Due to the influence of regional culture, China's rural areas have always paid more attention to human exchanges, and it can be said that they are places with a strong sense of human feelings. In the past, no matter who had a happy event or suffered a misfortune, as long as relatives and friends came to help or condole, it was regarded as a favor and face. 
This also cultivates the virtue of close interaction and mutual support among rural people. But in the last decade or so, the situation has changed subtly. According to the author's observation, more and more young people born in the 90s or 00s have begun to take the initiative to choose to "cut off contact" with some relatives, and they don't even bother to fight on weekdays. 
Even if it is the New Year's holiday, it is just a symbolic greeting and leaving. This phenomenon is very rude and impersonal in the eyes of the older generation of farmers, and some people bluntly say that today's young people "no longer attach importance to feelings". In fact, behind this so-called phenomenon of "severing relatives" is not the change in the personality of the younger generation or the degradation of morality, but the inevitable result of the development of the whole Chinese society and the change of demographic structure. 
To put it simply, more and more young people in rural areas need to face the burden of buying a house and employment on their own, but they are unable to provide for themselves with limited resources, and naturally have no time to take care of those relatives who have no real help but are in name only. As the saying goes, what they cut off is actually useless "trouble". 
In the previous section, we analyzed the phenomenon of "severance of kinship" in rural areas, which is not a single cause, but the result of a combination of factors. First of all, the family structure in China has changed dramatically. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the average number of households in China has fallen to 262 and still declining. 
In other words, the vast majority of the post-90s and post-00s grew up in nuclear families, and they bear the huge pressure of housing loans, car loans and various expenses in daily life alone. In the face of such a heavy burden, maintaining the relationship with distant relatives has naturally become the least important thing. 
Second, as we mentioned earlier, the dual pressure of buying a house and finding a job means that many rural youth do not even have time to communicate well with their parents, let alone distant relatives. They spend their days running through the concrete forests of the city, and are going through their own struggles. For these young people in the prime of life, family affection is often a luxury, and real profit is king. 
Moreover, some of the older generation ignores the fact that the "relatives" they call do not give substantial help and support to young people when they need help, and the pure blood relationship is only a beautiful name. On the contrary, it is the like-minded people I have met in society who are allies in life and death. Therefore, cutting off contact is just a useless show of affection from the side. 
Finally, as we quoted at the beginning, it may be a break in the relationship in the eyes of the elderly, but for the young.