Liang Dongfang
Another village has been demolished, and in the openness without any ground buildings, there are many large trees standing irregularly in this strange open space between the surrounding buildings. In this way, only the emptiness of old trees is only a moment in the appearance of the city, and soon the trees will be cut down without hesitation, and the land will be dug into deep pits, and a cement forest of high-rise buildings many times higher than the original human settlement density will be built. The cement forest is airtight, and there will never be such a pleasant view again. In its place, no doubt, it is still the same as any other place in the city, with consistent congestion and hustle and bustle.
In fact, many years ago, there was a clear statement that the urban residential density was too large, and it was no longer allowed to build another house within the second ring road. However, every time the demolition and transformation of urban villages, almost without exception, they continue to increase the density of human settlements, which is contrary to the above principles... This process is unstoppable, but occasionally there are delays. The delay between demolition and construction leaves a little time difference for the land, allowing them to remain flat and intact. When people cultivate freely on it, the phenomenon of so-called "self-reserved land" appears.
The so-called "reserved land" has its own origins. The city started with one village and gradually expanded, including one village after another within its own urban limits. In this process of continuous expansion, many villages have disappeared and become building communities, and many lands have changed from rural collective ownership to urban public planning. This process is sometimes not completed at once, some are nominally completed, but the specific land use has not been recovered for a while, or although it has been recovered in name, it has not yet been developed and built, and the "right to use" is still in the hands of the original cultivators, who still have to habitually go to their own crops and vegetable fields to cultivate.
However, the current farming often has a subtle difference from the past, such as only planting vegetables, only planting a little grain; such as using a fence to fence up the original field, on the one hand, in order to have clear boundaries, on the other hand, it is also to be self-contained, less disturbed by outsiders, and their own vegetables and grains will not let others take them away.
However, few people in this fence are willing to buy ready-made ones, and they all find wood to find firewood and grass to find branches to insert in the ground one by one. In this way, the fence becomes a very natural style of disunity, uneven thickness, twisting and twisting, and the alley formed between the fence and the fence is also in place, rarely forming a straight road, always a winding path. The combination of the winding paths and the original fences is a bit archaic, a distant archaic style that even the real countryside does not have now.
The doors on the fence are also old doors, the kind of broken doors that are demolished from the original buildings that have been used for many years and thrown on the garbage heap; all kinds of doors, all doors, different colors, sizes and formats, and are connected with the fence with wire, which is also one of the measures to prevent gentlemen from being villains.
The function of this measure is halved in winter, and the isolated courtyards are empty of vegetables and crops, leaving only dry yellow leaves rolled on the land that has not been ploughed. This is the norm in the northern winter land, and if winter wheat is not grown, the earth is such a sight.
Across the door, across the fence, you can often see someone sitting in their field, in front of the door of the hut made of broken boards, drinking tea and chatting in the sun, and before leaving, they can bring a little of the day's food from the pit where the cabbage, carrots and turnips are buried.
After many years of natural farming, there may not have been any feelings, but now I live in a building that charges square meters, and the value of such a free land is highlighted. Free to come and go, free to enjoy the spring breeze and autumn rain, free to store things... The many benefits that have been compared have been magnified and become a treasure that everyone cherishes.
However, a little attention reveals that, like the hedge plank houses, the various items they put here for use carry a waste-use, and it is not a pity to lose them. The maza and the stool are eliminated, somewhat mutilated, the table is an old-fashioned folding table, and the teacup is often missing.
The users of these items are basically elderly people, old people wearing clumsy thick clothes. In their own gardens, the old people have a sense of home that they do not have in the community, and they have a solid ironing sticker standing in front of their own land. They could still talk to each other across the fence, and some people simply opened the door and went directly to other people's gardens to chat. The winter garden has become a yard in the city.
The high-rise buildings in the city are nearby, which is the background of the towering behind these crooked fence courtyards, but it is definitely not as natural as these broken gardens. They are very willing to say things like grounding here, and actually use such a general concept to summarize the past farming, to express the difficulty of abandoning the past production and lifestyle.
Even if it is only in the literal sense, it is true: the roads and communities, homes and shops, everywhere is cement floor, is tile floor, so that the opportunity to stand directly on the ground has become less and less. Standing and sitting on your own land in the winter afternoon and warm sunshine is already a rare enjoyment.
The people who enjoy this opportunity to be grounded are the old man, the old man who rides a bicycle, the old man who walks slowly with his hands behind his back, the old man who walks with his child and talks softly with his child. Like this land divided by fences, they are a kind of temporary presence in the sunset, and they enjoy the taste of one time at a time. But who isn't? The difference is that people of other ages don't have this kind of enjoyment of the moment.
This kind of urban residents' need for land is actually the same at home and abroad, and there are often many such self-reserved land-style garden houses on the edge of German cities. The difference is that each yard is a commercialized standard facility and equipment. The family's wooden fences always have the same material and the same height and shape, the wooden huts are like fairy houses in fairy tales, and the swings and large sand pits are children's paradises. In such a courtyard, children play happily, while adults work back and forth on wheelbarrows. Some people only raise flowers, some people plant various trees, and some people place puppets of various shapes, which has a delicate feature based on the stable and long-term nature of belonging. This exquisite feature is not only for material use, but also for the environment, those big trees, those big trees with splendid spring flowers and autumn fruits, those chestnut trees, oak trees and apple trees, dotted in such a self-reserved land, even in winter, there is still the beauty of the shape of the branches of the branches that point high to the sky.
Obviously, their garden is a fixed property that meets the needs of the people. Such fixed real estate that is not a high-rise building conforms to the needs of some people, and also enriches the format of urban construction to a considerable extent, so that the residents' perception has a soothing paragraph, leaving a little precious chic space for the natural aesthetics of the city.
How a city adapts to the needs of people in all aspects, rather than pursuing the construction of the densest high-rise buildings on unit area of land, is an economic problem and a planning problem, management problem, and even an aesthetic problem. I believe that the situation of only selling land to build houses without considering the living feelings and spiritual needs of housing people will be improved in the future.