Where is the taste of beautiful prose?
Where did the smell of that year go? Prose 1 once, the taste of the year was to wear new clothes.
Once upon a time, you can finally wear new clothes for the New Year. I pestered my parents to buy new clothes a week in advance, just to put them on during the Chinese New Year.
Wearing new clothes is an ancient custom. At the beginning of the new year, people should be new inside and outside. Clothes are like Spring Festival couplets worn on the body, indicating that adults may not feel so deeply about the celebration of spring, so they just feel that they have clothes to wear. It is a childlike innocence that must be worn in the New Year, which reminds adults of childhood.
Now people buy new clothes every month, and they don't care whether they wear new clothes or not, and they don't have the joy of "wearing new clothes for the New Year".
Once, the taste of the year was to make new year's goods.
I remember when I was a child, I liked to ask my parents every day, when is the New Year? What delicious food should I buy at home? I'm going to buy new year's goods, too. Wait!
At that time, it was rare to eat meat several times a year, and it was only during the Chinese New Year that the pigs and chickens were killed, which was not only the Chinese New Year, but also the compensation for the labor paid in one year. In order to entertain friends and relatives, I thank you for your help in the past year.
Now, you can eat meat every day if you want. Everyone is afraid of being fat. Even if they want to be vegetarian in the New Year, they no longer look forward to eating meat in the New Year. Not only that, but there are more and more practices of new year's goods. Some people online shop and cross-border purchase no longer look forward to the busy selection of new year's goods in the new year's goods market last year.
Once, the taste was clean.
Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean up, clean all kinds of furniture, remove and wash bedding curtains and clean the courtyard. Everywhere is filled with joy, hygiene and a clean atmosphere of welcoming the Spring.
Now I just want to stay at home for the New Year, and I'm too lazy to move anything! Sometimes I call my aunt directly because I am too busy at work …
Once, the taste of the year was to paste Spring Festival couplets.
On New Year's Eve (or 29th), every household sticks Spring Festival couplets at the front door to decorate the doors inside and outside the house. At the beginning of the new year, the stickers and couplets seem to be the beginning of the year, and they are getting stronger and stronger.
Now most of our couplets are bought directly in the supermarket, and there are no more couplets that can smell the ink on the spot!
Once, the taste of that year was to take a family photo.
Once upon a time, it was rare for a family to get together when they wanted to take a family photo during the Spring Festival. Looking at the warm scene of generations living under one roof, the family is happy.
Now there are mobile phone selfies everywhere, and friends are screened by photos at any time, so there is no warmth of reunion ~
Once, the taste of the year was to collect lucky money.
When I was a child, the younger generation kowtowed to the elders to pay New Year greetings, and the elders gave red envelopes. It can be said that children are the happiest thing. Now, red envelopes can be distributed online.
At that time, on the New Year's Eve, everyone gathered around to watch the Spring Festival Gala happily. Now, New Year's Eve is a time for everyone to sit together and have a meal. The Spring Festival Gala is just an accompaniment, and the main theme is that mobile phones grab red packets.
Once, the taste of the year was to set off firecrackers.
Once upon a time, Chinese New Year was about playing with firecrackers, throwing firecrackers into cow dung, lighting firecrackers, and then running ... Now many places restrict or prohibit the setting off of fireworks, which always feels less like Chinese New Year ~
Where did the smell of that year go? Prose 2 Life is getting better and better, but the taste of the year has faded. This is really a topic that people can't let go. The Chinese New Year was originally the happiest moment, but now it has caused a lot of young people to vomit collectively. Young people collectively miss the plot of Chinese New Year when they were young, and a small number of young people have become "phobia" because they don't have the courage to face all kinds of accusations and torture of going home for Chinese New Year. The media investigated the younger generation's feelings about the taste of China in the 1980s and 1990s, and the results showed that the taste of declined with age. The jubilant China Year in the past has become an intriguing nostalgia.
Why young people nowadays can't lift the spirit of the New Year, and they are not so enthusiastic and interested in the New Year. Where did the smell of that year go? Why do we lose a sense of enthusiasm for traditional festivals today when living standards are constantly improving and material enjoyment is more abundant? This issue is not only related to whether everyone can be happy in the new year, but also related to the inheritance and development of traditional festival culture represented by the Spring Festival. Who robbed us of our childhood attachment to the New Year, and what made young people not optimistic about the New Year, but "stressed"?
Where did the smell of that year go? Why is the taste of the year weak? Many rational and mature people will say that it is because we have grown up. Yes, because we grow up, we have more responsibilities and missions on our shoulders, and more troubles and sorrows. When I was a child, the carefree family happiness in the New Year also gradually disappeared on the road of growth with the growth of age. When I was a child, I ate a jiaozi for Chinese New Year, got new clothes to wear, a boy set off firecrackers, and a girl put a flower in her head. These old-fashioned ways of celebrating the New Year, which seem common today, are enough to make people who have experienced it feel nostalgic. With the improvement of modern living standards, many things that used to be available only during the Spring Festival can now be done in minutes. Parents can buy back what their children need at any time; Adults buying new clothes is not a "patent" for Chinese New Year. Now it can be done with a click of the mouse. It turns out that the most important banquet of the year, "New Year's Eve", can also be booked in restaurants to avoid the pain of lampblack ... All these make people have no expectation for the new year and feel confused about what they should do, and the "taste of the year" is gradually becoming "boring".
As soon as the Spring Festival arrives, we will find a lot of spit on the Internet. What's left in the Spring Festival? As if only childhood memories. Chinese New Year is very tiring and stressful. Getting a job, buying a house, and getting married have become the chatterboxes for the gathering of relatives and friends during the Spring Festival. Every problem is a real pressure. At present, the post-80s are generally married and married, but there are still quite a few groups "staying behind". They struggle in big cities, but it is difficult for them to feel a sense of belonging. Identity and house are seemingly insurmountable shortcomings in this city, and they have to sacrifice their youth to fight for the future. When the post-80s generation was so embarrassed, the post-90s generation followed suit, and the pressure of employment and life became two mountains that young people could not reach. It's not that I don't want to go home during the Spring Festival. Many people are afraid to go home. The cost of going home is scary enough. What is more frightening is that I don't know how to face the greetings from relatives and friends who don't know why. Are you married? Do you have any kids？ Where do you work? Is your income okay? Did you buy a house? Every question is too weighty to answer. With the general increase of social pressure, people don't have time to pour too much emotion into the New Year, and it is rare to take a few days off at most during the annual leave.
The gradual loss of traditional festival folk culture is another main reason why the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker. It has become a supermarket trip to catch a big event in the New Year, and setting off firecrackers in the New Year has now become a tangled topic. Temple fair culture has been difficult to attract the attention of young people. Many children can't tell the origin of Chinese New Year, but our traditional festivals have lost too much cultural heritage and connotation. We pay New Year greetings by phone, fax, email and text. Now I don't even need to send text messages. I use WeChat. Even we don't even have a red envelope, so we switch to the mobile phone "Alipay red envelope". It is we who have scattered, dissolved and messed up our own culture. The folk customs of the Spring Festival have been eliminated one by one, so that it seems that the people in China will not celebrate the Spring Festival today.
The years have really changed. The past is just nostalgia, but the flavor of the year is still there. Those who have money and no money should go home for the New Year, and 2008 is the expectation of going home. No matter how the times develop, our attachment to home and the pursuit of the flavor of the year are the unchanging feelings of all China people.
Where did the smell of that year go? Prose 3 The Spring Festival holiday has passed in such a hurry! Many people haven't reacted yet, and they haven't tasted the taste of that year. This year has passed!
I went to work on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year and began to recover on the sixth day, but I always felt that this year was really boring, and I really lacked some expectations or memories for this year. In other words, whether you fail or not, Nian will be there; But if you pass it, it's like not passing it. This is the common feeling of many people in China today.
According to a survey conducted by the organizing committee of China's "Symbol of the Spring Festival" global solicitation activity, more than 90% of China people still attach importance to the Spring Festival, but at the same time, more than 60% of the respondents believe that the taste of the Spring Festival is getting weaker and weaker.
The Spring Festival has a long history of more than 4,000 years in China, bearing the feelings of countless people for home, and it is also the most direct and historical embodiment of China's cultural image. But when people sigh that the taste of the year is weak and the taste of the year is gone, how should we treat and think about this problem?
What is the taste of the year? How many people have really "brought their hearts home"?
Let's talk about the taste of the year first. It used to be the sound of firecrackers between urban and rural areas, with red couplets, red blessings and red lanterns everywhere. On New Year's Eve, families sit around to celebrate the New Year. On the first day of the New Year, people walk in the street to say hello to the New Year. These are the unchangeable Spring Festival culture of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and they are the most basic and grounded concrete manifestations of the Spring Festival culture.
Zhang Yiwu, a professor and critic of Chinese Department in Peking University, said that the Spring Festival is the biggest festival in China, and the taste of the year has become a kind of "taste" that China people care most about, so people have very strong expectations for the New Year, and the lack of the taste of the year is related to people's high expectations for the New Year.
Some experts believe that the taste of New Year is very weak because of lack of faith. In the past, we feared the gods and believed in our ancestors, but now this belief has faded, so we have lost such a spiritual pillar. As a kind of culture, the Spring Festival contains rich contents, one of which is offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods, including sending the kitchen god to heaven, offering sacrifices to the god of wealth, asking ancestors and gods to bless them, and praying for good weather, abundant crops, health and happiness. This explanation seems very reasonable.
Some experts also attribute the decline of the annual taste to four major factors: First, there is no sacrificial activities, disrespect for gods and ancestors, nothing but eating, drinking and having fun, and a lack of spiritual sustenance; Second, the celebration activities lack public participation; Third, there is no chance to do it yourself, and there is no "process" fun. You can buy anything now, even without doing it yourself. The fourth is the lack of interaction and cordial communication. It comes down to the "modern disease" in Spring Festival travel rush, which is a new problem brought by social progress, rich material, advanced science and technology and lifestyle change.
This year, reporters also rushed back to fashion and went out to travel with their families for the New Year. On New Year's Day, the reporter's family came to Wuzhen, a famous tourist town in Zhejiang. It's just not what I expected. there are too many people here. The scenic spots are crowded with tourists from all over the country. Hotels of all sizes are full of tourists from all over the country. By dinner time, the business of each hotel is amazing.
The scenery of Wuzhen, the unique beauty of the southern water town, is really attractive, and tourists wander among them. Every old house, every stone street, every celebrity's former residence, and every exquisite bridge make tourists flock to it and become the memorial objects of people scrambling to take pictures. However, although there are many people, it has not increased the annual flavor here. Although the word "Fu" is pasted on the doors of many old houses and red Spring Festival couplets are pasted on both sides, the reporter's biggest feeling is that there are many people, which is not the taste he expected before coming.
Later, in the ancient towns of Tang Xi and Hangzhou, the reporter's feelings remained the same. The Spring Festival holiday has become another tourism-oriented holiday after the "Eleventh" holiday, instead of the traditional Spring Festival.
In fact, it seems that journalists' travel during the Chinese New Year does not conform to the traditional Chinese New Year "rules". China New Year is a time of reunion. It is the most important family reunion day for China people and every family in China. Therefore, 2008 is a day of reunion at home, not a day of spreading out.
In fact, whether at home or traveling for the New Year, how many people really "take their hearts home for the New Year" to reunite with their families, how many people stop from the hectic pace of work, cross the vast waters of Qian Shan and cross the narrow road of Spring Festival travel rush peak, and how many people set foot on the journey or stay at home?
The gradual loss of traditional festival folk culture is another main reason why the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker. It has become a supermarket trip to catch a big event in the New Year, and setting off firecrackers in the New Year has now become a tangled topic. Temple fair culture has been difficult to attract the attention of young people. Many children can't tell the origin of Chinese New Year, but our traditional festivals have lost too much cultural heritage and connotation. We pay New Year greetings by phone, fax, email and text. Now I don't even need to send text messages. I use WeChat. Even we don't even have a red envelope, so we switch to the mobile phone "Alipay red envelope". It is we who have scattered, dissolved and messed up our own culture. The folk customs of the Spring Festival have been eliminated one by one, so that it seems that the people in China will not celebrate the Spring Festival today.
The Spring Festival is the most distinctive cultural symbol of the Chinese nation, which is unmatched by any other festival.
The years have really changed. The past is just nostalgia, but the flavor of the year is still there. Those who have money and no money should go home for the New Year, and 2008 is the expectation of going home. No matter how the times develop, our attachment to home and the pursuit of the flavor of the year should be the unchanging feelings of all China people.
Lv Pintian, vice president of China Academy of Art, once said: "The primitive traditional festivals are rich in folk activities, which are closely related to some folk customs or customs of production and life, solar terms, seasons, climate, water and soil, and folk matters such as sacrifice, domination, prayer, admiration and chanting, with memories, wishes, celebrations, prayers and respects. With the development of the times and social progress, the connotation and culture carried by festivals are also changing. There are almost no prayers and sacrifices now, and the solemn cultural atmosphere has been lost. Moreover, people are becoming more and more indifferent to some ungrounded festivals, but they have a special liking for grounded festivals produced abroad. When traditional festivals become less and less cultural, they will naturally decline.
Zhang Yiwu believes that modern people are under great pressure of work and life, and have a very strong spiritual demand for the New Year, but their material demand has declined. Everyone's expectations for the New Year are too high and their spiritual requirements are too high, but they can't get satisfaction from the culture of the New Year, so they will feel lost and can't find the sustenance of the New Year. This just shows that the Chinese New Year is not only a material satisfaction, but also a spiritual need. Everyone's spiritual needs are stronger and more critical than in the past. People from all over the world are not far from Wan Li to go home for the Spring Festival. Some people have been busy for a whole year, just for the Spring Festival family reunion. In fact, joy, peace, reunion and celebration are the eternal flavors of China people. Zhang Yiwu said, "After all, the Spring Festival is the most distinctive cultural symbol of our Chinese nation, which is unmatched by any other festival."
However, from the beginning of the New Year's Day, during the holidays these days, the reporter didn't hear several New Year greetings, such as "Happy New Year" and "Happy New Year to you", which have been ringing in my ears in previous years and contain full blessings. In the past, going to relatives and friends' homes and meeting them are all done through a small mobile phone. And this simplicity is one of the most direct "killers" to make the taste of the year fade.
When people no longer meet each other, and no longer face each other's New Year greetings and blessings, the traditions that have been passed down for thousands of years will be lost, and the taste of the year will fade away in this loss, which is also influenced by the shrinking family and the increasing living space of people in contemporary society. It is the inevitability of historical development, but we don't want this inevitability to come.
Re-creating traditional ways to meet today's new requirements can still find the unforgettable taste of that year.
Song Li, director of the National Folk Literature and Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture, is the host of the "China Festival Recording Project". He is responsible for investigating more than 2,000 festivals, including the Spring Festival, and systematically recording and sorting out the present situation and historical changes of festivals in China.
"The complaint about the lack of taste of the year reflects a kind of cultural anxiety and a cultural entanglement in the transition period." Song Li put his understanding of "Spring Festival" under the background of great transformation: China has changed from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, its social foundation and cultural ecology have changed, and its holiday customs have also changed. The traditional "taste of the year" is understandable.
The traditional Spring Festival is a cultural heritage accumulated for thousands of years. Every year, during the intermission between the old and new reincarnation and material production, we constantly sow hope and dispel confusion. There are prayers and designs for the coming year, and there are ceremonies and sacred feelings in festivals. Song Li believes that the traditional Spring Festival is a time of spiritual settlement, and the cultural core of the Spring Festival is to adjust people's psychological and mental state, strengthen social communication and promote harmony. Song Li believes that in order to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of modern people, some new customs have spontaneously formed: CCTV Spring Festival Evening has become an indispensable cultural feast for the people of the whole country on New Year's Eve; The previous visits to relatives or phone calls were also replaced by SMS and WeChat. Temple fairs that were once silent have sprung up like mushrooms after rain ... but these Spring Festival and New Year customs are far from meeting the needs of modern people. Song Li believes that the reason is that the emotion and ritual sense of the Spring Festival have not been strengthened: the community has a holiday, and no one builds community activities with the community as the unit; All public service facilities are also closed for rest; Although the temple fair has resumed some festivals, it is only a tourist consumption market, lacking the sanctity of cultural identity, the internal connection of culture and the close connection with everyone's emotions.
On New Year's Eve this year, CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which was watched by thousands of families, still received attention, but more attention was paid to spitting out Spring Festival Gala programs and grabbing red envelopes. When these become the focus of people's attention, when people's eyes are fixed on the TV screen and their heads are fixed on the mobile phone, the affection of people's reunion and the unique feeling of family members talking to each other during the New Year suddenly lose their meaning.
In fact, there is no contradiction between virtuality and reality. However, when a traditional festival, which aims to arouse people's nostalgia, embrace family ties and bring comfort to the soul, begins to become a so-called "captive" of technology and commerce, and is replaced by keyboards, mice and screens, people's respect and inheritance of tradition will disappear. With the development of Internet and the rapid development of science and technology, have we gradually abandoned ourselves and deviated from the theme of the New Year? Is this bringing people closer or pulling them away? It is worth thinking about.