As the Year of the Dragon in the lunar calendar is getting closer and closer, there are more and more phenomena of traveling away from home for the New Year. During the winter holidays, many families choose to travel with their children, and they want to take advantage of this long vacation to explore different places and broaden their horizons. It's really hard to imagine that so many families choose to travel during the Chinese New Year compared to previous years. The main reason for this phenomenon is that the Spring Festival holiday is relatively long this year, and people are also thinking about avoiding those tedious visits to relatives and friends. After all, visiting family and friends during the Chinese New Year can cost a lot of money, such as Chinese New Year money and gifts. It's also understandable that everyone wants to be able to save some money to enjoy the food and beauty of their travels, rather than picking on gifts for friends and family. It can be said that this is the embodiment of personalized needs, and it is also one of the reasons why popular tourist cities in China have been full recently.
At the end of the year, the arrival of the peak consumption period usually leads to the increase in the price of many goods, especially the essential meat such as pork, beef and mutton. This year, however, the situation has taken a strange turn. Despite the increasing number of people buying meat, the **** of pork, beef and mutton is not only not**, but even somewhat declining. In recent days, when I went to the market to buy meat, I found that the ** of pork is basically about 12 yuan, and the ** of beef and mutton is about 35 yuan, which is basically not much different from usual, and even cheaper than usual, which makes people feel a little incredible. Perhaps this year's abundant supply and fierce competition in the market have led to relatively stable meat prices. This is indeed good news for consumers, who can buy their favorite meats at the end of the year to add more delicious flavor to the reunion dinner.
As the Year of the Dragon approaches, every family begins to prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. As the most important reunion feast of the year, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the richest meal for families. At one time, people thought that eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in hotels was a good choice, but now many people prefer to cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home because it has a sense of participation and better reflects the taste of the year. However, unlike previous years, this year, many hotels have extremely hot Chinese New Year's Eve dinner reservations, and many families have begun to choose to order Chinese New Year's Eve meals in hotels. This change may be due to the fact that there are so many things going on at the end of the year that people don't want to work too hard. However, from my personal feelings, going to the hotel for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner seems to be less of the sense of family reunion, and the taste of the year is slightly weaker.
In the past, the most anticipated thing about the Chinese New Year was to put on new clothes and taste delicious food. Even if the family's financial conditions are not good, they will buy a new set of clothes for their family before the Chinese New Year, so that they will feel confident and face when they go out to visit relatives and friends. In previous years, the hairdresser at this time was always full, and at the end of the year, the hairdresser's **was also corresponding**, and many stores regarded this period as a good time to make money. However, this year, many middle-aged and elderly people around me have no plans to buy new clothes. They think that when buying new clothes for the New Year, they should also consider the cotton clothes they wear in winter, so that they will be idle for a year after a few days, which is not cost-effective. Moreover, the price of winter clothing is higher, and one piece of clothing can be worn for several years, and it is not necessary to change it every year. In addition, perming and coloring hair before the Chinese New Year used to be a must-do for every beauty-loving lady, but this year, the perm in the hairdresser seems to be relatively deserted. An important reason is that people nowadays prefer casual hairstyles, and the aftercare of perms is more troublesome, so there are fewer and fewer women who choose to perm their hair before the year.
It is a common tradition to buy New Year's goods and give gifts to each other before the Chinese New Year. In the past, walking on the street, you would always see many people carrying gift boxes of various styles, ready to visit relatives and friends, and exchange gifts with each other. However, this year, I rarely saw people delivering New Year's goods, and few people bought rural souvenirs. For example, local chicken, hand-squeezed soybean oil, local pork, etc., although some places sell them, people are not willing to spend money to buy them. I guess it's because after buying it a few years ago, I found that it didn't taste particularly good, so I didn't buy it anymore this year. This may be the reason why too many people have bought unsatisfactory New Year's goods, so they are now reluctant to spend money on them.
Although the smell of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, at the end of each year, families still need to make some preparations. However, this year, the above five "strange phenomena" have appeared, which are very different from previous years. Perhaps this is due to the change of the development of the times, or it may be caused by the change of people's consumption concept. In any case, the Lunar Year of the Dragon is coming, and we still have to cherish this moment of family reunion, joy and festivity, and try our best to make the New Year more flavorful.