Why is it so hard to have a full year this year?
What is Chinese New Year? To put it in layman's terms, it means that relatives and friends get together to eat delicious food and have fun, and it is a day for everyone to get together. This is the only time a year. So when is the Chinese New Year? It is the end of the year and the beginning of the year, to put it bluntly, it is the day to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Nowadays, there are people who celebrate the New Year according to the current Gregorian calendar, such as Japan; There are also Chinese New Year according to the traditional lunar calendar, such as China, Vietnam, South Korea, etc.! When is the Chinese New Year in China? To put it bluntly, it is really not the 7 days of the New Year that is not a national legal holiday, and these 7 days are too short. The complete Chinese New Year begins with the Laba Festival on the eighth day of the first lunar month and lasts until the end of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with nearly 40 days in between. This is the authentic way of traditional society. However, in today's society, it is difficult to reach the length of the ancient law in terms of length and content. In the words of our contemporaries, the most specific point is that the taste of the New Year is light. Some netizens will say that watching TV and the Internet promote the New Year every day. Is it really lively? To put it bluntly, we can't just look at the propaganda, in fact, it's all about who experiences and who knows. Today's Chinese New Year doesn't have to be the same! To put it bluntly, it's really hard to think about a full year now! Why? Let's move on!
The first reason is that there are fewer relatives and not so many relatives reunited. Many parents of the post-80s and post-90s generations have several brothers and sisters. To put it bluntly, there are more uncles and aunts! Nowadays, there are not many parents and siblings of the post-00s and post-10s. Even if the two families are married, there are actually very few brothers and sisters between the same generations! In this way, the total base of relatives is much less;
The second reason is that the relationship between relatives is much weaker, in the past, everyone basically worshiped one or two houses a day, and each family's New Year's dinner must be eaten. In addition, the means of transportation are inconvenient and the number of relatives is enough, so the New Year can be worshiped from the first day of the New Year to the Lantern Festival. And now? Every family has a car, and you can visit several families a day! So many families have finished their New Year's worship before the fifth day of the Lunar New Year! Nowadays, the main motivation to go to relatives is still in the post-60s and post-70s. And the atmosphere of the post-80s generation who began to visit relatives to pay New Year's greetings is seriously insufficient! Even in the group of the new generation of the post-00s, they have gradually broken off their relatives and no longer move around! The four uncles and aunts that we valued very much in the past are no longer moving around among the new generation of young people!
The third reason is that today's Chinese New Year is changing from the traditional reunion year to the consumption festival. The New Year's celebration of many families is no longer a hundred-year reunion. It's about traveling.
The fourth reason is still subject to the time of national statutory holidays, which have nearly 40 days for the complete New Year, while only 7 days for statutory holidays. It is also not possible for the state to extend the statutory holiday to 40 days. Subject to this time system. Therefore, it is almost impossible to complete the New Year!
In a word, the smell of the New Year is really light now! If you want to go back to the old way, it's really impossible!