At present, the vast majority of people in the rural areas are working and living in the cities, and the number of people in the rural areas is gradually decreasing, and the phenomenon of "hollowing out" has appeared in the rural areas, which has become an indisputable objective reality in the rural areas.
In particular, people over the age of 50 in rural areas and post-70s are currently working and living in the city, and under normal circumstances, these people can never go back to their hometown in the countryside, and even if they return to the countryside, they are very slim, and the countryside is no longer their ideal home.
From these three rural phenomena, I will talk about three kinds of personal experience, and from these three rural phenomena, I will see if the countryside is the home you want to return to, and whether it is the home that you have been thinking about for a long time.
(1), the parents are at home, and the parents leave the hometown and can never go back. Rural people over the age of 50 are currently moving bricks, tying steel bars, and beating concrete on urban construction sites, or planting grass and flowers in urban green belts, or sweeping roads on the streets.
They are busy going to work every day, working hard only for the "few taels of broken silver", in order to pay off the mortgage and car loan owed by their children and the bride price money given out for marriage, they rarely go back to their rural hometowns, return to their parents, and live with their parents for a few days.
When my parents are there, every year during the Chinese New Year and when I am homesick, I go back to my hometown in the countryside and the hometown where my parents live, so that I can stay with my parents for a few days and help my parents do things they can't do.
Once the New Year is over, I packed my luggage, took the big bag and the small bag, and went back to work in the city with the souvenirs that my parents prepared for themselves.
When the parents are gone, the parents are gone, the brothers and sisters in the family are separated, the parents' house is either divided or abandoned, and no one lives in it anymore, and the parents' home does not exist.
If the house left by my parents is not home because I have been working in the city for many years, no one will live in it, no one will repair it, and it will naturally collapse and become a ruin after three or five years.
Therefore, if the parents are there, the rural home is still there, and the parents are not there, the rural home cannot be returned, what will everyone think?
(2), relatives and friends have gone to the city, and when they are separated, the human touch has become weaker. Now there are fewer and fewer people in the countryside, and after the brothers and sisters have separated, they have gone to different cities to work.
Most of the uncles and aunts of a family have passed away, and those who are still alive have either gone to the city with their children, or they are lonely and lonely at home, due to old age and decrepitude, some are sick, "mud bodhisattvas cross the river, and it is difficult to protect themselves", and they are not in the mood to take care of other people.
Most of the familiar people in the village, relatives and friends, have gone to the city to work, and the vast majority of the family basically no one stays at home, the village is usually lonely and empty, and there are basically no people to see every day, and those who are left behind are some old people who need someone to take care of them.
Therefore, the people in my hometown have basically been separated, and the human touch has faded, so what's the point of returning to my hometown in the countryside? It is better to find some suitable work for yourself in the city, and it is enough to support yourself, because the countryside is no longer the ideal home that you have been thinking about for a long time, and the countryside never wants to go back, and you can't go back.
(3) The appearance of the countryside has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the memory has also been blurred. At present, the phenomenon of rural hollowing out is very serious, and most of the contracted fields of peasant households have no one to cultivate them, and they have all been abandoned.
In order to change the appearance of the rural areas, the state has revitalized the countryside and carried out farmland construction on a large scale, hoping to attract more people to return to their hometowns to farm.
As a result, the small fields in the countryside have become large fields, and the fields are all high-standard farmland, and the pastoral scenes of the past are gone, and the past can no longer be recalled.
The houses that collapsed in the village were either restored to cultivated land or beautiful bungalows were built, and the roads were hardened, which changed the old appearance of the past, and the old village was completely changed.
The rural hometown has changed, it seems to have become someone else's hometown, there is no longer the appearance and taste of their hometown, the hometown is getting farther and farther away from them, and the countryside is no longer the hometown of the past.
Even if you come back to your hometown in the countryside, because you have been working in the city for many years, the agricultural production in the countryside is no longer handy, and if you can't do farm work well, you won't be able to do it, and if you can't even grow your family's vegetable garden when you go back to the countryside, what's the point of going home?
Everyone is over 50 years old in the countryside and the post-70s urban workers, their hometown can never go back, even if they go back, there is no point, what do you think, please exchange and discuss in the message area.