Preheating Before Spring Festival---the Spring Festival Travel Rush

In the eyes of many foreigners, the Spring Festival travel rush is the largest annual migration on Earth. In 40 days, nearly 3 billion people will be transported across the country by China’s massive and efficient public transport systems. This is a spectacle that can only be seen in China.

The Spring Festival travel rush can be also called the migration of spring. The reason why Spring Festival is called the migration spring in winter is that spring is full of hope.

People are waiting to get on

One thing that deserves attention in 2019 is the “Reverse Spring Festival”. Reverse Spring Festival is a popular way in Chinese New Year in recent years. The children bring the old men from their rural hometowns to the cities for reunion. Reverse Spring Festival can be regarded as the wisdom of migrant workers to being used to solve the problem of why it is so “difficult to buy tickets” (you must buy tickets as early as possible before the Spring Festival or you may not return home.) Young people have become rooted in the big cities throughout their struggles and now have the chance to show their parents the cities they live in, which are also full of holiday warmth. However, some people said that the change of place to celebrate the New Year will make young generations gradually forget their birthplace, their playmates in their childhood, and their native dialects. This is undoubtedly a challenge to the preservation of even the most deep – rooted local culture.

People with bags of luggage

During the Spring Festival travel rush, there is a special reunion called “a minute of reunion”. Flight attendants and their families reunite for just a minute when the trains stop. When the trains start again, they have to separate.

With high – speed railways and other effective transportations appearing, the Spring Festival travel rush has fulfilled the wish of making most people go home. Spring Festival travel rush is always amazing because Chinese people believe that a year’s struggle lies in reunion during the Spring Festival.