The New Year is approaching, and it can be seen from the news in recent times that young people who habitually complain that "the taste of the New Year is light" have begun to change, and they are trying to regain the dominance of the Spring Festival and create a new New Year's flavor in their own way.
Some people have the strength to stay up late to make PPT, just for Zhang Luo to have a "family Spring Festival Gala"; Someone organized a group photo of the whole family during the Spring Festival in advance; Some people have prepared beautiful Chinese New Year Hanfu and written a spontaneous Spring Festival couplets exclusive to the younger generation; Others strive to be the "New Year's manager", buy trendy New Year's goods, and decorate the room according to their own ideas; There are also those who say "break off relatives", but in action, they take the trouble to go to the ...... of relatives
In this way, people may have been deceived by the high-profile claims of young people many years ago that they "don't love the New Year": young people have not forgotten the Spring Festival, those complaints are more like a "momentum", young people have their own ideas and attitudes towards the Spring Festival, and they are waiting for the opportunity to officially debut in the "historical task" of creating a new trend for the Spring Festival.
Now, that opportunity seems to have come. This generation of Internet natives has gradually reached the age of taking on family responsibilities, whether it is the Internet or the right to speak in the family, they have gradually become the mainstream. According to the 52nd Statistical Report on the Development of the Internet in China, 20 39-year-old Internet users have accounted for 34 of the total number of Internet users8%, young people have begun to become the backbone of society and the leader of online issues, so they naturally have the confidence to be the "Spring Festival manager".
For the Spring Festival, young people's active participation is actually enriching the connotation of the New Year. A generation has a generation of Spring Festival, and the flavor of the New Year is constantly renewed, which is also the charm of the Spring Festival. Sticking Spring Festival Lian, Tusu wine, writing peach charms, and Chinese New Year's Eve dinner all gradually appeared in the long evolutionary history of the Spring Festival. And this generation of young people is approaching the Spring Festival, who said that wearing Hanfu and springwalk (imitating citywalk, taking parents to hang out on the streets during the Spring Festival) can't be turned into a new New Year's custom?
Of course, young people seem to be full of desire for the Spring Festival, but facts have also proved that there is no obstacle for them to accept many traditions of the Spring Festival. Not long ago, a survey of 1,333 young people conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily in conjunction with the questionnaire network showed that 941% of the young people surveyed will adhere to the traditional customs of the Chinese New Year, 767% of the young people surveyed pay attention to the "sense of ceremony" of the New Year, and the family reunion for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the most important embodiment of the "sense of ceremony" of the New Year.
This also shows that young people may add new elements to the Spring Festival, but the mainstream has also been well inherited: the joy of family reunion and the expectation of renewal in Vientiane, the core of these Spring Festivals has not changed.
That's the power of tradition. When it comes to tradition, people will inevitably have a trace of "old" and "yellowed" impressions, and there is a sense of dislocation of time and space. However, a tradition that lasts for thousands of years may have the power to transcend time and space precisely because it fits the deepest human psychological structure and the most essential social and cultural ethics.
Just like the longing for one's hometown and the attachment to one's loved ones, isn't it a motif in any culture? As the carrier of these eternal values, how can we really stay away from it? Just like not long ago, the Spring Festival has become an official holiday of the United Nations, in fact, long before the United Nations "certification", many countries have been officially celebrating the Spring Festival. This shows that the Spring Festival is both Chinese and global; It is both personal and human, and the meaning that has been precipitated over thousands of years has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
From this point of view, the return of young people to the Spring Festival is actually an inevitability, for thousands of years, the Spring Festival has flowed from the long river of history. Therefore, we are happy to see young people embrace the Spring Festival again, which is an interaction between enthusiasm and deep tradition, which not only conveys the charm of classicism, but also rejuvenates the novelty of the times. I also believe that it is in this kind of "reviewing the old and learning the new" that the Spring Festival and tradition will lead to a more open future.
Special Commentator: Yi Zhi.
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