聖誕節 Christmas Season

It's amazing how it looks different around the world in different places. The Christmas that we are used to in Western cultures is a season of snow and evergreen trees. In much of Latin America it is a Feliz Navidad with posada and all sorts of fun traditions. This is sort of the way it looks from a Mainland Chinese folk art 民 藝perspective though the painter in this case, He Qi, is a professor at a university. Click on the link to the left and it'll take you to the web site with some nice samples of Mainland Chinese Christian folk art.

I believe it is called contextualization. The message of peace and love are the same, but the way it is expressed is different across cultures. Apparently, in Taiwan and Hong Kong a nice expression is that it is quite popular to go Christmas carolling to individual homes wishing people well on Christmas Eve.