A bittersweet evening "The most scary thing is the deep-seated clan mentality of the Chinese," says Li Yuan, an author known for his writings on the topic of family. "It can tangle the relationship between parents and children into a never-unraveled web of pain and intimacy-which doesn't always make for happy family reunions." No wonder New Year's Eve is frequently a time of generational conflict.
「最怕的是，中國人強固的宗族觀念，常常造成父母和孩子之間永遠也糾葛不清的那種痛苦而親密的感情，反而形成享受歡樂的阻礙」，以擅寫家庭故事的作家小野表示，年節往往就是一個具體的衝突源。