victorvictor

10月1日是中华人民共和国国庆。没错。但是说这是祖国的65岁生日对吗？

不对，我们的祖国——中国远远不止65岁。

有朋友说，法国国庆７月１４日，纪念１７８９年大革命，把法国历史从１１００年缩为２２５年。英国国庆是伊丽莎白二世生日，英国历史从７３０年缩为６０来年……

可是，你确定法国国庆是庆祝1789年大革命吗？你知道1789年的7月14日在法国曾被定为“国耻日”吗？
现今的法国国庆是从1880年恢复共和算起的，7月14日不过是沿用以前的习惯而已。最重要的是，这个日子作为“国家日（La Fête Nationale）是全体法兰西人认可的。1949年10月1日作为“祖国的生日”被所有华人认可了吗？

英国女王的生日是为4月21日，6月第二个星期六全国为她庆生，但这不是官方的“国庆“，从严格意义上说，英国没有“国庆节”，英国人也不庆祝“国庆”。6月第二个星期六是de facto 的Natinal Day，不放假，也不是法律意义上国家的诞生日。

不管是英国还是法国，“国庆”一个叫“National Day”（仅仅对外）, 一个叫“La Fête Nationale”，和“祖国生日”没有半毛钱关系，如果你在英国说祝贺英国88岁生日（女王生日），或在法国说祝贺法国134（或225）岁生日，是要被人笑话的。

所以，中国人说“祖国65岁生日”是不对的，至少是不严谨的，“国庆”不等于“国家生日”。
以下资料来自维基百科，我们一起多学点常识：


Britain has no unique national day. It has a number of days of celebration which go largely uncelebrated, and others which are associated with the constituent countries of Britain. The latter category includes St George's Day in England, StAndrew's Day in Scotland, StDavid's Day in Walesand St Patrick's Day in NorthernIreland.
At present, the Queen's Official Birthday is marked as a de facto national day by British diplomatic missions overseas but not in the UK itself. Other days whichcould be seen as taking the form of a British national day in recent years,albeit not annual events, would be the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Wedding of PrinceWilliam and Catherine Middleton.


In October 2008, in response to a question in the House of Commons from AndrewRosindell, Minister of State MichaelWills of the Ministry of Justice revealed that "there are no plans to introduce a national day at the present time", leading to suggestions that the proposal had been 'scrapped'. Immediately thereafter, however, a Ministry of Justice spokesman confirmed that national day proposals were still "very much alive", adding that Wills had only meant that no plans had been drawn up at the present time.

victorvictor

争论不怕，我就怕那些有话不好好说的，甚至不说人话的。