Foreword: What is a rural society, it is a network of personal contacts, and then born and died in Si.
However, with the process of industrialization, informatization and urbanization, my hometown is becoming more and more strange.
Therefore, when we talk about hometown, there is always a mixture of sorrow and joy.
The hometown in the memory is full of inner vitality, people and villages live in harmony, homes and land give people shelter, plough at sunrise and rest at sunset. With the roosters and dogs barking, and the smoke curling, people are tired all day long just for three meals and four seasons, closed and quiet.
I remember when I was a kid and my playmates.
In the spring season, I always like to cross the remnant bridge at the east end of the village, follow the muddy path by the river to the north, cross the long riverbank, and stand on the bluestone slab of the reed pond. Look at the fog, the sun slowly rises, and observe the mist and dew transpiration in Lutang, everything seems warm, broad and soft.
At this time, the friends climbed up the abandoned brick kiln, and looked at the dense, high, high and low crops in the distance, healthy, fresh, and a little green, and the green wheat fields were covered with a faint layer of fog. The beauty of the expansive nature is a delight.
The most exciting thing is that the adults and children in the village look for the delicious "wool fiber" in the world around the reed pond, peel off the green leaves to reveal the white tender white cotton peach, eat the slightly sweet green taste of the residue weeds, let the mouth be endless, and bring more to the family, commonly known as "piggyback (the meaning of gifts)", and feel that the happiness of satisfaction is so simple.
In the summer, the whole village finishes dinner early, and at dusk, the big pond in the village is already full of people.
People bathe in the pit (the larger pool in the village), talk about the world and love under the shade of the trees by the pit, lie on their backs on rattan chairs, and enjoy the starry sky and the earth.
I remember that this big pond is also a place where our group of children love to play in winter, and they are braver on it to see who dares to go down to skate, fluttering and making everyone laugh.
In autumn, we like to lie on the wheat straw in the village, rolling, breathing, silent, hide and seek, and when we get up, we secretly burn sweet potatoes with haystacks to eat!
Winter.......
思绪回荡着,缥缈着!
Suddenly, my wife said, close the passenger window, put out the cigarette, and was about to get off the highway and enter the provincial road. At this time, I am no longer in a trance, and there are still more than 100 kilometers to reach my hometown.
Open the map navigation, type the word "Zhuwa", and search with your mobile phone, this natural village located in the northwest of southern Henan has almost become a small dot.
Zooming in, the land as a whole presents a plain pattern of "one water and nine fields", with wheat, corn, peanuts, rape, etc. as the main crops, and the surnames of Zhu, Luo, Wang, and Li live in groups, and they live in a state of self-sufficiency.
In recent years, the elders of the family have rumored that the village is the birthplace of the surname Zhou.
In Pingyu County, it is recorded that it is the site of the ancient city of Qin Guoancheng, and it was also fabricated by the county cultural relics bureau.
It is rumored that a big businessman surnamed Zhou in Thailand wants to come to the village to build a temple and build a tourist spot, which makes people excited for a while, and stirs many old people to think that they are descendants of the emperor's relatives in ancient times. It was in a commotion for a while, and became a topic of conversation after dinner, and it can also be regarded as the oral version of "Zhuwa Historical Records".
Like other villages, the tradition of our small village is to live on the land and to eat from farming. The uncles and uncles of the family still face the loess with their backs to the sky, busy on the land all year round, making a simple living.
However, in the past 30 years, as young people have gone out to work and settled everywhere, the "ancestral industry" has gradually been abandoned. Some of the surplus labor will also be contracted to relatives and neighbors unplanted land to supplement the family, and slowly the land will be transferred into commodities, and large machinery will replace generations of laborers.
I remember when I was in school, my parents encouraged me to study, and the most common thing I said was: "If you don't study well, you have to come back to farming." "Farming seems to be something to be feared. With this "fear", I struggled to get out of the countryside with my parents and peers in the village.
So nowadays, if young people are still at home, it is considered a strange and despicable thing. Young figures are becoming rarer, and even children who go to school in the village are becoming rarer. The land, the place that has given us our lives, our passions and dreams throughout history, the place where our ancestors once dreamed, is slowly being abandoned by our generation.
For a higher salary, a better life.
Especially after the Spring Festival every year, young people will step on the muddy road in early spring and go to the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta. Our hometown migrant workers mainly gather in Shenzhen, Ningbo and Zhangzhou to engage in the garment industry and construction industry. Left-behind children, remarried, older women and men feel far away, and there are phenomena everywhere around them. It is economic development that gives birth to everyone's cognition and vision, so that many people do not look down on their own background, but also cannot change their background, and they are suffering and comparing .......
Therefore, the village that used to be a closed-loop ecology and a "society of acquaintances" is entering unfamiliarization and semi-urbanization.
When you are in your hometown, you will find that the roads in your hometown are hardened and widened, the street lights are installed and lit up, and the children's playground is equipped. Cars and low-speed trams have become common means of travel, and the roaring "Anluo" highway has also been inserted into the east of the village, making the way home for the New Year faster and closer.
Speaking of this section of the expressway, it has also caused the largest property dispute and personnel shock in our village since the collectivization of the "commune". In order to distribute the proceeds fairly, everyone went to complain, to roff, and to the village committee information.
However, the redundancy and laziness of the township government has allowed the farmland contradiction to rise to the level of government inaction. Saying that a thousand things and 10,000 yuan are all tied to interests, and they all want to get a piece of the pie, which really responds to the central government's anti-corruption sentence, and it is necessary to streamline the work of cadres and conduct government affairs honestly, but it still needs to go for a long way to be implemented in the rural areas.
In my hometown, I have also seen some bad phenomena.
There is a lot of garbage in my hometown, and although there are garbage cans everywhere and centralized treatment, many fields are still piled up. In the village, the small river and big pit can no longer allow everyone to bathe in summer, and it has become the norm to smell and turn black, and there are no fish and shrimp in the river! Most of the crops are not allowed to burn, but are thrown into the riverbed to cause rot.
This year, I also have a special feeling, my hometown is popular in the family to invite guests to take turns to sit in the village, that is, if the eldest brother invites dinner at noon today, the second brother will invite dinner in the evening, and the uncle will invite dinner at noon tomorrow. Such frequent dinners can familiarize family members with each other to a certain extent, but it is more based on face-based return gifts, and there is a suspicion of comparing with each other.
There is a feeling of gathering but not meeting, reunion but not reunion. When I had a special party to drink, I was so tired.
In my hometown, I also see a polarization about going to school. Some people pay special attention to it, and some people don't take it seriously.
From my personal experience, I have worked in the city for 13 years, I have put in more effort than others, and I have to constantly iterate my knowledge to gain a firm foothold in the city.
But I knew very well in my heart that I was still not a city person.
I often hear some parents say, "If your child doesn't go to school, we can't do anything, and it's useless to beat or scold." He has to go out to work by himself, and he can't stop ......" "He wants to go to school, and we will definitely provide for him." But he's not the material for learning, he can't sit still in the schoolhouse, ...... "It's useless to go to school, it's enough to know two words and go out to work......" "The path he chose himself, he can't blame ......us in the future" When the parents said that they couldn't help it, they couldn't control a minor child, and the child's life was basically doomed.
At this time, you will see those elementary school students who have not gone to college, and their lives should also enter a cycle: encourage their children to get into a good university and live better than themselves. Just like their parents did to them.
Today's education is about parents' investment in their children's time and money. Rural babies, the chances of being admitted to 211 and 985 universities are getting lower and lower. However, for rural babies, as long as they can go to college, they are definitely not as strong. If you don't suffer from study, you have to suffer from life.
Education may not be able to change our lives, but a good educational environment and good educational conditions will give us more choices and opportunities. Father often said: a family grows up, it depends on several generations, the father does not work hard, the child will have to suffer, the father works harder, the child will suffer less, inheritance is to work together.
Many people say that the change of hometown for better or worse is the result of the process of urbanization and the market economy. However, when it comes to individuals, it is a deviation caused by the change in the concept of going to school and working.
So change, there is an opportunity.
Postscript:
During the Chinese New Year, I had a chat with Fa Xiao, and I said that when I was old, I must go back to the countryside to farm. Fa Xiaoxiao said with a smile that our generation no longer knows how to farm, and may not be able to go back. Perhaps since those bold young people stepped out of the remnant bridge at the intersection of the village ten years ago, our generation has "left" forever. We and this land are gradually "seeing each other and becoming strangers". We turned our backs to the gradually quiet countryside and walked towards the noisy city.
I don't know if it's joy or ......sorrow.
Compared with a great era, every individual may be humble, including you and me.
"Some people were born in Rome, and some people were born mules and horses", as the second generation of farmers, if we want to change the status quo of our hometown. The only way to change yourself is to be able to go out and come back!