Text/Yihong Qingshui
In the period before the Spring Festival, due to poor epidemic prevention and control in some places, the epidemic rebounded in some areas. It was precisely because of the waxing and waning epidemic situation in some areas that the " epidemic" was born. "New Year " is a new concept.
Entering the twelfth lunar month, I asked my wife on WeChat, who was doing business in a provincial city, if I could go back to Weihai for the Spring Festival. The first reply was that the national government advocates celebrating the New Year on the spot, but it has not been decided yet. I'll let you know after a few days are decided.
More than ten days later, my wife took the initiative to send me a message and clearly told me that Weihai would not be over. On the one hand, due to the epidemic, the local government advocated celebrating the New Year on the spot. On the other hand, their business became busier after the holidays, and the team’s Everyone celebrates the festival locally. During the festival, local team members cook and everyone eats together, implementing the AA system. He also said that his daughter would not return to Weihai.
My wife gave me two holiday plans. One is to go back to my hometown in the countryside of Weifang to spend it with my parents, and the other is to spend it at my wife's niece's house in Gao District. Considering the epidemic, and considering that I had already returned to my hometown twice to celebrate my parents’ birthdays, I chose to respond to the government’s initiative to celebrate the Chinese New Year in situ and go to my wife and niece’s house to spend the Spring Festival.
My daughter works in Tianjin. A few years ago, there was an epidemic in Tianjin. According to local control measures, foreigners entering Tianjin are strictly controlled, and locals are not allowed to leave Tianjin at will. I understand that my daughter will not return to Weihai for the New Year, and I actively support it.
In addition, my daughter is an important backbone in the work unit. She is busy with work and has to participate in holiday duty at the unit. She is a party member and has to take the lead in the front line of anti-epidemic duty during the holidays. Another reason is that her recent boyfriend is on duty during the holidays. , he also works in Tianjin and does not return to his hometown. I can understand this. Over the years, my wife and niece have received a lot of help from us, and we can also be said to be kind to them. They have always said that they would repay us well. When my wife asked me to spend the Spring Festival at her house, the two of them were in full agreement. Since the twelfth lunar month, The twenty-nine passed, and I returned after eating dumplings at noon on the fifth day of the lunar month. It was exactly six days.
As an elder, I ate and lived with them, enjoyed the festival life leisurely, and truly felt their "filial piety".
During the holidays, our family of three often chatted via video chat, shared the delicacies of our respective "homes", and enjoyed the family happiness of "reunion in the clouds" without any sense of loneliness.
In fact, we are not the only ones who enjoy the "cloud reunion" during the festival. Those who go out to work and respond to the government's local celebration of the New Year are not all "cloud reunion" with their old family members in other places! With the careful arrangements of local governments, every migrant worker who celebrates the New Year on the spot can experience the taste of "home".
Although celebrating the New Year in situ is a new measure in an extraordinary period, maybe, as people become more and more accepting of this new concept, it may gradually become a normal holiday.
With the deep integration and development of global economic integration and , the flow of people will inevitably become more and more intensive. Celebrating the New Year on the spot will not only reduce the pressure of Spring Festival travel, but also be conducive to the rapid development of the local economy, which will also change people's traditional festivals. The reunion method can be said to serve multiple purposes.
一点号 Shi Zhixin (pseudonym Yihong Qingshui
