节日是一个民族文化记忆的主要形式，反映了一个民族的价值取向和意识形态。了解一个民族，可以先研究它的节日，看看这个民族在乎什么，信仰什么，这也不失为一个很好的办法。下面我们就来看看国外的节日和中国的有什么不同。那么，西方节日用英文怎么说呢？
[图片0] Realize the Western festivals 认识外国节日 When we meet this topic,at first we should know that we don’t just want to remember the names of the western festivals,but we should have an insight into their culture and history,their religion and we must compare their festivals with our own. The prevalence of western festivals in China is related to the manifestations of the difference between the western festivals and the traditional Chinese festivals mainly originated from the celebration,worship and other ,most of the western festivals are related to the instance,Christmas is related to Christianity and Halloween is related to the young people love western festivals usually not because of their cultural connotation,but because of more life their opinions,it is not important to know what cultural connotation is about Valentine’s Day,Thanksgiving Day and so we should know the advantages of the western festivals compared with example,look at the difference between Christmas and the Spring Christmas,people prepare Christmas cards,Christmas trees and so on. Then they hold Christmas evening,both spending a little money and having a good ,during the Spring Festival,people who live in the city watch television or play with in rural areas are busy paying a New Year’s call and so speaking,people are linked with blood is no atmosphere of the formation of the same cultural to spending a lot of money,time and energy,many people wish that there be no the Spring at western Valentine’s Day and Chinese one,Chinese people are quite shy and rarely directly express their feelings,while the Western are enjoying themselves on their mean a feast to their heart while a suffering to the Chinese. In addition,western festivals have different festival hides more than one feelingly stories which attract young some festivals supply vacant feature in example,the Valentine’s Day add fresh mind in Chinese,which our ancestor dare not to festival spreads seeds in every corner of China and call on people to seek lover and truly life belonging to is what people expect for the mean time,we still keep our excellent traditional you noticed that people rush home no matter how crowed the train is during the Spring Festival?They celebrate the festival not in the form but in the deep heart. Whether you like it or not,you can not ignore the motivation they have brought to are paying more attention to thanks-giving and emotions not the food and has make great contributions to rich our culture. 随着人们生活水平的提高，享受主义逐渐加强，对节日的重视度越来越高，不管是外国的还是本国的，人们都能找到不同的方式来庆祝。外国节日的大量引进，正冲击着传统节日的地位。