As the years go by, many people find that their expectations for the New Year seem to become weaker and weaker after entering middle age. After a year of hard work outside, I was eager to relax during the Spring Festival holiday, but when I returned home, I was faced with the trivial affairs of chicken feathers and the sense of responsibility brought by economic pressure.
During the New Year's holidays, when the family gets together, the once lively parents are replaced by mobile phone screens and silence, and the simple and warm New Year's flavor of the past gradually dissipates.
Mr. Lu Xun's depiction of the old Chinese New Year scene in "Blessing" makes people think about the cruel reality hidden behind this traditional festival.
Chinese New Year, for some middle-aged people, is a rare time for family reunion, and they look forward to the return of this tradition and the comfort of family affection; The other part of the middle-aged people began to have a deep resistance to the New Year, because behind the laughter, there may be hidden sadness and helplessness in life.
The Chinese New Year in Chinese should be a beautiful time to let go of fatigue and share the family, but now, those middle-aged people who shoulder the burden of the family have to deal with all kinds of complicated affairs in the short seven-day holiday, and cannot really get rest.
They miss the simple and pure happiness of their childhood, when new clothes and hats, the sound of firecrackers and the full sense of happiness are in stark contrast to the impetuousness and utilitarianism of today's New Year.
Middle-aged people are afraid of the New Year, perhaps because the "New Year" itself has become complex and heavy, and has lost its original innocence and harmony. They don't want their children to be influenced by this kind of culture and lose their reverence for the Chinese New Year.
Whenever the start of work, looking back on the short time spent together, what is left for the parents is always the figure that left in a hurry and the reluctant eyes.
They are disgusted with the endless comparisons and hypocritical human contacts during the Chinese New Year, and yearn for a simple and real reunion year, without false decorations and cumbersome etiquette.
However, in reality, the short Spring Festival holiday is filled with various birthday banquets, weddings, and visits to relatives and friends, familiar and unfamiliar faces are intertwined, and the communication between them has become mechanical and perfunctory.
Faced with the money game at the poker table, paying a year's hard-earned money for the sake of face, the middle-aged man lost himself in the smoke, unable to distinguish between the real and the unreal.
Chinese New Year has become an emotionally complex experience for every adult, because we grow up and cannot be satisfied and happy as easily as we did when we were children.
Despite this, the years are still moving at their pace, and although middle-aged people are no longer looking forward to the New Year, they still need to welcome the new year with a positive attitude.
I only hope that in the days to come, all hardships can be exchanged for the extension of happy times, relatives can stay together, and health will always be around, so that everyone can find their own joy and tranquility on this special day.