Contents
2.1 The Definitions of Festival and Culture. 4
2.2 Festivals in the West and China. 4
III. The Customs of Christmas and Spring Festival 5
3.1 The Customs of Christmas. 5
3.2 The Customs of Spring Festival 10
3.2.1 Eating the Laba Rice Porridge. 10
3.2.2 Waving Goodbye to the Kitchen God on the Minor New Year’s Day. 11
3.2.3 Sweeping off the Dust 11
3.2.4 Preparing the Food for Spring Festival 11
3.2.5 Decorating the Household. 12
3.2.6 Celebrating the Eve of the Lunar New Year 13
3.2.7 The Ways of Welcoming the Lunar New Year 14
IV Similarities and Differences in the Two Festivals. 15
Among all the elements that consists a nation’s culture, Festival Culture is the most essential and richest factor. As we all know, Chinese and Western festivals are two different cultural forms evolved in comparatively independent cultural systems, which possess peculiar characteristics and varied manifestation.
With the global economy integration aggravating, cultural exchanges between China and western countries become more frequent and broad. Many western festivals and customs have diffused into China, like Christmas. Valentine’s Day, April Fool’s Day and there appears to be a tendency that almost all social groups have come to take them seriously. This paper introduces the difference of festivals in the West and China and research the influence on China society.
Key words: culture, Western festivals, China, influence
摘 要
节日文化是民族文化构成诸要素中最具普泛性、丰富性的要素。而众所周知，中西方的传统节日文化，是在其各自相对独立的文化系统中发育成长起来的两种文化形态，具有独具一格的鲜明特色和自成体系的丰富内容，以及多姿多彩的表现形式。
随着全球经济一体化的加剧吗，中西方文化交流日渐广泛，西方的一些节日和习俗，如圣诞节，情人节，愚人节已经传入中国并呈现出在几乎所有社会群体中扩散的趋势本文比较中西方节日的差异，然后分析对中国影响。
关键词：文化；西方节日；中国；影响
