The redefined western festival in China

 Santa Claus also has a station toward Oriental Asia in China in his Jingo-bell journey, now you can hear the song in most shopping malls all over China. Albeit Chinese has their own Spring Festival, it could not stop the lovely grandfather's feet.



Western festivals have had a significant development in urban Chinese life, while the traditional ones' voices are getting lower and lower. If you take an eye on these festival activities, mainly are about purchasing promotion such as Valentine's Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, the Christmas always comes as the summit of the year, all of these beneficially amount to a great consuming terms. This business-wise also determines a big difference between Chinese Christmas and the European style. When western people are gathering at home, preparing and eating a heavy Christmas meal, Chinese are hanging out in big restaurants, shopping malls, cinemas and clubs for fun.



When the Christmas is approaching, Chinese can use its fame incisively in another way: every shopping centers builds up a deluxe decorated Christmas tree, no exception. Kids know it's time to ask parents for presents, but they have no idea about the original story of the Christ; youngsters are staring at the amazing super Christmas tree made by plastic but don't know how important the real tree smell is. After several years of market fostering, the super malls are not worrying lack of customers, now they even higher prices to make a flaunty competition, anyway the customers have no other choice. On this hand, the western festivals are still superficially interpreted by the brilliant business developers in China, since there is no easy channels for Chinese to get to know the basic story.

China has a unbearable culture import history, some of them were gilded to be a showy way to satisfy people's competition psychology, which means actually they haven't got the core meaning of those traditions. Eventually the flattering on western culture and the shattering of Chinese traditions are inheriting, now the government also want to revive the Chinese traditional festivals by offering national vacations, like Qingming Day, Mid-Autumn Day etc., nevertheless, the broken belt can't be easily sutured. These agriculture-based festivals are hardly to be translated to the busy urbanese. The fast consumption also has no connection to these memorial days.



If you go to a church in China, you can also experience the authentic western mass (e.g. St. Peter's church has multi-language mass during the Christmas); the holly ceremony is completely kept as a religion schedule. However, there're not many Christians in China, the ceremony cannot be widely spread by such few channel. This could be one of the reasons why the western festivals have been redefined.