A person, to a certain age, nostalgic for the past things more and more deeply, a small thing, or you once walked in the alley, walked through the village, is someone else's village, or a big road is completely different from what you see now, you will turn out the original picture in your mind, the memory will open.
Memory is really a good thing, there is a memory to have the past, will make your life rich. So every now and then we have to go back to where you used to be and take a walk and take a look. You'll make new discoveries. If not, you will find that even memories have a time limit in this year, and as people grow older, many memories become more and more unclear. So while you can still remember, witness thinking about people, looking at things... Anything goes.
This year, I returned to Guangzhou for the New Year, because the epidemic has not been back for two years. I have lived in Guangzhou for more than 20 years. It is the place where you have stayed when you are studying, working, living. This year, Guangzhou is not a serious disaster area, so I went back. But along the way, this Huangpu district has changed a lot. The roads are getting more and more beautiful, the houses are becoming more and more modern, people are living in high-rise buildings, and several urban villages have been demolished, flattened, and rebuilt with high-rise buildings. As shown in the picture, this is the scenery on both sides of the national highway next to Tangtou Village on the old Huangpu East Road in Guangzhou, the road has two lanes, each with two lanes, and there are fine-leaved banyan trees on both sides, and the trees are shaded, in fact, it does not look bad before.
Street view of Tangtou, Huangpu District
Tangtou Village
Tangtou Village and Lubu Village
But next to the road is Tangtou Village, one of the many villages in Huangpu Nangang Town, densely built rental houses, most of the villagers in Guangzhou live on the money of the rental house, do you remember such a scene: the old landlord wearing a pair of flip-flops, wearing a vest shorts, pants are still tied with a few strings of keys, shaking a large fan in his hand, humming Cantonese music in his mouth, swinging on the street through the village alley building to collect rent. In fact, there are such scenes. Rich people in Guangdong are very low-key and don't like to show off. Even if there are luxury cars at home, the elders of the family like to ride the tattered motorcycle electric car to the market to buy vegetables. Or about a few old friends who are dressed up similarly with themselves, go to the tea house early to book a seat to drink morning tea and chat together, and chat for most of the day. These may seem very bland, but that's how they live each day happily.
Guangzhou is changing every year, the urban modernization construction is getting stronger and stronger, and the city is getting better and better managed. In the past, the rental house was chaotic, there were many thieves, complex people were unlimited in and out of the village, and the buildings were also close to each other, such as wires hanging like spider webs between the buildings, there were great safety hazards, all kinds of things were not easy to manage, and now the high-rise buildings were demolished and built to concentrate, which was better to manage.
Tangtou New Village is under construction
Xintangtou on both sides of the road, open avenue, double four lanes, the road is clean and neat, next to the erection of tall and beautiful street lights, at night, the road is bright as day, not dark at all, not afraid to take the night road.
New Tangtou street view
Vanke Shangcheng full duplex unit community
Honggang Village looks out over vanke Shangcheng community
Huangpu District has several villages to rebuild the new community, I have the privilege of entering the demolition of Honggang Village to see, the houses in the village here are all empty and shadowy, all empty, it can be said that almost all of them were torn down, filled in, the remaining few houses or half of the rotten houses shrugged there and waited for the staff to demolish after years, the former village no longer exists.
Half of the house has been demolished
Stone block 123456... The ground hangs on the twisted steel bar, telling the history of the transformation of the old village into a new city...
Tear down the house that will be buried
The house that will be buried
Walking on the ground with cracks, the village is indeed going to have a big event
The tall sales department that has been built, the lychee tree with a hundred-year-old history in front of it, the leaves are sparsely hung on it, the new and old things are looking at each other, and there are several sparks in history, waiting for you to tell.
Century-old trees with new buildings
New buildings versus old houses
The glass on the new building illuminates the old house in front of it, which seems to say that there is as much chaos as there is here...
Old trees with sky and new buildings
The photo was taken that day, the sky was beautiful, the sun was warm, the clouds of fish scales, foreshadowing that the temperature of the next day would cool down under the age of ten, cold rain began, wet and cold weather, until now there is also rain from time to time.
Large communities will be built here, including kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, residential areas, shopping malls, parks, etc. Everything will get better and better, more and more beautiful, beautiful homes will not be far away, and citizens will become happier and happier.
The memory of the city, you can say that it is far away, you can also say that it is not far away, the times are changing, we can't stand still, there are always things that change. Record the things you encounter and always have good memories. Flipping through written diaries, flipping through old photos, flipping through circles of friends, sending endless videos, endless memories...
Freeze your memories worth sharing!