Several university students in Changsha, Hunan Province held up signs boycotting Christmas yesterday at a local shopping district.
Dressed in traditional Chinese Hanfu costume, the students held up dazibao-esque signs that read “boycott Christmas. Chinese people don’t celebrate foreign holidays.”
Meanwhile, the Modern College of Northwest University in Xi’an strung up banners around the campus reading “Strive to be outstanding sons and daughters of China, oppose kitsch Western holidays” and “Resist the expansion of western culture,” according to Beijing News.
The university even locked the campus gate on Christmas Eve, forbidding anyone from going out and celebrating the holiday, while at the same time making its students watch propaganda films about “Chinese traditional culture” and Confucius.
Thanks to the ban, the parents of one student whose birthday happened to fall on Christmas Eve could only got their presents and birthday cake to her through the locked gate.
The Weibo account of the university’s Communist Party committee posted comments calling for students not to “fawn on foreigners” and to pay more attention to traditional holidays like Chinese New Year.
[images via Xinhua, Beijing New & NetEase]
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