In front of his eyes, his parents were busy in front of the earthen stove during the Chinese New Year.

Lift the lid of the pot and empty the white steam.

The smell fills the room.

Festive couplets on the door.

There are all kinds of New Year's greetings on TV.

Children play outside the house.

That's the New Year!

"New Year's Day, isn't that all there is to it?"

Hearing Wang Huan's voice, my mother smiled and said, "Okay, just do it well abroad." Don't worry about me and your dad, we're all half-footed people in the dirt, can we still have a bad year?"

A few more words of advice to him before hanging up.

But Wang Huan's heart began to become uneasy. He heard the deep nostalgia and reluctance in his mother's words, because this was the first time he had left home for the New Year when he was so old, and he was still abroad.

Stood still for a while.

Wang Huan suddenly turned his head and asked, "Xu Yuan, do you think there is still a New Year's flavor now?"

Xu Yuan smiled: "Director Wang, you are asking about China, right? In fact, like the Chinatown we see at the moment, the flavor of the New Year is still very full." And almost every year, media reporters from all over the world have reported on the Spring Festival situation of overseas Chinese here. But domestically, it's far inferior. In recent years, although people's lives are getting better and better, family affection has become weaker and weaker, and the New Year has become a formalism. ”

Wang Huan nodded silently.

Xu Yuan continued: "In today's China, the vast majority of people travel all over the country to live and work. During the Chinese New Year, many people no longer rush back to their hometowns, but one or two phone calls and a few red envelopes are done. Even if I go home, I don't have the human touch I had back then, which makes people very uncomfortable. It's not at all like when I was a child, when almost all the people in the village who went out to work, as long as it was the Chinese New Year, even if they didn't earn a penny all year round, they would desperately take a green car or bus to travel thousands of miles back home. Many times, in order to buy a ticket home, they get up early and wait in line for several days at the train station and bus station. Even if I only bought a standing ticket in the end, I was so happy. ”

As he spoke, a complicated expression appeared on Xu Yuan's face.

Times are evolving.

Life progresses.

However, as time goes on, as many people's lives improve, too many things are lost unconsciously. And these things cannot be measured in money at all.

Wang Huan nodded lightly.

Xu Yuan sighed: "In fact, many times, I miss the atmosphere of the New Year before, even if I didn't have enough food and clothing at that time. But a meal of meat and a new dress for the New Year can be happy for a long time. And the warmth of chatting around the fire with parents, grandparents, relatives and friends is also worth recalling. But now, young people no longer feel that the Chinese New Year is an important thing, and they are even tired of going home to deal with their elders, and they are tired of their parents asking about their work, life, and relationships...... and other private lives. Because of this, many people choose not to return home, preferring to stop in the city where they work or travel rather than go home to visit their elderly parents. ”

Wang Huan was silent for a while before asking, "What do you think caused this kind of thing to happen?"

Xu Yuan thought for a while and said: "First of all, it's because of the convenience of transportation and communication, so that many people don't have the feeling of missing their hometown back then." The second is the improvement of life, the bombardment of reality and various information on the Internet, so that many people are reluctant to return to their backward hometown, and even subconsciously reject their parents in their hometown. Of course, there is also a change in the thinking of the younger generation, who feel that there is no need to go back honestly during the Chinese New Year. They can make the year more exciting. For example: partying with friends, going on a trip, etc. But in this way, some of the most important things between people disappear. Why is there a Chinese New Year? Why did we go home at all costs? It was because of that concern, that emotion. And now, the times are developing, but family affection is gradually becoming thin and estranged...... There are some things that will never come back. ”

When he said this, the middle-aged man's eyes became slightly red, and he didn't know what he remembered.

Claire seems to be telepathic.

The little guy raised his head and asked, "Dad, do you miss your wife?"

"Poof~~~"

Xu Yuan's emotions that had finally accumulated were instantly crushed by this nondescript sentence, and he said angrily: "You are talking like this?"

Claire grinned, "What should I say then?"

One big and one small start to mix.

Wang Huan leaned against a pillar and looked at the lion dance performance not far away.

Gongs and drums are noisy.

Cheers came and went.

But at this moment, his thoughts had already drifted to other places.

After a while, he directly took out his mobile phone and logged on Weibo.

I saw that on Weibo at this moment, it was also a celebration.

On the hot search list, it is basically occupied by New Year's topics. However, to Wang Huan's surprise, almost most people on Weibo did not post photos of themselves, their parents, and elders and their feelings about going home, but posted various travel photos, and they were equipped with some words to show off.

"This year, my girlfriend and I came to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and we were so excited. ”

"It's been the most fulfilling year I've had in 20 years, and it's been a great feeling to travel with my colleagues. ”

"Happy New Year, friends! ”

"It's still a family of three who spend the New Year in the city, which is much more comfortable than in the countryside. ”

"People are in the island country, friends who have purchasing needs, please find me. The price of cosmetics for the New Year has risen more than usual, and I hope you understand. ”

“……”

No one posted a photo with their parents.

No one sent the bright smiles of their parents during the New Year.

It seems that Weibo has become a world for young people to show off.

This year, it has nothing to do with the elders.

Even the official Weibo has launched an activity: Where to travel during the Chinese New Year? Come here to leave your most beautiful moments!

Wang Huan's heart began to become a little uncomfortable.

Because.

This is not the Chinese New Year he imagined!

The Chinese New Year should not be like this!

It was at this time.

Suddenly, he found a comment under his Weibo.

The comment was made by a person named "Aunt Tian":

"Wang Huan, I'm sorry, I may have bothered you. I don't know much about the Internet, and I asked a lot of people to know how to send you a message. I've heard that you are now the idol of many young children, and they listen to you. So I have a request that I hope you can help us. ”

"The reason is that today's young children rarely go home during the New Year's holidays, my two babies call this year and don't go home, so we leave our old couple at home, my son and daughter-in-law can't see it, and my grandson can't hold it. We really want them to go home and spend a lively reunion with us, we don't want them a penny, we don't want them to have a penny, we don't want them to have a big income, we just want the family to be able to sit together and have a meal during the New Year. Why is it that things that seem so simple to us are so difficult to achieve?"

This comment is not written in words. Instead, it is written on a crumpled piece of paper, and a wrinkled aunt in her fifties is holding the paper and facing the camera, her eyes full of pleading.

Behind the aunt, there is a table of sumptuous meals. But in front of the large round table that can sit ten people, there are only two people, she and her wife, and the meal has long been out of heat, but no one moves the chopsticks.

It's been a year, but the flavor of the year is gone......

No one liked this comment, and Wang Huan was able to find out that it was because it had just been posted.

But when Wang Huan refreshed it again, he found that it had been pushed down by other dense comments and disappeared.

Wang Huan's eyes suddenly became a little moist.

He retrieved the comment again, and then replied with three words with a little trembling hand: "I tried my best." ”

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