英语作文-Should Chinese Celebrate Christmas

Should Chinese Celebrate Christmas

？

The

lively

and

busy

Christmas

has

pasted

for

few

days,

still,

the

happy

atmosphere

of

Christmas

is

everywhere,

especially

in

Internet,

shopping

mall

and

schools. It remains unknown that since when Chinese start celebrating Christmas as

foreigners

do,

together

with

the

emerging

of

presents

and

gifts

symbolizing

auspiciousness, such as peace fruit, namely apples. Meanwhile, opposing voices come

along, for example, one college in Xi’an closed school at this year’s

Christmas Eve,

forbidding

students

going

out

and

celebrating

it;

Wenzhou

also

forbade

schools

conducting Christmas parties. Therefore, what should we do about it?

People who support on celebrating Christmas hold on the idea that celebrating

Christmas

doesn’t mea

n to worship foreign things and fawn on foreign countries.

They think that it is simply the outcome of the intimating exchange of Chinese and

Western culture. Similarly, many foreigners now celebrate Spring Festival. They

claim that they didn’t forget Chin

ese traditional culture while celebrating foreign

holidays. Besides, Christmas is focus on the festival atmosphere ,it provides a chance

for those people who are under great pressure and need to relax and enjoy accompany

of family. And the merchants can seize the opportunity for sales promotion. Those

who holds different opinion claims that young people nowadays show more interests

in foreign holidays than Chinese traditional festivals, which is the indication of

worshiping and fawning foreign countries and neglecting traditional culture, causing

one day the whole Chinese culture would be ignored. Christmas in workday may

distract employees and students from working hard, they both think how to spend

their festival. For the merchants , they will hold some sales promotion

activities ,which will cause a certain extent waste ,it will be better if we donate that

part of money to Hope project ,help more people who is seeking help.

So ,should we celebrate Christmas?

At present, those who celebrate Christmas mainly are young teenagers. The reason

why they are willing to celebrate Christmas, apart from the advertising influence of

merchants on holidays, is more related with their own life. We celebrate our

traditional holidays mainly by visiting relatives and friends, beer and skittles,

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