日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Lifestyle / X-Ray

Keeping the spirit

By Raymond Zhou | China Daily | Updated: 2013-06-17 15:48

The length of a public holiday is a tricky thing. If it's too long, say a week, almost everyone would be tempted to travel and therefore strain the resources, such as transport, accommodation and recreational facilities, to the limit. The Spring Festival, aka the Chinese New Year, poses the ultimate challenge, and the government can do nothing about it other than building up the infrastructure. The high-speed trains are truly a huge relief.

China, the mainland that is, used to have a similar weeklong holiday for the Labor Day centered on May 1. In 2008 it was shortened from three days (turning seven days with two weekends joined together) to one day. At the same time, three one-day holidays were designated, all traditional festivals with roots going back thousands of years.

That was a giant step in the right direction: It eliminated one of the three weeklong festivals (the other non-traditional one being National Day on October 1) and its limit-pushing headache, and at the same time it gave prominence to Chinese customs that were either taken for granted or fading from modern hustle and bustle.

Ironically, the biggest enemy for traditional Chinese holidays is not transplanted Western ones like Valentine's Day and Christmas, but the newfound affluence that has enriched almost every Chinese. In the old days we looked forward to feasting upon a plate of zongzi (rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves) because we could not afford it for most of the year; children counted days to the Spring Festival because that was the only occasion their parents would buy them new clothing and hand them a red envelope holding cash.

Nowadays we can turn every meal into a New Year's Eve banquet, which essentially makes the real thing into an also-ran. We still visit our parents on Chinese New Year's Day, but instead of sitting around the table and nibbling on sunflower seeds we now sit in front of the TV and watch the Las Vegas-style gala and practice sardonic reviews. We still send each other mooncakes for the Moon Festival, but it is more an act of consumerism than associating a moonlit night with thoughts of loved ones. We don't need to rely on the moon as we have WeChat that allows instant video chat for those living oceans apart. Technology has brought us closer and killed off the esoteric beauty of mooncake-inspired longing.

For more X-Ray, click here

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 天天操天天干天天摸 | 真实的国产乱xxxx在线 | 精品久久免费 | 亚洲欧美国产精品 | 丁香九月激情 | 欧美性高潮视频 | 婷婷网址 | 在线看黄网址 | 久久99精品久久久久 | 欧美一区二区三区网站 | 精品一区在线播放 | 四虎成人精品在永久免费 | 国产视频你懂的 | 色综合色综合色综合 | 草草影院在线 | 欧美黄色a级 | 亚洲国产123 | 久久久久久黄色 | 日本欧美在线视频 | 亚洲欧洲天堂 | 五月激情丁香婷婷 | 在线免费观看一级片 | aaa一级片| 久久视频在线播放 | 久草视频手机在线 | 免费网站观看www在线观 | 精品中文视频 | 午夜久久av | 蜜臀久久99精品久久久久久宅男 | 我要看免费的毛片 | 中文字幕高清av | 欧美久久久精品 | 超碰1997| 国产精品2020 | 欧美日韩精品一区二区三区四区 | 国产成人久久久久 | 久久精品蜜桃 | 天天躁日日躁狠狠躁av麻豆 | 成人小视频免费在线观看 | 午夜精品福利一区二区 | 色网站视频 |