Yesterday, people were watching the lanterns in Yantai Joy City Mall. During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, Yantai's major squares, parks and shopping malls are newly decorated, and the lanterns are colorful and festive. Photo by Donk
A little girl carefully selects a red lantern. Photo by journalist Tonk
The second hand progresses, urging the footsteps of going home for the New Year; the wind is cold, and the blessing that warms the heart cannot be dissipated. As the Spring Festival approaches, people are looking forward to the Chinese New Year's Eve night and sitting around the table with their loved ones, tasting the hot reunion dinner, waiting for the bells of the New Year to ring and kick off the prelude to the Year of the Tiger.
In the past, children were led by elders and inherited the customary Chinese New Year rituals. Quietly, these children have grown up, and the Spring Festival family gathering has become the home of young people. Subsequently, the trendy New Year ceremony has also been brought into the family's New Year activities by these "new generations of Hong Kong City", and the "new ceremony" different from the traditional is blooming a different "New Year's flavor".
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Pre-made Chinese New Year's Eve meals
On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Wang Shaoxiang had just returned to his hometown in Jilin and hurriedly took out of his bag the Spring League that had been ordered in advance on the Internet and pasted it at his doorstep. The content of this year's Spring League is all related to the "tiger", and unlike the traditional paper Spring League, his Spring League is a fabric style, embroidered with a traditional cloth tiger pattern, this traditional and novel couplet has attracted praise from neighbors. In addition to the couplet at the door of his home, Xiao Wang also pasted a small couplet on both sides of his computer screen.
The highlight of the Chinese New Year's Eve night should be Chinese New Year's Eve meal. The traditional Chinese New Year's Eve rice is not only colorful, but also pays attention to many meanings. This year, young people like "pre-made dishes", this kind of semi-finished dishes, complete in color, convenient and fast, can meet the new "demands" of young people "starting a whole table and Chinese New Year's Eve rice".
Grilled sea cucumber with green onion, braised hoof tendon, beef with sauce, soft fried tenderloin, smoked fish... Lulu's post-90s "new" mother, who lives in the Phoenix Mountain Villa community in Laishan District, usually does not do this kind of "hard dish". What I am most looking forward to during this year's Spring Festival is to be able to make a decent Chinese New Year's Eve meal for children and the elderly. But usually busy at work, there are not many cooking opportunities, not very good at cooking, in order to complete this "long-cherished wish", she thought of buying a semi-finished product Chinese New Year's Eve rice home to "help the kitchen". "With a simple heating, you can present a table of delicious food, hearty and convenient." Lulu said.
Take the whole family to the "new" dance
Homemade emojis bye bye bye year
Following the popular music in TikTok, the gray-haired grandparents also tiptoed and moved, and their heads swung left and right with the rhythm. Around them, Mom and Dad, Uncle Aunt, and Linna and her younger siblings couldn't help but grin as they followed the steps.
This impromptu group dance in the living room was inspired by Lin Na, who is keen to browse the self-media platform. "Chinese New Year's Eve night, I want to record the laughter and laughter at home and keep it as a souvenir." These dance moves are fun and easy to learn, and everyone is excited when the family jumps up. The video of the whole family dancing was placed on Lin Na's social platform, which not only attracted the affirmation of netizens, but also increased her fans a lot.
Greeting her family cordially to the camera, Xiao Ru, who works far away in Tianjin, still responds to the call for "New Year in place" this year and stays alone in a foreign country. She felt that there was less reunion, but not less ceremony. Every year, a complete set of "lines" for the Spring Festival should still be fully equipped. The head portrait wears the "New Year headband", the background of the circle of friends is replaced by the "New Year Vision", the mobile phone case is "put on" infrared clothing, nail art, eyelashes, new hairstyles, new clothes, the same can not be less. In recent years, with the intelligence of the photo app, Xiaoru will also pull the people around her to take photos of the New Year's emoji. "Directly sending a dynamic map of your own New Year's greetings is quite well received by everyone."
Experience the "heat" of snow and ice
Happy Winter Olympics
When the Spring Festival meets the Beijing Winter Olympics, this year's Spring Festival has added another meaning. Since the topic of the Winter Olympics is indispensable to this year's New Year, Zhang Xuan decided to take his parents to "immerse" in ice and snow sports. With a professional ski instructor, with professional ski equipment, starting from the "beginner road", Zhang Xuan's parents felt the charm of snow sports for the first time.
With the "blessings" of the Winter Olympics, many citizens come to experience skiing. The person in charge of a ski park in Zhifu District told reporters that the per capita consumption of practicing skiing is about 80 yuan, the price is moderate, and many citizens will even play all day in the ski resort.
Zhang Xuan watched his parents gradually find the trick under the guidance of the coach and happily talked to the reporter. Experience tells her that letting parents feel the ice and snow sports before the Winter Olympics will make the whole family have more emotional resonance when watching the game.
What has changed is the way new year is done
What does not change is reunion and affection
The way new year is celebrated is changing, but the core of the sense of ceremony has not changed. No matter how the times develop, the essence of the traditional festive ritual sense is still reunion and resignation and welcoming the new, and the emotional expression of generations is always the same. No matter how many novel celebration ceremonies, they must also serve people's vision of "reunion" and "harmony and beauty"; no matter how many modern elements, they must continue to integrate with excellent traditional folklore and bloom new colors in more trendy ways.
Every year during the Spring Festival, Lulu will accompany the elderly to go home to worship their ancestors, accompany their parents to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and also participate in New Year's parties and record New Year Vlogs. In her eyes, with the development of the times, the Internet era has spawned a new way of interpreting the New Year's customs, although it has a more sense of science and technology and a sense of the times, but the old traditions of the New Year cannot be forgotten, and even more attention should be paid to inheritance.
In Lulu's view, young people's recognition and love of traditional culture is the epitome of cultural self-confidence. When old traditions meet new cultures, they not only give new meaning to the ancient traditional culture, but also carry the creative expression and new interpretation of traditional culture by young people.
Zhang Xuan believes that the blessing of the New Year's ritual will make her look forward to the new year, "Although the New Year's ceremony has changed, the core of the sense of ceremony is still reunion and resignation and new. ”
Lin Na, who led her parents to achieve New Year's achievements, said that the preservation of the traditional sense of new year rituals can reassure the older generation, and the blessing of the emerging sense of ceremony will also allow them to avoid being out of touch with the times.