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Traditions come and go, but spirit prevails steadfast
Welcoming the Year of the Dog！ Super祝大家新年快乐~今天和大家分享轻阅读 Family reunions around dinner tables overflowing with充满，洋溢sumptuous dishes盛宴, firecrackers爆竹exploding in the night sky and children anxiously waiting for the red envelopes红包 filled with “lucky money压岁钱.” 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让守旧的人接受新事物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随处可见的, deafening震耳欲聋的 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怀旧、伤感的 about it or even try to revive恢复 old times. Let the past go. Old traditions are indeed evolving. Traditional Spring Festival couplets对联nowadays are often written with funny catchphrases流行语instead of classic poems, and ancient operas have added punk music and electronic elements to attract young people. But rest assured确信无疑的是, Spring Festival won’t disappear, no matter how much it change. It’s a special time to bid farewell to告别the past year, past failures, past heartbreaks and welcome a fresh start, a new era and a bright future. 雅思口语2月班爆满，不再接受报名 3月班口语预测班 咨询微信：superenglish9 (注明考试时间 目标分数，屏蔽不通过) 微信人数有限 没有课程需求勿加，成功添加后请介绍自己情况 网上最棒的雅思口语 写作课程
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