Returning to his hometown for a long time, the taste of the New Year is light? Analysis of the 5 reasons for a short stay of 2 days
More than 1,000 kilometers away, after 18 hours of hard work from the field, he only stayed for two days, and felt that it was better to stay in a rented house to spend the New Year alone.
The Spring Festival is approaching, and many neighbors who are working outside are returning to their hometowns one after another. The Spring Festival days are the busiest time of the year in the village, and the crowds on the road are now crowded together to chat.
One of my neighbors, my barber (of the same age, who grew up playing together) worked in Shanghai, came back on the 27th of the new year and had the idea of leaving two days after returning home.
After talking with him, I learned that in the past two days, people are not worried about the atmosphere of Chinese New Year's Eve, but the current topic makes people feel that not only does not have the taste of the year, but has a different taste"Feel"。
On the one hand, fewer and fewer people are coming back for the New Year.
I remember that ten years ago, transportation was not as convenient as it is now, but every year people who went out to work would come back, and even if they were far away, they did not feel sorry.
There are many people in our village who work in Xinjiang, a distance of about three to four thousand kilometers, and it takes them about two or three thousand days to return to their hometowns, and some of them have to carry large bags and small bags, from trains to cars, from cars to tricycles, and so on.
No matter how difficult the road is, the moment you go home is worth it, the New Year is a reunion, and the family reunites for a warm year, which is better than anything else.
Nowadays, fewer and fewer people are returning to their hometowns for the New Year. On the one hand, some families bought houses in other places, spent Chinese New Year's Eve in other places, and did not return to their hometowns for the New Year. On the other hand, some young people choose to travel on Chinese New Year's Eve, they belong to the north, and the winter is colder, so they choose to travel to the south. Of course, there are also some people who want to go back for the New Year, but can't go back due to work and other reasons.
Second, there are fewer things to buy on Chinese New Year's Eve.
In the past, you could buy New Year goods from the twentieth day of the New Year, and you had to buy until the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and you had to go to the big market every morning to go around, and then come back to buy many New Year goods.
Now it's different, basically as long as you go to the big market, you can buy almost all the New Year's goods. For example, I went to the big market on the 28th of the lunar month this year, and I bought everything at once.
Chinese New Year's Eve shopping is less frequent, buy relatively few, used to eat on Chinese New Year's Eve until the end of the month, today Chinese New Year's Eve eat until the sixth day of the first month, the supermarket street is open.
In contrast, the longer the goods were left in the past, the stronger the flavor of the New Year. Now, after the sixth day of the first lunar month, the relatives are basically gone, and the taste of the New Year is almost gone.
Thirdly, in their country, they do not go out either.
When I work abroad, when it comes to holidays, I basically stay at home and rent a house. Recently, many of my friends have been living at home when they go back to their hometowns for the Spring Festival.
I don't go to the big market to buy New Year's goods, I don't go out to find someone to play, and the neighbors don't take the initiative to talk to them. Stay up late at night and get up at noon during the day. This state in the old home is basically the same as outside. The difference is that there is a family at home, while there is only one person outside the rental house.
It wasn't like that when I used to go home for the New Year. I would go home and chat with my neighbors, meet up with my friends at home, and the neighbors would help each other prepare food for the New Year, etc.
Fourth, the climb is getting heavier and heavier.
In the past, when we went back to our hometown for the New Year, we only talked about our parents. For example, a neighbor who has been at home will talk about what happened in his hometown during the year and how it has changed. People who work in the field will also talk about people and things in the field.
Nowadays, people get together and talk about how much money they make? What car did you buy? Bought a house? A house built at home? The essence has completely changed. It used to be simple, but now it's a comparison, and there is no longer a New Year's flavor, but"Coppery taste"。
For example, nowadays I hear more about someone's son buying a BMW, Mercedes or Audi. Or whose son bought a house abroad. Or whose son has a monthly salary of tens of thousands, so that his parents can enjoy Qingfu, there are many similar topics.
Fifth, no more fireworks.
In the past, when there was a New Year's flavor, it was a very important reason to be able to set off fireworks, and the friends set off firecrackers together, and the New Year's flavor was highlighted.
Nowadays, fireworks are still prohibited in many places, and the taste of the New Year is greatly reduced. I remember that in the past, every year during the Spring Festival, at 0 o'clock, firecrackers would be set off in the village, which could last until 6-7 o'clock in the morning. And now, no one sets off firecrackers after 0 o'clock, and the morning of the first day of the new year is basically the same, eating a meal to greet the New Year (or even a New Year's greeting), going back after the New Year's greetings, or going home.
To sum up, it is not difficult for us to understand why the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, not to mention that adults find it not enjoyable, and even children are not looking forward to the New Year as the children of the past.
In light of this, you may not have understood this before, but I think you can understand it now, rather than living in a rented house after trekking more than 1,000 kilometers back to your hometown for the Chinese New Year.
What are your thoughts on this?