Majority feel festival lacked true joy: Survey

Eat traditional food with family and friends, post spring couplets and let off firecrackers - that is pretty much what most Chinese do year after year during Spring Festival.

But Spring Festival this year was a little different than the ones before, according to a survey. It "lacked the feeling of joy and festivity".

The China Youth Daily online survey, which attracted 1,625 respondents, showed that 74 percent of those who voted had to "try hard to feel the joy of the festival", with 53.6 percent saying it is estranged relations among people that is diminishing the joyfulness of Spring Festival.