It's Father's Day, but we don't seem to care
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June 20, 2011, Monday
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CHILDREN forget, fathers don't care and shops ignore it.
Father's Day in China, which was celebrated, or not, yesterday, doesn't enjoy the same attention as Mother's Day.
"On Father's Day, I usually just send a text message to my father. I don't call him because I feel it will be awkward to say 'Happy Father's Day' to him," said Wu Ruihua, a 30-year-old woman in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province.
However, on Mother's Day, Wu said she would not only call her mother, but also buy flowers or go shopping with her to buy her some presents.
Wang Hongyue, an employee with a Beijing-based bank, said he had only called his father three times on Father's Day over the past nine years. "I often forget about the festival when I was busy," he said.
Shopping malls in Taiyuan have also shown little enthusiasm for Father's Day, compared to the fierce promotion campaigns on Mother's Day.
A shoe salesman said that they did not pay much attention to Father's Day, and their shop had never organized any special promotions.
Xiao Fang, a professor of Chinese folklores at Beijing Normal University, said Father's Day is dwarfed by Mother's Day partly because Chinese fathers tend to be stricter and communicate with their children less than do mothers.
Another factor is that mothers play a more significant role in nurturing children, so children usually feel closer to their mother, said Xiao.
Father's Day in China, which was celebrated, or not, yesterday, doesn't enjoy the same attention as Mother's Day.
"On Father's Day, I usually just send a text message to my father. I don't call him because I feel it will be awkward to say 'Happy Father's Day' to him," said Wu Ruihua, a 30-year-old woman in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province.
However, on Mother's Day, Wu said she would not only call her mother, but also buy flowers or go shopping with her to buy her some presents.
Wang Hongyue, an employee with a Beijing-based bank, said he had only called his father three times on Father's Day over the past nine years. "I often forget about the festival when I was busy," he said.
Shopping malls in Taiyuan have also shown little enthusiasm for Father's Day, compared to the fierce promotion campaigns on Mother's Day.
A shoe salesman said that they did not pay much attention to Father's Day, and their shop had never organized any special promotions.
Xiao Fang, a professor of Chinese folklores at Beijing Normal University, said Father's Day is dwarfed by Mother's Day partly because Chinese fathers tend to be stricter and communicate with their children less than do mothers.
Another factor is that mothers play a more significant role in nurturing children, so children usually feel closer to their mother, said Xiao.
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