Happy Chinese New Year to all my dear readers who celebrate this festival! Today is Chu Ba, which is the eight day of the Chinese New Year. Honestly, I seriously think that Chinese New Year for the last few days seemed to be getting boring and boring year by year. Here are the two reasons:
Reason 1: Process of maturation
The first reason that it gets damn sulky is because I had already about to finish my synthesis or growth from a kid to a teen. Well, other than the gathering with relatives and friends’ part and the fireworks part (in which sometimes may be boring too), nothing else catches my attention. Not the freedom you have in consuming tonnes of food and drinks. Not even the opportunity to gamble until you go nuts and started to have an addiction (well, I did that this year, but it sounds kind’ a boring, even though you may eventually win a lot of money). As little children started to walk into the shadows of youth and adultery, they started to feel the oomph and excitement of the festival slipping away from them. This is then refilled with the boredom of the repeating sequence of the constant Chinese New Year celebration pattern, as well as the must do’s and don’ts during that period. However, don’t mistake me for saying that the traditions and customs that need to be performed during this day should be neglected nor banished. Instead, they must be preserved due to the fact that they are part of our culture and tradition as Chinese, even though I nowadays find it quite boring.
Reason 2: The atmosphere
Another reason will be the celebration of Chinese New Year in terms of the community and our society. In the past, Chinese New Year is a majestic event that is celebrated by the Chinese with much gaiety and enjoyment. They really enjoy themselves and enable themselves to relax at these 15 days and at the same time follow the customs strictly. People in the past are also friendlier than the present. People who lived in the same village or town will visit others' houses among themselves and exchange mandarins as well as jokes as they met. Lion dances and dragon dances too are a common sight to behold at the first few days of Chinese New Year. You can also hear the sound of firecrackers all over the place you live and easily observe piles of red, ashy and combusted residues all over the floor and roads around your house. Voices full of happiness and laughter of adults and children is also very frequent at that time. Sad to say as time flies year by year, all these began to fade and vanish into thin air when modernisation and also urbanisation takes place. The more advanced our technology are, the more civilised we became; and as more things we started to forget and discard, the more materialistic and hollow we slowly became. Nowadays, the atmosphere of celebrating Chinese New Year turns warmer time to time where every family starts to live “individually” and not as a community. The technological advancements that initially were created to improve our life also created a barrier that impedes verbal communication, causing lesser direct communications between people.
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