【正文】 for the blessings of nature. In the beginning, the Winter Sacrifice activities had no fixed date. Usually, it was held at the end of each winter. As time past, the form and content of Winter Sacrifice were also changing. Ultimately, it became a festival to bid farewell old year and wele a new year. So it came to be called the Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year’s Day. Of all the festivals, the Spring Festival is the most important to the Chinese. Several days before the Spring Festival, we springclean our houses and decorate them. Old folks say that everything must be clean for the Spring Festival celebrations so that the New Year will bring happiness and good luck. According to Chinese traditions, each and every family puts up red Spring Festival couplets on doorframes on the eve of the lunar New Year’s Day. When the family happily fathers together the celebration begins. No matter how far away a person is, he would always try to get home in time for this big dinner. After the family dinner, the whole family sits around, watching the evening programs for celebrating the Spring Festival from CCTV. Parents or grandparents offer the children money as a lunar New Year gift and encourage them to do better in the ing new year. Some parents put the money gifts under the children’s pillows when they fall asleep. Money gift symbolizes two things: firstly, they hope that children will grow safe and sound in the new year。s Day festival is celebrated in a big way in countries around the world. It is interesting to note that the popularity of this ancient festival has grown several folds and it would be increasing by the year as more and more people are getting influenced by idea of celebrating love and lovers. The present generation holds the festival in high regard and celebrates the day by expressing love not just to their sweethearts but everyone they hold dear and special. In present times, Valentine39。s Day Festival. Ⅲ. Origins of Different Cultural Festivals A. Differences of Religious Belief One origin of different cultural festivals between China and western countries shows on the differences of religious belief, especially Christianity, and western region is obviously. Westerners hold that God creates human being. God doesn’t allow them to adore other deities and there is no need to. Christian holds that life is just a process. Fortune and misfortune is decided by God Congenital. So theme of Christmas is to pray for happiness bestowed by god. New Year’s Day, Epiphany, Easter, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas all connected with Good Friday is the anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus, Easter is to memorate Jesus resurrection and Christmas is the birthday of Jesus Christ. We can see western festivals are covered with a strong color of religion. But Chinese traditional festivals are so different. Chinese people advocate humanism and the social structure of China is established on the bination of nature and human. Because of the long history of feudalism in Chinese, Chinese people hold the balance of the god and human. Like the Spring Festival in China, it focuses on the family reunion. And also through the pare of the Spring Festival and Western Valentine’s Day, Valentine’s Day is full of bold, direct romantic colors. The traditional Chinese festivals are the result of agricultural culture and Confucianism while western traditional festivals are formed under the influence of Christianity. China is a powerful agriculture country。 both China and western countries celebrate January 1, New Year’s Day. Labor Day and National Day are two other holidays that is shared in the two countries. B. Continuous Development of Chinese Traditional Festivals The Chinese traditional festivals is an important integral part of the Chinese culture, one of the carriers for inheritance of the Chinese national spirit, and a spiritual link for cementation of the feeling of the Chinese people both at home and overseas. The development process of China’s traditional festivals presents the clear picture of the nation’s historical and social development one after another. The rich contents reflect a panorama of the abundant cultural connotations and national spirit of Chinese culture. To protect Chinese national and folk culture, it is necessary to understand the national and folk culture at first. For instance, the festivals in China are undoubtedly an important integral part of the national and folk culture, covering every aspect of the national and folk culture, such as cultural space, place, popular literature, ritual ceremony, food and entertainments. China Immaterial Cultural Inheritance Protection Project is currently under way in China， that is to make effective protection of the nation’s traditional and national folk culture. The protection project includes promulgation of the law for Chinese immaterial cultural protection, formulation of the catalogue for Chinese immaterial cultural protection (at the national, provincial and country levels) and establishment of the immaterial cultural heritor system. This is one of the important measures in Chinese cultural construction and will inevitably exert farreaching influence on invigoration of the Chinese nationality. In a word, we should guide and roster Chinese festival culture with an active attitude. That is, to absorb the foreign reasonable factors and use it. At the same time, we should exam and reform the unsuitable things with an epoch perspective so that we can meet the ing of the universal civilization. Ⅴ. Conclusion There is no doubt that cultural festival is a bination of culture which plays an important role in intercultural munication. Festivals are establishe