I am a retired senior engineer at the Research Institute of Zhengzhou Railway Bureau. In June 2013, I was 66 years old and Gao Yuting was 69 years old. Two young and rare old men took a self-guided tour of Europe for three months. This is the first time that a Chinese citizen has ridden the land of Europe in the form of a couch guest.
Our riding experiences are published in serial form. It is a true record of what we see and hear, and it is as graphic as possible.
July 28
In order not to spend money suddenly, today I went to the central shopping mall to purchase. Who knew that today was Sunday, and the door of the Central Mall was closed. There were a few tourists peeking out of the window.
I photographed their business hours table.
Mondays are from 6:00 to 17:00.
Tuesday to Friday from 6 to 18:00,
Saturdays are from 6 to 15.00.
Closed all day on Sundays.
The point is that supermarkets are almost closed except for this central market. We had to go to a small private bakery and buy something to fill our hunger.
I thought that Westerners' malls were closed on Sundays because they were going to pray. Judging by the opening hours of hungary's central market, this is not the case. Because they don't worship on Saturdays, they close at three o'clock in the afternoon and leave work. Mall salesmen in Western countries, including Hungary, are also very happy!
I heard that Poland has recently introduced a law that strictly prohibits shopping malls from opening on Sundays, otherwise heavy penalties will be imposed. Many Poles believe that the aim is to return an overworked society to a more traditional way of life. Think about it.
These regulations make us feel incredible. After work in the evening, closed on Sundays, it is time to go shopping, and the mall is not open. Men are easy to do, how does this make women live? This law must have been made by men, and the conscience was greatly broken.
China's shopping malls rely on Sundays to make money, how to make money without opening the door? China's shopping malls are eager to open 24 hours a day, even if they are willing to rest on Sundays!
There is also a saying that the idea of Westerners is not to earn money on Sundays, but to say that mall employees also have the right to rest on Sundays. If people don't open the door on Sundays, and you open the door alone, this must be a vicious competition, and the law must strictly prohibit it. If you think about it, maybe there's some truth to it.
This work and rest time will definitely bring a lot of inconvenience to people. However, some habits can be changed.
I still raise my hands in favor of the mall closing on Sunday.
Happiness doesn't have to be shopping on the streets, shopping sprees, or traveling the world. Maybe it's just being in a daze, or basking in the sun, or looking at the stars, or flipping through idle books.
I'm still very much in favor of this relaxed, casual, slow-paced lifestyle.
"Time is money, efficiency is life". It was an uplifting positive at the time. Shenzhen speed also has exemplary significance for the whole country.
However, people cannot always tighten the strings, and they will break for a long time.
Chinese students, teachers, and business workers can't always be exhausted.
Don't work hard today, try to find a job tomorrow. Workers and white-collar workers always have a sword hanging over their heads, where does happiness come from?
Students are afraid of losing at the starting line and participating in countless tutoring classes, can they be happy?
In addition, China's economy cannot always develop at a high speed, nor can it always develop at a high speed. One day we will enter a phase of relative balance.
I have no data on the economic development of Hungary and Poland. But the intuitive impression is that Hungary's economy is much more backward than that of Poland. On the street of Pest we saw a church. The church is small and the interior is very simply furnished. There is a clear gap with Rome, with Poland, and with Norway.
In the open space on the side of the church, a small car was parked. On the back luggage compartment, there is a large pot of porridge and box lunches. Many hungry beggars waited for alms. In order to prevent them from bombarding, the line was lined up ten meters away from the car. Come and get them one by one.
There are significantly more poor people on the streets than in former other countries. The beggars were dressed in rags, and many sat barefoot and dirty on the edge of the road.
Hungarian beggars also beg passers-by in the traditional kneeling posture, without the romance and creativity of beggars in the rich countries of Switzerland, France, and Italy.
Some people like to be condescending, accusing beggars of being poor and short-minded and getting something for nothing. In fact, sometimes it is difficult for an individual's life to resist the arrangement of fate. Therefore, I am full of sympathy for them.
Hungary is close to Poland, but the climate is very different. A few days in Poland, it was always cool, even a little chilly. The Internet says that the temperature in Hungary is as high as 34 degrees Celsius, but the temperature is very high in the few days we have come.
At the intersection of the street, I saw a large temperature display, which was 36 degrees Celsius at noon yesterday and 40 degrees Celsius at noon today.