I have experienced five decades and am experiencing the 20s of the 21st century, looking back on the Spring Festival of these ten years, some of my impressions are clear, and some of them are blurred.
In the late seventies, when I was just five or six years old, my impression of the Spring Festival was that of a tomboy with pigtails, burying such a small cannon in the mound, lighting it and running quickly.
In the 80s, I went back to the countryside to follow my grandparents for the New Year, and I was most looking forward to eating sugar melons on the 23rd day of the lunar month.
In the 90s, life was good, I also went to work, and there were many dishes to celebrate the New Year with my parents in the city, and dumplings could also be wrapped in a variety of fillings, and at that time, winter was not just a cabbage dish. Watching the Spring Festival Gala while eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has become a must-have program, and the first day of the New Year is generally a visit or community group worship.
In the 00s of the 21st century, life was better, the guns were the most lively, the sound of guns in the community was endless, the fruits at home during the Spring Festival were enriched, nuts were all kinds, dumplings, stir-fried vegetables, and watching the Spring Festival Gala was still a must.
In the 10s of the 21st century, it seems that there has not changed much, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is still the same, but sometimes I book a restaurant to eat and I don't do it. The only change is that I am not very interested in the Spring Festival Gala, and there are fewer visits, so I use SMS WeChat to greet the New Year. There are no vehicles on the street on the first day of the Lunar New Year, outsiders have returned to their hometowns for the New Year, and the huge city has almost become an empty city, and those who stay behind have no place to string, so they make an appointment to watch a movie.
Now Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, dumplings, stir-fry is still rich, can make dumplings of various colors, **Pinduoduo has sold dumpling flour of various colors. Outside shopping malls, supermarkets and restaurants are not closed, firecrackers can not be set off, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, only the red lanterns on the street remind that it is now the Spring Festival. Many people are no longer returning to their hometowns, or they are bringing their families for the New Year, and there are more people on the street than before.
Times are changing, high-tech is changing with each passing day, I don't know what the Spring Festival will look like in the next ten years, will AI fill daily life, and will the contact between people become more and more alienated with high-tech? Live well and wait and see.