Even if the Chinese New Year is less and less like the new year, I only know that everyone's heart is excited and excited when they are reunited with their relatives. I sorted out why the Chinese New Year is becoming less and less delicious. I hope I can help you.
Why is the Chinese new year less and less delicious
Spring Festival, commonly known as the Chinese new year, is the most solemn and grand traditional festival for Chinese people. The reunion of the whole family and the resignation of the old and the new carry people's wishes and aspirations for a better life in the future. But I don't know when to start. Whenever relatives and friends get together around the Spring Festival, they will hear a lot of such feelings: "now the Spring Festival is more and more boring and boring".
Some people sum up the "boring" of the Spring Festival: one word, tired; Two words, consumption; Three words, big party; Four words, Hu eats and sleeps in the sea... It is reasonable to say that people's days are becoming more and more prosperous, and festivals should have more flavor. Why is the real experience just the opposite? In the end, has the year changed, or has the Chinese new year changed?
Improvement of living standards
In the memory of many people, especially those born before the 1990s, the previous Chinese new year was not so boring, but full of joy and expectation. At that time, whether it was rural areas that had not crossed the food and clothing line or urban people who had just solved the food and clothing problem, they broke their fingers and counted days in the twelfth lunar month.
For children, the new year means setting off firecrackers, lucky money, delicious food and new clothes; For adults, the Spring Festival is to visit relatives and friends, drink lanterns, dance dragons and play lions. Nowadays, most of these contents have not changed, but there is less hope and less excitement.
Obviously, rarity is more expensive. When people can enjoy the same life as the new year, their enthusiasm for the new year is bound to diminish. This life is divided into material and spiritual aspects. With the abundance of materials, food and new clothes are no longer "precious" and can be easily taken at ordinary times.
As cultural scholar Zhu Dake said, in the era of material poverty, the Spring Festival is indeed a "Carnival ceremony of food intake". Now the diet of people's daily life is not much different from that during the Spring Festival. In addition, compared with the lack of spiritual and cultural life in the past, the development of transportation and communication has shortened the physical distance between people. Social networking and reunion are just a matter of sending wechat and flying.
No matter whether the satisfaction of this need is long-term and real, TV, computer, mobile phone and various social software do provide a lot of spiritual nutrition. Compared with it, the content of traditional Chinese New Year is much inferior. Taking this year's Spring Festival as an example, a payment platform launched activities to grab red envelopes and collect blessing words, which made many people leave the Spring Festival Gala and join the army of shaking mobile phones for blessing words.
Why? Because these activities are fresh and interesting. From this perspective, the year has changed, its charm is weakening, and its attraction is weakened day by day by the high-speed social train. It can even be said that the way of Chinese new year has changed. After all, the Internet is still very busy during the Spring Festival.
Promotion of Urbanization
However, deeper changes still exist in people. The most important manifestation of the fading flavor of the new year is that fewer and fewer people are carefully preparing for the new year, the attention to the new year is disappearing, and many customs of the new year are becoming more and more difficult to continue.
A large number of high-frequency population flows dilute the flavor of the new year. Originally, the custom of Chinese new year was born and grew in agricultural civilization. Gao Wei, Secretary General of the Beijing folklore society, said that people work at sunrise and rest at sunset. When the new year comes, everyone will rest and have fun together. They have been preparing for the new year for a long time, and the flavor of the new year must be stronger.
Now that many people are no longer living in their hometown, how much energy do they have to prepare for creating a new year's flavor? The data prove this. According to the statistical bulletin of the people's Republic of China on national economic and social development in 2015 released by Xinhua news agency, the population separated from households in 2015 was 294 million, including 247 million, accounting for 18% of the total population, which is equivalent to one in six people being a floating population. Vertically, the floating population has increased by more than 10% in the past five years.
In the next 10 to 20 years, China is still in the stage of rapid urbanization. It is estimated that there will still be more than 200 million floating population in China in 2020, and the growth rate will continue to expand. Most of the migrant workers didn't go home until the end of the year. They hurried away from home and returned to work on the 4th and 5th of the first year. Especially in the era of one-child, their children spent the new year in this family and rushed to another family.
In this way, more and more families are lively only for a moment, and suddenly become deserted. This fast-paced life shortens the year, reduces the content, and even becomes a superficial ceremony, losing the fun of the whole family preparing for the new year.
Now, the December moon in the countryside is still there, but the men and girls who walk on stilts and play Yangko are gone. NianWei left his hometown with them. The old man and children stayed at the entrance of the village like waiting for a snow to watch them return.
At the same time, due to changes in the living conditions and ecological environment, many past Chinese New Year habits are difficult to reproduce. Among many spring festival customs, setting off firecrackers should be the most festive one, which is also one of children's favorite contents.
During the Spring Festival, a string of firecrackers crackled, adding a lot of lively and festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. In recent years, based on the consideration of air pollution, personal and public safety and other factors, the prohibition and restriction of fireworks and firecrackers has become the norm.
In terms of residence, in the past, most people lived in Adobe houses, but now they live in brick and tile houses. More people live in commercial houses. There is no place to hang lanterns, and there is no place to paste Spring Festival couplets of door god New Year pictures, so the festival atmosphere is naturally colder. Lion dance, stilt walking, street storytelling and other folk entertainment are now basically invisible.
Walking on the street, neon lights shine all night, and ancient China is rising like a fairy tale, which means that we must bid farewell to some once deep-rooted cultures and traditions.
Why is the Chinese new year less and less delicious?
I don't know since when, the Chinese new year has become more and more tasteless. I often ask myself this question in my heart, but I can't solve it. I just feel that there is a new year every year, but every year is not as good as every year.
Is it that people grow up and have no expectations in their hearts? Or do you eat too much, and the new year is no different from usual? Or the numbness of the new year?
Maybe both, maybe none. But what is certain is that many people feel the gradual disappearance of the flavor of the new year, but there is nothing they can do. I always want to do something, but I can't start. I can only silently watch Nian go away from our desire.
Where's the smell?
I always feel that the indifference of interpersonal relationship now has something to do with this. Now the New Year greeting can be said to be a form, which has long lost its previous sincerity and simplicity. I would rather chat with strangers than talk to my colleagues. What is said on the Internet is the truth, and what is said in life is a lie.
Chinese new year, the most need for relatives and friends to visit and bless, need to visit and visit each other between neighbors, which will make people feel warm. As an old saying goes: "distant relatives are better than close neighbors."
Now I don't visit anymore. My neighbors are close, but they seem to be thousands of miles apart. In the past, New Year greetings showed true feelings, but now even if a group of text messages has completed the task, it is polite to deal with it, or send red envelopes and grab red envelopes in wechat groups. This kind of New Year greeting has long been different from that for people.
Perhaps every different era has different memories and feelings for the new year.
In those days when the material was poor, the Chinese New Year in people's mind may only mean that they can wear a new dress, eat a delicious meal, and don't work in the fields during the Chinese New Year for a few days. This is probably what people can yearn for and pursue, which is more meaningful than the new year.
Compared with the past, perhaps, people's new year's Day is more pasted with its own flavor in recent years. When material life no longer becomes the shackle that puzzles people's mind, the abundance of spiritual endoplasm will be filled in time and space intentionally or unintentionally.
Our new year will always be our new year. Going home for the new year is the eternal gene in every Chinese's blood. It is the theme of eternal love for home, the call of home for the love of wanderers, and the incomparable attachment and dependence of children on home.
The Chinese New Year is a major event in the life of the Chinese nation, which can not be deprived or changed by any cultural form. Rather than saying that the Spring Festival is becoming less and less like a new year, it is better to say that the concept conveyed by the Spring Festival as an activity with ritual characteristics is gradually fading.
Although the taste of the new year is getting worse year by year, there will always be exciting and exciting moments during the new year.
Although people complain that the new year is boring, they still rush home during the new year; Although everyone make complaints about the Spring Festival Gala, they will still turn on the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala on the eve of new year's Eve. Although the Chinese New Year is less and less ceremonial, there will always be infinite emotion at the end of the year.
Even if the Chinese New Year is less and less like the new year, I only know that everyone's heart is excited and excited when they are reunited with their relatives.
What parents expect day and night every year is to spend more time with us during the new year, and we say we dislike it, but home and parents are always our dependence.
Therefore, we must go home for the new year. Even if we can't go home, we should keep in touch with our relatives. Family affection is the most precious emotion in the new year.
The Chinese new year will not be less and more tasteless, because many people are aware of this and strive to change it. Try to keep a good mood for the new year and surprise your family and friends. Maybe your new year will have a different flavor!