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? Psychoanalysis: Why do modern people generally have a desire to travel?

"Are you going to travel on holiday?" Many colleagues greet you in this way nowadays. If you just spent a dull holiday at home, you will be angry in your heart. From this point of view, tourism really has a real place in our lives. Many people in China are familiar with the lifestyle of the western middle class traveling around the world after intense work.

Why are the thrifty old people willing to use their savings to go to running with the bulls, a world where people and land are born together? Why do middle-aged people who are deeply involved in work every day spend a lot of time traveling, but don't enjoy the rare relaxation at home? Why do foreign tourists with blond hair and blue eyes come to rural or remote areas of China to see some historical sites or real mountains and waters?

In the modern society with advanced information, we can completely keep a scholar at home and know all about the world. There are so many travel programs on TV that you can see them more clearly through the exquisite pictures than if you were there. However, people must set foot on that land in person. For some people, it may be to give up a worry, fulfill their responsibilities, and fulfill their promises. Others have either started or completed a social exchange process, similar to giving gifts and returning gifts. Tourism has many obvious functions, but from the perspective of social psychology, we can get some new explanations.

when people are on the journey, new senses * * * are filled in the brain, and anxiety about work and life is temporarily suppressed and separated

From the perspective of human evolutionary history, movement plays an irreplaceable role in improving human adaptability to the environment. The feeling of moving can come from three situations. One is that we are not moving while the outside world is moving. The earth takes us "sitting on the ground and walking 8 thousand miles a day" every day. The other is that we move, while the outside world is relatively motionless. Another is that we move at the same time as the outside world. If the speed is the same, it is not easy to feel this movement.

Cognitive psychology has found that people's attention is most easily awakened by moving scenery. Although we live in the city without moving in bed, the sense of movement formed in the professional modern society has been diluted because most of them come from a relatively fixed lifestyle and a relatively fixed space. Living in the city for a long time will make people feel blind and insipid.

as a way of moving, tourism is different from being forced to travel and being exhausted. It is an active movement, and it brings us a brand-new feeling that is completely different from being partial to a corner. The scenery moves with the pace, and people move because of the situation, which makes people relaxed and happy. This kind of comfortable feeling also comes from the unknown environment that this kind of active movement will face. This unknown environment has formed moderate anxiety in people's minds through various information media, and the imagination has outlined good expectations. On the journey, when you are there, all the senses will be fully activated, and the new senses will be filled with the brain, and the previous work and life anxiety will be temporarily suppressed and separated, so people will feel particularly happy.

in fact, breaking the familiar cognitive environment will generally bring people insecurity, but modern travel services have dispelled people's worries and kept the freshness brought by mobile.

The exotic customs are a mirror of self-understanding, which is also conducive to the establishment of an inclusive world view.

The novelty has also brought us some new gains. Being there will make people subconsciously process these new information, compare it with their original information, and satisfy their self-value orientation. By comparing with people from other places, we will know more about our life, our situation and our value. If we are the same as others, we will get a sense of identity; if we are different from others, we will get a sense of uniqueness. Through comparison, we will also reflect on our own situation and turn other people's experiences into our own.

Tourism makes us feel more sensibly the rationality of different lifestyles and concepts. And have the opportunity to experience exotic customs to a certain extent. Experience the local lifestyle: language, customs, climate, geography. When we approach the local area with our bodies, we will naturally form a pluralistic and tolerant value concept. It is not easy for you to become him, and it is not easy for him to become you, but you and he can understand and respect each other. In this way, the narrowness and stubbornness of the frog in the well can be avoided, and people's hearts will naturally be cheerful.

Tourism meets people's need to pursue self-extension and transcendence

It is human instinct to pursue self-extension and transcendence. Tourism meets this need to some extent. When we drive thousands of miles from our hometown, or cross oceans, come to other places, or climb mountains or dive to the bottom, our horizons are beyond the scope of the past, and the space we occupy is greatly expanded. The more places you go, the more space you expand, and the more people's hearts are expanding, reaching the ends of the earth.

When we enter more developed European and American countries, it is like entering the world of tomorrow; And when we go to the countries with splendid ancient civilizations and look at the historical sites that have experienced many vicissitudes, it seems that we have returned to yesterday's world. Travel allows us to talk with the past and the future in silent language, and to touch the time that we can't touch with our hands.

In this way, the time and space that a person actually occupies is greatly expanded through tourism. From this point, we can understand why foreigners want to see quadrangles in Beijing rather than skyscrapers; City people want to see Tibetan-style small buildings when they go to Jiuzhaigou, rather than staying in hotels with ceramic tiles on the outer walls.

In order to record this expansion, and to show their luck in being expanded, tourists always like to buy some souvenirs, or take photos as a souvenir the first thing they do when they arrive at a certain scenic spot. Some people are also worried that their arrival will be forgotten or drowned in the footprints of millions of tourists, so they leave some marks, such as marks, names, or simply say "XX is here". Most people take some photos as a record of this expansion. This desire sometimes goes to extremes, replacing tourism as the purpose of experience. Tourism has become a drama for others to see, and I have become an actor in it. Tourists "get on the bus to sleep, get off the bus to pee, and take pictures at scenic spots, but they don't know anything." Travel agencies also design tourist routes with the marketing strategy of many scenic spots, which makes many tourists become exhausted passers-by.

after all, tourism is just a kind of travel, not a normal way of life. Modern tourism will make people love their homes and homes more, and it will also make people's hearts and feet more "wild".

moving and static, similarities and differences, stretching and narrowing, tourism provides us with an opportunity to be in constant change. Therefore, tourism will heat up. (Source: 39 Health Network)