First, we don't oppose people to celebrate festivals they love, that are their freedom and choice.
节日有八大含义：庆贺庆祝、喜庆团圆、寄望祈运、感恩、祭祀祭奠、歌颂赞美、凝聚人心、继往开来。
Festival has eight implications: congratulation and celebration, reunion, praying for good fortune, gratitude, offering sacrifice and holding memorial ceremony, praising, purifying and gathering people's hearts and keeping going.
节日有八大形态：自然节日、宗教节日、国家节日、政党节日、人文节日、团体节日、风俗节日、特殊节日。
Festival has eight major forms: natural festival, religious festival, state festival, political party's festival, cultural festival, group festival, custom festival and special festival.
生命禅院敬畏上帝、敬畏生命、敬畏大自然、走上帝之道，所以不过以下节日。
Lifechanyuan reveres to the Greatest Creator, life and nature, and follows the way of the Greatest Creator; so Lifechanyuan does not celebrate the following festivals.
Such as Christmas Day, Easter Day, Phi Ta Khon Festival (Buddha's Birth Day), The Ghost Festival, Ramadan, Corban Festival, festival of pure man of Taoism.
二、所有与国家有关的节日不过。
2 Festivals of a country or state
比如国庆节、独立节、共和日、联合日、革命节等等。
Such as National Day, Independence Day, Republic Day, Union Day, Revolutionary Festival.三 所有与政党团体有关的节日不过。
3 Political party's festival
比如建党节、建军节等等。
Such as Party Founding Day, Army Day.
四 所有歌颂某一人的节日不过。
4 Festivals of a certain person
比如某某某纪念日、庆贺某某某诞辰等等。
Such as Commemoration Day, Birthday.五、所有歌颂部分人和小资情调的节日不过。
5 Festivals praising of some people or possessing petty bourgeois sentiment
比如护士节、妇女节、母亲节、情人节、愚人节、青年节、教师节、儿童节、记者节等等。
Such as Nurses' Day, Women's day, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, April Fools' Day, Youth Day, Teacher's Day, Children's Day, Journalist's Day.
六、乱七八糟的节日不过。
6 Farfetched festivals
比如国际扫盲日、世界旅游日、国际音乐节、国际大学生节、消防宣传日、国际足球日、植树节等等，等等。
Such as International Anti-Illiteracy Day, World Tourism Day, International Music Day, World College Festival, Fire Control Awareness Day, International Football Day, Tree-Planting Day.
七、只属于特定地区的节日不过。
7 Regional festivals
比如赛衣节、火把节、栽秧会、牡丹节、祭龙节、木鼓节、白雪节、桃花会等等。
Such as Fashion Day, the Torch Festival, Planting Day, Peony Festival, Festival of "Offering a Sacrifice to Dragon", Log Drum Festival, Snow Festival, Festival of Enjoying Peach blossom Day.
八、凡与鬼神沾名的节日不过。
8 Festivals related to ghost and gods
比如鬼节日、神节日、带面罩的节日等等。
Such as Ghost Festival, God Festival, Masquerade Day.
生命禅院要过的节日必须具备这些内容：喜庆、自然、舒心、欢乐、感恩、乐观、亲切、有益。
Lifechanyuan's festivals must be joyous, natural, comfortable, happy, grateful, optimistic, warm and beneficial.
比如元旦、春节、元宵节、清明节、端午节、中秋节、重阳节、泼水节等等。
Such as New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Festival of Lanterns, Tomb-sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-autumn Festival, The Double Ninth Festival, the Water-Sprinkling Festival.
注：以上内容只限于生命禅院内，不干涉生命禅院外的世界。
Notes: the information above is confined to Lifechanyuan, which doesn't limit the world out of Lifechanyuan.