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Text: Jiang Qingtong
Editor|Jiang Qingtong
Preface
The Spring Festival can be said to be one of the most important festivals in the mainland, there is no one, it means a family reunion, looking forward to the beginning of the new year, during this time people usually eat dumplings, party, paste couplets, and set off firecrackers.
However, I don't know when it began, in recent years, the feeling of the taste of the year seems to be gradually fading, and some of the Spring Festival Xi customs we saw when we were children are gradually disappearing.
Some people even stood up and said that some Spring Festival Xi customs should be "stopped", and many people were very chilled after seeing it.
Xi that may be "stopped".
Perhaps because the development of cities is too fast, some Xi now seem not only not beneficial, but have many disadvantages.
For example, in recent years, the most popular firecracker link, the festival firecrackers have been inherited in the history of the mainland for thousands of years, whenever we describe the Spring Festival, then firecrackers will inevitably be in one of the links.
This is also the happiest time for many people, there is no child on winter vacation who does not look forward to this day, and it is common to see a few friends laughing and playing together on the street, accompanied by the sound of firecrackers from time to time.
However, in recent years, people have found that some areas of the country have begun to implement the ban on firecrackers, although it is said to be for everyone's safety, but many people are still a little difficult to accept.
After all, there is no sound of firecrackers during the Spring Festival, and I always feel that there is a lack of meaning, and many people say that there are no firecrackers to make today's New Year's flavor tasteless.
In fact, if we think about it from the other side, then we should be able to understand why some places have regulations on firecrackers, which is different now than when I was a child.
Unauthorized setting off of fireworks and firecrackers is likely to lead to a series of accidents such as fires, and no one wants such a thing to happen during the Spring Festival.
And compared with the past, if it is not regulated, then fireworks can be seen all over the streets during the Spring Festival.
Most of them ride small cars to set up stalls on the side of the road, and the fireworks and other things they sell are not guaranteed at all, such as this kind of three-no products, once an accident occurs, then it is difficult to find people who sell guns at that time.
Property damage is a trivial matter, and if you are afraid that you will be directly injured when the time comes, then the Spring Festival can only be spent in the hospital.
On the one hand, on the other hand, fireworks can produce a lot of smoke and noise pollution, especially in cities.
The sound of firecrackers outside has reached the point of disturbing the people, and the air pollution in the city is already serious, and the fireworks will directly increase the pollution level.
Therefore, some citizens also gave a positive attitude towards the ban on fireworks.
This is different from the countryside, which is vast and sparsely populated, and everyone in the neighborhood knows the roots, and sometimes other people will come to help, so almost no one cares about the fireworks in the countryside nowadays.
As everyone's awareness of environmental protection continues to deepen, everyone understands that firecrackers may be banned in 2024, but it may be allowed to be released at that time.
In fact, in addition to the national ban, there are many Xi customs that are gradually disappearing in our lives, which is one of the reasons why our taste of the year is gradually disappearing.
The smell of the year is gradually disappearing
The New Year's Eve and the reunion dinner are the two most lively family gatherings during the Spring Festival, and I believe that whether it is in the countryside or the city, the family will sit together and have a hearty reunion dinner.
Everyone sat together to eat and chat, and the Spring Festival Gala was playing on the TV, which can be described as the warmest year of the year.
And what we call keeping the year is staying up for the year, not sleeping before 12 o'clock in the morning on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, which means quitting the old year and welcoming the new year, most of which are more children keeping the year.
So in the past, even if they were busy, people who were away from home would come home before Chinese New Year's Eve, just to be able to eat this bowl of rice.
But now this situation is gradually changing, and it seems that in the fast-paced society, countless people are facing the situation of not being able to reunite with their families, and it is still for several years.
Because of work, bus tickets and other issues, everyone chooses to stay in the existing city, far from such a strong desire to go home, there is no way, for modern people, the cost of going home is too high.
Originally, I didn't make any money outside, and when I went back home, I found that it cost money everywhere, and maybe in the end I found that I had worked for nothing.
And not everyone is looking forward to going home for the New Year, sometimes there may be a few days of holiday during the Spring Festival, and not only is there no idle day after arriving home, but young people may also face being urged to marry.
Maybe I'm not in a hurry, but the old man in the family is very fond of it, and arranges blind date activities early without knowing it, even if I don't want to do it a hundred, I have to bite the bullet.
In this way, children who work outside the home are reluctant to go home, and there are more and more "empty nesters" in their hometowns, and this situation seems to gradually worsen in the future.
This seems to be the sadness of the times, and at the same time there is another thing that is gradually disappearing, that is, writing Spring Festival couplets and making window flowers that were more popular in the past.
It's not enough nowadays to see people writing their own Spring Festival couplets, everyone basically buys ready-made, and the same is true for window flowers.
The challenges of Chinese New Year Xi are not yet known, but with the development of globalization, many Western cultures are gradually becoming popular in China.
In such an environment, many young people will look forward to foreign festivals more, and they are a little less concerned about their own festivals.
As most people's expectations for the Spring Festival are reduced, the passage of traditional Chinese culture in the mainland has been further exacerbated, which is also a thorny problem we are facing.
At the same time, the loss of the flavor of the Spring Festival is also very related to the changes in society, and the rapid development of urbanization has exceeded everyone's expectations, and a large number of people in rural areas have begun to squeeze into urban life.
Most of those left behind in the countryside are generally the elderly and children, which leads to many Xi customs that cannot be carried forward in the city.
If it is in the countryside, the older generation shouts, then every household can come out and participate in the activities with joy, but this set is not prevalent in the city at all.
Moreover, in order for young people to cope with work, some traditions such as those of the older generation have no time to take care of at all.
Now there are still many people complaining that China's Spring Festival has long lost its original appearance, and now even the Spring Festival abroad has a New Year's flavor than the domestic Spring Festival.
Indeed, now New York in the United States has listed the Spring Festival as a legal holiday, and looking at the streets full of laughter and laughter, many people are suspicious.
Perhaps when we reminisce about the previous Spring Festival, we are reminiscing about the carefree life of the past, and if we want to change the perspective of young people on the Spring Festival today, I think we can make some changes.
For example, for some traditional Xi customs, various localities should vigorously support and reasonably guide people to celebrate the New Year in a safe situation, and at the same time educate and publicize traditional culture.
Not only that, but we can also improve from the innovation aspect, for example, the most controversial fireworks now, without such things, the Spring Festival is indeed a lot less fun.
So under the premise of environmental protection, we can develop a new type of fireworks and firecrackers, which has less impact on environmental pollution, which is also a good choice.
At the same time, various activities will be held to allow more young people to recognize and look forward to the Spring Festival.
Perhaps only in this way will our Spring Festival gradually return, so that everyone can regain confidence in this culture that has been inherited for thousands of years.
summary
With the development of society, it is inevitable that some Xi customs will be replaced during the Spring Festival, but this does not mean that we should give up our own culture.
We should take the essence of the dregs in the new society, which is what we should consider now, rather than blindly picking fault with the Spring Festival.
Protecting the environment and inheriting traditional culture do not collide, we should find the best of both worlds, and believe that by that time, the long-awaited Spring Festival will come again.