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(82,333 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 09:58 AM Dec 2014

Chinese 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 Xi’an, 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 OP
Open resistance Cartoonist Dec 2014 #1
Idiots. MADem Dec 2014 #2
+1 daleanime Dec 2014 #5
I think since the Chinese embraced unbriddled capitolism horse edhopper Dec 2014 #3
Don't underestimate the power of nationalism. rug Dec 2014 #4
Their anti-religious zeal is, well, almost religious. cbayer Dec 2014 #6
hope they don't go all Wuzong MisterP Dec 2014 #7

Cartoonist

(7,298 posts)
1. Open resistance
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 10:09 AM
Dec 2014

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.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Idiots.
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 10:25 AM
Dec 2014

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.

edhopper

(33,205 posts)
3. I think since the Chinese embraced unbriddled capitolism horse
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 10:43 AM
Dec 2014

the "traditional Chinese culture" barn door has been left open.

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