{"id":16954,"date":"2022-01-10T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=16954"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:03:26","slug":"the-spring-festival-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/the-spring-festival-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spring Festival anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16955\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16955\" class=\" wp-image-16955\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/new-year-pressure-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/new-year-pressure-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/new-year-pressure.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by akkasit_tom from Pixabay, CCO<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spring Festival celebrates the beginning of a\u00a0new year\u00a0on the traditional Chinese calendar. This year it will be celebrated on February 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2022. It\u2019s the most important Chinese holiday and it\u2019s being celebrated with much excitement and festivities. A fifteen-day long holiday that will include a dinner feast, a family reunion, decorations, fireworks, red envelopes, and more.<\/p>\n<p>But China\u2019s largest celebration also brings some discomfort along with it. The spring festival travel rush is one of the most notorious inconveniences of the holiday. Expect an extremely high traffic load and greatly crowded transportation links with billions of passenger journeys during the 40 day period, making the travel uneasy. Sasha wrote a beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/the-spring-festival-rush\/\">post<\/a> about it, including his own experience.<\/p>\n<p>The annual celebration also causes emotional pressure. As the family-focused holiday approaches, many youngsters, especially singles, suffer stress. It is called \u6625\u8282\u7126\u8651\u75c7 (ch\u016bn ji\u00e9 ji\u0101o l\u01dc zh\u00e8ng, <em>Spring Festival anxiety<\/em>). Young people in their twenties and thirties from all over the country are feeling anxiety at the end of the year, and worried about going home for different reasons: the high travelling cost, the expense of\u00a0giving presents, the questioning about their financial and love life. The Chinese parental-pressure on their children to marry and to find a steady job always exists, but it is intensified during the Spring Festival with the reunion and the influx of extra relatives to ask questions about their private lives.<\/p>\n<p>As some netizens explain:<\/p>\n<p>\u53ea\u8981\u4e00\u63d0\u5230\u56de\u5bb6\u6211\u5c31\u975e\u5e38\u7126\u8651\u3002\u56de\u5bb6\u8981\u9762\u5bf9\u5bb6\u4eba\u7684\u5173\u5fc3\u3002\u5bf9\u4ed6\u4eec\u6765\u8bf4\uff0c\u6211\u5de5\u4f5c\u4e0d\u597d\uff0c\u94b1\u6323\u5f97\u5c11\uff0c\u5bf9\u8c61\u90fd\u627e\u7684\u4e0d\u597d\u3002\u4eb2\u621a\u4e0d\u65ad\u5730\u95ee\u6709\u5bf9\u8c61\u6ca1\u3001\u5de5\u8d44\u591a\u5c11\u3001\u623f\u5b50\u4e70\u4e86\u5417\uff1f\u4eba\u4e0d\u884c\uff0c\u5e72\u5565\u90fd\u4e0d\u884c\uff0c\u51c0\u7ed9\u5bb6\u91cc\u4e22\u4eba\u3002\u8fc7\u5e74\u5b81\u613f\u4e00\u4e2a\u5728\u51fa\u79df\u5c4b\u5403\u6ce1\u9762\u4e5f\u4e0d\u613f\u610f\u56de\u53bb\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Zh\u01d0 y\u00e0o y\u012b t\u00ed d\u00e0o hu\u00ed ji\u0101 w\u01d2 ji\u00f9 f\u0113i ch\u00e1ng ji\u0101o l\u01dc. Hu\u00ed ji\u0101 y\u00e0o mi\u00e0n du\u00ec ji\u0101 r\u00e9n de gu\u0101n x\u012bn. Du\u00ec t\u0101 men l\u00e1i shu\u014d, w\u01d2 gong zu\u00f2 b\u00f9 h\u01ceo, qi\u00e1n zh\u0113ng d\u00e9 sh\u01ceo, du\u00ec xi\u00e0ng d\u014du zh\u01ceo de b\u00f9 h\u01ceo. Q\u012bn q\u012b b\u00f9 du\u00e0n de w\u00e8n y\u01d2u du\u00ec xi\u00e0ng m\u00e9i, gong z\u012b du\u014d sh\u01ceo, f\u00e1ngzi m\u01cei le ma? R\u00e9n b\u00f9 x\u00edng, g\u00e0n sh\u00e0 d\u014du b\u00f9 x\u00edng, j\u00ecng g\u011bi ji\u0101 l\u01d0 di\u016b r\u00e9n. Gu\u00f2 ni\u00e1n n\u00ecng yu\u00e0n y\u012b g\u00e8 z\u00e0i ch\u016b z\u016b w\u016b ch\u012b p\u00e0o mi\u00e0n y\u011b b\u00f9 yuan y\u00ec hu\u00ed q\u00f9.<\/p>\n<p><em>Just the mention of going home makes me very anxious. Going home means to face the concerns of the family. For them, my job is not good, the salary is low, my partners are not good. Relatives keep asking me if I have a partner, how much is my salary, and have I bought a house? I am not good, nothing I do is good, just a shame on the family. I\u2019d rather eat instant noodles in a rental house than go back during Chinese New Year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Geng Haiyang experiences similar feelings every year he returns home to celebrate the New Year. Shortly after the end of the 2021 Spring Festival, he publicly shared his autobiographical documentary\u00a0<em>Flight of the Honeybees<\/em>. The film is an amazing peek to the rural Chinese lives and to Geng\u2019s annual visits for the last decade, during which his aging parents continually exhort him to marriage. Watch the trailer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u4e2d\u56fd\u519c\u6751\u903c\u5a5a\u9898\u6750\u72ec\u7acb\u7eaa\u5f55\u7247\u300a\u8702\u62e5\u800c\u81f3\u300b\u9884\u544a\u7247\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AyyPh9FuAcg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/the-spring-festival-gala\/\">China\u2019s New Year Gala<\/a>, the biggest TV event of the year, approaches the subject as well. The four-hour-long show reflects the Chinese authorities\u2019\u00a0pro-marriage stance. Last year Gala, for example, performed a skit about a woman facing\u00a0relentless pressure\u00a0from her parents to get married. When she finally brings a boyfriend home for the holiday, her parents refuse to believe it, and accuse her of\u00a0hiring a date\u00a0for the festival, a business that emerged in recent years. The sketch, loyal to the social demand, ended with a marriage proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Text vocabulary<\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u6625\u8282 ch\u016bn ji\u00e9 = Spring Festival<\/p>\n<p>\u7126\u8651 ji\u0101ol\u01dc = anxious<\/p>\n<p>\u7126\u8651\u75c7 ji\u0101o l\u01dc zh\u00e8ng = anxiety<\/p>\n<p>\u56de\u5bb6 hu\u00ed ji\u0101 = return home<\/p>\n<p>\u8fc7\u5e74 gu\u00f2 ni\u00e1n = to celebrate the Spring Festival<\/p>\n<p>\u5bb6\u4eba ji\u0101 r\u00e9n = family member<\/p>\n<p>\u4eb2\u621a q\u012bn q\u012b = relative<\/p>\n<p>\u4e22\u4eba di\u016br\u00e9n = shame, to lose face<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>\u597d\u597d\u5b66\u4e60\uff0c\u5929\u5929\u5411\u4e0a\uff01<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/new-year-pressure-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/new-year-pressure-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/new-year-pressure.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Spring Festival celebrates the beginning of a\u00a0new year\u00a0on the traditional Chinese calendar. This year it will be celebrated on February 1st, 2022. It\u2019s the most important Chinese holiday and it\u2019s being celebrated with much excitement and festivities. A fifteen-day long holiday that will include a dinner feast, a family reunion, decorations, fireworks, red envelopes, and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/the-spring-festival-anxiety\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":16955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16954","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16957,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions\/16957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}