During my high school around 2000, besides a one-day break, we celebrated the coming new year (元旦) by the calligraphy competition, the new-year parties, maybe drinking secretly, etc. Like probably everyone else, I sometimes felt depressed under the long-term cramming class and endless examinations.
That made the sequential college time evolute into an entirely opposite direction, one of the output could be that we celebrated almost any festivals from inside/outside the nation. The Christmas Day exactly took us a hilarious plus super happy memories. Normally we prepared gifts for the friends, always with a apple (by pronunciation with 苹=平安). All the roommates climbed across the wall of school gate for a whole-night web bar, to play noisy video games, chat with online target girls, watch regular or non-regular movies (do not even ask me what kind of movies, we all were young once), etc.
In the near Christmas days I normally sent wishes to my families, friends and be-loved ones, in the hope of their long lasting health and happiness. Apparently the parents around would prepare carefully chosen gifts and spending the time with the kids, making this a big day for them. Indeed, although some of us even don’t know the detailed derivation of this festival, this exact day did creat an unique opportunity to show warm wishes and love to each other. To this meaning, do we really need boycott the festivals from outside like Christmas? In the name of supporting our native and traditional ones?
Maybe what we really should do is promoting the fundamental education about our historical culture and conventional special festivals, encouraging more public break in legal with payments…
Merry Christmas to you and the families!
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