In Australia, there is no Spring Festival holiday. Apart from the pig sculpture displayed by the escalator in the nearby shopping center, there is no festive atmosphere.
Of course, you can go to Chinatown and Chinatown to find the atmosphere, but there is no interest in it. I feel sorry for the Chinese compatriots who have been fighting for many years in Australian society.
But also nothing, in the domestic time not often heard people say, now the New year is not more and less the smell of the new year?
1. The taste of the New year changes to a "scorched flavor".
In fact, this is the legacy of the era of material scarcity-after a year of hard work and frugality, we can finally find a few days to attack the incurable lazy cancer, eating cancer, shopping cancer and extravagant cancer in human nature.
But, after all, that era has passed, now eat meat every day, weekly rest, all the time online shopping, do not have to wait until the New year to vent this and that kind of desire.
So up to now, the so-called "New year" is no longer a spontaneous indulgence of joy from the heart, but just the same way to deal with the rituals inherent in the Spring Festival-Spring Festival, ancestor worship, New year's Eve dinner, fireworks, New year's money, and visiting relatives. In fact, by the car window, before incense and fire, on the table, after fireworks, in bed, tea room, no matter how the scene changes, the camera will never change is the head down to the phone you.
What's more, the present taste of the year is being replaced by a kind of "scorched taste". The New year, you suddenly come out of a lot of time and space, you can go to places you can not normally see, but expect to meet all kinds of small talk, anxiety will always pour into the face.
Because, the Spring Festival is the time of the outbreak of the chain of discrimination.
2. The outbreak of the chain of discrimination
01 chain of Guest Discrimination
Chinese New year visit friends and relatives naturally have to treat dinner. Rural friends will usually do a large table of dishes, braised hoof, steamed mandarin fish, Sautéed Shelled Shrimp, is characterized by everything is big, everything is more. This is a matter of "quantity".
But as soon as relatives in the city treat, they find that they have already begun to play on the "price". Lobster, shark fin, sea cucumber these are the standard goods, with ginseng, Cordyceps, saffron is counted as a grade, in a rotating restaurant, water view elegant seat, the thought of next year's guest budget let you eat, such as needle felt.
Yes, this is the chain of discrimination on the treat.
02 chain of alcohol discrimination
Singing songs and indulging in drinking in the day, bright spring light and I go home with me. How can you not drink when you see a new friend? If you do not drink, you will not give face; if you do not drink, you will despise me; if you do not drink, you will not be a man.
When you say you want to drive, they say take your car, say you have a sore throat, they say sterilize, you say you want to have a baby, they say it doesn't affect. High blood pressure gastric ulcers and fatty liver are no excuses at this time, they can at any time incarnate health knowledge of all-knowing Dr. cloves.
Well, drink, they will persuade you to drink red wine; if you say drink wine, they will persuade you to drink white wine; if you ask for two or two, they will certainly add half a kilo to you.
Yes, this is the chain of alcohol discrimination.
03 Red packet discrimination chain
The lunar new year red packet came from the ancient fear of sneaking, and now the symbolism has been gradually forgotten, replacing it with a race that is more swollen than who can beat the face.
Remember when I was a child relatives gave me lucky money, ten dollars and twenty also pretty good. Now, lucky money is far more popular than the real estate market, 5,800 that is rural demolition houses, 12,000 is enough for the outer ring of small high-level, 510,000 to join the urban landscape housing.
Get lucky money, but also carefully open, trembling to write down the number, serious things to lock the debt book into the safe. Because when you come out, you have to pay it back sooner or later.
Yes, this is the red packet discrimination chain.
04 object discrimination chain
New year's single is the most vexed, the old asked whether to look for.
Find an object this thing, usually parents ask a lot of, casual perfunctory may also be used to. But the aunt and sister-in-law, who had not seen her in a year, must have been so considerate and affectionate, but it was not so easy to get rid of.
No one will be said to let parents worry, the object will be asked how the family conditions, family conditions will be asked when marry, married will be asked when to have children. "look at the daughter of Zhang Lao-San, the next-door family. She married a small boss and had ten million factories in his house. He gave birth to a man and a woman, and the big ones were almost in primary school. By the way, I'm two years younger than you! "
Yes, this is the chain of object discrimination.
05 chain of child discrimination
Even if the successor to a family, in the eyes of friends and relatives is not a complete life.
When are they born? My niece is going to go to the moon club in town, and I hear she wants fifty thousand yuan; three months? My uncle's family let Australian relatives send A2 milk powder, 400 yuan a can; is it on a small shift? My friend's children go to that baby every week to teach English early, suddenly handed in tens of thousands; in primary school? My colleague bought a school district room in the center of the city, and only a few dozen square meters cost 6 million; when do you want to take the college entrance examination? Next year the Maomao family in the next village will go to the United States, full scholarship.
Yes, this is the chain of child discrimination.
06 Association discrimination chain
The long Spring Festival holiday, most people may run back to the coordinates of their youth, so it opened the door for students to get together.
The three-and-five friends who had deep acquaintance would have been together, but if the scale was large, it would have become the launch day of all kinds of life winners' rankings. What unit is at work now? What position? What's the annual salary? What area is house in? What car? What's your lover's job? Did photo take a look? Where do the kids go to school? What kind of cram class did you go to?
Warm-hearted organizers of the same book of classmates, the position of the post is clear at a glance. At this point, you suddenly feel the feeling that the child listens to the head teacher to announce the grades.
Yes, this is the chain of discrimination.
Finally, from food and drink, to house carpool, to husband and wife, and to old life, this long war of strangling each other with a chain of discrimination is almost over, but the daily encounter between short arms will continue, and you will be alive for the time being. Are you ready to die?