As soon as the Chinese New Year arrived, the increase in vehicles on rural roads caused traffic to become congested. The economic conditions in the countryside are getting better and better, and more and more farmers are buying cars, so the country roads have become the only way for them to return home. However, the rural roads themselves have not been expanded and improved, and are still single-lane conditions, and traffic jams are easily occurring. Without traffic lights and the command of the traffic police, vehicles are congested on narrow roads, sometimes for hours. This has become one of the common "strange phenomena" in the countryside.
In addition to road congestion, parking in rural areas has also become a major challenge. With the increase in the number of family cars, many rural families do not have corresponding parking lots, so they can only park their cars on the edge of the road, causing traffic chaos. This not only caused trouble to the car, but also caused inconvenience to the residents on the side of the road. Therefore, before the Chinese New Year, many villages will organize a collective cleaning of debris on the side of the road to make room for temporary parking spaces in order to cope with the congestion caused by the increase in vehicles.
Before the Chinese New Year, parents, relatives and elders in the countryside seemed to be frantically pouring out blind date arrangements. For unmarried young people, the Chinese New Year seems to have become a war of relatives. Both men and women, as long as they reach the marriageable age, the family begins to rush to find a partner. On the first and second days of junior high school, relatives will invite some single young men or girls to attend relatives gatherings, hoping to match. Sometimes, even grandparents will find girls or young men from near and far through kinship and try to introduce them to their grandchildren.
However, as blind dates became less and less available, rural blind dates gradually became a formality. Many young people have been working outside for many years, and almost all the marriageable girls or young men in their hometowns have met. As a result, they began to expand the scope of their choices and set their sights on places that cross villages and townships, but it is often more difficult to achieve good results on such blind dates. In addition, some young people have introverted personalities and poor communication skills, resulting in communication after blind dates ending without problems. This kind of blind date pressure is common in rural areas, and many people have experienced several blind dates before getting married.
The Chinese New Year was supposed to be a festival of reunion and affection, but as time went by, visiting relatives and friends gradually decreased. Especially after the older generation gradually passed away, the new generation of young people born in the 90s, 00s and now have gradually lost contact with their relatives. In the past, on the first day of the new year, as long as the Chinese New Year was celebrated, the whole family would embark on the journey of visiting relatives. Even grandparents will lead the children to visit the New Year, and grandparents' siblings will come one after another, creating a lively scene. Nowadays, visiting relatives and friends has become a formality, and many people are just going through the motions. Because there are fewer opportunities for relatives to meet, intergenerational communication in the whole village has also been affected.
The Chinese New Year is indispensable for a table of banquets, and in addition to the banquets, playing cards and gambling have also become entertainment activities for young people in the countryside. Young people who return to the countryside at the end of the year return to their hometowns with the hard work and fruits of the year, and the search for excitement seems to have become a must for them. At this time, some young people will organize themselves to play cards or engage in some small gambling in the hope of making some extra income through luck.
However, this form of entertainment also comes with certain risks. Some people are too addicted to gambling and may even lose their hard-earned money from a year's hard work, which brings a lot of pressure to themselves and their families. Therefore, rural communities and families usually organize some rich and diverse cultural and sports activities before the Chinese New Year to attract young people to participate, in order to reduce the occurrence of card gambling.
The progress and development of rural society has inevitably led to the psychology of comparison. In the countryside, owning a car has become a symbol of wealth and status, so many young people working in the cities are eager to buy a car. When they return home for the Chinese New Year, they will return in their own cars as a way to show off their financial strength. However, in fact, many people buy cars by installment payments, just to create an image of success in the countryside. This kind of behavior is jokingly called "slapping a swollen face and becoming fat", which makes many people red-eyed.
At the same time, some people who do make money choose to live a low-key life. They know how to cherish their wealth, do not pursue comparison and show off, and pay more attention to family and social responsibility. However, in rural society, such low-key behavior is difficult to gain recognition and respect. This kind of culture of comparison is prevalent in rural areas, which has led to the emergence of many strange phenomena in rural society.
The Spring Festival is approaching, and five strange phenomena common in rural areas let us see the changes and development of rural society. People and vehicles are congested, the pressure of marriage and love, there are few relatives, playing cards and gambling, and the culture of comparison has become a part of rural life, which has brought certain pressure and changes to people's lives. However, we should also see the social progress and transformation of rural society behind these strange phenomena. With the development of the rural economy and the improvement of living standards, rural life is also constantly changing. At the same time, we should also be aware of the problems and challenges brought about by these phenomena, and actively explore ways and means to adapt to and solve these problems, so as to further promote the development and progress of rural society.