As the Spring Festival approaches, people choose special new year goods such as Spring Festival couplets, Fu characters and lanterns to welcome the Spring Festival.

What is the smell of Spring Festival? 1000 people will have 1000 statements. Old people will say, paste Spring Festival couplets and new year's Eve dinner; Middle aged people will say, cleaning, buying new year goods; Children will say, lucky money, no homework

There is no clear definition of Nian Wei'er. It is a feeling in everyone's heart. Because the Chinese New Year is of special significance to the Chinese people. The Chinese New Year means leaving the old and welcoming the new, and starting again in the new year; It means family reunion. No matter what happens, the Wanderers will always go home; It means growing up for one year, becoming more mature and taking on more responsibilities.

But others say that the taste of new year is getting weaker and weaker. Among the high-rise buildings in the city, we can't find the scene of meeting and paying New Year's greetings to each other when we were young; The increasingly rich material life has gradually reduced everyone's expectations for the new year.

Did it really fade that year? In fact, it's not. It's just that with the development of the times, NianWei has a new connotation.

The smell of new year is a kind of expectation

"Twenty three tanggua sticks, twenty-four sweep the house, twenty-five fried tofu, twenty-six stewed mutton, twenty-seven kill chickens, twenty-eight handfuls of noodles, twenty-nine steamed buns, boil for one night at thirty, and twist on the new year's day." In Chinese people's cognition, after the twelfth lunar month, we should begin to prepare for the new year. After the Spring Festival, it is the beginning of the new year.

"This proverb was often heard when I was a child, and my family began to be busy from the twelfth lunar month." "Post-90s" Xiao Yang, who works in a public institution in Beijing, recalled the Chinese new year when he was a child. "At that time, the happy thing was to go shopping with his parents, new clothes, candy, dried fruits and so on. I wanted everything I saw." On New Year's Eve, Xiao Yang also hung lanterns with his parents, pasted couplets, and put the candy and dried fruits bought in the twelfth lunar month. "When pasting couplets, he met his neighbors and paid new year's greetings to each other. Everyone was jubilant. From the community to each family, he put on lanterns and decorations, and the strong smell of new year came to his face." Xiao Yang said.

After work, Xiao Yang can only return home on New Year's Eve, so he seldom participates in these preparations for the new year. Moreover, with the improvement of living standards, the candy and dried fruit that Xiao Yang loved when he was a child have become common.

Xiao Yang's mother, aunt Gao, is "after 60", and has a deeper understanding of Nian flavor. "When I was a child, I really looked forward to the new year, because no matter what the conditions at home are, I can always get a new dress and have a good meal of meat. I have been looking forward to the new year's Eve dinner since the twelfth lunar month."

Aunt Gao thinks it's not difficult for Xiao Yang to eat meat or sugar at ordinary times. But when she was a child, meat and sugar were "luxuries". Only during the new year can she enjoy it, "that's the New Year!"

Chinese new year, in fact, is a very ceremonial thing.

Most of the "post-80s generation" are only children, and there are few brothers and sisters around, so the children of parents and friends have become playmates and have deep feelings for each other. Therefore, during the Chinese new year, I always want to meet and play with them. "Being close to friends may be an important feature of the only child in the 1980s." Jin Ge sighed.

But for "after 00", the new year seems to be just a holiday, and the taste of the new year is not so strong. Xiao Gong went to college in 2019. Before the winter vacation, she and her roommate had been discussing how to spend the winter vacation. But strangely, the topic between them does not involve the new year.

"I have a roommate from Sichuan, so she has been talking about eating hot pot and playing mahjong during the Spring Festival holiday." Xiao Gong felt that for her generation, the new year seemed like an opportunity for a holiday.

Now it is often seen that many college students choose to travel instead of going home for the new year. The Spring Festival is not so important and special for them.

Jin Ge said that when we talk about the taste of new year, we are actually comparing it with the past. It is not so much an atmosphere as an expectation of the new year, that is, what the new year can bring to everyone.

Different tastes are precious

One generation has the memory of another, and so does the taste of the year. Each generation has its own understanding of the taste of the year. Similarly, different regions, cities and villages also have different interpretations of the taste of youth.

Master Wang is from Zhoukou, Henan Province. He came to Guangzhou to drive a taxi in 2010. For ten years this year, "when the child was young, he spent the new year in Guangzhou; now he usually goes back to his hometown for the new year."

"It's not necessarily the same as shooting in Guangzhou." Master Wang said.

The rule that fireworks cannot be set off is now gradually extending from first tier cities to prefecture level cities, but in the majority of counties, villages and towns, Chinese New Year shooting is still a good way to leave the old and welcome the new. "The sound of firecrackers is a year apart." Master Wang used an ancient poem to point out the difference in the taste of new year between the city and the countryside.

Master Wang still likes to go back to his hometown for the new year. He felt that in his hometown, every family hung lanterns and pasted Spring Festival couplets in front of their doors. Walking on the road was like walking through the lantern corridor. "We all know small places. From the beginning of the new year, we often greet and pay New Year's greetings on the road, which is particularly happy." Master Wang said.

There are also many rich activities during the Spring Festival in Guangzhou. Master Wang likes to go to the flower market with his family. Yingchun flower market is the traditional folk custom of the Spring Festival in Guangzhou. It has a long history and can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. The time is from December 28 to new year's Eve.

In the flower market, you can not only see all kinds of flowers at home and abroad, but also enjoy folk performances and all kinds of snacks. People come and go and are very lively. "Every year, there are several streets running flower markets, which are not crowded. But I really feel the smell of the new year." Master Wang recalled.

Although cities are not as lively as towns and villages during the Spring Festival, different cities will hold a variety of cultural activities to celebrate the Spring Festival. For example, temple fairs are held in major parks in Beijing, and lantern fairs and garden fairs are held in Shanghai. People living in cities can also feel the strong smell of new year.

In Chinese people's memory of the Spring Festival, lucky money will not be absent. After 0:00 on New Year's Eve, children will kowtow to their elders and give them red envelopes with lucky money. Lucky money means to ward off evil spirits and exorcise ghosts and bless peace in Chinese folk culture. Because people think that children are vulnerable to sneakiness, they use lucky money to dispel evil spirits.

Xiao Gong is already a college student, but because she is still in school, her family still treats her as a child and gives her lucky money. "From small to large, to the new year, that's what I hope for." Xiao Gong said with a smile.

In the past, some relatives could not see the new year because they lived far away. Naturally, they could not receive the new year's money. However, the development of mobile Internet will completely break this. Now, even in foreign countries, as long as you use your mobile phone a little, lucky money can be sent to your children.