In another ten days, the Spring Festival of 2022 will come, in the past, every time at this time, many people's minds moved, everyone felt that the most important festival of the year was coming, and the work was not in the heart, so they had to think about how to buy tickets or tickets to return home, and what kind of gifts to prepare for the New Year.
Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Chinese nation, but also a day of family reunion, when it comes to the New Year, everyone is also very excited, but this year's situation is probably still a little special. The spread of the epidemic in the autumn and winter is indeed very fast, so to this day there are still sporadic cases in many cities across the country, although we can quickly kill the virus, but large-scale population movement is indeed very easy to spread the virus.
In particular, the latest variant spreads extremely fast, so to date, in fact, many provinces and cities have introduced non-essential policies not to leave the region, and many cities have begun to issue calls, hoping that everyone can stay in the local New Year. Because it is true that large-scale population movements may make the virus spread faster, after all, none of us are willing to take the virus with us as soon as we return to our hometown, or be isolated by the local area as soon as we return to our hometown, who would have thought that the new crown epidemic could ravage for such a long time?
During the Spring Festival last year, many people stayed in different places for the New Year, and everyone thought that it might be a special point of this Spring Festival, but they did not expect that the Spring Festival that was coming soon had not yet completely passed. But compared to the situation abroad, we are indeed much better, think of those countries diagnosed with 1 million a day, 1.5 million such a huge number, they are estimated to be in no mood for that holiday.
Of course, in order to let everyone have a good Spring Festival, now the local government has also introduced a variety of subsidy policies, some places if you can be in a different place for the New Year, the local New Year, you may give 500 or 1000 holiday condolence subsidies, and some places will also give a variety of coupons. Of course, like last year, cultural and entertainment facilities around the world are also as open as possible, so that people in different places have a chance to recuperate during the Spring Festival holiday, which may be for many people, this Spring Festival has no chance to go home for reunion, but after all, all mankind is just around the corner to defeat the epidemic.
At this time, we would also like to discuss with you whether today's young people are willing to return to their hometown for the New Year, the other day I saw a statistic in a media, saying that many post-90s and post-95s if the Spring Festival unit requires you to work overtime, can you agree to work overtime in the unit, earn more wages, and then do not go home for the New Year. To my surprise, as many as 70% of post-90s and post-95s youth said that they could stay in the local area to work overtime, which is indeed a high proportion.
To be honest with today's younger generation, returning home for the New Year is also a sweet burden to a greater or lesser extent. Why? We can make a calculation with you, and returning to your hometown for the New Year is actually a big investment in the economy. For example, if you are working in a first-tier big city in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, the Spring Festival holiday is actually not long, the statutory time is 7 days, even if the employer is relatively humane, you can go a few days in advance and come back a few days later, then the total length of this holiday is also 10 days.
In the past, the closer the year is, the more difficult it is to buy this ticket, and in recent years, thanks to the completion of the 40,000-kilometer high-speed railway on the mainland, it is much easier to buy a high-speed rail ticket for returning to the hometown than it was more than 10 years ago and 20 years ago. Do you know that going back more than ten or twenty years to buy tickets for the Spring Festival is definitely a big job, in some large provinces that absorb foreign labor, such as Guangdong Province, when it comes to the Spring Festival, the entire stadium must be opened, so that tens of thousands of people pour in to buy tickets.
Not only is the train ticket difficult to buy, the ticket is not discounted at all when the year is close, in the past it may be reduced to a 30% discount of 40%, and it is not easy for you to grab the full-price ticket during the Spring Festival, so the transportation cost for migrant workers to return home is quite high. But this is only the first step, after returning home, other costs are also very much, let alone say filial piety to parents, this is the right thing to do, hard work outside for a year to go back to see the elderly at home, it is definitely to give money and goods on the condolences.
Even if you have money in your own family, but after you return to your hometown, other expenses are also very large, you have to buy some gifts to see the elders in your relatives, you have to give some money to see your juniors for the New Year, and you have to gather for a long time to see your companions, and it is a big cost to eat and drink. For many young people, it is probably common to spend one or two months of salary once a year, and today many young people who work hard in big cities are basically moonlight people, and the salary earned is very small, and there is basically not much money left after paying rent or mortgage and leaving their daily life.
For a considerable number of young people, they want to go home, but when they consider that there is still such a large amount of money to spend after returning home, they are more or less timid. On the other hand, if you stay in the local New Year, according to the relevant regulations of the state, if you are allowed to work overtime on the first three days of the Spring Festival holiday, you have to pay 3 times your salary, because this is a statutory holiday, and if you are allowed to work overtime in the next 4 days, you have to pay twice your wages, because this is called a statutory holiday.
At the beginning, if it is really the Spring Festival that these 7 days are overtime, almost can earn nearly a month's wages, which is indeed a big temptation for young people with a tight economy. Many people also want to go home is not necessary to use the New Year's time, tickets expensive traffic crowded, if you can stagger the peak home, for example, in March and April when the spring is in full bloom, negotiate with the unit to transfer a holiday home to see the elderly, this is not a desirable plan.
Of course, for many young people, there is still a layer of burden on going home for the New Year, which is not financial but another layer of meaning, I think almost all young people from the age of 22 to the age of thirty-four or five, as soon as you come home, you will be interrogated by various relatives. The first question was how about working in a big city, and what was the salary? The next thing is whether there is a partner, have you made friends with men and women, when are you going to get married, and when you want to have children after you get married? Why hasn't it moved for two or three years?
Really have a child in the past two years and added when to have a second child, when to have a third child, relatives and friends sometimes really out of concern for you, after all, a year has not seen, you want to know about your natural situation, some are really because they have not seen each other for a long time, they always have to find a topic to open and chat from the beginning, but these words honestly make many young people feel embarrassed and uncomfortable.
Even in previous years, at the end of the year, there are many young people on the Internet who have summed up various experiences and told you how to deal with the interrogation of the seven aunts and eight aunts, to be honest, people are not bad at heart, that is, because they have not seen each other for a long time, there must always be a topic that they can talk about. But we also know that many young people now have social phobia, and I would rather stay and watch a computer swipe a video than eagerly nag with a relative who has not seen each other for many years or only met once a year.
To be honest, in some places, the New Year customs are even worse, and when you arrive at the New Year, you not only have to go door to door to visit relatives, but even the neighbors of the whole village you have to visit one by one, so for many young people, it feels that the New Year is more tired than usual. After the 7-day holiday of the New Year, the impression left in my mind is to continue to visit the door, to visit relatives and friends, and to see people who have not been seen in a year and who can only meet once a year in the future life.
Over time, many people feel that this new year format is a bit too meaningless, and for most people, what is really lacking is the communication time with immediate family members. After all, your parents may not have seen each other for a year, and everyone hopes to use this holiday to reunite with their families, but the special atmosphere of the New Year makes you waste a lot of time and energy outside.
Especially in recent decades, the social structure of the mainland has undergone great changes, going back decades, a large family is living in a village, your relatives and friends are very close to you, and there are also very close contacts, and this emotional maintenance is very important. After entering the modern society, a large number of young people come to work in unfamiliar places, in fact, the opportunity to communicate with their relatives and friends is very small, and even the relationship between your colleagues and classmates is much closer than the relationship between your seven aunts and eight aunts.
For many people, it is increasingly unnecessary to have awkward exchanges that occur only once a year, in fact, hasn't the situation of the New Year also changed over the years? In the past, firecrackers had to be set off for the New Year, but in recent years, due to the problem of environmental pollution, almost all major cities on the mainland are not allowed to set off fireworks.
Back 10 years and 20 years, the situation of the New Year is also the whole family gathered together to watch the Spring Festival Gala, which has even become a new folklore, but in recent years, we are not responsible for the Spring Festival Gala is good or bad, this rating is definitely a big drop, for young people in the new era, stay in front of the TV for four or five hours to watch programs that they don't like at all, this is really a kind of torment.
In the past, one of the most important programs in the New Year was to constantly visit relatives and friends, and there were even folklore that told you what kind of different relatives you should visit each day, but it is clear that for Chinese families who are getting smaller and smaller, such folklore may also have major changes in the future.
Perhaps for many people, the more important significance of the Spring Festival holiday is to have more than a period of time to relax and reunite with the closest people, and to have a time to share family affection, then for many people, it is not necessary to join the Spring Festival. It may also be that this Spring Festival is different from the New Year, but in March and April, after the epidemic has dissipated, you can travel with your parents and live a higher quality of companionship, so how do you feel about living this Spring Festival?