Ma'anshan, Anhui, a small village, invited more than 200 girls, young ones in their twenties, seniors in their nineties, each wearing a big red dress, wearing a big red scarf, the scene is very lively, adding a lot of affection to the somewhat deserted Spring Festival.
These more than 200 girls are all married daughters, some of whom have not returned home for many years, and there is little contact after marriage close to them.
In order to allow these childhood playmates to reunite again, the village committee went door to door to notify and agreed that everyone would return to their mother's house en masse. The girls also attach great importance to nostalgia, participate enthusiastically, and also prepare a number of literary and artistic performances for self-directed and self-performed.
The event was so successful that organizers said it would continue next year, but only for three years.
In the past two years, due to the epidemic, many areas have cancelled large-scale gathering activities, and the joy of the New Year has been much less. Most of the traditional New Year's greetings have been changed to video screens or telephones, and even children's red envelopes, some of which are sent on mobile phones, and children cannot feel the taste of the New Year.
This year's New Year, even the sound of firecrackers is gone, and there is no New Year's atmosphere. In the future New Year, the story of the Nian Beast is estimated to be no longer told, or another version will be changed.
If you have been so deserted, I don't know if in a few years, the traditional festival of the Spring Festival will not be there.
