In the Spring Festival of 2024, I found four phenomena that are different from previous years.
The first phenomenon is that the number of WeChat red envelopes has dropped significantly.
According to the data officially released by WeChat, on Chinese New Year's Eve 2024, users grabbed a total of 50800 million red envelopes.
In 2017, WeChat also released data at that time, and the number of red packets sent and received by users on Chinese New Year's Eve was 14.2 billion.
The caliber of these two data is inconsistent and cannot be simply compared. But it can be seen that the number of red envelopes sent through WeChat is falling off a cliff.
The second phenomenon is that there are more and more businesses that do not close during the Spring Festival.
In previous years, when I went to the vegetable market, it was very deserted on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of the new year. But this year, even in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there are still many small stalls selling vegetables.
Many of the storefronts on the street were closed in previous years, but many are open this year, and many small bosses have not returned to their hometowns for the New Year.
Many large supermarkets now only adjust their business hours on Chinese New Year's Eve, and they will resume normal business hours on the first day of the new year, and in previous years, they will not resume normal business hours until the second or third day of the new year.
The third phenomenon is the blowout of fireworks.
Many fireworks factory owners in Liuyang said that in previous years, there was still a lot of inventory in December, but in December 2023, there was no inventory.
On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, firecrackers and fireworks were fired in many places. Affected by the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Changsha and other places issued severe air pollution warnings.
Fourth, there are more and more people burning incense and worshipping Buddha.
During the Spring Festival, temples in various cities are very popular.
Shanghai Longhua Ancient Temple, the first day of the Lunar New Year has a passenger flow of more than 100,000. The Beidi Ancient Temple in Shenzhen, the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, the Nanhai Guanyin in Sanya, and the Huayan Temple in Chongqing all have the situation of people conforming to the crowd. Today's people, between going to work and being motivated, choose incense; Between seeking others and seeking oneself, he chose to seek Buddha.
I thought about it carefully, and there are actually some economic meanings behind these four phenomena:Clause.
First, everyone is poor; Clause.
Second, businesses are all rolling and want to make money; Clause.
3. I'm too depressed and want to release the pressure; Fourth, I began to believe in my life.