Text丨Xinlan Shuhua
Editor丨Xinlan Shuhua
Preface
"Ladies and gentlemen, the plane has landed at Shenzhen Bao'an Airport, the temperature outside is 26 degrees Celsius, the plane is taxiing, for your safety and the safety of others, please do not stand up or open the luggage rack first...."
The cabin radio sounded the warm reminder of the flight attendant, I opened my eyes and moved my shoulders and hands slightly, and the British foreigner sitting next to me also began to prepare to get off the plane.
As I walked, I thought about Fang Cai's conversation, and I was still a little surprised in my heart, and now the foreigners' evaluation of China is really beyond my expectations.
[This article is a fictional story, the names and place names in the article are pseudonyms, and if someone carries it, they will be held responsible]
Impressions of China
When I first got on the plane, the two of us had already communicated, and I often had to travel back to several countries in China, the United States and the United Kingdom due to work, and he would travel to China from time to time.
Originally, I was going to say hello briefly, but after he learned that I was Chinese, he suddenly opened up the conversation box and gushed me about what he had seen and heard in China and how he felt about China.
It is said that he has traveled to Beijing, Sichuan and Guangdong, and he likes to travel to China during his holidays, especially in the past few years, China feels very different from other countries, with a vast land and rich resources.
I listened to him with a smile the whole time: "The Chinese are very enthusiastic, very honest, and can get feedback quickly when doing things in China." I love Chinese food, it's delicious. And your takeaways, it's really good, it's available 24 hours a day. And your high-speed rail is very fast, so it's easy to go everywhere. He gave me a thumbs up.
After getting off the plane, the British foreigner was about to go to the hotel, and I took a taxi home, thinking of the praise of foreign friends for our country, looking at the street shops outside the window, our country has really been developing in a good direction.
Looking back on the past two years at home and abroad, although I have always heard people talk about how beautiful the moon is abroad, many times, things that are easy to solve at home are difficult abroad.
Not to mention the unfamiliar place, some local customs and common sense have also caused a lot of impact on me.
Trapping
Last summer, I finally got a Chinese meal in the UK, and I was a little excited, and one accidentally got a fish bone stuck in my throat, went to the hospital, and tossed for three days.
Before I got the fish bones, the doctors had to hold a meeting to confirm the treatment plan, inform me of the risks of the treatment plan very seriously, and then take me to do various examinations, and then apply anesthetics, give hanging injections, and do almost a minor surgery before taking them out.
In a trance, I remembered that when I was a child, I had lunch at home, I got stuck in a fish bone, I went to the hospital, and the doctor held the pliers neatly, although I was laughed at after taking it out, but I would rather be laughed at by him now.
Later, I spent another day in a hospital in the UK to make sure I was okay before I was allowed to be discharged.
In China, you tell people that I was in the hospital for three days because of a fish bone stuck in my throat, and I guess I would have to be laughed at for a year.
What the Chinese doctor could solve in half an hour took three days in the UK and cost me nearly 20,000 yuan, and my heart hurt too much.
High prices
Abroad, the scarcity of resources can keep prices ridiculously high.
As a Cantonese who can't do without green vegetables, I suddenly wanted to eat spinach that day, and I didn't buy it in the supermarket downstairs.
Although my colleagues were also persuading me to forget it, I still stubbornly found several streets, visited several supermarkets, and finally bought 300g of spinach in a small supermarket for 12 yuan in full.
As long as you have spent some time abroad, you can understand what your mother in Guangdong said: "Chicken smells like chicken." “
We Chinese cooking pay attention to color, aroma, frying, frying, different ingredients have different cooking methods, after the pot each dish has its own fireworks, people can show off two bowls of rice.
But it's hard to find Chinese food abroad, it's even harder to find edible Chinese food, and it's ridiculously expensive!
Personal safety
There is a popular late-night snack culture in China, and you don't have it when you go abroad, and you have to go to bed on an empty stomach when you wake up hungry in the middle of the night, because it's really not safe to go out in the middle of the night.
Accustomed to going out in the middle of the night to forage for food in China, or going out for a walk without sleeping, it is absolutely not okay to go abroad, but anyone who is a little safety-conscious will not go out in the middle of the night in the United States and the United Kingdom.
It is a trivial matter to be robbed of your property, but if you meet a vicious person, you will come up and physically attack you, and if you are injured, you don't know if you can be sent to the hospital.
"We don't live in a peaceful age, we just live in a peaceful country. This sentence is realistic and serious today.
You can look at the news of the conflict between the police and civilians in the United States in the past two years, and the unstopped wars between large and small countries, and you can see how much effort our country has put into creating a safe and stable society for us.
Public facilities
We are not surprised to see the news where new highways have been completed and where high-speed rail has been opened, but we are accustomed to it.
It is because of the completion of various infrastructure projects in the country, even if we are in China, which has 9.6 million square kilometers, whether it is a short or long-distance trip, we will not have a bad experience, but feel that it is very convenient.
However, many subways abroad are decades old, and the railways are those lines, and once you encounter a transfer, it is really not convenient enough.
Maybe it takes you a day to get from one city to another, and half a day to get from one end of the city to the other.
Not to mention anything else, so far, there is no high-speed rail in operation in the United States, although other countries also have high-speed rail, but like our country has such a huge high-speed rail network, this is the only one, there is no semicolon.
Black technology and living habits
In foreign countries, I lost my wallet several times, and I am used to going out with only my mobile phone in China, and I am really not used to going out with my wallet.
In China, scanning the code to pay has become everyone's daily routine, and it is really convenient to go out without cash.
But once you develop such a habit, you will find it really inconvenient when you go abroad, and cash and card payment are the daily routine.
Later, in order to prevent myself from taking too much cash out, I had to calculate what I was going to spend when I went out, and I would never bring too much, so that even if I lost my wallet, I would not lose too much.
Although this is also a disguised help to save me money, I have enjoyed the convenience of going out without a wallet.
It's really uncomfortable to bring a wallet, and you have to pick it up and lose it from time to time, and we don't know when foreign friends will be able to put down their hearts and upgrade their payment methods.
epilogue
I think every Chinese should clearly know that because our country is getting stronger, we can pursue the life we want independently, whether at home or abroad, without worrying about homelessness, and not having to be too humble in the process of dialogue with foreigners.
I also can't agree with those who tout how good it is abroad and how free it is at home, after all, you can straighten your waist abroad and speak wildly at home because of the strength and tolerance of the motherland.
If you want to eat a late-night snack in the middle of the night, you can have takeaway delivered to your door, you don't have to worry too much about safety when you go out at night, high-speed rail can take us anywhere we want to go, materials are abundant, food is delicious, and sleep soundly, these are the daily lives of Chinese, not people all over the world.