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As is known to all, Spring Festival is the biggest festival in Chinese tradition, and must be draw the most eyes. So did this year, yet, it has its specialty.
Back in 2007 of china, this is a year of high-inflation, high-food price, and high-house price. Then what is following is that people’s actual salary is decreasing, Even their deposit is depreciating, and people’s real life quality is declining too. How to keep everyday living becomes a question back on table. So when you enjoy your New Year Eve’s yummy food, think about that it may equal your whole family’s Wally last year. That is just most people’s Spring Festival. Anyways, we still have it though may not expected as before.

Beginning of 2008 is period of natural disaster, may be god is angry of china refusing sign the “bali roadmap.” Because I was on my volunteer work this semester, so I witnessed the terrible weather in some parts of china especially on freeway. That was during the climax of transportation during Spring Festival, train tickets were so hard to get in Beijing, air force in many area of china were interrupted. I was lucky to get a pick-up back to home. Although the freeway protectors were cleaning the snow, there were some not yet to clean, and some places were snowing all the time. I was fortunate to back home by car, what about the farmer workers who left hometown for the whole year? How do they get home? Some may first have to worry about their long unpaid salary. Then after I went home, I heard the news that the electric workers in Hunan province in central china were died of knocking off the ice of the electric cable. that was a heart-broken news for their family, for Hunan province, for the whole country. Premier Wen Jiabao paid a visit to Hunan, and consoled the heartrending family. What about their Spring Festival? Some one leave, some one hurt, what feeling should the rest have?
However, the celebration still goes on, children still mirth. This is the Olympic year, this is the harvest year. Look at the New Year Eve’s anniversary party hold by CCTV, you can find more vapidity, more sumptuous decorations. That is just a routine happens every year.
Turn our eye on the wonderful performance during Spring Festival. When you consent your eyes, do you notice those street performer may have not had their lunch yet, they may have to prepare it for the whole cold winter without pay. They may have no money to buy new clothes and food because of the inflation happened last year. That is the difference between you and them. That is their Spring Festival.
Whatever, every one has his or her Spring Festival. May happy, may sad, may numbness because already get used to. We celebrate it each year, year by year. It is the most beautiful clothes we ever wear, ever.