【正文】 ant 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. 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。 except for the explanations to honor the great poet Qu Yuan, many folk scholars believe that it originated from summer solstice and people’s worship of dragons. In the fifth lunar month, crops begin to grow quickly. Obviously, water is vitally important to agricultural production. So we can see China has been a big country of agriculture since a long time ago, and Chinese people tend to attach great importance to agriculture. B. Differences of Moral Culture China is a country with an ancient civilization on land, while Western countries possess rich civilization on the seacoast. Because of the different ways of social development between China and western countries, their moral culture is obviously different. China is a united multiethnic country which has about five thousand years history. And Confucian concept plays an important role in the historical origins of Chinese traditional culture. They think honesty gives way to loyalty and filial piety. But Westerners believe that a moral person must be honest, namely, always telling the truth. With fruitful humanism and moral culture, Chinese traditional festivals contain different festival features and colorful contents which is a precious spiritual inheritance of the world. All of the Chinese traditional festivals have a deep connotation of ethics morality and they give service to the Confucianism ethics. Sometimes, it is short of entertainment color needed by the mon people. The social structure of Chinese traditional culture has a great, farreaching influence. In contrast, western festivals like Christmas, Valentine’s Day, April Fool39。 both offer a family reunion with a square feast: and both satisfy the children with new clothes, lovely presents and delicious food. Christmas, the 25th of December, is the biggest festival celebrated in the Christians who regard this day as the birthday of Jesus Christ, but many of the customs and celebrations are not of a religious nature. In western countries, the spirit of Christmas arrives about a month before the festival itself. Late in November, the windows of almost every shop or store in town, the city street, the outside of public buildings are all decorated with strings of colored lights and the traditional Christmas colors of red and green. Snowman, Santa Claus, shepherds, angels and Nativity scenes appear in countless shop windows. Fir trees, holly wreaths, and mistletoe are familiar sights. People are busy preparing for the festival, buying Christmas cards, presents and food. Westerners like to put their Christmas tree in their living room about two weeks before Christmas and decorate the trees with colored balls and strings of colored electric lights. Although westerners enjoy the mercial gaiety of Christmas, the most beautiful and meaningful aspects of the festival occur at home and in church. “Going home for Christmas” is a cherished custom and no distance seems too great if it enables one to join the family circle for the festival. On Christmas morning, the first thing for many people is to gather around the Christmas tree to exchange gifts and a Merry Christmas greeting with each oth