove the influence of the Roman Catholicism in the UK. They also suspect that Christmas carnival is too wasteful, rough and lack of religious connotation.
As a result, the decision of his anti -public opinion was strongly resisted, riots broke out in the London area, and citizens of Canterbury once captured prisons and arsenal.
Affected by the British Puritan denominations, the United States did not pay attention to Christmas in the early days of colonial.From 1659 to 1681, the Puritans of Massachusetts were listed as illegal activities celebrating Christmas, and offenders fined five pioneers.It was not until 1870 that Christmas became a national holiday in the United States.
The latest Western version of the Christmas battle was at the beginning of this century. Under the correct political correctness of liberalism, congratulations to people of different faith congratulations to people of different faiths. Merry Christmas is regarded as a lack of tolerance and disrespect to others.
At the end of 2005, then US President Bush sent 1.4 million greeting cards that did not see Christmas, congratulating the other party's happy holiday.As a result, the conservative religious believers were angrily, and the editor -in -chief of a conservative website claimed that I immediately threw it away as soon as I received the White House greeting card!
Conservatives believe that their faith has been attacked, and this Christmas battle has gradually risen from conservative media to the topic of presidential campaign, becoming a topic of competition in the party.When Trump was running for president in 2016, he repeatedly promised to talk about Merry Christmas again, and he was successfully elected later.
In October of this year, the Christon battle debuted in the city of Southwestern United States.The female mayor, who was less than one year, was also the city's first female mayor Amy Goodwin, Amy Goodwin, renamed the annual Christmas parade to the winter parade, and instantly detonated the big rebound. She recovered her life within 72 hours.
Some Americans believe that there is no so -called Christmas battle at all, it is just a conservative conspiracy that is allergic to the nerve;It is the real Christmas battle to turn Christmas as a buying and shopping festival, and the victory and defeat have already been seen. The loser is a party with faith.
Watching the rich Christmas history of Britain and the United States, there is no need to be too fussing for China ’s cross -festival controversy.Christmas has too much influence, and various forces such as business, politics, political parties, and culture must express their opinions on it, and even refer to the benefits.
Each extension of the Christmas battle highlights the greater political wrestling and changes in the times.It is only sighing that the world is getting more and more chaotic, everything is commoditized and politicized. It is really fewer and fewer places that humans can peacefully pin their faith and seek redemption.
