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Why do Chinese people feel anxious when lunar New Year is approaching?
Recently, there was report among top ten popular news stories in Taiwan about a Taiwanese girl who is willing to pay NT $10,000 per day （around 330 US dollars）plus food and lodging in order to hire a fake boyfriend to spend the time with her and her family during the lunar new year .
What is her purpose in doing this? Some people guess that she's just trying to attract attention and quickly gain notoriety. No matter what exactly intent she has, it shows the hidden anxiety that is present in Chinese culture.
Lunar New Year has become a source of fear to a number of Chinese people, especially among the younger generation. Below is a list of common reasons why people feel stressed:
For adults:
1. Family focus on personal relationships ：most Chinese families look forward their children, especially daughters, to get married as soon as possible, and preferably before the age 30)
2. How much they earned in the past year ：There is a sense of competition among adults of working age in regards to salary and career achievements. The pressure mostly comes from parent's desire to show off and bask in the glory of the achievements of their children.
3. Scrutinization of parenting ：The older generation is often very judgmental about the parenting style of younger new parents.
4. Gift expense ：Adults are obligated fork out lots money wrapped in red envelopes to elders and children.
For teenagers :
1. Achievement in school
2. Goals and plans for the future
Chinese New Year festival is not quite like Christmas, even they both are the holidays for family gatherings, but in the Chinese world, it has become a nightmare and major of the stress for youth.
As the times change, young people have a more individualistic focus and desire to be unchained from old Chinese cultural expectations. They don’t want to follow the same life path as their parents. This is the source of the generational conflict.
In the case described in the article, the girl is trying to pretend that she is not a single, because single unmarried people are judged harshly in Chinese culture, especially those over the age of 30. It's especially hard on women due to the attitude that they're wasting their prime child bearing years and might miss the opportunity to give birth to the next generation. The reality of women’s biological limitations also make her situation more dire as compared to men.
According to Chinese values, younger people should respect their parents opinions because it's the duty of children to absorb the life experience and imitate success of their parents. In addition, children have the responsibility to continue the family line as their parents sacrificed themselves to raise them.
Families expect the children to follow the tradition in the future when they grow up and care for their parents in return until they pass away.
This is the typical cultural expectations of the Chinese family, and that is the reason the girl is trying to find a fake boyfriend with a good family background and matching financial base in order to please her family, such that they won't feel shame in front of others.
Maybe some will find this ridiculous and dishonest, but it is a real occurrence in Asia, especially in ethnic Chinese regions, people can become obsessed and go to extreme lengths for vanity.
Next time if you are invited to join a New Year celebration with a Chinese family, choose your words carefully. I think a simple ‘’happy new year ‘’ is the safest choice.
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DIY Popular Taiwanese Street Food-- Oyster fritter
Just only need soup spoon, materials and an oil pot , you can make Taiwanese street food easily in your house.
Ingredients:
(1)Leek 600g , 50 Oysters, 1 canned tuna
(2) Plain flour 900g, 2 eggs, water 300cc , oil 80cc
(3)1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp white pepper , 1 tsp sesame oil , rice wine and minced ginger to taste
(4) Sauce: chili sauce 300g , miso sauce (Japanese sauce)300g , ketchup 300g,caster sugar 450g ，water 1200cc.
(How to make Sauce:
(Ⅰ) Stirring miso sauce with 600cc water
(II) Put the remaining 600cc water and ingredients into a deep pot to boiled with small fire .
(III) Until the liquid getting turn to thick, that the sauce will be done)
Method:
(I) clear the oysters and move out the dirty things from the shells ,and put them into the boiled water to cook.
(II) After cooked , put the oysters into the cold water , and then drain the water .
(III)Cutting leek into mince shape, and add rice wine and minced ginger,at last stirring flour powder inside to avoid the leeks stick together.
(Ⅳ) Open the tuna canned, and mix the tuna into leeks.
(Ⅴ) Stirring the Ingredients(4) to make batter.
(Ⅵ) Pour the oil into the deep pot,and heat it warm to 170 degrees,meanwhile preparing a big soup spoon
(Ⅶ)
step one :
Put the soup spoon inside the oil pot ,and let the oil cover the whole spoon.
step two :
take out the spoon and smear the batter on spoon's bottom, then cover the Fillings
( 5 oysters, leek and tuna minced ) as the middle
step three:
smearing the batter on the top to filled the whole soup spoon looks like a ball.
(Ⅷ) Put the spoon into oil pot to fried(you'd better hold on the handle to make sure the spoon will not slip off), and waiting for the bottom batter turn to harder , and then use the little spoon to poke out the Oyster ball.
(Ⅸ)keep frying the Oyster fritter until in turn to golden brown, then the oyster fritter with tuna will be done.
This recipes ingredient can make 10 fritters, depends on how big the soup spoon you used .
You also need to prepare more soup spoons to change it during the frying that will be convenient for you .
You can eat oyster fritters with tuna straight or with sauce , they both taste good as you like.
Recipe by feiyutravelbox
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如何用中文形容「冷」的程度？ The degrees of cold
涼意= 10~15 degrees( chilling, cold)
寒冷= -5~10 degrees (very cold)
凜冬，酷寒, 嚴寒= -50~ -5 （freezing)
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