During the annual Spring Festival, the most unique tradition in China is that the whole family sits together to have a lively New Year’s Eve dinner.
Another major feature is visiting relatives and friends, carrying a wide variety of health products, gifts, milk, and liquor.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we usually don’t go to relatives’ homes. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we choose to go to the graves of our ancestors to sweep the tombs, burn incense and burn paper. Nowadays, we usually buy pots of chrysanthemums to commemorate our longing for our ancestors!
On the second day of the first lunar month, a daughter will choose to go to her natal family, and a married daughter will drag her family back to her natal family on the second day of the first lunar month, because her natal family is the largest! Then I go to my grandma, uncle, aunt, and aunt’s house to take turns paying New Year greetings. Because our parents’ generation all have several brothers and sisters. Unlike our generation born in the 1970s, middle-aged people in the 1970s and 1980s are generally only children. When we are born in the 70s, 70s and 80s, we should have more free time. , like my parents’ generation, I no longer have brothers and sisters coming to visit relatives, because I can’t walk anymore, I only have one child, and now the children have also got married, and they will go to the mother-in-law’s house to pay New Year’s greetings. Those with daughters may be more lively. Eighty percent of my son's life is relatively deserted.
Nowadays, it is rare for us to go to the elders’ homes to pay New Year greetings once a year. They are all the closest relatives and elders! People nowadays don’t have much time. They are busy with work, family, and children! This is how family ties are maintained. If we don't leave once a year, how long can our family ties last? Will they become very strange?
Today’s young people don’t like to visit relatives, that is, the children of our generation. They are all only children, lack family competition, and are spoiled. Coupled with the current Internet, young people They are unwilling to follow us adults to visit relatives. They would rather stay at home alone than visit relatives with three aunts and six wives. So when we are seventy or eighty years old, we should be very free because there are no guests to visit!
You say that you don’t leave your relatives once a year, and you don’t attend the annual dinner party. So is there still family affection and affection? Will future interpersonal relationships become more and more indifferent? Didn’t they even recognize each other when they got together? Is this good? I think it is still necessary to visit relatives once a year, otherwise the family ties will gradually fade away and people will become more and more indifferent. Family members are also a kind of social interaction and a kind of etiquette. If you don’t move around, then who else will you move around with?
I like this lively scene, saying hello to each other and meeting each other! It feels good