[New Year Chronicle] A sense of ritual for celebrating the New Year on the spot
For the Chinese, the Spring Festival is one of the most important rituals of the year.
In the Spring Festival of 2021, affected by the epidemic, many people choose to celebrate the New Year on the spot.
For many young people, this may be the first time for them to spend the New Year alone, or to meet up with friends or to be alone, but in any case, sticking up Spring Festival couplets and cooking New Year’s rituals are indispensable. For the overseas Chinese, this year’s Spring Festival may be a rare opportunity to relive the traditional taste of the New Year; college students who choose to stay in school, guessing lantern riddles and making dumplings, are full of ceremonies... ...
And those lovely people who stick to their posts.
At this time last year, medical staff in Wuhan were fully engaged in the fight against the epidemic. This year they reunited to make dumplings and calmly bid farewell to the old and welcome the new; a Chongqing police station customized "hometown special New Year's Eve dinner" for foreign police, Guizhou Suantangyu, Nanchang rice noodles , Henan stew dishes... The policemen who did not return home also tasted the authentic taste of hometown; the migrant workers who stuck to their posts on the construction site could not hide their loss of being unable to go home. Fortunately, the warm festive atmosphere on the construction site eased homesickness. The officers and soldiers of the Hong Kong Garrison received blessings and concerns from their families. They were thousands of miles away, sending love.
No matter where you celebrate the New Year, what changes is the form, and what remains unchanged is the deep nostalgia.
(Produced by Lu Jie)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]