During the rush hour in Spring Festival travel rush, it is difficult to get train tickets. Why does everyone go home for the New Year?

Every Spring Festival, China vigorously launches the largest "migration movement" in the world. Thousands of homeless people are on their way home, so they must go home for dinner before New Year's Eve. No matter how hard it is to get a ticket, no matter what the weather is like, I will not hesitate to go to my hometown on New Year's Eve.

Why do people go home on New Year's Eve? Not only because of the richness of the New Year's Eve dinner, but also because of a feeling of longing for reunion, a folk complex of looking forward to a better life, and a historical memory in the blood. The New Year's Eve dinner embodies the life concept of the Chinese nation.

New Year's Eve has important folk significance: firstly, it is a reunion dinner, and the whole family must get together. Even if someone has to be absent, they should be provided with bowls and chopsticks to symbolically show their existence;

The second is money. If there is anything delicious at home, especially if you can't bear it, you will put it all, especially fish, which means "more than one year";

Thirdly, New Year's Eve is joyful and festive, and families can eat and drink as much as they like. People think that "having a big New Year's Eve dinner" is beneficial to the safety and health of a year.

New Year's Eve dinner is not only rich in connotation, but also has a long history. As early as ancient times, people had the custom of eating and drinking together in the twelfth lunar month. By the twelfth lunar month, the year's work has been basically completed, and the harvested fruits have been put into storage. At this time, in order to thank the gods for their blessing and reward a year of hard work, people have dinner in the form of festival revelry, and at the same time enjoy singing, dancing and drinking. This kind of activity became the embryonic form of the New Year's Eve dinner.

About the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the custom of New Year's Eve dinner was formed and quickly became popular.

Summary: This shows how attractive and important the New Year's Eve is! Therefore, as soon as we entered the twelfth lunar month, people began to look forward to New Year's Eve and gradually rushed home from all directions. A meal on New Year's Eve seems to place all people's good hopes for life, as if it can eliminate all suffering and sadness, as if it can open an ideal world they dream of. This is why people have to go home for the New Year.