The impact of the Spring Festival on the economy

The Spring Festival has always been an important traditional festival in China. It is both a social phenomenon and an economic phenomenon. Based on my own experience during the Spring Festival, I made a preliminary investigation and research on various economic phenomena during the Spring Festival. Due to the limited level, it is mainly a superficial economic phenomenon, and its essence is difficult to accurately grasp. I hope readers will forgive me. \x0d\\x0d\ 1. Spring Festival Transport - It’s not easy to say that I love you \x0d\\x0d\ New Year’s Eve is approaching. “The birds in the cage miss the old forest, and the fish in the pond miss the old abyss.” People who have worked hard outside for a year are like tired birds. Flying back to my hometown like a homecoming. Ever since, the roaring whistle of the train, the spinning wheels of the car, and the hurried footsteps of pedestrians all brewed with the same voice: Go home! However, our country’s weak transportation system makes it difficult to shoulder this important task. \x0d\\x0d\ As early as one month before the holiday, the author booked a train ticket from Changsha to Shijiazhuang at a hotel reservation office in Changsha. However, in the end, he was told that he "didn't buy it" and had to take a bus to Beijing and then transfer from Beijing to Shijiazhuang. The twists and turns cannot be described in one word. There was even a group of brothers and sisters who failed to book tickets at school, so they had to go to the train station to buy tickets. They set out at night and stayed up all night to queue up to book tickets. It is said that the queue was once several hundred meters long from the ticket gate to the entrance. It was quite a sight. For spectacular. The confusion and anxiety in the children's hearts is hard to imagine for those without personal experience. \x0d\\x0d\Compared to the fact that there is no car to ride, the high fare seems to be only a small problem. During the Spring Festival travel period, train fares across the country were increased by 20. Although under market economy conditions, the relationship between supply and demand directly affects prices. However, railway transportation is still a state-owned asset and is in a monopoly position. This move is really depressing. \x0d\\x0d\In addition, the Spring Festival Transport also has problems such as crowding, disorder, and weather effects. When entering the station, people often crowd in and get on the train. Most of the trains are overcrowded, the air is polluted, and the environment is harsh. At the end of the journey, people are often left in a sorry state, and their politeness is ruined. In addition, tens of thousands of passengers were stranded at stations due to heavy snowfall. All this makes tourists miserable and full of complaints. The main reasons are large passenger flow, insufficient transportation capacity, abnormal ticket sales, etc. Railways play an important role in economic development and are the link connecting all aspects of social production. Solving problems in railway transportation and alleviating conflicts during the Spring Festival are top priorities. \x0d\\x0d\2 Shopping Frenzy\x0d\\x0d\The Spring Festival is also a "market" for exchange. People will always exchange to get what they need. According to tradition, people often buy new clothes during the Spring Festival. Major stores have also seized the opportunity and launched a series of promotional activities. There are buy 100 yuan and get 118 yuan free, buy 98 yuan and get 98 yuan free, there are discounts, VIP cards, membership cards, etc. There are really endless varieties. \x0d\\x0d\During the Spring Festival, my father spent 318 yuan on a pair of pants in the mall. The mall gave 318 yuan as a gift. A pair of Playboy shoes cost 558. On top of the 318 yuan as a gift, my father paid 240 yuan to buy the shoes. , the mall gave away another 240 yuan. So, my mother bought another bottle of Kose eye cream and essence for 240 yuan. Then, the mall gave away another 160 yuan, so I bought a hat and scarf with the original price of 158 yuan? \x0d\\x0d\In this way, it can be said that it is a series of sets. For about 560 yuan, the whole family can get brand-name trousers, shoes, cosmetics, hats, etc., which is acceptable to ordinary people. As a result, major shopping malls are crowded with people, and crazy shoppers can be seen everywhere. The value of the Spring Festival is not only the traditional meaning of celebrating the new year and taking a rest, but also an effective means to promote consumption and stimulate domestic demand. Its role in consumption is the most obvious and direct. In this process, merchants have launched endless promotional activities. Although the operating model is not satisfactory to outsiders, it will ultimately end in profit. The effective and smooth circulation of goods in the market is the success of commercial activities and a win-win situation for both buyers and sellers.

\x0d\\x0d\3 Preparing New Year’s Goods\x0d\\x0d\In the past, preparing New Year’s goods was the highlight of the Spring Festival. Nowadays, although the service industry has developed rapidly and there is no need to prepare too much food before New Year's Eve, some shops and vegetable markets will still be closed around New Year's Eve. Therefore, you still need to buy some fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, seafood, etc. before the New Year. The closer it gets to New Year's Eve, the more expensive all kinds of food become. Cucumbers, beans, and tomatoes have all risen to 4 yuan/jin, and even cabbage, the most common type in the north, has also risen to 1.5 yuan/jin. The average price in the past was only 0.5 yuan/jin. In terms of fruits, the most common apples, ducks and pears in the north are priced at more than 2.8 yuan per catty. Pomelos in the south have also increased from 2.5 yuan per catty to 3.5 yuan per catty. One grapefruit costs about 15 yuan. And I killed countless grapefruits in Changsha in winter, and each one only cost 4-5 yuan. \x0d\\x0d\Although the prices of many fruits and vegetables are staggering, people still buy them. This phenomenon can be said to reinterpret the classic theory that supply and demand affect prices. New Year's Eve is approaching, and people working in the service industry also have to take a break during the holiday, resulting in a reduction in the supply of commodities. In winter, there are few varieties of vegetables, the costs of cultivation, transportation, and storage are high, and the price of vegetables itself is high. The specific psychology given to people during the New Year makes these expensive fruits and vegetables a necessity: Who doesn’t prepare seven plates and eight bowls of meat and vegetables dishes during the New Year? A too simple New Year’s Eve dinner always feels unruly and outrageous. Not being able to eat what you want makes this "New Year" seem too bleak. As a result, the seller's goods suddenly felt like "a rare commodity." Calculated in this way, preparing new year's goods accounts for a certain proportion of each family's Spring Festival consumption. However, this can also be seen as a process of redistribution to a certain extent. The rich buy products from the poor at relatively high prices, which can also be seen as a means to redistribute products and shorten the gap between the rich and the poor. However, how is the final profit obtained distributed in the fields of production and circulation, and in what proportion? We don't know. Will rising prices ultimately benefit farmers? We don't know either. \x0d\\x0d\ Four Visits to Relatives and Friends and Happy New Year \x0d\\x0d\ According to tradition, relatives and friends have to come and go with each other during the Spring Festival. This is a matter of "etiquette". So, I rushed back to Shijiazhuang from Changsha, and then back to my hometown of Cangzhou from Shijiazhuang to celebrate the New Year. The poet said: The so-called hometown is just the last stop of our ancestors' wanderings. I couldn't agree more. My family history is relatively simple, but my ancestors have traveled to several places. So the relatives all lived in two or three small cities. During the Spring Festival, they would visit each other and give each other some gifts, which was called "connection". Years ago, we visited my grandma, second uncle, eldest aunt, second aunt, and third aunt respectively, and they also visited us one by one. On average, each family has to give away about 50-100 yuan in gifts. Gifts generally include packaging, good quality cakes, fruits, nutritional products, etc. The various shopping malls and stores in Cangzhou also cater to their liking, with many varieties to choose from. Years later, as a representative of a male from my grandmother’s lineage, my father would visit his uncles, aunts and other elders. He brought more than a dozen gifts ranging from sesame oil mushrooms to eight-treasure porridge to visit four relatives. The process was more interesting. Dad gave some of the gifts from the first family to the second family, and then to the third family? And so on and so on, with many twists and turns, pushing and giving, matching each other, and finally brought it back to the other family. Four gifts including black sesame paste and Tianjin twists. This kind of courtesy and courtesy can't help but make people smile. \x0d\\x0d\However, after laughing and thinking about it, it is not difficult to find that blood ties are the bond of the Spring Festival. The annual Spring Festival plays a role in continuously strengthening people's awareness of blood ties. Human consciousness determines human behavior. Therefore, the enhancement of kinship awareness is also closely related to the generalization of kinship behaviors. From a consciousness level, the four major factors hindering China's modernization are: consanguinism, authoritarianism, egalitarianism and opportunism. And consanguinism occupies a dominant position among them. Consanguinism makes blood relations the behavioral law of social and economic life. The result is: there is integrity within the blood relationship, but face outside the blood relationship; there is order within the family, but opportunism outside the family; things are easy to do among acquaintances, but loopholes are taken advantage of among strangers. Therefore, consanguinism leads to human relationships being more important than the rule of law. The rule of law is the essential requirement of modernization. Without the rule of law, there would be no modernization in China. In addition, consanguinism also has the natural gene of authoritarianism.

And authoritarianism is not conducive to the emergence of equality and democratic spirit. Furthermore, consanguinism also has a flavor of egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is not conducive to mobilizing individual enthusiasm, nor is it conducive to the construction of an effective property system. In this way, the Spring Festival has a relatively negative effect on China's social and economic development - the solidification of consanguinism. \x0d\\x0d\ If China's economy wants to achieve sustained, healthy, stable and rapid development, it must get out of the quagmire of blood-based sentimentality. Life requires blood ties and family warmth, but society does not need blood ties. The socialization of blood relations must be based on social rationality. Therefore, how to correctly view the Spring Festival and how to effectively use the Spring Festival has become a topic we should think about. \x0d\\x0d\5 SMS text messages are flying all over the sky\x0d\\x0d\With the development of communications, mobile phones have become a necessary communication tool for almost everyone in major and medium-sized cities. Compared with the previous New Year greetings by phone, exchanging greetings in the form of short messages saves a lot of time and money. And the content of the text messages, which are either humorous or warm and romantic, has more humanistic connotations than traditional greetings such as "Have a good New Year!" Starting from the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, many anxious students are ready to take action, and messages of New Year greetings begin to scroll on the screen. On New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, the text messages were flying like snowflakes all over the sky. Dozens or even hundreds of messages were sent and received every day, which was a spectacular sight. \x0d\\x0d\ Behind the proliferation of text messages, not only telecom companies such as China Unicom and China Mobile have directly benefited, but also a group of emerging professionals - online text message writers. According to online reports, successful text message writers earn nearly 10,000 yuan a day during the Spring Festival! And its income during festive periods such as Christmas, New Year, and Valentine's Day is also considerable. Text messages are flying everywhere, not only to relatives and friends, but also to superiors and subordinates. As a medium of communication, they are similar to New Year greetings. To a certain extent, they also reflect China’s strong sense of blood and circle. It is also a part of the Spring Festival. Great new features. \x0d\\x0d\Spring Festival is a warm noun, a sweet word, a quiet and lively holiday, and a point of farewell to the past and contact with the future. Although we no longer look forward to those candies, melon seeds, and peanuts, although people are saying that the taste of the New Year is not as good as every year. However, the Spring Festival is still the Spring Festival. We will still squeeze the train home without hesitation, we will still go crazy shopping and prepare for the New Year, we will still hold our mobile phones and giggle, and we will still carry our things to various houses to say New Year greetings. The Spring Festival is both a social phenomenon and an economic phenomenon. Its emergence, development, and demise are all determined by the economic foundation, which is a historical necessity. \x0d\\x0d\At the end, there is a poem to record what makes us laugh and make us sad - the Spring Festival\x0d\\x0d\Spring Festival: Beauty and Sorrow\x0d\The Spring Festival is beautiful. \x0d\The Spring Festival makes people warm, warm, peaceful, auspicious and happy. \x0d\The Spring Festival is the Chinese Christmas day. \x0d\The West has the Bible, and China has Confucianism. \x0d\There are churches in the West and ancestral halls in China. \x0d\The West has Christmas Eve, and China has New Year's Eve. \x0d\There is Santa Claus in the West and elders in China. \x0d\The West has Christmas gifts, while China has New Year's money. \x0d\There is Christ in the West and ancestors in China. \x0d\There is a person in the West and a blood connection in China. \x0d\The Spring Festival is the day when blood ties unite. \x0d\Bloodline is the tether of the Chinese soul. \x0d\ Blood ties connect the underworld and the human world. \x0d\Blood ties connect the elderly and their children. \x0d\Blood ties the past and the future. \x0d\Blood nourishes the soul, and the soul maintains blood. \x0d\\x0d\The Spring Festival also makes people sad. \x0d\The Spring Festival solidifies blood ties. \x0d\ Authority is inherent in blood and lacks equality. \x0d\The bloodline derivation is average and lacks efficiency. \x0d\Blood ties are only family ties and acquaintances, not strangers. \x0d\ Blood relationship leads to only circle order and lack of social order. \x0d\The Spring Festival also sometimes becomes the messenger and talisman of evil. \x0d\Corruption in the name of the Spring Festival. \x0d\ Forming parties for personal gain in the name of the Spring Festival. \x0d\ Show off in the name of the Spring Festival.