□ Zhang Shoukun, a trainee reporter of this newspaper

  □ Our reporter Zhao Li

  "Let me see, son, are you fat? Tongtong (daughter-in-law) is your face round too!"

  "Turn your phone over, or you won't be able to take a picture of us all. Tongtong, don't listen to your dad's nonsense, you look just right now..."

  I work in Chaoyang, Beijing, and my parents are in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. Affected by the epidemic, Mr. Zhang and his wife have not gone home for the New Year for two years, but for them, distance is no longer a problem.

"Our parents both use smartphones, not only during the Chinese New Year, but we also always keep in touch with each other via video, and we will share with each other any happy events. It's not today's New Year's Eve, except for parents, uncles and aunts, uncles and aunts, and others. There are children at home who have come to video with us."

  Mr. Zhang told the "Rules of Law Daily" reporter that during the Spring Festival this year, he and his wife also learned how to make dumplings through video, and the whole family ate New Year's Eve together.

For them, the screen loaded with the families of the two places does not mean that they are out of reach, but "at your fingertips."

  There are still many families who choose online New Year greetings like this year.

During the Spring Festival this year, many places have released initiatives to celebrate the New Year on the spot and online New Year's greetings - please don't stop by your friends and residents, send New Year's greetings to relatives and friends through the Internet, WeChat, video, telephone and other means, and use cloud greetings Share online reunions.

  Early in the morning on the first day of the new year, Aunt Cui from Suzhou City, Anhui Province laughed from ear to ear. It turned out that her grandson recorded a video of her New Year's greetings. With interesting words, very hilarious.

Aunt Cui told reporters that when her grandson came to pay New Year's greetings, she always wanted him to "kowtow", but her grandson was not happy.

"This is a custom. I thought there was nothing wrong with it, and kowtowing can better express my heart to the elders. But after watching this year's New Year's greeting video, I think this method is also very good."

  Aunt Cui said that there is more than one way to greet the New Year, as long as it can reflect your heart.

Aunt Cui also used social platforms to create a video of sending red envelopes and sending it to the family group, so that relatives and friends can relay blessings.

  The reporter saw on social networking platforms that videos related to New Year's greetings have been viewed more than 10 billion times.

Various ways of "Yunning New Year's Eve" emerge in an endless stream, and everyone has a lot of fun even if they don't visit.

  Li Feng, a native of Yibin, Sichuan, who works in Shenzhen, Guangdong, told reporters that through the "cloud greetings", the connection between him and his parents has also become closer.

  Also because of the epidemic, Li Feng chose to celebrate the New Year in Shenzhen.

Because he couldn't beat his girlfriend, he didn't want to call his parents and decided to play a video to perfunctory, but he didn't expect his parents to be very surprised when he got connected.

"I have rarely called my parents since I left home to go to college, and the video is the first time. I used to go home every year for the New Year, and I didn't feel much. I didn't expect to see my parents in a year. The parents in the video seem to be much older. , which I never noticed before. In fact, think about it, they are almost 60 years old."

  Li Feng told reporters that this was the longest "face-to-face" communication between him and his parents in his impression. He saw the marks left by his hard work on his parents' faces, and he also learned a lot of small things in his parents that he "disdain" to understand.

This made him realize the "distance" between himself and his parents. He said that in the future, he will make such video calls frequently, and he will give his parents a hug when they meet.

  In the past, every Chinese New Year, Mr. Wang from Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, felt a headache: "I can't persuade the elderly at home to cook a large table of dishes. All kinds of vegetables, fruits, cooked meat and meat are stuffed in the refrigerator and eaten from the New Year's Eve. I won't be able to eat it until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and in the end I have to throw it away."

  It's been different in the last two years.

"In the past two years, I have chosen to buy New Year's goods through online shopping, and I have also bought everything that my family needs in advance to save them from buying indiscriminately." Mr. Wang said that the elders didn't understand it at first, and felt that they were spending money, but when they don't need it When you go out to buy food, you don’t need to cook and wash the dishes. Pre-made dishes are served on the table. Various low-salt, low-oil and low-fat snacks have replaced peanuts and melon seeds.

  According to the statistics of multiple e-commerce platforms during the New Year’s Day this year, young people are paying more and more attention to their health. The orders for nutritional and health care products purchased by the post-90s and post-95s have increased by 15% and 20% respectively compared with last year, especially “filial piety consumption”. Eye-catching, the sales of health gift boxes for elders during the Chinese New Year increased by 153%, and 0 lactose milk has also become a new trend in gift giving.

  According to reports released by the media, the post-95s generation pays more and more attention to the sense of ceremony of the Spring Festival, and the consumption of new year goods increases with the participation.

The reporter found in the survey that young people who have gradually mastered the right to purchase New Year's goods are increasingly showing a rational side. The consumption of New Year's goods tends to be healthy, diversified and high-quality, and avoiding food waste has also become an important consideration.

  Journalist's Notes

  People have never met, and love spreads thousands of miles.

  In order to reduce the flow of people, reduce the risk of epidemic spread, and consolidate the hard-won results of epidemic prevention, more and more people choose to stay in their "second hometown" to feel the warmth of the new year.

Recording New Year's greetings videos, singing hometown songs, "cloud" cooking competitions, giving each other New Year gifts... Even if the traditional way of "physical New Year greetings" of "calling for a birthday" is no longer, the "cloud New Year greetings" of "Flying Posts" is the same It reflects the Chinese people's beautiful feelings of condensing family affection and cherishing friendship.

  A home is the smallest country, and a country is a thousand homes.

For the sake of everyone in the country, "Yun to pay New Year's greetings" has become a different kind of "New Year flavor".

As long as there is love in your heart, a phone call, a text message, or a video can be full of ritual.

People choose to "do not visit and pay New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival", and "cloud greetings" has become a new fashion for cohesion during the Spring Festival.

  A sound of greetings, telling thousands of misses.

A sentence of blessings, conveying good expectations.

When the spring flowers bloom, we will meet again.