What kind of cultural phenomenon is the Spring Festival?

Now, it is no longer the fragrance of Laba porridge that is approaching the Spring Festival, but the hot Spring Festival full of pressure. Every time the wax moon begins, the Spring Festival is like a hurricane coming, and soon the momentum becomes fierce and intensifying; In the days at the end of the month, the Spring Festival can be described as overwhelming and unstoppable. Every now and then, I wonder, which country in the world has this kind of scene of hundreds of millions of people rushing home for the New Year every year?

We have always regarded the Spring Festival transportation as an extraordinary period of passenger transportation, and believe that this is a special traffic frenzy brought about by the development of thousands of peasants in the city to work at the present stage of China's society, and the task of the Spring Festival transportation is only to find ways to complete this rare passenger burden. However, if you change your cultural eyes, you will find that what the Spring Festival really does is to send thousands of people who work outside the country back to their respective hometowns to fulfill the Chinese's dream of reunion for thousands of years.

A few years ago, I encountered a scene at the train station that I still remember. It was about the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and a short, thin middle-aged man caught a train home. The train was about to leave, and the doors were closed.

The man was anxious, probably afraid that he would not be able to return on Chinese New Year's Eve, so he climbed the window. According to the convention, the staff on duty on the platform were afraid that something would happen to him, so they must pull him down, and the people in the car must also push him out. But at this moment, it was suddenly reversed, and the people in the car pulled him into the window together, and the staff on duty on the platform pushed him into the window.

At that moment, the people on and off the train, along with the middle-aged man, laughed happily, and the train rumbled away with these smiling faces. Why? Because people have a common feeling - to go home for the New Year.

For this reason, every time I look at the crowded airports, stations and long queues for ticket buyers during the Spring Festival, I am moved by the unforgettable culture of the New Year in Chinese. Isn't the crowd of the Spring Festival filled with the spiritual core of the New Year's culture - family reunion? What other culture highlights such a strong affinity between home and family?

The Spring Festival is one of the most unique cultural phenomena that has emerged in the past two decades. Because folk culture is a culture of life, it is often expressed from the form of life rather than from the form of pure culture, so we will not recognize the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival at once.

From this, I thought of a topic that would appear every Spring Festival in previous years, that is, the fading of the year. The sudden change in the way of life has led to the relaxation of the rigorous New Year culture formed in the ultra-stable life for thousands of years, and it is difficult to form a new New Year cultural system for a while, and the phenomenon of dilution will inevitably appear. Coupled with the ignorance of the New Year's culture, they regard traditional customs as outdated habits, think that they are dispensable, and take the initiative to give up, such as setting off fireworks and worshipping ancestors.

Festivals that have lost their folklore have naturally become commonplace.

But at this moment, the Spring Festival was formed. Five-star hotels, dance halls and bars, and golf courses can not have the Spring Festival, but the "New Year's complex" in people's hearts is still persistent, and every Spring Festival will inevitably bloom - go home for the New Year, relatives get together, take off the old and wear the new, pray for peace and blessings, and kiss the roots of the countryside with their hearts. Now I understand that the year has not been diluted in people's hearts, but only the traditional ways and forms.

It is the meaning of the Spring Festival to allow the people to return home to reunite with their relatives as soon as possible.

The development of the Spring Festival reflects China's development. In the 80s of the last century, the spring breeze of reform and opening up warmed the export-oriented economy, and the "tide of work" surged, which also gave birth to China's unique Spring Festival.

In the millennium, the "peacock flying southeast" is huge, but the operating mileage of the national railway is less than 10,000 kilometers, and the average speed is less than 57 kilometers per hour. Even with tickets, the cramped green cars are crowded, and even the toilets are often crowded with people, and "being able to go" is the only expectation of passengers, and it is also the biggest anxiety of the railway department.

In recent years, the state has concentrated its efforts on major affairs, continued to promote the construction of railways on a large scale, and made the national railway operating mileage exceed 10,000 kilometers, weaving a railway network that allows the masses to travel calmly.

In particular, the operating speed is the highest in the world.

1. The high-speed rail network, which has the world's largest frequency of departures, has significantly improved the railway capacity, greatly shortened the journey time, and provided more choices for the day of departure home, providing a strong guarantee for the Spring Festival transportation to upgrade from "walking if you can" to "walking satisfactorily".

The people's full "sense of gain" is the meaning of the Spring Festival.

The development of the Spring Festival reflects China's development. In the 80s of the last century, the spring breeze of reform and opening up warmed the export-oriented economy, and the "tide of work" surged, which also gave birth to China's unique Spring Festival.

Every Spring Festival, "hard to get a ticket" has become a pain point in people's livelihood. Even with tickets, the cramped green cars are crowded, and even the toilets are often crowded with people, and "being able to go" is the only expectation of passengers, and it is also the biggest anxiety of the railway department.

In the past ten years, the state has continued to promote the construction of railways on a large scale, making the national railway operating mileage more than 10,000 kilometers, and weaving a railway network that allows the masses to travel calmly. In particular, it ranks first in the world in terms of running speed.

Characteristics of the Spring Festival:

1. Before the Spring Festival, it is the area with more manpower input, and after the Spring Festival, it is the area with more manpower output. Areas of greater pressure also include more important transport hubs. Generally, the pressure before the holiday is focused on Guangdong, Beijing, Shanghai and other places on the eastern coast, and the post-holiday pressure is focused on Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanchang, Fuyang and other places in the inland and western regions.

2. Generally, before the Spring Festival, the pressure is mainly concentrated in the route from the economically more developed areas to the economically underdeveloped areas, from the surrounding cities to the tourist attractions. Chinese New Year's Eve, the beginning of the first month.

First, the first block, the second is less stressful in the Spring Festival in the past few days. After the Spring Festival, the transportation pressure shifts to the route from economically underdeveloped areas to economically developed areas, from tourist attractions to surrounding cities.

I once watched CCTV broadcast the army of motorcycles marching home, and at that time, even if there were thousands of rivers and mountains, they could not block their way home.

I often hear people say that the Spring Festival is nostalgia!

The hard-working migrant workers with a year's bitterness and longing for their relatives, they are like migratory birds running in the direction of "home"!

No matter how bitter it is, no matter how tired it is, after returning home.

A year's hard work and bitterness all came to naught at the moment when I met and hugged my loved ones!

This is the power and warmth of "home"!

You should still remember the snowstorm in 2008, many migrant workers, villagers who couldn't buy train tickets, drove motorcycles together, and you can see the branches on the road being frozen into ice bars on the road.

Many people have ridden more than 1,000 kilometers from the far south to their homes with just one motorcycle.

And this motorcycle brings a lot of gifts for children while bringing people.

And the masses and traffic police along the way will carry out station replenishment and escort.

Every time I see the army of motorcycles, my heart is full of buried attention.

Today is January 19th, the Spring Festival has begun, and a large number of people have begun to prepare to go home.

But the army of motorcycles, which used to be huge, is now almost gone.

So what the hell did they go to?

Some people take the train, some people take the car of the villagers to go back, and some people carpool back.

Of course, there are also people who have already bought a car and drove back by themselves.

Many foreigners don't understand, why do we Chinese have such a heavy hometown complex?

Whether you have money or not, go home for the New Year, and the Spring Festival reunion is an obsession integrated into the blood of the Chinese nation!

In fact, the motorcycle army of the Spring Festival every year used to be mainly because of migrant workers in other places, and they chose to ride motorcycles back to their hometown when they were hard to get a ticket to go home during the Spring Festival, and then gradually formed a scale.

Every year during the Spring Festival, China's floating population is hundreds of millions, and the Spring Festival has become the world's largest population migration.