Wen | shenrancaijing, author | Wang Min, editor | Jin Wen.
At the beginning of the new year, everyone wants to make a good luck and win a good lottery in the new year. In the matter of "seeking good luck", young people play more and more.
"2022 is the beginning of the second half of my 20 th generation (that is, 20 to 30 years old) and a brand new starting point." Yao Ling, 26, thinks that 2022 is of special significance to herself, so she pays more attention to it than before.
Yao Ling spent nearly 1000 yuan to collect this set of New Year’s equipment by placing an order for a mobile phone case with the meaning of "Everything goes well", making a transfer bead manicure, wearing a transfer bead red rope bracelet and buying a crystal bracelet, necklace and ring. In her eyes, these are all objects to enhance the atmosphere of the New Year.
Earlier, a survey report showed that at least one out of every four people in China believed in metaphysics. Metaphysics has penetrated into some people’s daily life, especially the special node of the Spring Festival.
According to the way, young people’s "Metaphysics" play in the New Year can be divided into three categories: "Gathering equipment". Some people spend seven or eight thousand yuan on the red suit from the inside out in this animal year alone, and crystal, garrison, transfer bead red rope, polished amulets, bracelets and ornaments are also widely popular; "Looking at the fortune", some young people specially look for fortune tellers to predict the fortune of the New Year, which not only seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, but also is a kind of New Year ritual; "To pray", someone specially arranged to go to the temple on the New Year’s Day to pray, burn "the incense of the new year’s head column" and ask for a blessing bag to take home.
Different from the traditional feudal superstition, young people’s "metaphysics" is between belief and unbelief. Most people pay for "metaphysics" during the Chinese New Year, which is not only a spiritual sustenance, but also a way to fill the sense of New Year ceremony. On major life choices, they still firmly believe that "fate is in their own hands".
Every spring festival, it is the time to equip the big PK in the animal year.
The traditional saying that "the birth year is too old, which may affect the fortune" is widely circulated. Young people no longer wait for their elders to arrange, but have already prepared a red suit for themselves. "The sense of ritual once every 12 years must be arranged."
Red sweaters, underwear and socks are basic standard items, not to mention mobile phone cases, hair clips, three-in-one bracelets (mascots derived from numerology theory), necklaces and bags. People with the birth year of 2022 spent about 6,000 yuan on bracelets and necklaces alone, plus bags and mobile phone cases.The whole set of equipment costs about seven or eight thousand yuan.
People in the animal year will pay special attention to New Year’s equipment, butYoung people in non-animal years are not to be outdone in order to win a good lottery. They not only spend their minds on some daily details, but also are willing to buy mascots that are said to have various functions.
In order to seek good luck in the New Year, Yao Ling ordered a mobile phone case with the meaning of "everything goes well", and specially made a transfer bead manicure. The price of transfer bead manicure depends on the type of transfer bead. Yao Ling has a most common transfer bead, which is snowflake-shaped and costs more than 200 yuan. A friend of Yao Ling’s has a fast-rotating transfer bead on her nails, which cost more than 400 yuan.
Crystal and Guarding, the popular mascots among young people, are still highly sought after during the Spring Festival.
Yao Ling also ordered some crystal bracelets, necklaces and rings for herself. In the past, she only bought crystal ornaments from an aesthetic point of view. This time, she also specially looked for various materials to study the energy and efficacy of different crystals, and finally placed an order for tea crystals and topaz, which are said to have the effect of stabilizing emotions, and the prices are basically between tens of yuan and hundreds of yuan.
Wu Ru, born in 2000, has a more secondary style of daily wear, and will wear a guard before. This Spring Festival, she specially asked the garrison in Sensoji Temple to invite her for a New Year’s "wish to fulfill the garrison", and the price was around 100 yuan.
Young people will not miss the traditional China objects symbolizing good luck, such as gold ornaments, red string of fortune-transferring beads, amulets, bracelets and ornaments.
In the New Year, gold is the most universal. Many young people not only buy it for themselves, but also send it to their families and friends. A staff member of a gold shop told Shen Burning that the Spring Festival is the peak period of a gold shop in a year. She sold more grams of gold every day a few days ago than usual.
Yao Ling’s friend spent more than 1000 yuan to buy a lock-shaped gold ring. Shang Ya, who works in Beijing, plans to buy a gold tiger pendant as a necklace or bracelet for her parents in the Year of the Tiger. It costs more than 1000 yuan to buy a golden tiger.
The red rope bracelet, which represents "good fortune rolling in", is a must for many people in the New Year. Yao Ling bought herself a transfer bead red rope bracelet during the Spring Festival.
Many young people will also buy amulets, bracelets and ornaments on the Internet.
Niu Jing walked through many temples when she traveled to Tibet during her college days. She accidentally learned that some online stores also sell things from the temple’s legal logistics office, including amulets. Since graduating from college for more than three years, she has often bought online things that symbolize peace and smoothness, such as buying a string of beads for her brother to bless his brother’s college entrance examination. Every Spring Festival, I buy protective talisman for myself and my parents and family, and the single price is about tens of yuan.
For protective talisman, Niu Jing has a set of his own purchase logic: "A lot of things, if you believe it, you will have it. If you don’t believe it, you will have nothing. Buying these is actually equivalent to psychological sustenance. If the price is too expensive, you may have higher expectations, and it is easy to get the opposite. "
Young people seek good luck in the New Year and are curious about their fortune in the New Year, so many people choose divination.
Astrologer Nanmu told Shen Burning that before and after the Spring Festival, the demand for young people’s divination was very strong, mostly depending on their career and love fortune. Some people leave their working environment for a short time during the Spring Festival holiday, and will seriously rethink some life events, just thinking about understanding the fortune through divination; There are also many young people who want to know their love fortune by divination because they are urged to get married by their families.
Different young people will like different ways of divination,Astrolabe, tarot and horoscope are three kinds of fire in recent years.
In the past, there were often some "masters" online divination on e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Xianyu, and there were all kinds of tarot charts and Zhouyi gossip. But by this Spring Festival, many young people have been unable to search for divination-related links on the e-commerce platform.
In order to find reliable fortune tellers, many people turn to social platforms, and some people will take the initiative to release their own astrolabes, so please ask knowledgeable people to analyze them. butThe price and service of astrology are very different.
There are those who don’t spend money. For example, some beginners in divination will wander on social platforms to help others watch the astrolabe for free. The single price of most fortune tellers is within 100 yuan to 1000 yuan; Higher-level fortune tellers can reach two or three thousand yuan at a time. According to feedback from netizens, some results are not referential, just copying and pasting online content, and some fortune tellers can analyze them in detail.
During the period before the Spring Festival, people came to see Tarot soothsayers Zhou Zhou to see the annual fortune. Her schedule is already full, except for the New Year’s Day, during the Spring Festival holiday, she is writing the annual sports report almost every day.
Zhou Zhou also launched quarterly and annual divination packages, of which the annual divination package is 12 times a year to see fortune, and the price is 666 yuan.
Unlike paying a fortune teller for divination, Wu Ru’s money is not spent on consulting fees, but on the study of Tarot divination. When she was in high school, she bought a set of tarot cards and related books to teach herself tarot divination, and she also studied open courses in bilibili and Tik Tok every day. Every time she meets some important nodes, or has some puzzles that are difficult to answer, she will take out tarot cards for divination.
During this Spring Festival holiday, Wu Ruzhao, who summarized at home, took out tarot cards as an example, divined his love and career fortune in the new year, and guided some puzzles.
Nanmu said that the astrolabe and tarot cards came from the west, and the new generation of young people were more accepted, and the eight characters were relatively more obscure. However, some young people, out of curiosity about China’s traditional metaphysics, want to know their fate through the eight characters.
Zheng Zhi is one of them. He wants to take the opportunity of winter vacation to tell fortune in eight characters, but the elders at home have always felt that her life is getting thinner and thinner, and she is still struggling.
Generally speaking, young people are obsessed with reading fortune in the New Year, which is curious, and some people regard reading fortune as a kind of "New Year ritual sense".For the divination results, they choose to accept the good content, and some aspects are not the results they want, so they choose to ignore them.
Because of the local epidemic rebound, Liu Qi decided to spend the New Year in Beijing, and began to arrange his trip early. In order to make a good start, his first trip on New Year’s Day was to pray at the temple.
In some places, there is a folk custom of "burning incense for the first time in the New Year".The first day of the New Year is a time to burn incense, worship Buddha and pray. Many people will burn incense for the first time in the New Year on this day to show their piety.
There is a saying in old Beijing that "men are harmonious and women are red snails". It is most effective for men to pray for the Lama Temple and women to pray for the Hongluo Temple. During the Spring Festival this year, due to epidemic prevention and control, the Lama Temple was temporarily closed to the public. Many people directly bought an opening bracelet of the Lama Temple for about 300 to 400 yuan from online stores, praying to bless themselves and their families.
Liu Qi couldn’t go to the Lama Temple, so he finally formed a "one-day tour of Hongluo Temple" team and went to Hongluo Temple to pray for incense and bags in the New Year. Starting from Beijing, you can go back and forth by bus on the same day, including 54 yuan tickets, cableway, blessing belt and blessing bag, etc., and the price can be settled within 500 yuan.
According to Liu Qi’s observation, at about 10: 30 in the morning on New Year’s Day, Hongluo Temple was already crowded with people. Some people not only pray for themselves, but also pray for their friends. Some people have three or four pairs of prayer belts in their hands. In addition to a pair of blessing belts in 20 yuan, a blessing bag in 38 yuan is also a must for many people to take home.
After staying in the Lama Temple for a career on New Year’s Day, I decided to come to Hongluo Temple for another marriage on New Year’s Day, so I chose a homestay near Hongluo Temple for the New Year. 30 people stay in the inn, plus the New Year’s Eve dinner, the per capita price is 666 yuan.
Because the B&B is close to Hongluo Temple, at 9: 00 a.m. on New Year’s Day, I went directly to the temple to pray for blessings. In addition to the tickets for 54 yuan, it took 12 yuan six times to bump the bell."I just want to find a clean place to settle down, to understand what I really want, and to clarify my goals this year."Dull to deep burning said.
There is a long queue at Hongluo Temple in Beijing, and Longhua Temple in Shanghai is equally crowded. So many people can’t take care of meditation after entering the temple, and they can only worship Buddha.
When people go to the temple to pray for blessings, what people generally ask for is some secular wishes.The most important things are peace, health, wealth, marriage and children.These are closely related to the staged goals of young people.
In previous years, some people queued up in the middle of the night to grab the "new year’s head column incense" of the temple, and the auction price of "head column incense" even reached as high as 100 thousand yuan. However, most young people are not so crazy. They regard the incense sticks as one of the ways to add a sense of New Year’s ceremony, and going to solemn temples to find peace is also a way to further think and sort out their goals.
Many young people said that paying for "metaphysics" is partly influenced by traditional customs, and more is for luck and fun. Whether it’s equipment PK in the animal year, buying a mobile phone case, getting a manicure, wearing a fortune bracelet, or divining fortune and praying in the temple, it’s a way for them to get spiritual comfort and look forward to a good start. Behind these attempts, they know in their hearts,The realization of personal wishes ultimately depends on personal struggle.
* At the request of the interviewees, Yao Ling, Wu Ru, Shang Ya, Niu Jing, Nan Mu, Zhou Zhou, Zheng Zhi, Liu Qi and Dai Dai are pseudonyms.