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1.Introduction

Culture is the soul carrier of human being, and is the core of a country.Different countries

have different cultures.With the development of globalization, more and more American movies

and festivals have stepped into China.And it is a fact that more and more Chinese people have

enjoyed these movies and festivals, especially the youths.Nowadays, it‟s generally accepted that

culture is one kind of soft strength.As two of the key means and strategies to transmit American

cultures, they have already had great influence on Chinese culture.However, these influences are

not always good.So only by using these movies and festivals in a positive way can we minimize

loes and reduce the noneential misunderstanding and friction and gain the victory in the

Chinese and American intercultural communication.In the following, we will expound the

influence of American festivals and movies on Chinese culture and our proposal.2.American Festivals’ Influence on Chinese Culture

Since the policy of reforming and opening was implemented, Western culture especially American culture floods into China of which American festivals are a big component.Objectively speaking, those festivals affect Chinese culture both positively and negatively.2.1.Positive Influence

2.1.1.The Improvement of Chinese People’s Ability to Expre Their Emotion

From what we can see, foreign festivals are popular mainly among the younger generation

while the seniors show little interests to them.As I have previously stated, the young people today

are growing in the atmosphere of well acceptance of foreign cultures and increasing tolerance

toward foreign festivals.They enjoy happily sending greeting cards at Christmas, DIY chocolate

to their beloved ones on valentine‟s day, make jokes on April fool‟s day and hug their parents on

Mother‟s day and Father‟s day.To them, foreign festivals are not only to have fun but also give

them more occasions to appreciate love.Influenced by those festivals, they learn how to expre

properly their kindne, friendline, love and imitation to others.2.1.2.The Enrichment of Chinese Culture

Compared with traditional Chinese festivals, some American festivals are entertaining,educational, and with the character of unselfishne.With the exchange between China and

America continuing to expand, American festivals, to some extent, enrich Chinese culture.For

example, with the prevailing of the Thanksgiving Day and Mother‟s Day in China, the

consciousne of thanksgiving is manifested in Chinese culture.In the course of celebrating American festivals, we learn a lot about America‟s history, customs, and lifestyle, which makes it easier for the Chinese to communicate with the Americans.In this way, American festivals enrich Chinese people‟s spiritual life and thus enrich our Chinese culture.2.2.Negative Influence

2.2.1.The Great Strike on Chinese Traditional Festivals

In the wake of American festivals‟ influences, Chinese traditional festivals have undergone a

lo.There has existed an embarraing phenomenon that many Chinese youngsters are fascinated with the celebration of American festivals while disliking our traditional festivals.Nowadays, an increasing number of Chinese people are fond of celebrating some American

festivals.Many young guys only know Christmas and Valentine‟ Day, but they don‟t know which day is the Chinese Double seventh festival or Tomb-sweeping Day.They just know Christmas tree, Christmas party, rose and chocolate.Yet they don‟t understand the real cultural implications of Mid-autumn Day or the Spring Festival.This important problem of the indifference to traditional festivals shows the great strike on Chinese traditional festivals.2.2.2.Chinese Young People’s Blind Faith in American Culture

The Christmas and other American festivals celebrated in China have difference from the

origin.They lose their religious background and turn into a big occasion to have fun and enjoy life.Retailers‟ pockets have been filled, public‟s hunger for happine filled, and that is enough.American festivals in China are more like carnivals giving people pleasure and enjoyment.However, American festivals have the cultural and historical origins in America, which are not

known and comprehended by Chinese people.There are so many American festivals, including Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and Saint Valentine's Day and so on, which are originated from or related with Christian or Catholicism which are not believed in by the majority of Chinese people.We could not gain the happy feeling since we could not understand these holidays‟ meanings.It is just our Chinese young people‟s blind faith in American culture.2.2.3.American Culture Invasion via Its Festival

American festivals show their strong influence on people‟s values and thoughts, and

American culture invasion via its festivals.However, it seems that Christmas Day is on the track of being the symbol of fashion, while

our Spring Festival becomes synonymous with out-dated.On top of that, more and more people tend to enjoy the Valentine‟s Day, overlooking our Double Seventh Magpie‟s day, a day with profound culture base and rich cultural meaning.From the decay of the traditional festivals into which our Chinese culture is condensed, we can see how long a shadow the American culture has cast on our soil.It spreads like “the rain sneaking into the night with the wind, moistening all the things silently”, not the tender spring shower, but the acid rain with formidable and corrosive power.3.American Movies’ Influence on Chinese Culture

In 1899, it was the first time that movie had been shown in China.Chinese people began to intact film is that from American film.Gradually, American film makes some effect on Chinese culture.3.1.Positive Influence

3.1.1.Encouragement on Chinese Film Industry

Comparing with American film industry, Chinese film industry is not so prosperity.To

develop Chinese film, Chinese film industry has to learn some developing experience from American movies.In the other hand, after imitate from American movie Chinese film should create its own feature.Hollywood movies are famous of its advanced technology.In 2010, a 3D movie Avatar shows

the advanced technology of American to the world.Chinese famous director Feng Xiaogang said, “Comparing with American film, Chinese film is short at technology.” There are a lot of Chinese film workers studying film technology in America.Even some famous Chinese film finish their after effect in Hollywood.Such as Aftershock，My Kingdom, Monkey King.American film technology really makes great effect on Chinese film industry.American movies also influence in Chinese movie theme.In the 1930s, Chinese movie was

influenced by Hollywood romantic movies, so that a lot of movies about stories between talents and beauties.As we known, horse movie is one the most famous types of movie in American movie.It makes great effect on Chinese movie.Such as New Dragon Inn, Warriors of Heaven and Earth，those Chinese famous “horse movie” all learn a lot ideas and elements from American horse movie.Especially in modern commercial movies, Chinese directors always choose theme from Hollywood popular theme.Chinese film industry has developed more than 100 years.During these 100 years, Chinese

film industry learns a lot of excellent experience from American film industry.American movies encourage Chinese film industry to make progre indeed.3.1.2.The Enrichment of Chinese People’s Cultural Life

American movies attracts many Chinese audience depends on their fantastic stories, excellent

technology, and famous Hollywood actors.Thus, American movies became an important part in Chinese people„s free time.American movies are enriching Chinese people‟s cultural life.Firstly, watching Hollywood commercial movie is really an amazing thing if someone wants to relax himself.American movies are always popular in Chinese film market.For example, in 2010 Film box office list，there are 5 American movies appearing in top10 movies.Especially, Avatar got the first in the list.American movies make Chinese film market become more vivid and prosperity.Chinese audiences like to go into theater, to be shocked by Hollywood fantastic movies.American movie also is the favorite topic between Chinese teenagers.Secondly, American movie is a good media which makes Chinese people knows American unique excellent character.Chinese audiences usually are moved by the spirit of the struggle.Forrest Gump is well known by Chinese audience，because of Forrest Gump’s persistence and

striving.And in another famous movie, The Pursuit of Happine, all audiences are touched by the story about Chris strive for his family, his future, and himself.Meanwhile, Chinese people should be encouraged to create and pursue new creative by American movies.American movies are always crating on movie technology.3D cartoon Finding Nemo use new technology make an amazing, beautiful and realistic sea world to us.Just because of American people‟s creativity, they can make so many marvelous movies.While watching American movies, we should learn these excellent characters from them.3.2.Negative Influence

3.2.1.The Strike on Chinese Movies’ Survival and Development

American movies, as the indispensable composition of the world movie industry, since the day first spread into China, have caused a barrier for Chinese movies‟ survival and development.Hollywood movies, which is rooted with advanced digital technique and computer stunk, more attractive than Chinese indigenous movies, has got upper hand at the box office.The young today wants something that can shock them.Hollywood movies, as luck would have it, catch the majority of the young‟s eyes with satisfaction for the young‟ eagerne for shocking.Yin Hong and Zhan Qingsheng, from the Communication Institution of Tsinghua University, warned that imported films had taken a large slice of China's movie market, while domestic movies were struggling.As being, American movies will doom the Chinese movie industry into a doomed valley if Chinese movies cannot get rid of the restriction of American‟s.3.2.2.Corruption of Chinese people’s minds

American movies have in a sense brought forth something that corrupts Chinese young people, such as eroticism and violence, in a silent transforming influence.In American movies, sexual scenes such as sex and barene happen frequently, which is acceptable in American.But in this traditional land, bare sex seems to be unacceptable to the majority.What is worse is that the corruption minds caused by the images transferred in the movies have misled some illegal or immoral behaviors, such as porno, coprology, violence and drug, which caused exceedingly negative impacts on this generation.3.2.3.Distorting the values of Chinese people

American movies which have screened American‟s daily life unconsciously affect and even distort Chinese values.American movies as a vehicle have brought forth McDonald‟s, KFC, coffee, jeans into this land.People‟s life style has changed for the spread of foreign manufactures in comparison with several decades ago.People try harder to pursue more luxurious life consisting of car, flat, stock, gold.Family time is no longer a treasure for the young.Instead they prefer to live alone for self independence according to movie scenes.Not only that some other Chinese moral fibers have also been deserted under the influence of American culture.Values of the Chinese constantly distort and will continue if we closed our eyes.4.Proposals

On the influence of American festivals on Chinese culture, we would prefer to put forward some proposals.4.1.Correct Attitude

We are living in such a world in which different kinds of culture pound and blend with each other that we have to keep characteristically self-composed and sensible and do not have blind faith in them.We have to be clearly aware that even the seemingly most developed county‟s culture is sure to have its defective parts.Hence, in facing with all different kinds of culture, we should have correct recognition and understanding of their true colors and take correct attitude to them.4.2.Protection and Promotion of Traditional Chinese Festivals

Chinese nation has a long history of more than 5000 years during which the Chinese people have accumulated an abundance of treasuring cultural civilization, while traditional Chinese festivals, to a large extent, reflect the proce and result of China‟s culture‟s development.Therefore, protecting traditional Chinese festivals is a very important part in protecting Chinese culture.Learning and taking the quinteence of American festivals is important and neceary, but it does not necearily mean that we celebrate them so commonly that our own festivals pale greatly in comparison with festivals from abroad.In addition, Chinese festivals have their unique cultural origin to which all the Chinese people are closely related.Hence, it is more valuable and rewarding to celebrate our own festivals rather than blindly follow the trend of celebrating the festivals from overseas.We cannot afford to lose our culture because such culture is our Chinese people‟s root without which we will lose our sense of belongingne and our dignity as Chinese people.Since traditional Chinese festivals are crucial components of Chinese culture, it is absolutely neceary to protect and promote traditional Chinese festivals.4.3.Absorption with Selection

As we know that the culture is the double-edged sword, it‟s very important for us to absorb it with proper selection.American festivals and movies always reflect their own cultures, such as political culture, life culture, family culture, clothing culture, food culture and sexual culture.Some of them are good, but some are really bad for us and can even corrode our mind.So only by absorbing the eence and discarding the dro of the culture discrepancies, can one make full use of the advanced culture of the foreign countries and make a great progre in his cro culture ability.5.Conclusion

Festivals and movies reflect a country‟s culture which inevitably has both quinteence and dro.We should learn and even take the quinteence from them, which, as is known to all, can facilitate China‟s development and advancement.However, we can by no means overdo it or even follow them blindly.If we court the dreg from American culture when we are taking something from it without selection, it is extremely dangerous to us.Furthermore, China, a country with a long history, has accumulated profound cultural heritage which is a great deal of treasure.A country‟s culture deposits, which are seen as a country‟s soft power, have played a more and more important role in its competitivene.We have to inherit and develop the splendid part of our own traditional

culture as well as criticize its defect, otherwise we will lose our culture, the great treasure

developed and left by our ancestors, and the whole country will get lost under the mighty collision and violent attack of American culture and other Western culture.In conclusion, taking the eence and discarding the dro is the exact way to deal with American culture and other Western culture.At the same time, we need and must develop and promote our own culture.