Opinions on the dimming of the traditional Chinese New Year atmosphere

Many people say that the flavor of the Spring Festival is not as strong as it was in the past, and it seems that the Spring Festival is no longer very interesting. During this period of time, there are not a few people on the Internet to put the Spring Festival on the cultural level for discussion. In fact, it is not necessarily a bad thing that the flavor of the Spring Festival has faded in people's minds. It reflects the progress of the times and the gradual improvement of people's quality of life. In many people's memory, the Spring Festival consists of some of its unique and fixed elements. The desired new clothes. Especially in the countryside, no matter how usually dressed, but on the first day of the New Year, must be changed into a year ago newly made clothes. I remember when I was a child, the busiest person in the month of Lunar New Year was the tailor in the village. They had a very important mission, which was to make a set of new clothes for the New Year for everyone in the village. But with the gradual improvement of life, usually can wear new clothes, and do not have to wait until the Spring Festival. Now, the wearing of new clothes for the New Year has gradually faded out of people's sight, making the Spring Festival less of a luxury. A sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner. For the children of poor families, the New Year's Eve meal is undoubtedly the most fascinating, but also with the rich family's most equal time. It is the only day of the year when the children have almost everything that other people have in their homes, and even better. The greedy little children could eat a meal of good food, such as meat and fish, that they would not normally be able to eat without fear. And now, who wants to eat fish and meat? The desire to have a big meal in the Spring Festival has been replaced by the usual solid life, which makes people lose a lot of expectations for the Spring Festival. Not much New Year's money. On New Year's Eve, adults always give children red envelopes, and some even write blessings on the envelopes. Although the money is not much, the money can be disposed of by the children themselves to buy some firecrackers and other playthings for fun. And except for Chinese New Year, children are rarely given pocket money. This extra reward during the Spring Festival made the flavor of the year mixed with the joy and laughter of many children. Nowadays, the conditions are better, the pocket money is always available, and the things that you want to play on New Year's Day are basically prepared by your parents in advance. Although now there is also the New Year's money, although the amount has increased greatly, but it is only a form of courtesy to the adults, often need to be handed over as much as possible. Children have little interest in this kind of unattainable New Year's money. Variety of snacks. I remember when I was a child in order to prepare for the Chinese New Year food, often in the waxing moon ten has begun to busy. Evaporated cakes, make rice 馃, pressure frozen rice candy, fried peanuts and melon seeds, in addition to brewing a few tanks of rice wine. On New Year's Day, every family put out big plates and small plates to entertain guests. Nowadays, not many people do this anymore. Everything can be bought on the street. Now the pre-holiday hustle and bustle is gone, and people can't seem to feel the flavor of the New Year in advance like they used to. The absence of the emotional buildup makes the Spring Festival much lighter. All-night firecrackers. Due to the extreme yearning for a happy life, people often take the Spring Festival as an important day to pray for blessings. Each family will buy several tubes of large firecrackers and several packs of small firecrackers and set them off on New Year's Eve and the first morning of the New Year along with the wishes of the whole family. Basically, from 11:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve until 8:00 a.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sound of firecrackers would continue uninterrupted, bringing the festivities of the New Year to a climax. Now, people have long understood that their own happiness depends on their own hands and wisdom, firecrackers are just a lively tool. Firecrackers are just a routine program, most of the meaning of the time. The firecracker sound of the whole village has become intermittent, making people feel that the flavor of the Spring Festival has become diluted. The great reunion of running around. Going home for the New Year is the biggest wish of every Chinese. No matter where they are, no matter where the scenery falls forced, even if the train is crowded, always try to find a way to return home and have a reunion with their families. This seems to be the brightest "scenery" of our Spring Festival. Now because of the phone or even video phone, thousands of miles apart from their loved ones do not have to rely only on letters, a phone call to bring the distance closer. In addition, with the Golden Week, annual vacation, the annual reunion seems to be much easier. Therefore, the number of people who deliberately rush home to visit their relatives in the Spring Festival is also much less. This, in the eyes of many people, feels that the status of the Spring Festival has declined in people's minds. Lively New Year's Day. In our hometown, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, we don't go out, but instead visit the graves of our ancestors to send the earliest blessings of the New Year. From the second day of the Lunar New Year, we start to pay New Year's visits. Several families would gather at the prearranged relatives' homes, where adults would drink and play cards, and children would play whips and games, making it a very lively event. Nowadays, rural people are not all at home farming, most of them are working in factories outside, and they also need to take leave to go home like city people. Some even arrive home on New Year's Eve, and everyone goes out on the third and fourth of the year. Due to the accelerated pace of people's lives, like in previous years, the New Year's Eve scene is gradually reduced. When there are fewer people, the wine is not lively, the cards are not lively, and the flavor of the Spring Festival is also discounted. Although the Chinese New Year flavor of the Spring Festival is indeed not as strong as before. The reason for this is that people do not accept the traditional culture, but people's lives are getting richer and richer, and the expectation of eating, wearing and playing lavishly in the Spring Festival is greatly reduced. Many people say that there is no difference between normal times and New Year's Eve. That is why it is a culture to have a strong New Year's flavor and a culture to have a weak New Year's flavor. If you still according to the previous standards of the Spring Festival, it is better to let the flavor of the New Year the lighter the better. Because the lighter it is, the more affluent people's lives. Every day to celebrate the New Year is not better than once a year to celebrate the New Year? The fading of the flavor of the Spring Festival may be telling us that we have arrived at a period of metamorphosis from the pursuit of material enjoyment to the pursuit of spiritual enjoyment. In any case, the Chinese people's Spring Festival left is always the Chinese people's own footprints.