File photo taken on Jan. 25, 2013 shows a passengers with a train ticket in his mouth carries his luggage before boarding a train at Nanchang Railway Station in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province. China's transportation system has to undergo a challenge during every Spring Festival holidays, which sees a huge number of people take to the roads for family reunions. To have reunion dinner with their families on Chinese New Year's Eve, those who have worked or studied away from home scramble to leave for their hometowns by all means -- train, coach, airplane, ship, self-driving, motorcycles and even bicycles, making the largest annual human migration in the world. Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, falls on Feb. 10 this year, making the holiday travel period spanning from Jan. 26 to March 6. A record 3.41 billion trips are expected to be made over this year's Lunar New Year travel rush. (Xinhua/Zhou Ke)
This is China's social reality, but it's not an unsolveable difficulty. A more humane system can be adopted.
According to Karl Marx, each way of social life is determined by the mode of production.
The mode of production of China has changed, and the way of life is bound to change in the future.
Each generation bears certain social and cultural marks. The memory of chunyun, I believe, will vanish in a single generation.
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