When I was a child, our understanding of the taste of the year was very simple-there were new clothes, snacks and firecrackers in the Spring Festival, but in the eyes of adults, Qi Le's family was happy and gathered together, which was the taste of the year:
From the first day of the twelfth lunar month, parents begin to prepare new clothes for the New Year, or buy a set of tables, chairs and benches at home, stir-fry peanuts, melon seeds, candy and snacks to buy home, and the children have a winter vacation, and snacks will not leave their mouths all day. A few days before the Chinese New Year, the whole family went into battle. My sister cleans the house, my brother cleans the whole yard, my father kills chickens and fish, and my mother cuts meat and croquettes. ...
On New Year's Day, fireworks are in full bloom and firecrackers are ringing. Adults and children wear new clothes, visit relatives and friends and wish each other well. The adults put down their work, played cards and drank, and the children temporarily bid farewell to their books and homework, in groups of three or five. On the seventh day of the first month, Vulcan was sent, and the children held high torches and lit bonfires; Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, tie lanterns and watch lanterns. One year has passed and sixteen years have passed.
Now, these sights are hard to see, and people can only search in their memories. Years, in people's minds, seem to be getting lighter and lighter.
Why does it make people feel that the taste of the year is weak?
1 The threshold of happiness has been raised.
The taste of the year is, in the final analysis, happiness.
With the improvement of income level, people's material life has become more and more abundant, and new clothes no longer need to wait for the New Year. Chicken, duck and fish are usually tired of eating, and all the longing for the New Year can be satisfied at any time. People's definition of happiness standard is getting higher and higher.
Western festivals are closely related to traditional festivals. Every festival has different food and different entertainment activities. Opportunities for friends and relatives to get together have greatly increased, and people don't have to wait until the Spring Festival to meet.
Teacher Mu Xin said, "In the past, the color of the sun changed slowly, and cars, horses and mail were all slow. I have only loved one person in my life. " It is precisely because of the inconvenient transportation and the long journey that it is not easy to meet. Everyone will cherish every reunion. The so-called "distance produces beauty"; Now the traffic is developed and the communication is convenient, so people can meet by video at any time. The closer the distance, the less "beauty".
2 choose to increase, lack of concentration
In the past, on New Year's Eve, families often sat together, including jiaozi, talking about their families and watching the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve. Now, on New Year's Eve, everyone's choice is no longer the only Spring Festival Gala. Smart devices such as mobile phones and tablets make people more willing to brush Weibo and watch videos alone, instead of watching TV and chatting with relatives and friends.
In fact, this is also the reason why people find the Spring Festival Evening less and less attractive. We are usually surrounded by various jokes and short videos, introduced by variety shows, and entertained to death. We live in it and have long been "immune" to various forms of entertainment. This is why we have higher expectations for the Spring Festival Gala. When it can't meet people's expectations, we will naturally lose interest.
Fast pace, great pressure and loss of sense of ceremony.
The national legal holidays are only three days, and the reason why there are seven days off is because some days were raised last weekend. When we complain that seven days is not enough, a lot of work, or even three days off.
Social machines operate efficiently and keep up with the pace of development, so we must adapt to the rhythm of this society. Work pressure is high and time is tight. I used to prepare for the Spring Festival many days in advance, but now I can save everything.
If you don't have time to buy jiaozi, buy something quick-frozen. Supermarkets open on New Year's Day. If you can't write Spring Festival couplets, buy ready-made ones and even stick them with glue. Just tear off the sticker at home and stick it on the door. If you don't have time to clean, you can find a housekeeping company to clean it in the morning, which costs hundreds of dollars.
After the ritual sense of the new year is completely abandoned, the taste of the year is of course gone.
In fact, have you ever thought that once you don't eat jiaozi, you lose a chance to chat with your parents; If you write less Spring Festival couplets, you will have less environment to communicate and interact with your children. If you do less housework, you will have less time to adjust your feelings with your lover.
It's like you were born in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River and grew up in Sichuan. You are used to the spicy taste of Sichuan food, and then you will feel a little uncomfortable when you taste the peace and lightness of your hometown. The taste of my hometown has not increased or decreased, but our taste is different from before.
It's not that the taste of the year has faded, but that we have changed.
Therefore, instead of lamenting that the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, it is better to make some changes. From this year on, give yourself some time outside work and care about food and vegetables. Like my parents when I was a child, I made some New Year's resolutions.
You can chop meat to be a jiaozi, buy red paper to cut a window, write a pair of Spring Festival couplets to your parents, tie a lantern to your child ... It doesn't matter what you do, what matters is to increase emotional communication with your parents, wife and children.
Find opportunities to create a sense of ceremony, add a sense of solemnity to our most important festival, and the flavor of the year will become stronger and stronger.