Hello everyone, I'm Paocannon, time is too fast, today is already the second day of the new year, and the Spring Festival can be said to be fast. I don't know how you are doing this year? Many people have told me that they feel that the smell of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, and I do think so, do you have such an experience? Today, let's analyze why the smell of the New Year is getting less and less now?
Reason 1: Material abundance
In the past, you could only eat things that could be eaten during the Chinese New Year, but now you can eat them every day; in the past, you had to ask someone to buy delicious food during the Chinese New Year, but now you can place an order online at any time, and your brother will send it to your home; in the past, you can only wear new clothes during the New Year, but now you can change them every day. Traditionally, the year requires a long agricultural season to pave the way, and more importantly, some material resources that are not usually available are felt in order to feel it. I saw a netizen on the Internet say something and thought it was too right:
"You can not buy new clothes for a year, usually eat sweet potatoes and corn to satisfy hunger, cook without oil, eat rice once a week, eat meat once a month, do not call relatives and friends, so insist on a year, and when it comes to the New Year, buy a few new clothes, buy a few fish and a few chickens, 20 catties of meat, and fry a bunch of meatballs, the taste of this year will naturally come up. ”
Reason 2: The dissolution of the family group
After industrialization, along with economic development, family relations slowly dissolved. In the past, the community of interests of the big family linked by blood relations was split into a small family, and the relatives became weaker and weaker, and the movement became less and less, so that the atmosphere of the New Year became weaker and weaker. With the declining birthrate and the postponement of marriage and childbearing, this situation has accelerated. The post-90s and post-00s are completely reluctant to go to their relatives, and even feel that it is a social burden.
Therefore, in order to pursue the taste of the New Year, it is particularly important to have a large number of people. I remember when I was a child, when my grandparents and grandparents were still there, the Chinese New Year was the whole family, no matter how far away, I had to go to the old people's homes on both sides, on both sides were three sons and two girls, plus three daughters-in-law, two aunts, and our 8 or 9 grandchildren of our generation, and the old people on both sides were in their 20s to celebrate the New Year together. All of a sudden, the house was stuffed, and then the adults chatted around the brazier, and the children went out to set off firecrackers. My grandfather was asking this and that, and my grandmother was busy in the kitchen with her three daughters-in-law. But since the death of my grandparents, grandparents, and grandparents, this kind of big family has been dissolved all of a sudden, and my family of three has its own life, and there is much less movement than before.
What about the future? Two couples with one baby, and even many young people who don't get married and don't have children, what kind of New Year's flavor is there? These New Year's customs will disappear with the disappearance of relatives and friends. Even after two or three generations, relatives are scattered across the world, and they may not know each other. In this way, it will be even more year-old in the future.
Reason 3: I don't have time to create and enjoy the flavor of the New Year
If there are too many people to do it, and you still want the flavor of the New Year, you must at least have a lot of leisure time, so that people can remember to make some preparations for the celebration spontaneously. Therefore, the counterpart of the traditional Chinese New Year today should be such an existence: at least put it for two or three weeks off, preferably more than a month, to be able to have such a year-end decompression + enjoy the carnival period, such as tossing from the middle of the month, preparing New Year's goods, cleaning the whole house inside and out, All the things that should be dismantled and washed are repeated, and when it comes to the Chinese New Year's Eve, a large family sits together to eat dumplings and drink wine to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and then from the first day of the new year, there are relatives who go out to pay New Year's greetings, eat and drink plus earn red envelopes or send red envelopes; those who have no relatives go to parties with friends and classmates, chat whimsically; or go to travel and consume by themselves, and the whole year is almost a month before and after, and there is this kind of long-term indulgent decompression time, which is called New Year's flavor.
But the current year, for many people, is actually equivalent to: to the holiday of one or two days before the holiday, or even the first day of the Lunar New Year, and then catch the train home in embarrassment, and then do not stop for a few days and take a long-distance train back to work, just seven days off, and two days off on horseback. Everybody is in a hurry, everybody is running mechanically, running for a living, can this have a New Year's flavor?
Reason 4: There is no sense of ceremony
In the past, there was a sense of ritual during the Chinese New Year, and there were various New Year's customs activities, such as a bazaar, where there were singers, monkeys, shadow puppets, dough kneaders, sugar turners, and lantern makers. Including their own homes, the elderly write couplets by themselves, wrap red envelopes, cut paper, and paste window flowers, now what? No one gets these ritual stuff anymore. Therefore, where is the New Year's taste, it is obvious that the person who created the New Year's flavor is gone. When we were children, our parents and elders created a New Year's flavor for us, and we just had to be a child who sat back and enjoyed it. Now that we have grown up, we have to be the ones who create the flavor of the New Year for our families, but we don't do these things, in fact, we have our own responsibilities. We can't be too lazy to move, too lazy to do it, too lazy to create a sense of ritual, and complain about the weak taste of the New Year.
To sum up, this is the reason why the Chinese New Year is becoming more and more unflavorful, do you agree?