Spring Festival, how can there be no New Year's flavor?
We have all complained about how the Spring Festival does not have the flavor of the past.
But is it really the Spring Festival that has changed? Or have we changed?
Looking at the people who celebrate the Spring Festival now, it is indeed different from 30 years ago.
Thirty years ago, there were no smartphones, and people relied on face-to-face communication for the New Year.
Now everyone yearns for mobile phones, and the Spring Festival has become deserted.
But why don't we cherish the present and feel the flavor of the year.
As long as the mentality is correct, the New Year is still lively.
Uncle Wang's family of five lives in Beijing, and their children are all working in other places.
For them, the Chinese New Year is a good time to reunite.
This year, the kids are back, and the family is sitting around the table.
Uncle Wang smiled and served vegetables for everyone, and enthusiastically persuaded everyone to eat more.
I went to buy your favorite dumplings and dumplings when you were a child, try them. ”
Eh, Dad, your mobile phone camera technology is not bad! The eldest son lowered his head and pulled his mobile phone while praising in passing.
How can I take pictures, come, kid, let's talk face-to-face. Uncle Wang was a little disappointed, his long-awaited reunion, but the children were buried in their mobile phones.
Wait for me to post a circle of friends, so that everyone around me will envy me! The second son was soaking the hot pot with relish, taking pictures and uploading them to the circle of friends.
Uncle Wang watched the children ignore themselves and only care about their mobile phones, and his heart became more and more empty.
He recalled that when he was a child, the family sat around the kang and chatted with each other, which was called lively.
No food is as warm as a family gathering together happily.
Alas, really. Uncle Wang took a bite of food in disbelief, and the food in front of him was already cold.
Just like Uncle Wang, many elderly people complain that young people no longer value face-to-face communication because smartphones and the Internet are too developed.
Indeed, in this era of 5G networks and smartphones, it is common for people to get together, but there is very little real communication.
Everyone always looked down at their phones and turned a deaf ear to each other's words.
The repeated snubs have undoubtedly broken the hearts of the older generation.
What they are looking forward to is not the delicacies of the mountains and seas, but the family sitting around the table and chatting happily.
But now this simple wish has become extravagant, and the children's attention is all on the mobile phone, who has the heart to chat.
This is not only the case at family gatherings, but also the frequent New Year's greetings with relatives during the Spring Festival.
People open the mobile phone address book, directly dial ** for the New Year, and even send a New Year's red envelope to finish the matter.
* There is also the scene of bathing neatly in the morning and persistently pressing the New Year's money to visit the door as before.
Some distant relatives and friends have not seen each other for many years, and they thought that they would take the opportunity of reunion to meet again during the Spring Festival, but they did not see each other visit for a long time.
Only after playing ** did I know that people had already moved out**, and the Spring Festival was also in full swing.
Even if it is rare to get together for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the adults play their mobile phones after the meal, the young people lock themselves in the house to play games, and the children chase each other to fight.
There is no longer a warm picture of a large family sitting in the courtyard chatting and laughing.
Xiao Wang is a child who loves firecrackers, and when it comes to the Spring Festival, he looks forward to letting the brilliant fireworks bloom in the sky.
Before the Spring Festival arrived this year, Xiao Wang went to the firecracker shop in the town early, wanting to pick up a few boxes of beautiful cannons to take home.
As soon as he walked into the store, Xiao Wang was happy to find that the goods from the rich production area had already been delivered, and the various firecrackers dazzled Xiao Wang, and he couldn't pick and choose.
Big brother, I want it, how much does it add up! Xiao Wang pointed to the firecrackers on the wall and said to the boss.
The boss shook his head and looked embarrassed: "Child, don't you know, there have been regulations recently that fireworks and firecrackers are not allowed to be set off without permission, and I am ready to return them." ”
Xiao Wang was surprised, the firecrackers he had been looking forward to for more than half a year were actually returned, which made him a little relieved.
The boss looked at the disappointed Xiao Wang and persuaded softly
Don't be too upset, it's all about protecting the environment.
You see, the air is much better now than it used to be, and there are fewer patients with respiratory diseases in the hospitals. You can also do without firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, as long as you are with your family. ”
Xiao Wang reluctantly left the firecracker shop, he remembered that on Chinese New Year's Eve and the first and second days of the new year, the streets and alleys were filled with the smell of cannonballs, and people were in full swing when they set off fireworks, competing to see whose fireworks were more dazzling.
And now, a year has been cold, and there is not even a shadow of fireworks.
What a disappointment! 
Just like Xiao Wang, many people regret the current ban on fireworks during the Spring Festival.
They missed the excitement of the fireworks, and the streets were too deserted.
Although this is the need for environmental protection, it does lack a little New Year's flavor, and everyone's Spring Festival seems to be a little inferior.
Xiaohong is a young girl who works outside the home, and every time she comes home for the Chinese New Year, she buys a lot of snacks and gifts to take home.
However, when she returned home this year, she was surprised to find that the commercial pedestrian street in front of her house, which used to be crowded during the Spring Festival, had become much deserted.
This pedestrian street used to be the busiest commercial area in the area, and it is even more crowded like a honeycomb during the Spring Festival.
People were carrying large bags of stuff and shouting to give way.
Everyone is scrambling to buy all kinds of food, drinks and New Year's goods necessary for the New Year.
Roadside vendors also take the opportunity to set up stalls here to sell all kinds of snacks and knick-knacks.
It's a hot scene.
This year, however, Xiaohong saw a deserted scene here - many stores have closed their doors, and there are few customers in the remaining stores.
A few vendors stood on the side of the street with their hands shrunk as if they were shivering.
Xiaohong felt very incredible, how could this most prosperous commercial street in the past suddenly become deserted? She couldn't resist walking into a large supermarket and asking, hoping to figure out the reason for all this.
Sister, what's going on? Wasn't it impossible to get through here during the Chinese New Year before, why is it so deserted this year? Xiaohong asked.
Ay. The supermarket clerk sighed and said: "In recent years, the number of people returning to their hometowns for the New Year has dropped dramatically, and the willingness of young people to go out to work is no longer high.
Nowadays, everyone chooses to buy things online, eliminating the need to go out to the store.
Our brick-and-mortar stores are miserable, surviving. ”
No way? Wouldn't many stores be unable to survive? Xiaohong said in disappointment.
Yes, you see there are a lot of closed shops on this street.
We are also preparing to end our brick-and-mortar business and move all to online shopping. ”
The clerk said. After hearing this, Xiaohong silently carried her things home.
She felt as if she had returned to a completely unfamiliar town, and the familiar streets were unrecognizable.
The lively and extraordinary festive atmosphere of the past seems to be far away from her, and she can no longer be found.
We often say that the current Spring Festival atmosphere has faded, and there is no longer the lively and festive of the past.
However, when you think about it, the meaning of the festival is not just fireworks and commercial atmosphere, but the warmth of the family together, and the communication and companionship between people.
We should not think that the Spring Festival has no flavor because of the change in environment and form.
As long as we cherish every moment with our family and friends, and keep a grateful and joyful heart, then every Spring Festival will be lively.