Now some people say that we have to revitalize traditional culture, so we have to boycott foreign festivals. This is really a misunderstanding, talking as if we have not boycotted enough before. We Chinese have a glorious tradition of boycotting holidays. Not to mention “Christmas” and other unlucky foreign festivals, even our own Spring Festival, we also boycott.
In 1967, the “Four Olds” were still emerging, and the revolutionary generals had smashed everything that could be smashed, leaving only the metaphysical so-called traditional culture not yet swept into the historical garbage heap. A famous Red Guard in Shanghai named Zhang Renxing, under the arrangement of the organization, published an article in the Liberation Daily on January 25, and sent an initiative to the revolutionary masses in the form of a “letter from the revolutionary rebels” that “the Spring Festival will not go home”. He boldly said: What’s the Spring Festival! The greatest festival of our proletarian revolutionary rebels had arrived!
On hearing the wind, newspapers all over the country were working hard to create public opinion through so-called “letters from readers” and “initiatives”. Not to be outdone, the People’s Daily published an initiative to “break the old customs, not to take a vacation during the Spring Festival, and to carry out a mass struggle to seize power”, appealing to the masses in a heartfelt manner.
“Let’s break it down! Around the Chinese New Year, we should break the old customs and habits of feudalism and capitalism for thousands of years! We must establish the new customs and habits of the proletariat! To hell with gods, New Year worship, treats, gifts, food, drink and fun! We, the working class, have never had these dirty old habits!”
On January 29, the Central Committee, in response to the “demands of the revolutionary masses,” issued a nationwide notice that there would be no Spring Festival holiday. Not only is the Spring Festival not a holiday, but it also stipulates that family leave is also cancelled. Think about it, the ancestors do not have to respect, you still respect parents and couples? There is no reason to do so. Shanghai, which was at the forefront of the revolution, banned the hanging of all holiday banners on New Year’s Eve, replacing them with “Long live the January Revolution,” “Smash someone’s dog’s head,” “Burn, shell, uncover someone Revolutionary slogans such as “Long live the January Revolution”, “Smash someone’s dog head”, “Burn, bombard and uncover someone” and so on.
The whole country quickly followed suit, and the Chinese New Year, the grandest and most important festival in China, disappeared for 13 years! Until 1979, when it was the People’s Daily again, yes that’s right, it was it again. It wasn’t until 1979 that the People’s Daily, yes, again, came out with a roar about “why the Spring Festival doesn’t have holidays” that the unlucky child of the Spring Festival was brought back from the trash heap of revolutionary history.
So boycotting foreign holidays like Christmas is really nothing, you just have to be happy. It is possible to boycott on demand, what traditional culture, Western civilization, these houses of cards, at your fingertips, want to smash who will smash who. It is best to come back to a “help Qing exterminate the foreign” flag, hanging in every cold windy street corner.
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