Why does the strong smell of the New Year gradually disappear in memory?
When I was a child, the smell of the Spring Festival permeated the fields, hillsides and backyards very early, and it was a strong New Year's flavor. As time passed, this strong New Year's flavor seemed to disappear.
In people's memory, the flavor of the New Year is more about the traditional scenes such as the mother making pies, dividing pastries, visiting relatives, and visiting temple fairs. For people in the seventies and eighties, the flavor of the New Year existed on the four walls, in the bright red Spring Festival couplets full of blessings, in the ceramic incense burners and red lanterns by the windows, and in the delicious home-cooked food that was cooked and cooked in the kitchen. In modern times, however, these traditions have faded away and been replaced by a variety of electronic and networked products.
The increasingly developed Internet has changed the traditional way people communicate. The way of visiting relatives and friends outdoors has gradually evolved into WeChat red envelopes, New Year's greeting text messages and ** calls. This new way of greeting the New Year seems to be more convenient, but it also cancels the beautiful custom of visiting relatives and friends during the traditional New Year's greetings. In the diversity of urban life, unsettling travel and family closeness have become commonplace.
At the same time, the commercialization of modern society has also stolen some of the flavor of the year. Supermarkets and shopping malls have gradually replaced traditional bazaars and temple fairs, and Spring Festival couplets and New Year paintings are also difficult to have a New Year's flavor. Over the years, the commercialization of the festival has made the festival lose its original meaning. The Spring Festival Gala performance has changed the heaviness of traditional seasonal songs, and traditional songs such as New Year's greetings and flowers and full moon have gradually become unpleasant. Instead, it is popular and lacks cultural connotation.
The fast-paced life of modern society has led to"New Year's flavor"Downplay. As urbanized society becomes busier and more and more young people emigrate, the original scenes of family gatherings and heating around the fireplace are gradually disappearing. Due to the uncertainty of time and place, it is difficult to recreate the taste of the New Year, whether for work or study reasons.
We cannot simply blame these changes, because behind these changes is the constant emergence of new ideas of life. People pay more attention to the beauty of family affection and the expression of personal emotions, make full use of the Internet to contact their relatives, and send blessings and thoughts to their families. People are also paying more attention to individuality and creativity, so that the traditional New Year culture can continue to be passed on in a new form.
Although the taste of the New Year has faded, the strong flavor of the New Year in our memory is still deeply imprinted in our hearts, allowing us to understand the value of traditional culture. Perhaps, people today can create something more colorful in a new way"New Year's flavor": Indulge yourself spiritually, express sincerity emotionally, maintain the family in family affection, and inherit treasures culturally.
In other words, from tradition to modernity, the change of New Year's flavor is only a part of the life experience, it is no longer just a change in taste, but the development of the spirit of the times. The flavor of the New Year may have changed, but people's memories and pursuits of the strong flavor of the New Year will never remain the same and will always be fresh. Life is like a big stage, we are in the throbbing of life, in fact, we have not lost family affection and warmth, we just need to be more in the present, to feel the beauty of the New Year.