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Related: About this forumChinese Hit Back Against a Foreign Intrusion: Christmas
Students in Changsha, Hunan Province, on Wednesday displayed banners reading "Resist Christmas. Chinese should not celebrate foreign festivals." Credit Agence France-Presse Getty Images
By Andrew Jacobs
December 25, 2014 6:24 am
There may be no exact translation for humbug in Chinese, but in recent days, as popular fervor for the trappings of Western-style Christmas enveloped this officially atheist nation, the defenders of traditional Chinese culture have fought back with Scrooge-like zeal.
On Wednesday, university students in the central province of Hunan held an anti-Christmas pageant with banners declaring Chinese should not celebrate foreign festivals. Education officials in the coastal city of Wenzhou issued a decree banning the celebration of Christmas-themed events at schools.
Students at a university in northwestern China were forced to endure three hours of propaganda films, including one glorifying Confucius, the state news media said. Faculty members reportedly stood at the doors, making sure no one tried to sneak off to partake in illicit Christmas cheer.
Be good Chinese boys and girls, and oppose adulation of foreign festivals, read one banner strung across the campus of Modern College of Northwest University in Xian, home to the famed terra cotta warriors.
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/atheist-china-cracks-down-on-a-force-of-the-west-christmas/?_r=0
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Chinese Hit Back Against a Foreign Intrusion: Christmas (Original Post)
rug
Dec 2014
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Cartoonist
(7,298 posts)1. Open resistance
That girl in the background on the right seems to be dressed in Santa gear. Are those antlers on her head? I think I see antlers sticking above the group in front.
Gee, whiz, should the rest of the world eschew Chinese New Year because it's not "ours?" Who doesn't like a little Santa Baby and eggnog?
Do it like the Japanese do--wear the santa outfits and exchange gifts. It's a fun little winter holiday. No need to drag Jesus into the mix if you don't want to....
It's one of those holidays that can be secular, or not...depending.
But, please, be careful who you say that to.
edhopper
(33,205 posts)3. I think since the Chinese embraced unbriddled capitolism horse
the "traditional Chinese culture" barn door has been left open.
rug
(82,333 posts)4. Don't underestimate the power of nationalism.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)6. Their anti-religious zeal is, well, almost religious.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)7. hope they don't go all Wuzong