Why are some New Year's Eve customs slowly disappearing?

I rarely answer questions properly, so try to be serious.

1. The inevitable end of economic development

When the Chinese people were still in the primary stage of socialism to satisfy the basic level of subsistence, there was a kind of instinctive pursuit of affluence and food, and killing chickens and slaughtering goats and eating dumplings on New Year's Day was the only way to enhance the sense of happiness.

And now life compared to the past, is the same as every day is the New Year, as in the past to Tuenian New Year's goods because there is no New Year's time to sell things, but now even if my family the kind of small city, what things can be again at any time to go to the supermarket to buy, has long since ceased to be a constraint, some of the customs around the New Year no longer seem so essential.

Young people are running around with little vacation time, but are more willing to take advantage of the less crowded non-New Year's time to go home, coupled with the trend of rejuvenation of society as a whole to promote the emergence of travel New Year's Eve, ordering New Year's Eve, etc., but also the impact of the past New Year's Eve customs.

2. The final product of the demographic transition

In fact, our grandparents and fathers often lamented things like "you now" and "we were there". The births of the post-90s, post-zero, and even post-zero-zero generations have exacerbated the process of socio-cultural evolution.

The concept of extended family (including grandparents and many uncles) is likely to be lost on younger children, and this will become even more so with the wave of family planning, which will one day turn New Year's Eve into an even smaller family unit event.

I remember watching the Pizza Hut commercials before, not eating on New Year's Eve to eat Pizza Hut, originally I think it's ridiculous, but now I think that if this generation of children who eat KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks in the future to become the mainstay of the family, this scenario is not impossible, because this is their habits, just like in the past, the Great Northwest, New Year's Day, the big girls, small daughters-in-law, wives and wives together to do the flower buns, and now the majority of the people are no longer doing it.

It can be said that the New Year's custom has served its purpose for a long period of time, allowing Chinese people who are tired of fulfilling their basic needs to find a relaxing way of life, but when socio-economic development progresses, the custom will gradually withdraw from the stage of history because there are already more and different ways to replace it.

While reluctant to part with it, it is still important to say a sincere thank you to the many New Year's traditions that have accompanied our grandparents, our fathers, and our generation.