Ghosts Lost in First-tier Cities —— Three Rivers God

Japan's NHK released a documentary about Sanhe talent market, which should be the best entry point for all in-depth investigations on Sanhe so far.

? It may be hard to imagine that there will be such a group of people in Lalaland, China, which has the largest electronics group company in Asia, an international financial center and full of dreams and hopes. They gathered around the Sanhe talent market in Shenzhen. Most of them don't have middle school education, they only work for 100 yuan a day, "they can play for three days a day", sleep on the streets or live in Internet cafes and illegal hotels with 10 yuan a day, and their ID cards have long been taken away.

No savings, no residence, no education, no money, just a day's work, and then continue to stay in the internet cafe all night. The ID card has long been sold to a leather bag company or borrowed. Trinity God is like a ghost under the colorful neon lights in this first-tier city. It has lost its vitality and identity in various senses, and there is no tomorrow and no concern.

However, their fingerprints were once on the red cement bricks of high-rise buildings in this city. The iPhone in people's hands is assembled from the Foxconn assembly line where they work. These ghosts used to be ambitious young people. Red lights and green wine in big cities use their lives as fuel, but the prosperity of big cities never belongs to them.

The film interviewed several representative people living in Sanhe. Among them, the first generation of migrant workers, a breakfast shop owner, as a reference, said in an interview after seeing off his little daughter that the young people here are gradually losing patience, unlike at that time, when we paid money and always worked hard. .................................................................................................................................................................................

The great gods wandering in the Three Rivers have long been worn away by the sweatshops of the squeezing workers. However, this patient breakfast shop owner who has been working hard for 18 years is still not qualified to arrange a degree for her daughter who is about to enter primary school. "At the beginning, the advertisement said that Shenzhen was from Shenzhen. In the end, we are not even the sixth category. " *

(* Note? The sixth category: the last category of Shenzhen degree application classification, the foreign city hukou rents a house in this area. )

In a small street restaurant full of cooking oil, three great gods faced the camera and smiled and answered: despair, despair, boredom. The great god who talks the most has not worked for several months. "I am so tired, people are lazy and have no energy." The greasy collar was covered with shiny oil. In every comment on the Three Rivers Report, there are always comments in the front row denouncing the laziness and social moths of the great gods. However, "whenever you want to criticize others, you should always think that not everyone has such superior conditions as you." 」

Unlike the social elites who live in harmony with famous schools in Zhihu and Weibo every day, the Three Rivers Gods are mostly left-behind children in remote areas, brought up by rural elderly people who don't pay attention to education. They have hardly seen their parents, are alienated from each other, have no skills and rarely receive higher education.

Culture or art, national examination or going abroad, elites have a wide range of life choices and a high fault tolerance rate. Teachers and parents pay attention to teaching even if they fail in an exam ranking; The whereabouts of Sanhe Great God can't help, but can only fall into an endless abyss, "just like falling into space."

All roads lead to Rome, but some people were born in Rome, and some people were born in an uncultivated barren land in the South Pacific on the other side of the world.

Elite people watch the Spring Festival Gala with their parents in spacious and bright apartments in first-tier cities. In numerous Spring Festival celebrations, the first generation of migrant workers dedicated their youth to this city. Decades later, their children followed in the footsteps of their parents, but they got lost here and became ghosts in the city-Sanhe God.

At the end of the documentary, one of the little gods walked out of the Three Rivers and left Shenzhen, ready to go to relatives who opened a hairdressing shop and become a barber.

The camera stops at the ticket gate, and the Great God may come back in a few days, or there may be a teacher Tony in the hair salon.

The world is very strange. The daily line in the dark sometimes runs after people, but don't give up running if you can still struggle. After all, although the sun is far away, there must be a sun.