For a child who grew up in the countryside, he longed for and admired the county town. With the change of the circle of life, when I return to the county town and seriously look at the small county town that is undergoing rapid changes today, I feel that it is a little strange again, and there is a feeling of déjà vu.
In fact, small counties contain great wisdom, small counties have big articles, and small counties are not simple.
Big cities have the bustle of big cities, small cities have the charm of small cities, and the countryside has the tranquility of the countryside, in which the joys and sorrows, bustling, and are all raised, after all, they can't escape the word "fame and fortune". People living in the county town see the tranquility of the countryside and the struggle in hardship, experience the hardships of life and the simplicity and kindness of the countryside, and enjoy the enthusiasm and strong sense of humanity of the countryside. The complicated network of relationships and the most down-to-earth pyrotechnic smell floated over the county seat. The county seat is a jianghu society controlled by hundreds of powerful county and section-level cadres, a number of large and small bosses and other elites. Here, so hundreds of people constitute a social network of acquaintances, under normal circumstances, through various channels to understand the details of others, each person with an identity is a link in the network, will find another person through various relationships, and establish a certain connection with it, constituting a society of acquaintances in a strange environment. The county is a society with relations greater than rules, a society with circles and fields, a society with a sense of leadership, a society with a sense of comfort and stability, a society that lacks tolerance, and a society that lacks faith and integrity
Most of the people in the county come from the countryside, and many people spend their childhood or elders in the countryside, so there are people living in the county town and are inextricably linked to the countryside. County culture is a secondary urban culture, in the confusion of advocating money, mixed with the local rural production and life culture, marriage and family culture, life etiquette culture, characteristic food culture, regional inheritance culture, folk entertainment culture, and even a little bit of combination of earth and foreign, mixed feelings. Walking in the county town, the most obvious feeling is the thick local accent, distinctive special food and local special agricultural products on the vendors, its happiness and troubles are both superficial and profound, its insight is both mediocre and broad, its life is both fashionable and stereotyped, its life is rich and monotonous, it is a simple combination of modern and local. Although foreign cultures are also blindly popular here, they are mixed with regional cultures and survive, and what they lack is the self-confidence and publicity of the county cultural system.
The county is the background color of China and is a special existence that can best represent the current situation in China. The county has everything in leisure and entertainment, with a variety of styles, including KTV, song hall, bath foot city, square dance, mahjong room, both cinema, tourism, sports, reading places, as well as hotels and restaurants everywhere. Especially in recent years, beauty salons and foot massage shops in some places have become a beautiful landscape, and the business of physical stores under the impact of online shopping has been depressed, but pharmacies, restaurants, and leisure foot washing shops have spread to every corner of the county. Drinking is still a favorite of the people in the county. The liquor store carries the strong human feelings and face of the county, and sometimes drinking is to drink "face", and drinking is "human feelings".
The most direct embodiment of the face of the county people is the marriage and burial matters. Marriage and burial matters are called "red and white" matters, which are extremely solemn in the county seat, and are often regarded as a symbol of evaluating the strength and power of a person and a family. Participating in a wedding funeral is commonly known as "mixed things". Ordinary "things" have to be tossed around with great fanfare for several days, and the procedures for building sheds, building cauldrons, and inviting "teams" are extremely complicated. Only in this way can the enthusiasm of the owner be displayed. With the high-speed, high-speed rail into the county, the distance between the county and the big market is narrowing, with the large supermarket, large entertainment projects settled in the county, with the rise of online shopping, the way of life of people in the county is undergoing unprecedented changes, imitating the behavior habits of large cities has become the "fashion" of the county, some bad habits are "flipping", minimalism, spiritual consumption is also entering the life of people in the county.
Although the county town is small, it has a deep foundation, and the general understanding of people is not transparent, and the inextricable links are difficult to sort out. Leisurely walk around the county town, ask around, take a look, the most intuitive has three points of feeling: First, the sense of class of the crowd is more obvious, this sense of class from the dress, from the temperament, from the place of entry and exit, the location of the residence can be seen, wearing a brand, driving a luxury car, the local house, large and medium-sized cities and houses are generally successful people in the county. The second is the strong sense of humanity and tradition in the county. Third, the contrast is obvious. The pace of infrastructure construction is far faster than the construction of spiritual culture, the speed of high-rise building construction is faster than the speed of rule construction, modernity and tradition, harmony and contrast coexist; urban and rural areas are intertwined, the gap between rich and poor, poor households and rich people live next to each other, live in harmony, and even friends.
At night, I looked through the window at the flickering lights outside the window, looking at this familiar county town, a little confused, too much change, really some can't understand this mysterious river and lake.