Why doesn't the Chinese New Year feel like it used to?

There is a saying in the countryside. I wonder if you remember it. It is called: "a watch travels a thousand miles". This sentence means that relatives are still close in this generation. Once the word "watch" is used, relatives will be far away. If you don't move around, it will be no different from ordinary people.

then why did this happen?

Now most rural people go out to work, and they don't go home until the twenties of the first month and the twelfth month. They are all busy, and they really don't even have time to visit their relatives. In the past, there were two festivals, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, besides New Year greetings. Nowadays, there are few people walking around these two festivals, except for lying down in the first month of the New Year. Just like we rural people say ourselves, it is faster to pay a New Year call than to go up the mountain to cut firewood. Walk around and say a few words, put down the gift and leave, even relatives can't make tea. Some still keep waving their hands, don't soak, don't soak, so-and-so relatives just drank, and I have to catch up with so-and-so to pay a New Year call. Let's talk about it. Is this like visiting relatives? I think it's better not to rush to the meeting.

in the eyes of young people, only the mother-in-law's family is a relative, and other relatives are not. There is a saying that "a watch travels a thousand miles". When it comes to the generation of watches, few people move around. Only those nephews who don't have a daughter-in-law and have no place to pay New Year greetings will go to their mother-in-law's house. Those who have a wife will only go to their mother-in-law's house, which may be unrecognizable.

There is a big gap between the rich and the poor in rural areas now. Don't say that others look down on them. If they are poor, even their relatives and sisters look down on them, and some even look down on their parents sometimes. The relationship between you and me is formed. The rich relatives are afraid that the poor relatives will borrow money from him. If they don't borrow it, they can't say it. If they borrow it, they are afraid that they can't afford it. What about poor relatives? You have yours, I can't put it aside, I won't curry favor with you, and no matter how poor I am, I won't come to your door. In this way, the relationship between relatives is cold, so no one wants to walk around. Some relatives still have older people in their families who have to go, others don't go at all, and some even don't go to build houses, marry daughters, and so on, so the blood relationship between relatives is broken.