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Changes in my hometown

My hometown is beautiful but poor and backward. My home is in a ravine hundreds of miles away from the city. Before I entered high school, I had never been outside the mountains. To be honest, I have never cared much about the development or changes in my hometown. I didn’t have this awareness before I entered high school, and I didn’t have time to care about it after I entered high school. Even more than two years ago, I went to college in a foreign country thousands of miles away, and I didn't bother to care anymore. Because the economic development speed of my hometown is so disappointing compared with the cities in the Pearl River Delta, it makes me sad to mention it.

But when it comes to the changes in my hometown, I think we can make a simple and superficial summary: there is more money, people are "lazy"; the buildings are taller, and the water is dirty.

It was not until the late 1980s that the spring breeze of reform seemed to blow in our remote mountain village. Before that, all the people in the village, men, women, old and young, worked hard to dig food in the soil. It’s just that the land we love so much doesn’t give us much in return. Apart from farming, there is not much other income in the village. Many people have skills and can endure hardships, but there is no place to display their skills. In the last few years of the 1980s, the villagers no longer looked forward to the land. Hearing that there was gold picking in the city outside the mountain, they all walked out. Young people, middle-aged people, skilled and unskilled all want to go out and pick up some gold. They left for a year and a half, and although they were not covered in gold and silver when they came back, there was still more than what was dug out of the ground. So I rested at home for ten or twenty days and went out again. Most of the people staying in the village are old people and children. By the mid-1990s, even teenage children could no longer sit still in the classroom, and many were crowded onto the train heading south to work. The rural labor force has decreased, and the land that was previously cleared through hard work has become overgrown with weeds within a few years. In recent years, many paddy fields have become barren. Farming is too hard. If the family has money, who is willing to ask for hardship? In the past, just a few days after the Spring Festival, the fields and corners were full of busy figures. Nowadays, it seems very shameful to go to the ground before the Lantern Festival. Rural women who stay at home would get together every now and then to play cards for fun during their spare time. This was something they never dared to think about before! On a sunny day, you go out to the morning and go home under the stars. On a rainy day, you come and go in the wind and rain, and there are only a few days of rest throughout the year.

In the past few years, buildings in the village have been springing up from every corner like bamboo shoots after a rain. There are three or four floors, some of which are beautifully decorated on the outside. Even though it was only one floor and not really a building, it still looked much more pleasing to the eye than those mud-brick houses. Not to mention the interior decoration, the floor tiles are so smooth that you can see people's figures, and the gorgeous wallpaper... It's like paying money to put it on the wall, and paying money to spread it on the floor. Even if it is only painted with white lime, it looks much brighter, no longer as dark and depressing as a mud brick house.

But what makes people very uncomfortable is that the water in the stream is getting dirty. In the past, running water was not available, and the villagers got their water from the stream that ran across the village. The first thing the villagers do when they get up in the morning is to fill the large water tanks at home with water for the day. We used to swim in the creek when we were little. Sometimes when I feel thirsty, I take a deep drink from the stream. Nowadays, let alone carrying water from the stream for cooking, even when washing vegetables and taking them home, you have to wash them once or twice with tap water. When we see this dirty water in summer, we no longer have the urge to jump in. The sight of fish swimming around in the water is no longer visible. Various kinds of garbage can be seen everywhere in and beside the stream. Some of those plastic bags have long since changed color, but they just refuse to melt away. Villagers are accustomed to dumping all their rubbish into the stream, believing that the stream will take away these unwanted items. Or they pile it up in the open space in front of the door. If there is too much, they light a fire, and then the garbage is wiped out while talking and laughing.

It can be expected that the lives of people in the village will get better and better in the future, the money will be more and more, and the buildings will be higher and higher. Will people become more and more "lazy"? But is the water getting dirtier? The older generation can't stand the "laziness" of the villagers. But this also shows that life has gotten better! It is the descendants of the hometown who benefit. The water is getting dirtier and dirtier, and the children in the village must have gotten used to it. Aren't they the ones who suffered?