On the difference between New Year’s Eve when you were a child and now, what do you think is the difference between now and the past?

Difference 1: There are huge changes in what you eat. With the continuous changes in material conditions, the pursuit of food during the New Year now and in the past has undergone tremendous changes. When I was a child, I only knew that the New Year’s Eve would be the best meal of the year. It would not only be big fish and meat, but also long-awaited snacks, and my parents would satisfy your needs. But now living conditions have improved, and most people are satisfied with what they eat every day. Therefore, even though the New Year’s Eve meal now includes delicacies from the mountains and seas, people still wonder why the New Year’s Eve dinner is not as attractive and delicious as it was ten years ago.

Difference 2: There are changes in inner needs during the New Year. When I was a child, I knew during the Chinese New Year that not only would I be able to eat well, but I would also be able to buy new clothes and toys. Therefore, we have great expectations and desires for the Chinese New Year, but now our inner needs can often be satisfied in daily life, so there are not so many and high expectations during the Chinese New Year, especially in terms of material needs. , even if you cannot be satisfied immediately in daily life, you can still be satisfied in other ways. Therefore, the Chinese New Year seems to have become a carnival for some people and a cold watch for others.

Difference 3: The excitement of the New Year is different. I used to think that the Chinese New Year was the most lively time of the year. Whether it was the market or at home, it was always lively and joyful. Everyone put aside the fatigue of the year and had a happy party, eating and drinking. But now the Chinese New Year seems to have become a festival that is not much different from other traditional festivals. The only difference is that companies and schools will have longer holidays during this holiday. Of course, the attenuation of excitement has a lot to do with the difference between the first two.

In general, as time goes by and we grow older, we always feel that our memories of the New Year are diverging from those of our childhood. This is also what many people have discussed, why the flavor of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker. In fact, objective factors are indeed due to changes in our material conditions, which have reduced our expectations for the New Year. The traditional meaning given to the New Year itself has been continuously reduced by us. The subjective factor is that as we grow older, we are more and more able to satisfy ourselves, and we are trapped in endless work and study pressure. Gradually I came to understand that the Chinese New Year only gives us a chance to breathe, but it is not the fundamental solution to the problem.

Therefore, for us, the importance of the Chinese New Year in our hearts is far less than it was when we were children. But we are still pursuing and longing to regain the satisfaction of celebrating the New Year when we were children. In the end, things backfired and I discovered that celebrating the New Year now is completely different from celebrating the New Year when I was a child.