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Why Don't Chinese Have Father/Mother's Day?
I don't celebrate Western Father's Day, Mother's Day, Animals' Day, Non-smoking Day, Valentine's Day etc, because too many a Day makes no day at all.
In China We don't have to say happy Father's/ Mother's Day to our parents, because "Xiao" is one of the eight pillars in Confucianism which permeates our culture and is branded in our mind as a brilliant Chinese cultural gene has passed down from generation to generation millennially.
There's no equivalence of "Xiao" in English, German, or any other European languages as Xiao is not their own cultures. Xiao in Chinese means filial piety, reverence to our parents. With Xiao, our parents are happy everyday, thus we don't have to create such a day and celebrate every year obsensibly.
In China, if anyone disrespects their own parents, they will be treated in comtempt and end without genuine friends.
You don't have to create a day named Eating Day, do you? Nobody need to be reminded of eating!!! In a similar vein, in China, either the mainland or Taiwan, Chinese people don't have to celebrate so-called Father's Day, Mother's Day, because "Xiao" is as essential as "eating" in our own cultural need. We take cares of our parents, respect to them, appreciate them.
Adopting Father/mother's Day, you just send your parent a card yearly, and then forget them for the rest of 364 days. With 'Xiao" the cultural and moral gene, people make 365 days the whole year around virtually "Parents' Day".
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