When I get older, I always have a nostalgic complex, and I often haunt my mind when I return to my hometown to find my knowledge. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, I embarked on a nostalgic journey back home.
I grew up in a small coastal town. In the early morning, I returned to the place where I was born and raised. What I didn't expect was that the traffic jam in a remote town was so serious, which had a premonition from the traffic flow on the way home. When I arrived in the town, the flow of people was like a carp, and illegally parked vehicles lined up on both sides of the road, and the normal driving lanes could not be moved at all. It reminds me that before the reform and opening up, there were economists who predicted the dream of family cars in the future, and what I once thought was a fantasy has finally become a reality today.
There are so many cars in a small town, which is the epitome of the Chinese people's car dream
Today's purpose is to go back to the place where I lived as a child, take a look, revisit the road of the past, and find the memories of my childhood. In the congested traffic, I had to temporarily borrow a small electric motorcycle, and look at it while walking.
A small electric motorcycle that I borrowed temporarily
In a small village where there are only kerosene lamps at night, and in which elementary school campus converted from an old ancestral hall is where I live, study, and grow. Today, there is only one classroom left on the campus, and the rest is unrecognizable. On the site of the original ancestral hall, a new ancestral hall was built in quality and quality that was not as good as the previous one, and the structure of the new ancestral hall was very different from the past, and a complete fake withered there. There used to be a rocking well on campus, and I did everything from digging, installing, and discharging water with my own eyes. Its water is clear and sweet, warm in winter and cool in summer, and it also witnesses the years we have been with. And today it is gone, and the old man on the side told me: it has been filled and buried. Unfortunately, we repeatedly confirmed the exact location, and when we stepped on our feet, it was as if we heard the sound of water shaking underground.
The only classroom left from the elementary school school has been changed beyond recognition
The newly built ancestral hall is very different from the original ancestral hall, and it is a complete fake
At the head of the village, there is a thousand-year-old banyan tree, which is the symbolic meaning of the town's "big banyan tree", the huge and numerous roots under the ancient banyan sometimes protrude, sometimes plunging into the deep soil, sometimes you hug me, sometimes I wrap around you, as if love and hate are entangled as romantic, forming many convex and concave, can accommodate the human body of the cool "seat". The banyan tree covers the big summer, which can be used by the whole village to avoid the sun and enjoy the coolness. The high place of the banyan tree is full of nests, and in summer people lie on the ground, and birds chirp in the trees. Today, the roots of the banyan tree have been covered with a strong feudal color. The fence is all around, and the "Shehuang Gong" with strong superstitious colors in today's rural areas is also built inside, and the door is draped in red and green, for the villagers to burn incense and worship the Buddha. What used to be a cool spot has been used for other purposes.
In the past, the roots of the big trees that the villagers enjoyed the cool have been covered with a thick layer of superstition
Ordinary people have a feeling that the tall buildings of childhood now seem so low and small, and the streets that used to be open and long now feel so narrow and short. The most spacious and majestic commune avenue in my childhood, some are overgrown with weeds, some are collapsed and withered, and most of the houses on both sides are independent, there is no planning, there is no unified elevation, you build yours, I build mine. The most architecturally distinctive and commercial "New Street" is now just a quiet alley in the town. And the biggest and busiest farmer's market in town, which is now unpopular and a worthless makeshift parking lot. When I was tracing the Commune Avenue, an old man recognized me, who was a student of my father, and learned that my father had fought for her to continue her studies. He also took me to introduce the changes along the street one by one.
The original People's Commune
The streets of the People's Commune are already overgrown with weeds
The famous "New Street" is now a silent alley
The town's largest and liveliest farmers' market has been reduced to a worthless makeshift parking lot
The town has a well-developed water system and convenient irrigation, and is a famous rice town. The well-developed water conservancy facilities have also allowed us to grow up playing in the water since childhood. The big river and the small river have left us with beautiful memories of playing in the water. At that time, the water of the river was crystal clear, unpolluted, and could be used for bathing, laundry, and drinking. This time I returned to my hometown, and everywhere I went, it was embarrassing. Either garbage is flying all over the sky, or sewage is flowing sideways, and the rivers we used to play in the water are disgusting to see, so don't talk about playing in the water and drinking. From this, I think that the road to revitalizing the countryside is a long and arduous task.
When I was a child, I used to play in the water, but now the sewage is flowing sideways