A week later.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

A certain year street in the capital.

Ai Ling and Teacher Tang are shopping together.

Whether it is for Ai Ling or Teacher Tang, in previous years, they actually didn't buy much New Year's goods.

Like Ai Ling, Yu Zhongbo is on duty almost every year, basically she celebrates the Spring Festival by herself, and Teacher Tang, in recent years, she has been studying abroad, and basically she doesn't celebrate the Spring Festival much.

This is still very particular about buying New Year's goods, the atmosphere of New Year's goods is one thing, but health is also more important, the kind of high oil and high sugar, pigment and flavor, it is definitely not in the range of choice.

"I haven't been shopping for New Year's goods for many years, and I don't know when the last time it was."

Ai Ling said with some sighs.

has been married to Yu Zhongbo for so many years, and when the two spend the Spring Festival together, it is one of the few, but fortunately, this year can not only reunite the husband and wife, but also spend the Spring Festival with Zhao Shengxiao and his wife.

This can be regarded as a complete family relationship for Ai Ling.

The Spring Festival is a traditional custom and an expectation. It is a blessing from family and friends, and it is also the best time for family reunion.

The children are looking forward to the Spring Festival, looking forward to red envelopes and New Year's money, and also looking forward to strong joy. Adults look forward to the Spring Festival, to meet their children from afar, and to live a happy New Year.

"In recent years, I feel that the New Year has become more and more tasteless."

Teacher Tang said.

Why does everyone think that the Spring Festival is becoming less and less flavorful?

Imagine, for a foreigner who is not at all a foreigner who is not at all the Spring Festival, what is the meaning of this day? A: The day is meaningless.

In China, the Spring Festival is endowed with a unique scene and a unique story, and this festival has a unique meaning.

And the most direct and effective way to give meaning is to create a sense of ritual.

In The Little Prince, the fox says to the Little Prince, you'd better come at the same time every day.

The little prince asked, why?

The fox said, for example, if you come every day at four o'clock in the afternoon, then from three o'clock onwards, I will start to feel happy. The closer the time gets, the happier I feel. By four o'clock, I would be fidgeting with excitement. I discovered the value of happiness. But if you come at any time, I won't know when I'm ready to be ready. So, there has to be a ritual.

The little prince asked again, what is a ceremony? The fox said. It is to set a day and make it different from other days. Set a time to make it different from other times. Hunters, for example, have a ritual. Every Thursday, they dance with the girls of the village. So, Thursday is a wonderful day. It's especially romantic.

The taste of the New Year has faded, and in the final analysis, it is the disappearance of the sense of ritual.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is because many rituals before the Spring Festival are not paid attention to now, such as dusting and sweeping, a year of hard work, busy with farming, and dusty eaves. Generally, on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, all the "poor luck" and "bad luck" are swept out of the door, which entrusts the Chinese nation with a kind of good wish to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome auspicious blessings.

In modern society, the home is not so dirty, and you are too tired to move when you are tired of work. Clean up, ask an aunt to clean up, or forget it.

There are also many categories of preparing for New Year's goods, including but not limited to making tofu, beating rice cakes, slaughtering chickens, killing pigs, etc. Then rush to the market to buy melon seeds, peanuts, candy, chicken, duck and fish.

The people take food as the sky, they used to be poor, and they didn't eat, so they waited for the New Year to eat a few meals in the past few days, overeating. But now, I can eat very well in normal times, and the biggest needs of the people are met by the excess. On the contrary, more and more people are pursuing a light and healthy diet during the Chinese New Year. With this change, the delicacy is directly out of taste.

As for wearing new clothes, now that the conditions are good, you can buy new clothes to wear at any time, and the feeling of waiting to get up on the morning of the first day of the new year to wear new clothes when I was a child is gone.

Fireworks, for the sake of environmental protection, now the firecrackers are gone, the fireworks are gone, and the whole Spring Festival is quiet, quiet Spring Festival, boring and sleepy.

Spring Festival, no firecrackers are allowed to celebrate, the Spring Festival Gala, the education is so high that everyone even begins to miss magic, Chinese New Year's Eve does not have a holiday, must be honest to work.

"In the past, there was a New Year's flavor, mainly because the conditions were poor at that time, and during the New Year, I could eat and drink well, and there were more relatives and friends at that time, unlike now, except for the middle-aged and elderly, young people basically don't go to relatives."

Ai Ling said with some sighs.

"Young people nowadays don't like to go to their relatives."

Teacher Tang nodded and said.

In the final analysis, it is because the current generation of young people has passed the welfare period of leaving relatives.

When I was a child, I loved to go to relatives because going to relatives means: 1. I don't need to do my homework today 2. I can play with many people 3. I have red envelopes to take, snacks and snacks, you can eat what you like on the dinner table, and you can not eat the things you hate 4. Basically, you can have a few exemptions from punishment, and you don't need to be beaten by your parents if you make a mistake at a relative's house, even if you do something that your parents don't let you do, for the sake of face, your parents will generally not fight.

Now these rights are already disdainful for the generation that has grown up, you are a young person, you don't need to do your homework, your friends may be next door, you can buy whatever you want to eat, and your parents can't control you, and the benefits can be said to be unattractive.

On the contrary, they have to face excessive concern from bear children and relatives, especially in the face of marriage urging.

And the deeper reason, to put it utilitarianly, is that it cannot be realized.

Contemporary young people are not ignorant of human feelings, nor do they not understand sycophancy, I don't believe that we can look at the workplace beings, although now the new generation of young people in the workplace has shown an unreasonable attitude of resistance, but they are definitely the majority.

We don't have anything in common with our relatives, and our relatives will inadvertently lose their emotional intelligence, but in fact, what do we have in common with our bosses? Don't our bosses embarrass us a lot?

However, our middle-aged balding boss in his forties will still cater to laughter when he says that it is not funny at all, and they embarrass us countless times, we still will boss good morning, boss good noon, boss good evening, boss hard work.

So why can we be wronged in the workplace, but not willing to be wronged in relatives? The biggest reason is actually that it is because relatives cannot be realized.

In fact, maintaining interpersonal relationships between people is nothing more than two kinds, one emotion, one benefit, that is, either like-minded, or able to get benefits from it, or to be more straightforward, either give me face or give me money.

When we live in the city, the relatives in my hometown, those clan relationships are basically no longer functional for me, then at this time, I naturally don't want to wronged myself for them.

(End of chapter)