How to stay homesick

Nostalgia, the yearning for hometown written by many literati, is a beautiful memory of childhood. However, in recent years, with the acceleration of urbanization, China's rural areas are rapidly falling, the number of green hills is decreasing, the green water becomes turbid, similar cement buildings are erected everywhere, and the memory of hometown is fading. For many people, "hometown that can't be returned" is already the same as "homesickness".

At the Central Urbanization Work Conference held a few days ago, the extensive urbanization practices of Gai Lou were rectified and demolished, and it was proposed that the city should be integrated into nature, "so that residents can see the mountains, see the water and remember their homesickness". Such poetic words appear in the communique of the party's meeting, which is famous for its cold style, which is refreshing.

What is homesickness? Xinhua commented that homesickness is the smoke drifting along the mud tiles, the mountain road that bends 18 times to the door, the glutinous rice balls in my mother's hand, the longan tree that never bears fruit in the backyard ... in a sense, it is also a rural culture that has been precipitated for many years. Rural civilization bears the precious cultural heritage of China and contains profound historical and cultural information. However, with the acceleration of urbanization, more and more villages are swallowed up by cities. According to national statistics, there are 3.6 million natural villages in China, which will be reduced to 2.7 million in 20 10. In 10, 900,000 villages will disappear, which is equivalent to nearly 300 natural villages disappearing every day, and these natural villages include many ancient villages with a long cultural history.

Although other villages exist, they have long been riddled with holes. Factories are stationed, land is expropriated, rivers are polluted and garbage is everywhere. Farmers have gone out to work, leaving only children and old people in the countryside ... In this lost "urban era", hometown is no longer the original hometown. "Every time I go back to China, it's hard to find childhood memories, small bridges and flowing water, deep alleys, old houses with pavilions and columns, and courtyards full of blue bricks and flowers.

In some places, for the sake of political achievements, the construction of new countryside has alienated urbanization into building houses, expanding roads and copying big cities-rice fields have been leveled, broad asphalt roads have been built, high-rise buildings have sprung up and farmers have gone upstairs. In the new rural settlements, houses look more beautiful and villages look cleaner, but they are lifeless. Some residents who have been "upstairs" face a series of problems and have houses.

"I will miss you in the clouds at sunset." Everyone has fond memories of his hometown, but now, this homesickness has become a luxury in the wave of urbanization. Is this the inevitable development of modernization?

Let's see how those old developed countries do it. /kloc-In the mid-9th century, the metropolitan plan implemented in Paris, France, how to realize the coordination between old and new buildings was once a headache for Paris urban planners. Finally, people reached a compromise in architecture: if necessary, new buildings can be built, but the new buildings should respect the surrounding old buildings and try to keep in harmony with the old buildings in style. When dozens of skyscrapers were built, Parisians found that the buildings could not be integrated with the buildings in the surrounding old city in color, height and appearance, and finally people stopped the high-rise building plan in the old city. La Dé fense, next to the old city, also got a chance to flourish. Parisians transformed it into a new city in Paris, and high-rise buildings and various avant-garde designs became the mainstream.

European countries' deep love for traditional culture and historical context can also be regarded as cherishing "homesickness". For example, the competent department of urban planning and construction in Paris, France is not the Ministry of Construction, but the Ministry of Culture. China people who have been to Europe often lament that many cities there have preserved their unique historical features. Even after the destruction of two world wars, Paris, London, Vienna, Prague and other historical cities in Europe still retain their ancient features to a considerable extent.

And we have the most beautiful countryside and the oldest culture, but many ancient villages and traditional cultures have been abandoned at will in the process of demolition and construction in recent years. Folk customs and neighborhood culture passed down from generation to generation have disappeared, and people's feelings for the countryside have nowhere to pin, and homesickness has nowhere to send.

"Don't lose what you can't see for what you can see." Feng Jicai, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and counselor of the State Council, said that intangible cultures such as oral literature, folk memory, local customs and local spirit rooted in villages have accumulated national spirit and moral values, and also preserved the deepest regional diversity. Without these villages, the characteristics of this nation will disappear.

Fortunately, the direction of urbanization will eventually return to the right direction. This central urbanization work conference put forward a strategic pattern of "two horizontals and three verticals". It is necessary to "cut down less trees, not fill lakes, and tear down less houses", relying on the unique scenery such as the existing landscape to integrate the city into nature, and "let residents see mountains and water, and remember to live in homesickness".

The commitment to take greater responsibility for green mountains and green waters, the protection of traditional ancient villages, the excavation of rural cultural heritage and the persistence in protecting cultural diversity are all the foundations on which homesickness can be attached. Specifically, the urbanization of "nostalgia" has two connotations: from the time point of view, it is required to achieve harmony with the old environment in the process of urbanization, avoid destroying the city memory and retain the sense of regional history; From the perspective of space, it is to bridge the urban-rural differences and regional differences through new urbanization on the basis of free migration and mobility of population, so that people who once had homesickness can choose to work and develop on the spot without leaving their homes.

It is not easy to turn the once blindly utilitarian urbanization model into a warm and caring "homesickness" model and make urbanization a natural historical process. The keynote of this central urbanization work conference is the top-level rectification of the past urbanization construction ideas, but at the implementation level, it is necessary to seek joint efforts through the reform of official assessment methods and a series of related supporting systems, especially the household registration system and rural land transfer, so as to truly make urbanization development more reasonable and effective.

These two days, the central rural work conference is being held, and the beautiful layout of new urbanization has begun. Looking forward to the near future, there will be both modern cities and warm villages, where people can enjoy themselves, live poetically and live happily.