What are the economic impacts of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival has always been an important traditional festival in China, and it is both a social and an economic phenomenon. According to my own experience during the Spring Festival, I have made a preliminary investigation and research on various economic phenomena of the Spring Festival. Because of the limited level, mainly the surface of the economic phenomenon, its essence is difficult to accurately grasp, I hope readers forgive me. \x0d\\\x0d\ I. Spring Festival Transportation - I want to say I love you is not easy \x0d\\x0d\ New Year's Eve is approaching, "Detained birds think of the old forest, pool fish think of the old abyss." People who have been working hard for a year outside fly back to their hometowns like tired birds returning to their nests. So, the train whistle, car wheels, pedestrian footsteps, all brewing the same voice: home! However, China's weak transportation is difficult to pick up this heavy responsibility. \x0d\\\\x0d\\ I booked a train ticket from Changsha to Shijiazhuang at a hotel booking office as early as a month before the vacation. However, in the end was told "did not buy", only to take the first train to Beijing, and then from Beijing to Shijiazhuang. The twists and turns can't be summarized in a single sentence. What's more, a group of siblings, unsuccessful in the school booking, had to go to the train station to buy tickets, night departure, sleepless nights, queuing up to book tickets, it is said that the queue was once from the ticket gate to the station, several hundred meters long, the scene is quite spectacular. And the children's hearts of fear and anxiety, the taste, no first-hand experience of the people is difficult to imagine. \x0d\\\\x0d\\\compared to the lack of transportation, high fares seem to be only a minor problem. During the Spring Festival, train fares were raised by 20% nationwide. Although the market economy conditions, supply and demand directly affect the price. However, railroad transportation is still a state-owned asset and is in a monopoly position. This move is really depressing. When entering the station, people tend to swarm and squeeze into the car, most of the carriages are crowded again, the air is dirty and the environment is bad. At the end of the trip, people often have a lousy image and lose face. More by the snow affected tens of thousands of travelers stranded at the station. So all these things, really make travelers suffer, complaining. The reason for this is mainly due to the large number of passengers, insufficient capacity, non-normal way of ticketing and so on. Railroad plays an important role in economic development, is a link between all aspects of social production, solve the problems of railroad transportation, ease the contradiction of the Spring Festival, is a matter of urgency. \x0d\\\x0d\2 The shopping spree \x0d\\x0d\\2 The Chinese New Year is also a kind of "bazaar" of exchange. People always exchange to get what they need. Traditionally, people tend to buy new clothes during Chinese New Year. The major stores have also seized the opportunity to launch a series of promotional activities. There are buy 100 get 118 yuan free, buy 98 get 98 yuan free, discounts, VIP cards, membership cards and so on, it's really fancy and endless. \x0d\\\\x0d\\ during the Chinese New Year my father bought a pair of pants at the mall for 318 yuan, the mall gave 318 yuan, a pair of Playboy shoes was 558, on top of the 318 yuan given away, my father paid 240 yuan, bought the shoes, and the mall gave away another 240 yuan. So, my mother bought a bottle of Kose eye cream and serum for another $240. Then, the mall gave away another $160, so I bought the hat & scarf that originally cost $158? \x0d\\\x0d\\ so it's a chain of events in general. And spend about 560 yuan the whole family that is already get brand-name pants, shoes, cosmetics, hats, etc., to the ordinary people can also accept. As a result, the major shopping malls are crowded, crazy shoppers can be seen everywhere. The value of the Spring Festival is not only the traditional meaning of the New Year and rest, but also an effective means to promote consumption and stimulate domestic demand. Its role in consumption is the most obvious and direct. In this process, the businessmen's promotional activities are endless. Although the mode of operation is not enough for outsiders also, but its ultimate must be profit for the end. The effective and smooth circulation of goods in the market is the success of commercial activities, and both buyers and sellers achieve a win-win situation. \x0d\\\\x0d\3 Preparation of New Year's goods\x0d\\x0d\\x0d\\ In the past, the preparation of New Year's goods was the highlight of the Chinese New Year. Nowadays, although the service industry has developed rapidly, do not have to prepare too much food before the year, but before and after New Year's Eve, some stores and food markets still have to close for the day. Therefore, it is still necessary to buy some vegetables and fruits, meat, eggs and seafood before New Year's Eve. The closer it gets to New Year's Eve, the more expensive various foodstuffs become. Cucumber, bean curd, tomato have risen to 4 yuan / catty, even the most common northern cabbage also rose to 1.5 yuan / catty. And its previous average price is only 0.5 yuan / catty. Fruit, the north's most common apple duck pear price per catty are more than 2.8 yuan, the south of the pomelo also rose from the previous 2.5 yuan / catty to 3.5 yuan / catty, a pomelo about 15 yuan. And I eliminated countless pomelo in Changsha winter, each but 4-5 yuan. \x0d\\\\\x0d\\\\color: Although many vegetables and fruits are ridiculously priced, people still buy them. This phenomenon can be regarded as a re-interpretation of the classic theory that supply and demand affect prices. New Year's Eve is approaching, and people engaged in the service industry will also have to take a break for the holiday, resulting in a decrease in the supply of goods; and winter vegetables have fewer varieties, high costs of cultivation, transportation and storage, and the price of vegetables itself is higher. And New Year's grant people a specific psychological make these expensive fruits and vegetables become a necessity: who does not make the whole New Year's Eve seven plates and eight bowls, seven meat and eight veggie dishes? Too simple New Year's Eve dinner always makes people feel unruly and uncharacteristic. What you want to eat but can not eat will make this "New Year's" seems too bleak. So, the seller of goods for a time there are some "odd" flavor. In this way, the preparation of New Year's goods in each family's Spring Festival consumption accounted for a certain proportion. However, this can also be seen as a certain degree of redistribution. The rich buy products from the poor at a relatively high price, which can also be seen as a means of redistributing the products once again and shortening the gap between the rich and the poor. However, how and in what proportion are the profits ultimately distributed in the production and circulation areas? We do not know. Will price increases ultimately benefit farmers? We also do not know. So, I rushed back to Shijiazhuang from Changsha, and from Shijiazhuang back to my hometown of Cangzhou for the New Year. The poet said: the so-called hometown is just the last stop of our ancestors' wandering. I agree with this. My family history is relatively simple, but my ancestors have traveled to several places. My relatives live in two or three small cities, and during the Chinese New Year, they have to visit each other and give each other some gifts, which is called "having contact". A year ago, we visited my grandma, my second uncle, my great aunt, my second aunt, and my third aunt, and they all had to return the favor. The average gift is about 50-100 dollars per family. The gifts are usually packaged, better quality cakes, fruits and nutritional products. And the various mall stores in Cangzhou also pitch in, all have many varieties to choose from. After New Year's Eve, Dad, as the male member of Grandma's lineage, had to visit his uncles, aunts and other elders as a representative, bringing a dozen or so gifts ranging from sesame oil and mushrooms to eight-treasure congee to visit four relatives. The process was more interesting, Dad gave some of the gifts from the first family to the second family, and then the third family? So on and so forth, seven turns and eight turns, pushing and making concessions, with each other, and finally brought back the other people's black sesame paste, Tianjin sesame flowers and other four gifts. This kind of etiquette, can not help but be amused. \x0d\\\x0d\ However, after laughing and thinking carefully, it is not difficult to realize: blood is the bond of the Spring Festival. The annual Spring Festival has played a role in the continuous strengthening of the human consciousness of blood. Human consciousness determines human behavior. Therefore, the strengthening of bloodline consciousness and the generalization of bloodline behavior are also closely related. From the level of consciousness, the four major factors hindering China's modernization are: bloodlineism, authoritarianism, egalitarianism and opportunism. And bloodism is dominant among them. Bloodlineism makes bloodline the law of behavior in socio-economic life. The result is: there is honesty within the bloodline, but face outside the bloodline; there is order within the family, but opportunism outside the family; it is good to do things between acquaintances, but it is a loophole between strangers. Therefore, blood relations have led to the rule of law is greater than the rule of mankind. And the rule of law is the essential requirement of modernization, without the rule of law, there is no modernization in China. In addition, bloodism also has the natural gene of authoritarianism. In turn, authoritarianism is not conducive to the emergence of the spirit of equality and democracy. Furthermore, bloodism also has a flavor of egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is not conducive to the mobilization of individual motivation, nor is it conducive to the construction of an effective property system. In this way, the Spring Festival has a more negative effect on China's socio-economic development - on the solidification of bloodism. \x0d\\\\\x0d\\\corresponds to the fact that if China's economy is to achieve sustained, healthy, stable and rapid development, it needs to get out of the warm quagmire of bloodlineism. Life needs blood ties and family warmth, but society does not need bloodism. The socialization of blood ties must be premised on social rationality. Therefore, how to correctly view the Spring Festival, how to effectively utilize the Spring Festival has also become a subject we should think about. \x0d\\\x0d\5 SMS text messages are flying all over the place \x0d\\x0d\ with the development of communication business, in all large and medium-sized cities, cell phones have become an essential communication tool for almost everyone. Compared with the previous phone call to pay tribute to the New Year, the form of short messages to greet each other to save a lot of time and money. And or humor, or warm and romantic text message content than simple "Good New Year!" "Have you eaten dumplings?" Traditional greetings such as more humanistic connotations, read people can not help but smile, with great interest. Starting from the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, many anxious students were eager to start the New Year's message scrolling on the screen. And to New Year's Eve, the first few days, that text messages are more like snowflakes, flurry, flying all over the sky, every day about to send and receive dozens or even hundreds of messages, the scene is spectacular. \x0d\\\\x0d\\ behind the flying SMS, the direct benefit of not only Unicom, mobile and other telecommunications companies, there is a group of emerging professionals - network SMS writers. According to the Internet, successful SMS writers earn nearly 10,000 yuan a day during the Spring Festival! And their income during Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day and other festivals is also considerable. Text messages are flying all over the place, both to friends and family, as well as to their superiors and subordinates, its as a medium of communication, similar to New Year's greetings, but also to a certain extent reflects China's strong sense of blood, circle consciousness, but also is considered to be a major new feature of the Spring Festival. \x0d\\\\x0d\\\corresponding to the Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival is a cozy term, a sweet word, a quiet and lively holiday, a point of contact to bid farewell to the past and connect to the future. Although we no longer look forward to those candies, melon seeds, peanuts, although people are chanting that the flavor of the year is not as good as a year. However, Chinese New Year is still Chinese New Year. We will still squeeze the train home without hesitation, we will still shop like crazy and prepare for the New Year, we will still hold our cell phones and giggle, and we will still carry things to pay New Year's greetings to all families. Chinese New Year, both a social phenomenon, and an economic phenomenon, its generation, development, demise are determined by the economic base, that is the inevitable history. \x0d\\\\\\x0d\\\finally attached a poem to record this makes us laugh and makes us sad - the Spring Festival \x0d\\\\x0d\\x0d\ Spring Festival: beautiful and sad \x0d\\ Spring Festival is beautiful. \x0d\ The Spring Festival makes people warm, warm, peaceful, auspicious and joyful. \x0d\\ Spring Festival is the Chinese Christmas Day. \x0d\\ The West has the Bible and China has Confucianism. \x0d\\ The West has churches, China has ancestral halls. \x0d\\ West has Christmas Eve, China has New Year's Eve. \x0d\\ West has Santa Claus, China has elders. \x0d\\ West has Christmas gifts, China has New Year's money. \x0d\\ West has Christ, China has ancestors. \x0d\\ The West has individuals, China has blood. \x0d\\ The Chinese New Year is a day of bloodline cohesion. \x0d\ Bloodline is the tie that binds the Chinese soul. \x0d\ Bloodline links the underworld and the earth. \x0d\\ Blood ties the elderly to their sons and daughters. \x0d\ Blood ties the past to the future. \x0d\ Bloodline nourishes the soul, and the soul sustains the bloodline. \x0d\\\\\ The Chinese New Year also makes people sad. \x0d\\ Spring Festival solidifies the bloodline. \x0d\ Bloodline endogenizes authority and lacks equality. \x0d\ Bloodline derived average, lack of efficiency. \x0d\ Bloodline has only relatives and acquaintances, no strangers. \x0d\ Bloodline leads to only circle order, lack of social order. \x0d\ Chinese New Year also sometimes becomes the messenger and talisman of evil. \x0d\ Corruption borrows the name of Chinese New Year. \x0d\\ The formation of gangs borrows the name of the Chinese New Year. \x0d\ Showing off borrows the name of the Spring Festival.