I am a post-80s generation, and I spend the New Year in my rural hometown every Spring Festival, and I always feel that there are fewer and fewer people in the countryside during the New Year. Why?
We belong to the agricultural area here, there is almost no industry, naturally there are no factories, the per capita arable land is only three acres, in the modern society that costs everything, obviously it is impossible to stay in the countryside.
Our parents' generation, are living by farming, rarely go out to work, from our 80s, very rich people will farm, after I graduated from technical school, I went out to work, and the children we grew up together also went out to work.
At that time, we didn't have a family, we didn't have a business, and we had to go back to our hometown in the countryside every year for the Chinese New Year, because there were our parents and our childhood, and the streets were bustling and very lively.
Later, many young people bought houses in the city and settled down, but they still came back during the Spring Festival every year, because their parents were still there, and they had to go home when they were there.
Time makes our parents old, and we are no longer young, so some people take our parents to live in the city, and naturally they will not go back to the countryside during the Spring Festival, and some old people are old and leave us. When my parents weren't there, I didn't go back.
Therefore, there are fewer and fewer people going home for the New Year in the countryside, and as the years go by, the New Year in the countryside is no longer lively, and there are no fireworks.