Urgent! Help me write an essay about praising the changes in my hometown in about 400 words My hometown is Mianyang ！！！！！！

My hometown is mountainous and beautiful but poor and backward. My home is in a mountain valley hundreds of miles away from the city. Before going to high school, I had never been out of the embrace of the mountains. To be honest, I have never cared much about the development or changes in my hometown. I didn't have this kind of consciousness before I went to high school, and I didn't have time to care after I went to high school. Even more than two years ago to go to college in another country thousands of miles away, and lazy to care. Because the speed of economic development in my hometown is so disappointing compared to the cities in the Pearl River Delta, it makes me sad to mention it.

But to say that the hometown changes, I think maybe we can do a simple, superficial summary of it: more money, people "lazy"; high buildings, dirty water.

The spring breeze of reform did not seem to blow into our remote mountain village until the late eighties. Prior to that, people in the village, young and old, were working hard to make a living in the soil. But the land we love so much did not give us much in return. In addition to farming, there was not much other income in the village, and many people had skills and were able to work hard, but there was no place for them to show their skills. In the last few years of the 1980s, people in the village no longer counted on the land. They heard that there was gold in the city outside the mountain, and they went out one after another. Young people, middle-aged, skilled, unskilled, all want to go out to pick up some gold back. They go is a year and a half, come back, although not full of gold and silver, always more than the soil out of the plow. So in the home rest on ten twenty days and went out. Those who stayed in the village were mostly old people and children. By the mid-1990s, even teenage children in the classroom can not sit, many of them are crowded south to work on the train. With fewer laborers in the countryside, the land that used to be cleared by hard work grew back into weeds within a few years. In recent years, a lot of paddy fields have been deserted. Farming is too hard, and when the family has money, who wants to suffer? In the past, just a few days after the Spring Festival, the field will be busy figures. Nowadays, it seems to be a shame to go to the field without the Lantern Festival. Rural women who stayed at home would get together every now and then to play cards in their spare time, something they never dared to think of before! On sunny days, they would go home in the starlight, and on rainy days, they would come and go in the wind and rain, and they would not have a few days of rest all year round.

In the past few years, buildings in the village have been popping up from all corners like bamboo shoots after the rain. Three or four floors, some of which are beautifully decorated. Even if it is only a one-story, not a building, it looks much better than those mud brick houses. The interior decoration is not to mention, smooth to shine out of the shadow of the floor tiles ah, gorgeous wallpaper ...... is simply to take money to the wall, take money to the ground paved. It is only brush on the white lime looks also much brighter, no longer like mud brick house as dark, depressing.

But what makes people very uncomfortable is that the water in the stream is getting dirty. In the past, when they couldn't afford running water, people in the village drew their water from the stream that runs through the village. The first thing the village people did when they got up early in the morning was to pick the big water tanks in their homes full of water for the day. When we were young, we used to swim in the creek. When we were young, we used to swim in the creek and sometimes drank from it when we were thirsty. Nowadays, not to mention picking water from the stream for cooking, even washing vegetables and taking them home, we have to wash them once or twice again with tap water. In summer, when we see the dirty water, we no longer have the urge to jump into it. The scene of fish swimming in the water cannot be seen nowadays. Everywhere in the stream and along the streamside are all kinds of garbage, and some of those plastic bags have long been discolored, but they just won't melt away. The villagers used to dump all the garbage into the stream, believing that the stream would take away the things they didn't need. Or pile it up in the open space in front of their door, and when it accumulates too much, they light a fire, so the trash goes up in smoke while they talk and laugh.

It can be expected that in the future the life of the people in the village will become better and better, the money will be more and more, the building will be higher and higher. Will people get lazier and lazier? But will the water get dirtier and dirtier? The village people's this kind of "lazy", the older generation is not used to see. But it's a sign that life is getting better! It is the future generations of the village that will benefit. The children in the village have gotten used to the increasingly dirty water. Victims are not also them?