【Editor's Note】
On weekdays, home is the origin. We set out from home and travel far away from our dreams. During the New Year, home is the end point. We set off from all corners of the world, like a bird returning to the forest.
This year, Chinese New Year in situ has become the choice of many people.
We believe that the separation is only temporary. This Spring Festival, regardless of where the people are, or where the year is.
From February 10, China News.com launched a special plan for the Chinese New Year for the Year of the Ox, "Another Chinese New Year", to spend the New Year with you.
Chinanews client, Beijing, February 18th, title:
(Different Spring Festival) In-place Chinese New Year, different Spring Festival bills, have you saved money?
Reporter Li Jinlei
The Chinese New Year in the Year of the Ox is special. Countless people become "origin people" and celebrate the new year on the spot.
Without the road trips of previous years, visiting relatives and friends and gatherings for entertainment have been reduced. Many people have had the most economical Spring Festival.
Compared with previous years, some new changes have taken place in this year’s Spring Festival bill.
The Spring Festival bill shared by Liu Fei (pseudonym).
"Have one of the most economical Spring Festival"
The 7-day Lunar New Year holiday passed as quickly as always, and after the holiday, the friends were showing off this year’s Lunar New Year bills.
Compared with going home for the New Year, Chinese New Year on the spot has saved many people real money.
"I don't know, I was shocked. I saved almost 1,000 oceans this year." Liu Fei (pseudonym) is a post-80s generation. After graduating from Peking University, he stayed in Beijing and worked in Shijiazhuang, Hebei.
This year, she and her husband responded to the country's initiative to celebrate the New Year in situ and chose to celebrate the New Year in Beijing. This is also the first time for the two to celebrate the New Year in Beijing.
Attentively, she has insisted on using accounting software for accounting for the past two years. She sent bills for this year's Spring Festival and 2020 Spring Festival to reporters from Chinanews.com.
According to the bill, this year’s Spring Festival, Liu Fei gave his parents a red envelope of 2,000 yuan, a red envelope of 600 yuan for relatives and children, 1,200 yuan for clothes for his parents, 1,500 yuan for a fascia gun for her husband, 700 yuan for fruits and vegetables, 150 yuan for takeout, and 410 for a restaurant. Plus some other expenses, the total expenditure is 7175 yuan.
The total cost of going home for the New Year in 2020 is 7,984 yuan.
"Actually, I remember that the bill for the Spring Festival in 2020 is not too complete. My husband did not record some expenditures. Relatives who go home to buy New Year goods are more than 1,000 yuan, and you can save some money if you don't go home for the New Year." Liu Fei said, " However, no matter how much you spend, I still want to go home for the New Year."
Meng Yu (second from right) spends Chinese New Year in Beijing with the domestic workers.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
"I only spent 10 yuan on Spring Festival"
"I spent almost no money on the Spring Festival this year. I only spent 10 yuan." Mengyu (a pseudonym) was born in 1968 and currently works as a baby nurse in Beijing. Her hometown cannot be found on a map in Pingliang City, Gansu Province. The small village I visited chose to celebrate the New Year in Beijing this year.
“I usually live at my employer’s house, and I don’t have to spend money on meals and accommodations. I take three days off during the Chinese New Year, and I will return to my employer’s house on the fourth night of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. During this period, I spent the New Year with a dozen sisters under the organization of the "Hongyan Home" This is a social work service organization. It is a platform created specifically for our migrant women who work outside. The organization pays for food, drink and housing."
Mengyu calculated an account for the reporter: usually go home and take the train to Xi'an and then take the bus. The train to Xi'an takes 12 hours, and the hard sleeper fare is 227.5 yuan.
Take a four-hour bus ride to Xi'an, and the fare is 98 yuan.
To our county seat, take a bus, and it costs 3 yuan to get home.
There is also a nucleic acid test when you go home, which costs 80 yuan in Beijing, and you have to do it again when you go home. All this money is saved.
"Chinese New Year in situ is also in response to national initiatives, for the safety of yourself and your family," Mengyu said: "Moreover, the benefits of Chinese New Year in situ are not as hard as at home in previous years! Chinese New Year in the countryside is really busy. Can’t stop. This year’s New Year’s Eve, you can use your vacation to read and write more, you can also sing and dance with my sisters!"
The picture shows tourists experiencing festival folk customs at the foot of the Great Wall during the Spring Festival.
Photo by Sun Jing issued by China News Agency
"Working during the Spring Festival and making money"
"Going out is risky, and the wallet will be flat; staying in the company during the New Year will not reduce family affection."
This Spring Festival, Yang Yang (pseudonym), who worked as an interpreter in a scenic spot in Beijing, practiced this sentence himself.
This year's Spring Festival, as a post-90s, he did not return to his hometown in Hebei, but chose to stay in the scenic spot and work all the time.
"Working overtime during the Spring Festival is three times the salary. Moreover, if you don't go home for the New Year, you don't have to go home for the New Year, you don't have to pay for gatherings with relatives and friends, you save red envelopes, car fare, and you don't have any money, so you save about 2,000 yuan."
On New Year’s Eve, Yang Yang and his colleagues were busy paying New Year’s greetings to the guests staying in the scenic spot for the New Year, but they did not eat a hot dumpling.
"As a front-line service staff, I will stick to my position during the Spring Festival. Although I cannot go home to reunite with my family, I have to receive many guests every day. But seeing the smiles of the guests and the affirmation and praise of our work by the guests, I am also very happy. Warm."
It used to be "sucked money every Chinese New Year", travel expenses, New Year's money, money for gifts, New Year gifts, class reunions... a series of bills made people sigh that the Chinese New Year is a "spring catastrophe", but this year due to the local Chinese New Year, the wallet is not as flat as in previous years .
Several new changes in the Spring Festival bill
The Chinese New Year of the Ox is full of energy!
The Ministry of Commerce released data on the 17th. From February 11th to 17th, the national key retail and catering companies achieved sales of approximately 821 billion yuan, an increase of 28.7% over last year's Spring Festival Golden Week.
Chinese New Year on the spot changed the consumption direction of many people and gave birth to some new consumption and New Year customs.
On February 15, tourists took a leisurely tour in Beijing Taoranting Park.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
——Relaxation popular
In-situ Chinese New Year has brought fire to city tours and short-distance self-driving tours. As the travel radius shrinks, local tours, surrounding tours, and nearby outings have replaced long-distance tours, becoming a new tourism consumption trend in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox.
According to statistics, during the Spring Festival, except for the seasonal closure of tourist attractions in parts of the north and the temporary closure of individual areas due to epidemic prevention and control requirements, 80% of the A-level tourist attractions in the country have been open normally, basically "opening as much as possible."
Yang Yang told reporters that there are quite a lot of guests who book rooms during the holidays. The children have a holiday and the demand for travel has increased. Recently, most of the guests staying in the hotel are bringing children.
This year's Spring Festival, local scenic spots are showing a boom. Ctrip ticket data shows that the number of bookings for scenic spots during the Spring Festival has increased by more than 50% compared with the 2019 Spring Festival; local bookings have increased by more than 300% compared with the 2019 Spring Festival.
Fliggy data shows that demand for local travel in low-risk areas during the Spring Festival is relatively strong, and bookings have increased by more than 660% year-on-year.
On February 16th, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the Hangzhou New Year of the Ox's Lunar New Year light show with the theme of "Golden Bull Lunar New Year, Happy and Auspicious" was staged on the banks of the Qiantang River.
The picture shows visitors shooting the light show with their mobile phones.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Qian Chenfei
——Giving birth to hotel fever
In-situ Chinese New Year has also spawned a hotel boom, with reservations for resort hotels and homestays in the suburbs of large and medium-sized cities.
This Spring Festival, many young people spend the New Year together in the hotel, which is also a unique memory.
"A few friends get together for the New Year, and book a family room or suite. The hotel room rate can be shared and it is not expensive."
Qunar data shows that among the ten cities with the highest number of domestic hotel family room reservations, there are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Xi'an and other cities, and more than half of the tourists are "drifters."
The third day of the Lunar New Year coincides with Valentine's Day. Fliggy data shows that the number of people in the hotel has increased by more than 170% year-on-year, ushering in a small peak of staying.
In addition to theme hotels such as couples and movies, e-sports hotels, pet homestays, and private party villas are popular, and the unit price of each guest has risen in varying degrees.
——Takeaway sales increased significantly
This year, many people have an extra item in their bills for the Spring Festival-takeaway.
Because young people who celebrate the New Year on the spot do not want to cook their own meals, takeaways are naturally favored.
Ele.me data shows that since the New Year of the Ox, takeaway orders such as hot pot and milk tea have increased twice or more.
At the same time, more and more young people who stay at work for the New Year have begun to try "Takeaway New Year's Eve", changing their location to remotely place an order to send blessings to elder friends in their hometown. Ginseng nourishing gift boxes, flowers and fruits have become popular New Year greetings.
When northerners stayed in the South for the New Year, orders for dumplings from the South accounted for a 6% increase compared to the same period last year.
In contrast, the proportion of dumpling orders in the three northeastern provinces has dropped by 4%.
On the third day of the new year, Liu Fei (pseudonym) and her husband went to the gym to exercise.
Photo courtesy of respondents
——Healthy consumption becomes a trend
Under the influence of the epidemic, people pay more attention to health, and healthy consumption has become a new trend in gift giving during the Spring Festival.
Data shows that green organic food, health protection products, sterilization and disinfection appliances, sports fitness equipment and other commodities are selling well.
Some e-commerce platforms, such as skipping ropes, tensioners, dumbbells, and other home-use fitness equipment sales increased by more than 80% year-on-year, and sales of dishwashers, sweeping robots, and massagers also showed rapid growth.
Refusing to "get three catties every holiday season", this Spring Festival, Liu Fei spent 1,500 yuan to buy a fascia gun for her husband as a gift, and also went to the gym with her husband on the third day of the new year.
The small Spring Festival bill also reflects the new economic and social changes and the new picture of consumption upgrades.
How much did you spend this Spring Festival?
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