Traditions come and go, but spirit prevails steadfast

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Family reunions around dinner tables overflowing with充滿，洋溢sumptuous dishes盛宴, firecrackers爆竹exploding in the night sky and children anxiously waiting for the red envelopes紅包 filled with “lucky money壓歲錢.”

Yes, that’s the classic backdrop背景 of Spring Festival. But with each passing year, the Lunar New Year is showing that society can teach an old dog new tricks讓守舊的人接受新事物as modern urban life slowly changes our habits of celebrating.

Red-envelope money, or hongbao, is now sent with the click of a smartphone. Family reunion dinners on New Year’s Eve have moved from mom’s kitchen to restaurants. Fewer people worship their ancestors拜祭祖先in a family ceremony held before eating. And many people prefer to use the weeklong holiday for overseas trips rather than visiting friends and relatives at home. Even theubiquitous隨處可見的, deafening震耳欲聾的 fireworks that once turned the night sky to day as the clock struck midnight are now banned in many cities due to air pollution concerns.

For the younger generation, Spring Festival is increasingly becoming a simplified family dinner ahead of a seven-day vacation. There’s no turning back. Folk traditions always change with the social changes. There is no standard to mark a truly traditional Chinese New Year because traditions long ago varied under different dynasties.

Form may change but essence does not.

Take Hongbao as an example. Money didn’t really come into commonplace use普遍使用until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and today people transfer money around via mobile phones.

But the inner spirit of it never changes, that is to wish children good health. Old things are gone or eliminated, replaced by new things. It’s just the way of development. We don’t need to be overly nostalgic懷舊,、傷感的 about it or even try to revive恢復(fù) old times. Let the past go.

Old traditions are indeed evolving. Traditional Spring Festival couplets對聯(lián)nowadays are often written with funny catchphrases流行語instead of classic poems, and ancient operas have added punk music and electronic elements to attract young people.

But rest assured確信無疑的是, Spring Festival won’t disappear, no matter how much it change. It’s a special time to bid farewell to告別the past year, past failures, past heartbreaks and welcome a fresh start, a new era and a bright future.

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