Everyone's hometown is falling.

Legal Daily Shen Dong

Hometown fell? Whose?

Everyone's hometown is falling!

This is a sentence in "Google Search". Just enter the first four words ("Everyone's") and it will be automatically generated for the searcher to choose. This shows the influence of this sentence on the internet! Even careful online readers will soon find that many authors use it as the same title, expressing different stories about the fall of their hometown, and they don't care whether they "copied" other people's titles or the beauty of being hunted.

Of course, the famous discussion on the theme of the Fall of Hometown is not limited to this title. Everyone's hometown is falling. Chen's My hometown is falling, Why is My hometown falling, My hometown at the bottom is unbearable to fall, and Who's hometown doesn't fall, all touch on the full name judgment of this seemingly shocking figure.

Because of the nature of its full name judgment, as a rural foreigner born and raised in the city, I was skeptical at first. On the one hand, the word "hometown" is equivalent to the city where I was born to a native city person like me. And my own personal experience, at least, does not support the conclusion that my hometown is falling; Second, China is so big, so is the countryside. Is it true that in the 30 years of reform and opening up and the 60 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the land has fallen or is falling, regardless of east, west, north and south?

I was suspicious and chewed those words carefully, trying to taste and distinguish homesickness, worry, confusion, sadness, melancholy, resentment and silence in Chen Zhong. Gradually, in the depths of my mind, I seem to vaguely see "delicious grass, colorful England;" The land is flat, such as houses; In the bustling traffic, chickens and dogs hear each other; The best pastoral scenery of "yellow hair hanging down, enjoying yourself" (from Peach Blossom Spring) is like lightning, leaving me quickly.

Suddenly, it dawned on me. When the hometown of woodcutters, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen and Chen fell, was it not the hometown of a native city dweller and a rural stranger?

Hometown fell? In what sense?

The "hometown" here is not only a material, concrete and specific place for childhood growth, but also contains a way of life:

It is quiet, peaceful, relaxed and pleasant, instead of spinning involuntarily like a wound top. Today, it stops for a short time just to be rotated better tomorrow.

It is mutual familiarity, warmth and frankness, mutual concern, mutual help of illness and health, not strangeness, indifference, suspicion, loneliness and helplessness. Neighbors don't communicate with each other, and even people who save lives are falsely accused of beating people, not to mention the law of the jungle.

It is integrated with the heaven and the earth, keeping fishing without burning the forest, breathing the fragrance of the earth and enjoying the pleasure of green mountains and green waters, instead of plundering resources, building workshops or nests with reinforced concrete, walking, working, resting and sleeping in a closed box in mid-air, consuming for consumption, and constantly releasing garbage, sewage, smoke and tail gas from it.

This way of life may only exist on the other side of the ideal, even in the traditional farming society of China, and only exists as a "fairyland of words" in the story of Taohuayuan. However, it is fascinating and worth watching after all. In this sense, "hometown" does not belong to farmers and villagers, but to everyone, including urban people. City people pay attention to greening when buying a house. Even if they put a cactus in the office, they are keen on outings and farmhouse meals on holidays, and they are full of praise for beautiful landscape photography (even after "beauty" treatment). These are not showing their "hometown" rooted in their hearts.

Because of this, the woodcutter for ten years described the changes in his hometown when he went to the countryside to miss his hometown, but he felt extremely sad: the farmland was dry and the weeds were overgrown; Grassland desertification and rodent infestation; Old, weak, sick and lifeless; The dogs in the village are running and guarding their homes; Shameless, mercenary; Local ruffians and hooligans, fish village; Gambling pornography and drugs, waiting for opportunities to spread; Collusion between officials and businessmen to plunder resources; Large-scale construction and blind development; ....., who can't be moved by it?

Perhaps, they are not the whole picture of rural areas in China, or they only happen locally. However, when such changes are recorded more and more and posted on the Internet, who can say coldly that his "hometown" has not fallen like an "outsider"? This is not only the degeneration of the natural conditions and social environment for rural survival, but also the degeneration of a warm lifestyle, code of conduct, ethics and survival value. If this decline is allowed to continue and expand-perhaps alarmist-what kind of situation will the rural areas where 900 million farmers live surround the cities, and what will it eventually bring to the whole nation?

Why did it fall?

The fall of my hometown was not accidental, but it was not predicted by any soothsayer from a crystal ball or astronomical phenomena.

From a short distance, the process from planned economy to market economy is the process of deepening industrialization and urbanization and increasing employment opportunities in cities and towns. The dual pattern of urban and rural life and the income gap have attracted and created a huge contingent of young and middle-aged migrant workers (according to the national population statistics in 2004, about 65,438+66 million rural registered population live in cities). Undoubtedly, they provided abundant labor resources for the rapid economic development of China, but at the same time, after leaving the land for the city, they left an "empty nest village" dominated by the elderly, women and children.

As a result, farmland is either barren or subcontracted to others for cultivation, and agricultural production capacity declines; Family instability, rural extramarital affairs and criminal cases caused by extramarital affairs increase; Left-behind elderly people, women and children are trapped in the "emotional empty nest" to varying degrees; Pension and children's education have also become increasingly serious problems, especially empty-nest children are often introverted, withdrawn, willful and indifferent; The social security forces composed of the old, the weak and the sick are even more difficult to resist rampant thieves and even evil forces.

Zoom in a little more. The contract responsibility system of dividing fields into households has stimulated farmers' enthusiasm for production and got rid of the disadvantages of "three-level ownership and team-based" (production team, production brigade and people's commune) structure, such as idleness, no work, and so on. It is known as the "first shot of revolution" in China's comprehensive reform. However, this system also restricts farmers to the business entity with the family as the unit, which increases the cost of family cooperation and makes the supply of rural public welfare increasingly insufficient.

The frequent and rapid interaction between family economy and labor force output makes villagers accustomed to collective life and mutual assistance tend to be atomized, alienated and lonely. Villagers who have left the collective have gained a broad space for freedom of action, but they have also lost their dependence on people. As a result, villagers, like city people, need to find crutches to survive alone and strongly in the harsh competitive environment, that is, dependence on material and money. The value of "money talks" fueled by consumerist advertisements has eroded the value of thrift.

At the same time, the rich natural resources in rural areas have become the object of coveted and plundered by industrial and commercial economy and tourism economy. Stimulated by GDP achievements, grass-roots governments have opened the door to this plunder. The atomized villagers who turn to rely on material and money have no choice but to form an alliance of power and capital, and are also limited by narrow immediate interests. Not only do they allow resources to be plundered, but some people even take part in it. However, the sequelae of environmental deterioration caused by the destruction and plunder of resources are rarely concerned, if not ignored.