Why so many Chinese go home during Spring Festival

时间：2007-02-25 01:43:24

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Chinanews, Beijing, Feb. 17 – Every year, whenever Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) arrives, a lot of Chinese people cannot wait to go home. They queue for long hours in front of the ticket offices in railway stations, or do whatever they can in order to get a ticket. They tolerate the long journey on the train only to have a family reunion with their near and dear ones. Several days ago, the Beijing Youth Daily Social Investigation1 Center carried an investigation to 5,000 people online. The survey shows that most people regard buying a ticket home as the most important thing during the Spring Festival holiday. 33.2% of the people say what they fear most now is that they can’t get a ticket to go home. Why is Spring Festival so important to Chinese people?

 

The Beijing Youth Daily recently published an editorial on this question. According to the editorial, most Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival not only because they want to follow tradition, there are also some practical reasons to explain Chinese people’s fever for the big holiday. Compared with one’s workplace, home provides a more humane2 environment for one to relax oneself.

 

Society may do with or without you, but at home, you become unique and indispensable. You may be the father or mother, daughter or son, grandfather or grandmother in the family and the family will be incomplete if anyone is absent, because every member in the family is bound together by the ties of kinship, and everyone in the family is pleased with the feeling that he or she is unique and irreplaceable.

 

In addition, family provides an ideal environment for one to fully3 relax oneself. At home, one can take one’s time do whatever he or she wants, and one can spend money whenever one likes. In society, however, one needs to do everything fast and with high efficiency, because time is money, and society always pursues efficiency and maximum profits. Such company ethics4 make people merely a tool in modern society.

 

Chinese people’s deep yearning5 for Spring Festival demonstrates that they feel oppressed and have a sense of predicament of existence in modern society. The Spring Festival provides a chance for them to escape from such anxiety and cherish the long-lost tradition of community spirit. With the Spring Festival, people can find back the warm, family atmosphere often seen in days gone by.

 
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1 investigation MRKzq     
n.调查，调查研究
参考例句：
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
2 humane Uymy0     
adj.人道的，富有同情心的
参考例句：
  • Is it humane to kill animals for food?宰杀牲畜来吃合乎人道吗？
  • Their aim is for a more just and humane society.他们的目标是建立一个更加公正、博爱的社会。
3 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地
参考例句：
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 ethics Dt3zbI     
n.伦理学；伦理观，道德标准
参考例句：
  • The ethics of his profession don't permit him to do that.他的职业道德不允许他那样做。
  • Personal ethics and professional ethics sometimes conflict.个人道德和职业道德有时会相互抵触。
5 yearning hezzPJ     
a.渴望的；向往的；怀念的
参考例句：
  • a yearning for a quiet life 对宁静生活的向往
  • He felt a great yearning after his old job. 他对过去的工作有一种强烈的渴想。

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