He says that for the last two years his family have gone over to using canned goods, fresh flowers and fruit on the ancestral altar and eating their New Year's Eve meal in a restaurant, because his parents are elderly and preparing a 12-course New Year's Eve meal is too much work, while the younger generation are neither able to help nor willing to take responsibility for consuming the leftovers.
他指出，由於父母年事已高，十二道年菜大餐準備起來非常吃力，而年輕一代既不會做、也不願意負責「消化」剩菜，因此從兩年前開始，鄭家改用罐頭及鮮花素果祭祖，年夜飯則移駕餐廳。「頂多盡情吃那麼一頓，吃完就沒有後續負擔了」，鄭慧文笑道。