The countryside is not our only destination, but our last retreat.

▲ The picture was taken in Suining's hometown.

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Is this my childhood?

On a green country road, a little girl with a schoolbag on her back is running happily. On both sides of the road are endless fields, and at the end of the road is home.

When it was getting dark in the evening, chickens and ducks playing outside came back one after another, and the smoke on the stove began to rise slowly. Before her mother cooked the meal, the little girl had gone to the neighbor's house to play games with her friends. Of course, she will watch TV, even though she has forgotten what was put on TV when she grew up.

Suddenly, the room was dark, the power went out, and the TV lost its stereo. In the moonlight, people began to take small benches and flashlights to an open space in the village to talk about their families. When you go back, don't forget to buy some candles in the small shop in the west of the village.

As the crowd dispersed, the village gradually quieted down, and occasionally a few dogs barked in the night. With a few crows, the village began to wake up in the morning fog. While the little girl was still sleeping, her mother was busy cleaning the hospital and outside, and her father had been working in the fields.

The little girl who slept late didn't have time to drink pumpkin porridge cooked by her mother. She just rolled up a pancake in a hurry, picked up her schoolbag and walked towards the school. She always thought that her mother's pancakes were too thick and not as delicious as her neighbors', but when she grew up and wanted to eat her own pancakes, her mother was too old to bake.

This is my familiar childhood. Perhaps, it is also your childhood.

▲ The picture was taken in Suining's hometown.

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What is hometown? Some people say that my hometown is a place where I want to escape when I was a child and want to go back when I grow up, but I can't go back.

Perhaps because we have been away from home for too long, we always think too much about the country, but when we get back, we find that we are not familiar with it.

When I was a child, only a few old people guarded the house full of laughter. There are weeds in front of several families, and the tiles on the roof have fallen off.

The brief excitement during the Chinese New Year is like a switch button. After that, they returned to their respective "city" lives. Even when there is no epidemic, when I go home, I am more unfamiliar and familiar with my childhood friends. Different experiences, different occupations, different cities and different cultures make us drift apart.

Yes, we know each other very well, but we have nothing to say.

▲ The picture was taken in Tianjia, Hualian Village.

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Sometimes I feel lucky that the second hometown where I live now has its own specialty resources, with mountains and water, and hollowing out is not as serious as my hometown.

For entrepreneurship in recent years, my parents-in-law and Mr. Tian are very supportive. They supported my idea and decision. Go out to study, either tian teacher will drive me or my mother-in-law will drive me. Now I have a driver's license, but I can't drive.

Entrepreneurship is actually the use of special resources (spring tea, autumn crab, etc. ) It's not that great to find ways to promote and sell some agricultural products in our own village.

Sometimes, I feel weak. Although I have feelings, I have no ability to do more.

I have my own small family. I am a daughter, a daughter-in-law, a wife and a mother. I don't care more, even if I have a big dream, I just try carefully within my controllable range.

▲ Villages photographed in recent years

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Sometimes I feel sad.

We often lament the indifference of reinforced concrete cities, but we don't know that the rural areas have already changed from an "acquaintance society" to a "semi-acquaintance society" in the poor order pattern dominated by agriculture, and the proportion is gradually shrinking.

For most people, going out to work is more direct and faster than digging hard on the land. Land can hardly give us a decent life, and it is no longer the only destination for people. When I was a child, during the busy farming season, neighbors helped me, and the scene of gathering in the threshing floor could no longer be presented. After bidding farewell to the village dominated by fields, people lack the reasons and opportunities to get together and have fun together.

Even if we all stay at home, we seldom go out. The post-80s in the village may not know the post-90s and post-90s. When you have children of your own, is the town or the county the first place you want to go to school? It is no longer the traditional primary school to study in the village first, junior high school to the town, and high school to the county. People with some conditions will also choose to buy a house in the county. So many children in the village don't know each other. Most people's activities are only in a few families around.

Just like this rural e-commerce training activity organized by Green Tea Space and me, tian teacher took me and my niece group in their twenties to run around the village, telling training information and looking for young people interested in learning to register information. We found that many young people were not at home, and some young people stayed at home because of the epidemic. If it hadn't been for this training activity, tian teacher might not have met his old classmates whom he hadn't seen for several years.

▲ The picture shows Tian Jia of Hualian Village, registering for online training activities.

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We grow up, but our hometown is getting old. Even the South, where beautiful countryside is building more vigorously, can't stop young people from leaving.

I see that most villages in southern Jiangsu have started to sort garbage. With modern public toilets, beautiful wall paintings and activity squares, the countryside began to pay attention to greening and beautification. The polluted river water in front of the hometown village in northern Jiangsu has also begun to be treated, and the village has also begun to be equipped with trash cans, and there are simple public toilets on the roadside.

However, there are still few traces of the countryside in the planning of the younger generation for study, graduation and work. As a person who loves the countryside, marries Gaochun and lives in the countryside, I wish more young people in the village would stand up and unite and think about doing something for the countryside, instead of a foreign daughter-in-law struggling alone. I have tasted bitterness, experienced bitterness and heard cold words, but there is still a small fire in my heart.

Professor He Xuefeng said in "The Return of the Native": "The first thing to build the countryside is not to realize the rural dream of the urban middle class, but to provide the last choice for those farmers who still want to earn income and retreat from the countryside and agriculture. It should be the basic principle of homesickness construction to carry out rural construction for the most vulnerable peasant groups and not to provide homesickness for the urban middle class. In this sense, all those who enter cities from rural areas, all those who care about farmers, the largest group in China, and all those who love and care about this country and see its unprecedented urbanization and modernization process have the responsibility and obligation to carry out rural construction within their power. "

Therefore, I still won't give up my efforts and do something within my power with limited strength. Although I can't sell all the specialties in the village, I can teach them how to use the most convenient network to promote themselves. Even if there are no specialties to sell, it is meaningful to learn to publicize and let more people pay attention to the countryside.

No matter how this country changes, it is still a paradise for foreign travelers. The countryside is not our only destination, but our last retreat. During the epidemic, this feeling is even more real. When we can't go out, we still have our own yard and grow vegetables in our own small vegetable garden.

No matter how the countryside changes, the soil and water there is still the source of warmth in our memory. If everyone emits a beam of light, the countryside will eventually be illuminated.

▲ The picture shows Tian Jia of Hualian Village, registering for online training activities.

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Author of this issue: Lan Yin Rose, whose real name is Tong. Catch crabs with your left hand, write with your right hand, and discover and record the beauty of life with your heart. Born in northern Jiangsu and in southern Jiangsu, he resigned and returned to his hometown to take root as a rural entrepreneur.