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Wen 丨 Kai Pineapple Finance (ID: kaiboluocaijing), author 丨 Wu Jiaoying Jin Jiepan Su Qi, Editor 丨 Wu Jiaoying
The longest public holiday of the year, a large number of "post-90s", but chose not to go far.
It is not that they do not have time, nor do they not love to travel, but after experiencing the "roller coaster" mentality of travel expectations soaring to the peak and then falling to the freezing point, they finally realized: this National Day holiday, they "can't afford to play".
Some people can't forget the "bitter tears" of the last holiday trip, for example, going to the beach with full expectations, but finding that the seaview hotel is opposite the construction site, and the Internet celebrity punch card has become a "rural world"; for example, the trip coincided with the emergence of local cases, the epidemic prevention and control of the destination was upgraded, the most anticipated activities were canceled, and they had to rush home. In the end, they found that "plain is true", rather than having fun, it is better to give up traveling and stay at home with their families.
Some people began to plan this holiday trip early, but found that they could not afford to buy a plane ticket, could not afford to stay in a hotel, the cost of a trip was worth a month's salary, and may not be able to avoid the disillusionment of looking at the mountains and the sea into seeing "everyone", so they turned grief and anger into motivation, chose to work overtime to make money, and strive to make the next holiday affordable.
There are also people who are ready to take their parents on a trip, but they did not expect to receive five invitations during the seven-day holiday, either on the way to the wedding or attending the wedding. There was no time to count, even the travel expenses prepared, I paid a share of the money. Most importantly, I don't have an object yet, and I am sad to hurt my money and body.
Of course, dreams still have to be had. Young people who "can't afford to play" this holiday are still looking forward to the next holiday, to have a free, easy, trouble-free trip, to go on the road alone, to meet friends or with family.
<h2>A small domestic tour of 20,000 yuan is an unbearable weight for "social animals"</h2>
Jia Xi, 27 years old, is an Internet practitioner
Traveling is my favorite way to relax. When overwhelmed by work and life, go to a strange place for a few days, even if you lie in the hotel and do nothing, you will feel "alive".
In the past, I would hardly let go of any vacation of more than three days, and I would go to niche places with friends with fewer people, and short vacations would generally go to cities where high-speed rail could reach to eat and drink, and sometimes I couldn't find a playmate and would travel alone.
Of course, as a "social animal", I still pay more attention to the cost performance of travel, and try to control the travel cost within the affordable range. And I didn't go out this seven-day vacation for the simple reason that I couldn't afford to play.
Before the holiday, my friend and I had planned to go to Xinjiang, at that time, the price of my city to and from Urumqi was about 6,000 yuan, and the friend's city round trip was nearly 7,000 yuan, we roughly calculated according to the itinerary, this trip down to cost 20,000 yuan less per person, it is really unbearable.
So, we thought, let's not go to Yunnan. Click on a travel APP to see, the round-trip ticket price is about 4,000 yuan, the price of any Erhai sea view room is between 1,000-3,000 yuan, and the price of ordinary homestays is rarely less than 500 yuan. Friends told me that during the National Day holiday, basically all popular tourist accommodation prices will double, such as ordinary homestays in Qingdao, Changsha, Chongqing and other places, the usual price is more than 200 yuan, but the holiday is as high as six or seven hundred.
I began to miss the second half of last year, we bought an airline 3,000 yuan free fly package, almost every two weeks of the weekend, will spend 50 yuan (machine construction + fuel) to buy a ticket, go to a near or far city to play for two days. Half a year later, I went to 10 places, which was perfectly worth the fare.
Another reason I feel "unaffordable" during public holidays is that there are really too many people.
On May Day this year, I went to Qingdao, and what I saw on the Little Red Book was no one's beach and a beautiful sunrise, and as a result, I took a taxi to the so-called best place to watch the sunrise at 5 o'clock in the morning, and I was dumbfounded - the beach was densely packed with people, and it was difficult to squeeze in to occupy a "golden position", and there were tourists who broke in from time to time in the camera.
In fact, I went to several cities this year, but all the attractions of "internet celebrities", basically this situation will occur, and the journey will end in ordering takeaways in hotels.
Therefore, this year's National Day, I finally "realized". My friend and I both gave up on travel plans, she chose to go home with my parents, and I chose to work overtime to earn money, hoping that I could afford to buy a plane ticket and a hotel in the next vacation, and go wherever I wanted.
<h2>I prepared for the eleventh trip, and I paid a share of the money</h2>
Da Mu, 29 years old, is a practitioner in the Internet industry
My original National Day plan was to take my parents to the south for a trip, because I once went home and found that my mother had collected a lot of attractions on Douyin, but the old man never said it. But I'm also embarrassed to point it out, because this eleventh holiday is really too busy, either to attend the wedding, or on the way to the wedding, busier than work.
On the 1st and 2nd, they participated in the wedding of colleagues and friends, with the members; on the 3rd, they participated in the wedding of the small hair, as the best man; on the 4th, they took a day off at the halftime; on the 5th and 6th, they participated in the wedding of classmates and relatives, with the members; on the 7th, the last day of the holiday rested.
Moreover, I didn't have money to take them to play, and the money for the wedding was nearly 10,000 yuan, which was not counting the travel expenses.
After receiving these wedding invitations one after another, I kept looking at how many weddings I could afford to attend on my bank card balance. The amount of money I mainly look at the relationship, colleagues are basically a thousand, relatives and friends a bowl of water flat, are two thousand.
My mother has always advised me that if my friends do not participate in life events, the relationship will become weaker in the future, and the share of money should not be calculated, and more should not be given less. I still remember the first time I attended a friend's wedding, when I had no income from the examination and was ready to give a gift of 500 yuan, my mother helped me "subsidize" 500 yuan after knowing.
The first two weddings I attended on November this year were in the same city, which was equivalent to going to work. The highlight is in the back, on the 3rd I have to drive more than 400 kilometers to a different place to attend the small wedding, and the 4th returns. Originally, I excused myself as working overtime, so I didn't go to the scene, but he sent me a bunch of WeChat, which probably means "we have such a good relationship, you are very important to my wedding", no way, I had to respond.
I can imagine the scene after the scene: Fa Xiao is very busy, there is no time to pay attention to me, Fa Xiao's parents talk to me perfunctorily, and I am like a passerby the whole time. The point is that I don't dare to talk to them deeply, and I will definitely be urged to get married.
Don't ask me how I know, this kind of scene also happened at another small wedding. At that time, I just changed jobs, careful in front of the boss, but still took leave to participate in the small wedding, the road fare of three thousand plus two thousand, the result of the wedding banquet was in the tent set up in the village, but also by his parents as a tool person to drink, in the middle of the planing two meals to help send all kinds of relatives, and finally busy at night, no one sent me to the airport.
At the wedding of the 5th and 6th, I was basically called as a free labor force, paying and contributing. I sometimes think that maybe the fault is that I am thick and fat.
I sincerely wish every couple, but I have never understood why newcomers like to mix their big day with the birthday of the motherland. My mother said that because everyone is on holiday, people are lively; I send novels, which can stain the joy of national day, and I can also collect more money; I send a small bride and say that the weather is very suitable for wearing beautiful wedding dresses.
Well, just be happy. It's just that for those of us who attended the wedding, it was really sad and hurtful.
If it were me, I would not choose to do a wedding at this time, and the wedding money and quality of the wedding would be expensive, and there would be no memory points. And I will invite fewer people, entertain every guest who comes to help and send blessings, at least not let them feel cold. Of course, first I need to find a bride.
<h2>Instead of worrying about unexpected situations while playing, it is better to lie flat at home</h2>
Ruo ruo, 25 years old, teacher
I prepared two sets of "home leave plans" for this National Day holiday: if the work unit is not allowed to go out of the city, I am ready to clean up and decorate the home again and make a "break away"; if I can go out of the city, I will go back to my hometown to accompany my parents, during which I will arrange a two-day short trip to visit the attractions near my home.
The reason why there is no plan for long-distance travel is mainly because of the inconvenience of returning due to the possible sudden epidemic, and there is no way to play completely relaxed. I had a similar situation on my last long trip.
During the summer vacation in July this year, I took my parents to Kunming, Lijiang, Lugu Lake and Xichang for a walk. Just the day after arriving in Lijiang, I saw the news that many tourists who had traveled to Zhangjiajie had tested positive for nucleic acid, and many of them had watched large-scale indoor performances. My parents panicked at the time, because we were also planning to go to an indoor performance in Lijiang, and this kind of large-scale performance scene was very densely populated, just in case, we finally canceled this arrangement.
After that, we went to Lugu Lake, which was originally the peak season for local tourism in July and August, but because of the local confirmed cases in many places, the epidemic prevention policies in various places have also been upgraded, and the number of tourists has obviously decreased a lot, and even the local tour guides are advising us to go home early. As for Xichang, the torch festival we are very much looking forward to has also been cancelled because of epidemic prevention and control.
In the end, we had to end the trip in a hurry. Fearing the spread of the epidemic, I didn't even go home with my parents, but instead temporarily changed my ticket back to my work city.
The biggest feeling I got from this trip was that I had a long period of relaxation, and instead of being affected by various possible unexpected situations, it was better to lie at home and lie flat. If there is a real situation, comfort yourself that you are lucky not to go out; if everything is business as usual, comfort yourself and save money.
<h2>Sleep badly, eat badly, play badly, what is the meaning of long holiday travel? </h2>
Xiao Qian, 28 years old, accountant
During the epidemic, my "travel expectation value" once soared to the peak after experiencing working from home, collecting various travel notes in the Little Red Book, and preparing several sets of vacation clothes, but because of stepping on several pits, the expectation value has basically dropped to zero.
On May Day this year, I worked overtime in advance to finish work, and chose to go to Qinhuangdao with friends to play. As a result, from the moment you get to the hotel, you start to get pitted.
First of all, the hotel, my friends and I wanted to treat ourselves, and specially booked a hotel close to the beach, with a large bathtub and floor-to-ceiling windows. However, as soon as we arrived at the lobby, we saw someone arguing with the front desk, and when the other party was finished, we began to check in. Entering the room, as soon as we opened the blackout curtain, we were stupid, and across the road was a large construction site. The site started on time at 7 a.m. and worked until midnight. The front desk said that we needed to wait for a room change, so my friend and I got up earlier than the chickens and slept later than the dogs during the holidays.
It may also be that it has not been out for too long, and the imaginary sea has an extra layer of filter, but when you get to the beach, the wind is very strong that day. Looking back at the photos taken by my friends and me, the whole time we had our hair pasty, our eyes were squinting, our clothes were filled with wind, and the mood of sending a circle of friends was gone.
When it's time to eat, as long as the popular seafood restaurants on the public reviews, they basically need to wait for more than 1 hour. Finally we went back to the hotel and ordered takeout, and one of the fried flower snails made me eat a mouthful of sand.
The itinerary in the next few days is also boring to the point of explosion, and the configuration of many scenic spots and Internet celebrity punch cards is very similar to the "rural big world". After my friend and I returned to Beijing with black eyes that had not slept well for a few days, we silently complained that we did not want to travel anymore in the near future, at least not around Beijing.
Before this holiday, I was originally asked by two other girls to go out with me to drive, but one of them temporarily left us because he was reunited with his boyfriend, and the other one quit the group in a huff. I didn't comfort anyone or make peace, so I silently canceled the trip. I bought a plane ticket and asked my mother to come to Beijing to see it.
To be honest, I didn't see my mother for a long time, and I was very happy the few days she came. Maybe she saw that I was tired and didn't talk to me about unhappy things. I have food every day when I wake up, and I can accompany her out for a walk, and I feel that "plain is the truth".
I feel more and more that instead of running around, wandering around, squeezing into the pile of people, and spending time and energy to deal with another pile of bad things, it is enough to use the holidays to recuperate, accompany my family, stay away from mobile phones and computers, and bask in the sun.
Note: At the request of the interviewees, Jia Xi, Da Mu, Ruo Ruo, and Xiao Qian are pseudonyms in the text.