"Why is the New Year's money rising higher and higher? "I can't take it if I have less, and my heart hurts if I have more", "The New Year's money has caught up with my monthly salary"...During the Spring Festival, the discussion about New Year's money gradually heated up, and many netizens posted on social platforms, distressed by this.
A netizen whose hometown is in rural Yuyao, Zhejiang Province said: "When I was young, my elders basically gave 200 yuan, I don't know when I started, I can't get 200 yuan, the minimum is 600 yuan, and it is often thousands, which is very stressful for my age, let alone the old people in the village." ”
As one of the traditional New Year's customs, the elders give the younger generations New Year's money, which is a kind of "New Year's flavor", representing expectations and wishes. However, in recent years, in some places, the bullish New Year's money has not only become a financial burden for the elderly, but also a lot of pressure for many young people.
It is particularly important to protect the original meaning and good intention of the New Year's money, and not let it turn into a distress and burden.
In fact, the taste of the New Year does not lie in whether there are red envelopes exchanged, and the thickness of the New Year's money is not a yardstick to measure the distance between relatives and relatives. Some young people and their siblings of the same generation agreed to only send small red envelopes to their children, "just have a lively and festive picture", "adults are not so stressed, and children are happy to receive red envelopes".
As netizens commented, "If you fall into the comparison, you will lose the meaning of the New Year's money, not the New Year's money", "It is an auspicious picture, and sending more and less is a mind".
In real life, it is the consensus and practical action of the vast majority of people to give New Year's money according to their own economic situation, not to compare, not to follow the trend, and not to excessively. In many places in Guangdong, "Pali is" only talks about "intentions" that are no more than money, five yuan, ten yuan, and as much as you like.
Children in a village in Hechi, Guangxi, went door-to-door to greet the New Year, and adults prepared 2 yuan in advance. The fact that such an approach is welcome is undoubtedly the epitome of this consensus. And in some places, you don't even have to use money for the New Year, and New Year's books, small gifts, etc. can play the same role.
This also enlightens us that there is not much money, gifts are not informal, and festival customs are passed down forever, because the cultural genes flowing behind them and the sincerity and sincerity are cherished by people.
The children around me said that the happiness of the New Year is indispensable to the surprise and happiness at the moment when they receive the New Year's money. To protect this happiness, it is necessary to keep the original meaning of inheriting the culture and passing on blessings of the New Year's money, not to let the New Year's flavor become "money", not to add to the burden of comparison, and to make the Spring Festival more warm, harmonious and beautiful.
*: People's ** Comment (Author: Zhang Jinshan), China News Network (Author: Shao Meng).