Zhang Chengrong
That year I went to the United States to study and met a Princeton-graduated student at Google company . He went to the United States to study alone, and graduated with a doctorate and worked in Google . I envy him and listen to his fluent English, standard Mandarin . This is a young talent. However, as the interaction deepens, the Chinese from foreign countries no longer have the stranger to the first meeting. They are alone in a foreign land and are very close to the Chinese people in other places. Later, he further introduced that he was a student from Hefei. When I said I was Chaohu people, he immediately became excited. His home was also on the shore of Chaohu Lake, not far from my hometown.
I heard that he didn't speak English anymore, and he didn't see any trace of Mandarin. I talked to me about authentic Chaohu dialect. I was so excited that he was also excited. We are not the same generation, but we all have the same hometown feelings. I was thinking that missing my hometown should be something that is the only people of us who are older. How can a person in his twenties have such a complex? He was the time to travel around the world, make achievements and become famous. A man is determined to leave his hometown and will not return his fame and fortune until he achieves it. His age is the age to break free from the shackles of home and to the broader world to freely breathe freely. My parents are not old and have no family concerns. Where is the concept of hometown? I asked him with questions, but unexpectedly his words shocked me. He said, "Wandering outside is like rootless duckweed. Although studying and working in the United States is OK, I always feel deeply lost. We are always a few here, and we always feel that others look at us with different eyes. Especially when we encounter bad luck, we always feel that we are particularly helpless. On Chinese festivals, we always think of our hometown, our parents, and our hometown. When it is late at night, we seem to feel like a wanderer and can't find a home." Yes, I feel very same, and I am in China, and I am still in Anhui Province, only a few hundred miles away from my hometown. Age is irrelevant, at home and abroad, and identity is irrelevant, but we are all people who leave our hometown and we are all guests. But I left my hometown and he left my country. Our heartbeats are the same, our emotions are the same. We have mutual resonance, and we all look at our hometown in a foreign land.
No matter who you are, there is a home, a home you dream of. Whether poor or rich or high, we all work hard to return to our hometown.
In fact, who can go back to the hometown when I left? Things are either different, people are different, things have changed. Whether it is good or sad, it will never look the same. But why do we have to work hard to return to our hometown?
For that young man, home is a real concrete image, a real home. She can shelter from wind and rain and bring warmth. There are also parents, relatives, brothers and sisters at home. There are still many images of my hometown. He can still find many familiar sights when he goes back. At our age, we have been away from home for a long time and our relatives and friends are not around, and even the road to Laowu Village is not there or very different. We miss our hometown, and we yearn to return to our hometown, which is more about spiritual things. Deep inside us, something spiritual must be placed, that is, the residence of the soul. We return to our hometown and recall our hometown in order to keep our souls safe and we will no longer wander.
Perhaps the young man felt a little disappointed after returning to his hometown. Maybe there are surprises, my hometown is thousands of miles a day. He was disappointed or happy, but he had many ways to choose from. He may have the ability to build his hometown. The small village on the shore of Chaohu Lake may be shining because of him. Where is me? I can only sigh in my words that I didn’t work hard enough when I was young, and maybe I didn’t have any idea to add luster to my hometown, nor did I have the idea to shine the family’s lintel. Now that I am old, I am ashamed of my hometown, and can only express some worthless thoughts and emotions.What's the benefit of your hometown? What's the benefit of oneself? It can only add to the sadness!
Yes, what else can someone like me who only talks about my hometown but does not take action besides sighing when they are old? I just think of the wandering young man who was young and didn’t know that the preciousness of my hometown was. We left our hometown, missed our hometown, and complained about our hometown, and in the end we were empty and covered in scars.
When we parted, we saw the young man full of passion and melancholy. The material life in a foreign land, salary and benefits are all very good, and the choice of career is also very good. In such a globally renowned enterprise and a highland of science and technology, how great it is to be a young man. But young people have national boundaries, and they are even children from small villages on the shore of Chaohu Lake. Although the foreign land is good, it is not a place to stay for a long time. No matter how successful you achieve fame, you will be a guest in a foreign land. There is a kind of longing in his eyes, which is the longing for the country, the longing for his hometown, and the longing for his parents and relatives. I think especially during festivals, under the neon lights of a foreign country and in the exotic style, the bright moon may urge him to be sadder. Perhaps, maybe certainly, his parents and relatives are also looking at him from afar, and are also looking forward to him coming back quickly. The family needs him, and the parents need him.
I have been talking to him for a long time. The hometown dialect brings us closer, the common hometown customs brings us closer, and the taste of the hometown brings us closer. I watched him wearing a vest, and his eyes became wet. This is a child with a strong hometown complex, and he will definitely get what he wants. He once said that in two years, when his major goes further and he can stand alone, he must return to his hometown, return to his parents, serve his hometown, and be filial to his parents. I wish you young people, wishing you to face the sea and spring flowers bloom. May you have a bright future.
People who do not forget their hometown must be kind, because hometown is a tree worthy of our protection and looking up to. We are all roots that extend into the distance. No matter how far we extend, we will definitely draw nutrients from our hometown. No matter how far we extend, we will still be inseparable from our hometown. When I came back, the young man wanted to give me a stranger. Maybe he wanted to talk to me about the dialect of hometown, the feelings of hometown, and the taste of hometown. I satisfied him, and I also gained some kind of warmth.
The young man might have been back long ago. Perhaps he had already realized his ideal, reunited with his parents, worked hard for his hometown, breathed the air of Chaohu Lake freely, and felt the beauty of his hometown all seasons. Perhaps occasionally he will think of the past life experience, where he will always be a passerby.
In the past few years, I have always thought of my hometown, but I often want to stay at the level of thinking, and sometimes I think more beautiful than looking at it. For example, when you see an old house collapse, what does it feel like, but if you think of an old house, it is definitely a joyful sweetness. There is a distance, not far or near, just right. And it is even better to use words. It can be a documentary of her hometown or an imagination of her hometown. The beauty of Chinese characters lies in the endless tension. In her hometown, she can enrich your shriveled bag of safety and make you travel far and wide.
Hometown is full and vivid in the text!
The most memorable thing is Chaozhou
