"Original young people", are you lonely this Spring Festival?

Source: Workers Daily Client

Original title: "Original Year People", are you lonely this Spring Festival? (Theme) Relatives, friends, fellow countrymen... Who is by your side? (Subtitle)

Visiting relatives and friends is a necessary activity during the Spring Festival, and this year, many migrant workers still choose to be the "original people" of the Local New Year, so that relatives and friends in their hometown can only rely on mobile phones to contact. This Spring Festival, how did they spend it when they couldn't go home? Is someone by your side? Do you feel lonely?

In fact, there are also "relatives" in the city who can walk around, which is the hometown.

In the frequent movement and heavy work, the villagers bring comfort to each other, and the younger migrant workers look forward to the reunion of the Spring Festival to spark some romantic sparks.

Liu Yan, a delivery worker, and Shu Feng, a fellow farmer, work in Beijing. Due to the needs of work and the special circumstances of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, they could not go home for the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve evening, Liu Yan, who was on the delivery road, received a WeChat message from Shu Feng, agreeing to go to Liu Yan's rental house to eat hot pot after work on the third day of the Chinese New Year. Liu Yan, who saw the news, laughed happily, and the light of the mobile phone screen illuminated the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes, and also illuminated his life during the Chinese New Year in Beijing.

Fellow countrymen are words that many migrant workers cannot avoid. It was also the villagers of the neighboring villages who brought Liu Yan from Xiangfen County, Linfen, Shanxi to Beijing 6 years ago. After coming to Beijing, he directly joined the takeaway team where his hometown was located, responsible for orders for 3 kilometers near Hepingli in Beijing's Dongcheng District.

"Feel like home away from home with your fellow countrymen"

After Shu Feng sent a message to Liu Yan, he also specifically told him that he didn't need to buy anything, they could bring ready-made. According to Liu Yan, this is because the other two small children work in supermarkets, and they can buy a lot of discounted meat and vegetables after work, and the beer is responsible for Shu Feng, who delivers the courier. "I was still afraid that the dishes were not enough, and I went to buy more than 100 yuan of kebabs, and I had to eat them all from my hometown!" Liu Yan said.

Usually, he did not leave work until 9 o'clock, and it was rare that he stopped taking orders at 7:30 p.m. on the third day of junior high school. After the 4 people arrived, they immediately got busy. Washing vegetables, cutting meat, boiling water, setting the table, as the hot pot soup gets more and more boiling, the atmosphere of reunion becomes stronger and stronger.

Although everyone is in Beijing, the distance is only 3 kilometers, but usually busy with their own work, some also work two jobs, it is generally difficult to get together. "We didn't drink much that night, but we talked a lot, such as how much money we made this year, what happened in our hometown, whether the children listened... It's just a blind talk, but there are endless words. "It wasn't until 1 a.m. that the gathering of old friends ended.

"We grew up together, and that night was like eating and chatting together in our hometown, and we slept very soundly that night." Speaking of this, Liu Yan's tone became brisk, and some tears were also sandwiched in the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.

I don't have the time or energy to expand my social circle

In the 6 years of takeaway career, Liu Yan worked almost every day from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., and most of the days off every week were used to run singles, gradually changing from a novice to a veteran. In 2019, the old brother who took Liu Yan into the city was getting older and older, and his body was a bit overwhelmed, so he returned to his hometown with more than 200,000 yuan saved by saving money. The only people who went out to earn money together and are still in Beijing are the only 3 small people who eat hot pot with Liu Yan.

Busy work, on the one hand, makes Liu Yan have no time to expand his social circle, on the other hand, he is less willing to spend energy on social. According to him, the peak of food delivery by takeaway workers is concentrated in three time periods: 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning, 10:30 to 1:30 in the afternoon, and 5:30 to 7:30 in the afternoon. "Every day I came back to wash up and lie in bed and play with my phone for a while, I am now in my 40s, and I don't have enough rest to work the next day."

In the past 6 years, the members of the delivery team have also been constantly changing, but the communication between them is limited to chatting in the gap between the delivery orders. Liu Yan told reporters, "The flow of the city is too frequent, people are in love, and it is difficult to have any contact as soon as people leave." During this period, he alone moved 8 times, and it was unlikely that he would maintain a stable relationship with his neighbors.

Compared with Liu Yan, who needs to deliver meals often outside, Luo Chun, a 55-year-old cleaner, has much smaller activity space. She and her husband, from Renxian Town, Liangping District, Chongqing, are in charge of cleaning the two floors of a company's dormitory area, and the couple also lives in the dormitory area. Every morning at 6 a.m., the two men clean the hallways, bathrooms, and kitchens before the employees get up, and remove trash cans, at least three times a day.

Due to the repeated epidemic situation at the end of the year, Luo Chun and his wife stayed according to the arrangement. Chinese New Year's Eve night, Luo Chun returned to the small room with the cooked dumplings, turned on the TV that could only be searched for two stations, and watched the Spring Festival Gala with her husband.

This room is also the main range of activities for the couple. Luo Chun said: "Usually do not dare to go far, at most go to the nearby vegetable market to buy vegetables or around the community, mainly worried that employees need to open the lock or move things can not find anyone." On the other hand, she also believes that she speaks the Chongqing dialect, chats with others for fear that the other party will not understand, and her husband, who has been accompanying her, has become her most reliable reliance in the city.

"Harvest" loved ones in the city

Some people have lovers in the city, and some people are also looking forward to meeting love in the city, su Yujie is the latter. The 20-year-old from Huarong County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, followed her cousin to Beijing to work after graduating from high school in 2020. At that time, my cousin asked her hometown in Beijing to contact a Hunan restaurant in Xicheng District, and Su Yujie became a waiter after successfully applying.

Although it is the first time to go out to work, fortunately, most of the restaurants are Hunan compatriots, and Su Yujie has received a lot of attention from everyone. "I didn't speak Mandarin well at first, but my boss arranged for me to be a cashier for a period of time to practice slowly, and everyone told me how to do it little by little."

After gradually adapting to work, Su Yujie began to have more exploration of urban life, and when the weekly shift was off, she would ask other colleagues in the restaurant to go out and around, "The Drum Tower walked for half an hour, and then took a car to climb over the Great Wall." Su Yujie's cheerful "Xiang Meizi" personality made the restaurant's chef Bai Wei have a good feeling for her.

Bai Wei's intentions, Su Yujie is not unaware, she also thinks in her heart that the other party knows how to take care of people and works diligently. During the Spring Festival, the boss gave everyone a two-day holiday, and Su Yujie took the initiative to ask Bai Wei to go to see a movie, "After watching the movie, we walked around casually, as if we were naturally together." Speaking of this, Su Yujie was still a little blushing and shy: "This Spring Festival is more special for me, it can be said that I have gained another relative." ”

Liu Yan also gradually understood that the experience of young people in the city was already somewhat different from theirs. At the end of 2019, he took his 15-year-old son to Beijing and helped find a job as an apprentice in a barbershop. "My son's work place is in Chaoyang District, the company manages accommodation, usually we are both busy with each other, fortunately in the past two years he has done a good job, do not need me to worry about it." Liu Yan said.

On the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, Liu Yan deliberately found an authentic shabu-shabu lamb shop and ate a reunion dinner with his son. Interestingly, the son, who usually never asks his father for money, took the initiative to ask for 200 yuan on this day. "Well, children, I still want to put some pressure on the old money in the New Year." Liu Yan said frankly, "It is good to be able to get together during the Spring Festival." (At the request of the interviewees, some pseudonyms)

(Source: Workers Daily - China Gong Net reporter Liu Xiaoyan)

Due to busy work, large mobility, narrow circle of friends of migrant workers, limited to workers and fellow villagers, etc., the proportion of locals is very small -

Friends are all in the "list", can there be more around?

"Somewhat reluctant, reluctant people, reluctant scenery! But in order to live must walk up, the destination Urumqi, 1400 kilometers! Ah Wen, who works as a courier brother in Urumqi, Xinjiang, sent a WeChat circle of friends.

In March and April every year, a large number of migrant workers begin to rush to Xinjiang to work, most of them from Sichuan, Gansu, Henan and other places, in order to improve their lives. Although they realize that part-time work is not a long-term solution, they will still go on.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, more than 140 million new generations of migrant workers born in 1980 and later basically do not understand agricultural production, the vast majority of whom have not engaged in agricultural production, and are more familiar with and adapt to urban life. Online social tools have become an essential part of their working lives. The reporter interviewed the migrant workers and tried to understand their working life.

Small circle, few friends

"I have been working in Xinjiang for several years, and I have been working for a whole year." Li Jing, a migrant worker from Sichuan, told reporters that it is not easy to work and earn money, except for the compatriots on the construction site, who usually have little contact with people in the city.

Li Jing, 40 years old, went out to work after graduating from junior high school. Open Li Jing WeChat, the address book has hundreds of friends, "most of the junior high school classmates, most of them are like me in the country to work, usually we will chat, typing is too troublesome, all chat with voice." There are also workers who have worked together at various construction sites, in fact, they usually do not have much contact, but they send information to each other at the end of the year to understand which place is good to do. ”

"Almost every year to work in one place, usually busy with work, rarely have time to go out and play. Although I have been to many cities, I am not familiar with them, let alone have local friends! Li Jing said that the circle of friends is too small.

"Unfinished pile", "overtime", "capping"... In Li Jing's circle of friends, friends posted the most content related to architecture.

"The city is fine, but we haven't fully integrated into it yet!" Chen Wenjian from Henan is Li Jing's co-worker, and he is deeply touched by the narrowness of the circle of friends after the 90s. "My family has been urging me to find a girlfriend, but you see, where do I go to find it?" This year, I went back to my hometown for the New Year and was pulled to go on a blind date! I have a good feeling for each other, but there is no time to talk together, I can only chat in WeChat, and now the happiest thing every day is to chat with her On WeChat. ”

In the interview, most of the migrant workers said that because of their busy work, the circle of friends is not wide, friends are limited to workers and fellow villagers, etc., in their WeChat address book, the proportion of locals is very small. They believe that they are passers-by in the city, that there are fewer opportunities to settle down in the city, that going to the city to work is only a way to make a living for a while, and that they still have to return to the countryside sooner or later.

However, some people think that it is not so easy to return to their hometown. "What can I do when I go back?" In fact, the city is also very good. Wu Debin has been engaged in the express delivery industry in Urumqi for 4 years, he has hardly sent a circle of friends, and there are nearly a thousand friends in the address book, "In addition to fellow villagers, classmates, peers, is the customer." ”

"Hey, the family is getting married!" Although I didn't go back this year, I was urged by my family on the phone all the time! Peng Rui is engaged in second-hand housing intermediary business in Urumqi, in her circle of friends, all the intermediary information is sent, "You see, there are thousands of friends, but there are not many real friends around!" ”

Amateur life is more monotonous

"At 3:35 a.m., life is never easy." This is a circle of friends just sent by Cheng Dengqi.

Cheng Dengqi in his early 30s this year is a "mobile phone control", "There is no other entertainment life, a person is a bit bored here!" Cheng Dengqi said that usually WeChat is used more, chatting with family members, using small programs on WeChat to play games, "too lonely."

The reporter found that he also sent a lot of entertainment information and articles such as beautiful articles and essays in the circle of friends, "I feel that people say it very well, it makes sense, and I can't say it myself." ”

Relevant surveys show that the life of migrant workers is relatively monotonous, and playing mobile phones has become the main leisure method. In terms of leisure activities, the top three are playing on the phone, sleeping, and chatting with friends or family. "Basically playing with mobile phones, where there are any cultural activities, not to mention the long working hours, not much spare time." Chen Wenjian said.

"Late at night, drink!" Similar photos of text with wine glasses are common in Huang Xin's WeChat circle of friends. Huang Xin, from Ningdu, Jiangxi, who is currently working in a factory in Changji, Xinjiang, said that the most difficult thing about being in a different place is that there are no friends, and his WeChat friends are only more than 30, "After coming to Xinjiang, I applied for a WeChat account, and my friends were all workers." There are several groups of friends, which are also co-workers, used to arrange work! ”

"I'm so tired every day that I'm falling down, and I've lost 10 kilograms since I started doing this!" Wu Debin said, "To do this business is to work more and get more, the more orders you send, the more money you get." Fortunately, the income is good, take advantage of the young, make more money and go back to your hometown. ”

The reporter found that mobile phones have become the most important entertainment method for the new generation of migrant workers, and the public accounts they pay attention to are mainly entertainment information and "chicken soup for the soul" online articles.

There are also people who have a full harvest

"I make friends in every place, you see in my circle of friends, everyone comes from all over the world, but after I leave a place, these friends only exist in the friends list." 」 Chen Wenjian said, "We don't have a fixed occupation, we work at this construction site today, we go to that construction site tomorrow, and even go to other cities to do it, and we have no sense of belonging to the city." ”

The reporter found that not being able to make friends has become a kind of helplessness for many migrant workers. Although the new generation of migrant workers also use WeChat for social networking, the scope of their social networking has not been actually expanded, and stable exchanges are still more concentrated in fellow villagers, classmates, relatives, friends, etc.

"Accidentally knocked myself out... I hope I will work harder in the future, for the life I want..." Peng Rui's circle of friends received nearly a hundred likes. Peng Rui told reporters that she wanted to put down roots in the city, find a boyfriend, and stabilize, but found that her circle was too small.

"It's been the best year because I brought my girlfriend back to the New Year." Compared with the integration of many migrant workers, Lin Bin after 95 feels that he has gained a lot. From Fujian, he worked as a driver at a construction site in Korla, Bazhou, and worked with the boss, giving him more contact with the locals. Later, he fell in love with the waiter of a restaurant, "The girl is from the urban-rural junction of Korla, and there are naturally many locals in my circle of friends." ”

(Source: Workers Daily - China Gong Net reporter Wu Duosi)

Editor-in-Charge: Zheng Xin