Zhengzhou's "low-key" urban village: a new stronghold called red men and green women, as long as 10 yuan for the night
Adulthood is the beginning of everyone's realization of their dreams, some people are satisfied with a small county town or an old hometown under an acre and a third of land, content with the status quo to strive for extremely limited work, entrepreneurial resources, and some people are restless in life, choose to go out to the big city, start from scratch in the strange, looking for hopeless infinite possibilities. Some people have been beaten back to their original form and recognized the bone of reality, while others are obsessed with the happiness of their dreams, and they have to polish opportunities in big cities.
Zhengzhou is a city full of hope, and every year thousands of foreigners give up the safety of their hometown and come here with their bags on their backs. When I first came to Zhengzhou, I listened to a song by Xiao Jingteng's "Give Lover" and took care of the sentiments in the lyrics in this strange land. Like many migrant workers, I have also commemorated the urban villages in Zhengzhou for a while, and I have dreamed of the same as in the lyrics.
In fact, in strict terms, Mazhai Village is not a serious urban village of eight hundred, but it is particularly low-key, which is far from the center of Zhengzhou, not far to the west to the Ring Expressway, to the east and west of the fourth ring road is almost next to each other. However, judging the definition of an urban village is not entirely based on the distance from the city center, in many ways, Mazhai Village and Zhengzhou have existed and existed in many urban villages, in fact, there is no difference.
Although located just outside the West Fourth Ring Road, Mazhai Village has long since lost its own arable land, and a "farmer's park" in the southeast corner may be the last memory of the village's use as a traditional village. Once the villagers cultivated the land for hundreds of thousands of years, now it has been expropriated to build a factory area, the famous "Tianfang Instant Noodles", "Master Kong Instant Noodles", etc. in Henan, there are production bases here, which is also known as "Mazhai Food Industrial Park".
There are many factories near Mazhai Village, not only food factories, but also some logistics industries, heat companies, etc., in addition, there are several universities near Mazhai Village that are not famous but can be called. Factories and universities are almost all around Mazhai Village, making this place a living point for the stars and arch guards, not only the villagers have a lot of unexpected ancillary industries, but also the liveliness of Mazhai Village, which can be imagined.
Since about 2006, villagers in Mazhai village have been renting out a large number of houses for workers in nearby factories and students from schools, almost all of whom are young people in the middle of the world. These young people with different life experiences, but also with the common discourse of the same era, let Mazhai Village show more than ten years of vitality. The memories of Chen Zhao and Liu Lin in the center of Zhengzhou have long since withered, and Mazhai Village has become a new stronghold for countless red men and green women.
The gathering of young people has inadvertently led to the development of an industry in Mazhai Village, that is, the Internet café industry, and the workers who return from work and the student party who come back from school are willing to take some energy out of here. A few years ago, there were many black Internet cafes in Mazhai Village, and even in the middle of the night, the holidays were still overcrowded, after all, the night was only 10 yuan, and those young people with unlimited energy were very willing to spend some of their youth here.
Although after rectification, the current Mazhai Village can hardly see the black Internet café, but there are still many "Internet cafes" that have been transformed, no matter from which aspect, the prosperity of Mazhai Village will continue. So what do you think about this low-key urban village?