I mean, it's distinctively Chinese as a social norm or custom. No other country has the similar massive migration every year at the same time. Never heard of it. People in U.S take vacations but not being ordered to go to the same destination:to their parents'home. There's no such a calling among us.
elfie 发表评论于
There's a thing that you must do, guys, in this free country with a free spirit.
People can choose not to see their parents anymore or just occasionally, I totally understand, let alone traveling to their old home every year.
More naturally, it's the parents who want to see the adult children, not vice versa. Grown ups don't need parents anymore, emotionally or financially.
That's why the German professor couldn't figure out why the Chinese wanted to go the opposite directions. What is the calling? I don't get it either. People don't have the inner clock like migrant birds or salmon that must go back to the same habitat every year.
Traditional society.
I certainly don't want to go anywhere but crawling on my own bed on Christmas morning, cuddling with my baby boy and listening to kids laughing. Yep, people sometimes have the herd instinct, that's why they would aboard the cattle cars heading to Auschwitz with no second thoughts. But the ones with deeper thinking, they're left out.