Take my family's situation as an example.
1. Living conditions have gotten better, people have moved from cottages to buildings, from the village to the county.
Previously in the bungalow, as long as you go out, you can run into acquaintances, head up and down, meet to chat. The neighbors were as close as relatives, and on New Year's Day the family ate fried cake and sent some to the neighbors; nothing to do, and whoever had a problem would go to help.
My uncles, aunts, uncles are in a village, a New Year's Day we go from house to house to pay tribute to the New Year's Day, worship to the midday meal, and then to go a little farther away from the relatives continue to worship. In short, one day was not enough.
Later, the uncles moved to the county town, the aunt moved to the city, get together more and more difficult, New Year's greetings are changed to call, there is time to pay a visit to the door.
Later, my family moved into a building, and some of the original neighbors moved away, not together anyway. As we all know, when you live in a building, people communicate less, and neighbors don't even see each other for a few years.
2. After Grandma died, there was no cohesion in the family.
Previously, no matter how many relatives were going to the New Year's Eve, they all had to gather at the grandmother's house. If you wanted to be lazy on New Year's, you stayed at grandma's house and didn't go anywhere, and everyone would come to pay their respects to grandma, so we paid our respects to everyone by the way.
Without Grandma, there was no "headquarters," and those who were close to each other would visit each other's homes, while those who were far away would stay at home.
3. My sister and I were both married in the distant past, and the whole family lived in different parts of the country.
Since we got married, the four of us haven't spent New Year's Eve together. It's rare for a daughter like us to go home, and with a child we're even more tied down and can't just say we're leaving. It's not very meaningful to spend the holidays with your parents when you can't be with them.
In addition, the students and friends are scattered all over the world, it is more and more difficult to get together, the content of the festival is less and less.
4. Now that the living conditions are better, the children have no curiosity to look forward to the festivals.
Previously, you can only eat good food and wear new clothes on New Year's Day, but now you can meet them on a regular basis. In the past, the yard was full of stickers, and it took half a day for everyone to stick them together, but now it's just a matter of sticking a pair of them on the security door. In the past, the sound of firecrackers surrounded the New Year's zero hour, but now you can only get addicted to it on TV. In the past, we have to make a fire in the yard, and we have to kowtow to the left and right to pray for good luck in the coming year, but now we don't even have straws.
5. Technology advances, communication is developed, but the hearts and minds of people are getting farther and farther away.
New Year's greetings are becoming more and more economical, a small word a compilation, the group sent a little, it is done. The first thing you need to do is to send a message to your friends and family, and then you can send it to them.
6. Now young people are under great pressure to get married late, and when they go home, they are urged to get married, urged to give birth, and who still wants to string relatives. The first thing I want to do is to be invisible on New Year's Day.
This is some of my own insights and feelings.