摘要：

节日问题是近年来国际国内社会普遍关注的问题。我国拥有着很多历史悠久的传统节日，然而，这些节日后所包含的文化内涵，如今却越来越被现代人忽视。特别是在新环境下成长起来的年轻人，更热衷于过各式各样的“洋节”。传统节日是传统文化的代表，是传统文化的结晶和载体，也是无形的“非物质文化遗产”。所以，维护传统节日是中华民族确认自己的文化身份的需要，是文化自觉的表现。本文探讨了我国传统节日日渐淡化的原因，对于如何继承、保护传统文化提出一些看法和措施。

关键词：传统节日；洋节；传统文化；保护

Abstract：

Festivals and holidays have been widely concerned home and abroad in recent years. Although we still celebrate various festivals with long history dating back to the ancient times, the cultural connotations embodied in those festivals seem to be ignored by the modern society. Grown up in this modern society, the young generations prefer celebrations of some foreign holidays rather than Chinese traditional ones. Traditional holidays represent traditional culture, breed from traditional culture. Traditional holidays are also “non-material cultural inherits”. Therefore, protection of Chinese traditional festivals is the need of Chinese own cultural identification and representation of cultural conscious. This article discusses why Chinese traditional festivals become unpopular and make some suggestions about how to inherit and protect traditional culture.

Key words: traditional festivals; foreign holidays; traditional culture

1. Introduction
1.1 A Brief Introduction on Chinese and Foreign Festivals
We have various Chinese traditional festivals, but Spring Festival, Mid-autumn’s Day and Tomb-sweeping Day are the three festivals that are very popular in china. A brief introduction will be given in the following part. There are many foreign festivals as well. Three foreign festivals will be introduced. They are Valentine’s Day, Christmas Day and Mothers’ Day. The reason why those three foreign festivals are chosen is that they are very popular in China and Chinese people celebrate them more often than other foreign festivals.
1.1.1 Chinese Festivals
1.1.1.1 Spring Festival
The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC-1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one.