National Day Holiday Hot Topics Roundup: Changing Consumption, Weather and Travel, and New Cultural Tourism Scenes

Around the National Day holiday, topics of consumption, travel, and public safety intertwined. A Ban Yue Tan commentary article focused on changes in holiday consumption, asking “Why has holiday consumption changed as gift boxes shed luxury and travelers avoid crowds?” The authors are Lu Wenjun and Lan Tianming.^[1]

In terms of weather, according to the website of the Central Meteorological Observatory, yesterday strong rainfall occurred in Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, while strong winds or cooling weather occurred in Inner Mongolia, Hebei and other places; it is expected that from October 4 to 5, winds will be relatively strong in central and eastern Inner Mongolia, North China, Huanghuai, Jianghan, and eastern and southern sea areas, with locally stronger precipitation in Northeast China. On the 4th, locally strong rainfall will remain in Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan; attention should be paid to the impact on holiday tourism, transportation, autumn harvest, etc., and precautions should be taken against possible flash floods and geological disasters.^[2]

For outbound travel, a related reminder titled “Must-read for outbound travel! These things cannot be brought at will...” pointed out that with the National Day short holiday approaching, many people choose to travel abroad; whether outbound or inbound, one must tighten the string of biosafety, and these red lines must never be crossed.^[3]

The authenticity of short-video content has also attracted attention. The article “How many of the short videos you scroll through are acted?” mentioned that in June this year, rural-life track blogger Huang Shaobin filmed a video of going down to a river to catch crayfish. In Cantonese-accented Mandarin, he told viewers: “The crayfish were bought, 5 jin were bought. Let’s see how many we can catch...” This time background is earlier than the National Day holiday and should be viewed as an earlier case.^[4]

In Ruijin Village, Yangtianhu Yao Township, Beihu District, Chenzhou, Hunan, an October 4 report showed that during the National Day holiday, villager Liu Shibin once again invited a few childhood friends and went to the unnamed Red Army martyrs’ grave on the mountain behind the village to sweep the tombs of 7 martyrs who have rested there for 91 years, commemorating the martyrs.^[5]

In Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, an ethnic cultural feast was prepared for the National Day holiday, including the passionate and unrestrained Munao Zongge, courtyard theater that travels through time, rice-flower fish experiences full of rustic fun, ancient town cuisine wrapped in smoke and aroma, and pleasant and exhilarating mountain hikes. The “sweet business format” wedding travel lets newlyweds tell the mountains and seas “I do.”^[6]

Overall, the evidence did not provide an independent international current-affairs item; the outbound travel biosafety reminder was the only foreign-related material; the above content is presented according to the time background given by the evidence, and the earlier June short-video case was not written as same-day news.