2024-02-07 23:15:13
Cal’s Lucas Shanghai Correspondent
Updated Thursday, February 8, 2024 – 00:15
In the Chinese zodiac, The dragon is a symbol of power and greatness. There is no beast like it, with so much strength and magnetism. Everything in the Asian superpower is linked to this mythological being. The oldest writings cited dragons as gods from whom emperors descended. They are the protectors of Buddhist temples and represent the energy from which the philosophy of feng shui draws. They are an intrinsic element of art and architecture. Even from current politics: the great helmsman is represented as a Chinese dragon (Mao Zedong) who founded the communist homeland and the successive statesmen architects of the economic miracle.
In China, a land of superstitious people, there is a firm belief that if you are born in the year of the dragon, you have a much better chance of being intelligent, strong, eloquent and rich. His destiny is success.
The year of the dragon starts this Saturday, February 10. Is there a better advertising campaign to raise disastrous birth rates than to sell Chinese couples the idea that now is the right time to have a dragon baby that will ensure the prosperity of the entire family?
nice has been warming up the great festival of the year for some time with messages that remember the fortune and transcendence that comes with being born in the year of the dragon. Don’t you believe it? Here are several examples given by the state press: Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Bruce Lee, Rihanna, Shakira, Al Pacino, Andy Warhol, Betty Grable, Chuck Norris, Betsy Rawls, Ronaldo Nazario and Vladimir Putin. All of them, who have done great things (and some terrifying ones), were once baby dragons.
He chinese governmentto get the country out of the current demographic disaster, relies on statistics that say that there is always a baby boom every time, in a 12-year cycle, the most auspicious sign of the calendar hits.
In 2023, the population fell for the second year in a row: The Chinese census counts 1,409 million people, two million less than the previous year. The birthplace of a sixth of the world’s population is shrinking and aging (21% are over 60 years old). A historic recession that threatens to further shake the slow post-pandemic economic growth.
The Lunar New Year holidays, in the warmth of one’s home, are a good time to start making baby dragons. Political entanglements and economic problems are put aside for vacations.
It is extraordinary to see how such an immensely large country comes to a complete standstill on these dates, except for airports, train stations and highways: Chinese travelers are expected to make a record of 9 billion domestic trips in what is known as the largest migration on the planet, when the Chinese return to their towns and cities of origin.
This massive movement of people (known as chunyun) is a great opportunity to measure the temperature of declining domestic consumption. The Asian giant needs a good push to get the locomotive working as before. The problem is that in the future, as the workforce plummets due to the aging of the population, there will not be enough hands to lift that dragon that dreamed until very recently of soon striking the American eagle and becoming the first economy of the world.
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