In the young city of immigrants, first met friends always ask each other: "Where are you from?"
Often through this sentence, be able to find fellow people to each other away from their families and friends in this city, let alone are no longer wandering mind.
"I am in Shenzhen people."
They will always be curious to ask: "Are you the Shenzhen local people?" With envy or despise not tell is the envy of the complex eyes. In fact, inside the means - you're the kind of local indigenous? Just because an old man readily drawn to a circle, legs have not washed the mud on the farmers in cities upstart?
So I have a guilty conscience to explain: "It's not pulling up to count half, my mother is Baoan people. And I do not blocks of Western-style house at home waiting for rental, not qualified to a very boring day price busy playing mahjong Chihepiaodu poison, He He. "
Travel overseas, they are often asked to this problem, when I learned that Guangdong people, they are very surprised: "No, like ah, you said very standard Mandarin Well. Then you are not very fond of eating game, you eat Guo Lao Shurou it? "made me speechless and breathtaking, it appears outside the Cantonese really needs to be improved to improve the image.
99 years of the fall of the Kanas Lake in Xinjiang. As early as the night lying on the cabin before the ground, looking up at the sky of the stars, clear and lofty.
Tang is a fellow feeling for the fate of the troubled, and he pointed to the north the first seven stars shining overhead, said: "Look, the stars are also the direction. Do not know where our direction?"
Now and then someone asked me: "Where are you from?" I really do not know how to answer.
Looking through the account book, written in place of origin - Huidong; my identity card at the upper right corner a shiny T-shaped mark, remember the above address in Shenzhen; while the passport is only born - Hunan, China.
I remember from primary school onwards all kinds of forms to fill in the total column of origin.
I asked my father: 'What is the origin? 'Father said:' origin is the ancestral home, is your father and grandfather were born and living areas. Let's origin is the Huidong in Guangdong. '
Guangdong, I know that a kid will be from Hunan New Year's grandfather, grandmother by train to Guangzhou, Guangzhou is warm in winter, there are a lot of delicious things, you can also play with visiting the flower market.
The most fun is that funny Lee, from New Year's Day to the 15, if not married, married to the understanding of friends and relatives to say 'Kung Hei Fat Choi', the other party must forfeit both hands a red envelope.
But I did not understand and had never been to the Huidong how to have a relationship with me, no matter which corner of the world I go, it is always posted on the behind is not faded into a lifelong identity.
In Hunan, when people say I am a Cantonese, because I, and parents said the birds, as well as Hong Kong relatives to send some of our sister weird fashionable clothes.
5 grade elementary school to Shenzhen, the children say I am a native of Hunan Province, and has been a student said, Hunan, dirty and not washing every day, did a severely with him.
An early age was sent to my grandmother for several years at home, it is at the junction of Guangdong and Hunan, a small town called Ping Shek Estate,
There were some time ago to write an article entitled "forgotten town", describing the rise and fall of the rise and fall of the town.
There is now a result of the two provinces at the junction of Jingjiling become tourist attractions, the former Buffalo Bay, now known as the Ping Shek hustle and bustle of the town become messy, the old town is dilapidated bear Ping Shek.
A few years ago to accompany their parents went to an old Ping Shek, the father returned to teenager grew up exceptionally happy.
Walking in the streets there are still people continue to recognize him, shouting his nickname, although he has not been back for nearly 20 years.
My father took us into a ramshackle wooden buildings, set foot on the stairs the sound of Yi Ya, tell me used to live room. Through the kitchen door is a clear stream, said before the laundry is used for rice river water.
Enraptured to talk about his father and the small partners in the summer swimming in the river bathing, but also boasts that he can supine forward to the river while drifting downstream side of the flute.
Today, the river embankment filled with garbage, and no longer have children playing in the water has.
Sister said that my favorite bench seat Zhang moved in the doorway, so Grandma helped me compile long braids, and said that I was also raised in two rabbits.
I only remember that my grandfather took me to blur the street outside the house to see open-air movies, I rode in my grandfather's neck, only to see the streets a dense mass of heads and distant-changing light and shadow.
My last memory of Ping Shek in a night, waking the sleeping grandmother pushed me, and the room to the shuttle with a bunch of adults and hectic, I drowsily along with Aunt to her house next door to sleep. The next day, they told me that Grandpa stroke, went to.
Today, the street looks only five or six meters wide, is that it smaller, or if I grow up?
When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall,
we used to love while others used to play.
Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by,
some one else moved in from far away.
Now we are tall, and Christmas trees are small,
and you don't ask the time of day.
But you and I, our love will never die,
but guess we'll cry come first of May.
__Bee Gees <First of May>
Note: The photo shows the Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Temple of the macro method
Author: echoqw
