#Suzhou Headlines # Return to the rural hometown perception (2) About the population: This year, because of the epidemic, there are very few people who return to their hometown for the New Year, so they feel a lot of cold, especially in the north and central and western regions north of the Huai River. In our hometown there is a rule, that is, whoever has a child this year must put cannons and burn paper to worship the clan in the forest (called the ancestral hall in the south), this year we have the second oldest, and we also worship according to the customs, and there are four other families to worship together, that is, our village has a total of 5 children in 2021, and these 5 children are not necessarily local, for example, we transferred the hukou to Suzhou in 2018, and the child's hukou is naturally Suzhou. This is birth data. From the Chinese New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the New Year when we returned, there was a total of one person in the village who got married. What was the situation in previous years, when I got married in the sixth year of 2009, there were a total of three families in the village who were also getting married, and those who came to drink happy wine had to go separately as a family. Some people say that your village is small, in fact, our village is not small, the surrounding villages are the largest in our village, divided into East Village and West Village, in the 90s there were nearly 2,000 people in the village, and now there are less than two hundred people staying at home, and more than a hundred of these 200 people are over 60 years old. So standing in this desolate northern countryside, lamenting why this rural area that once gave birth to us and raised us has become like this, this is less than 15 years, the times have made it change another style, which may be what no one expected, and in the future their fate will be more tragic, some will die, and some will be merged into the so-called new countryside of the nursing home.
In addition, the feeling of the population is smaller, is to drive through the rural market knows, in the 90s that called crowded people, this is just an ordinary village market, if it is more people in the town, the market is also larger, now the village market is almost no one. Well, let's write this first! I still hope that my hometown will have a good home in the countryside, although the times will not bypass it, I still hope that this day will come slowly.
