Retire from China makeup, Hong Kong, I still love you.

Hong Kong, you have the wind of freedom and endless possibilities.

it has been half a year since I left Hong Kong, but the sound of ticking on the zebra crossing in that city is always breaking into my dream at countless midnight. Half a year ago, I slowly returned to Xiamen and returned to Xiamen. I seemed to take it for granted that I left Hong Kong after graduating with my bachelor's degree. It was just that when I got on the plane that left Hong Kong, I spent more than a thousand days and nights with it, full of my heart and nowhere to put it. To this day, I still feel melancholy.

three years ago, with countless fantasies about Hong Kong, I would rather leave my hometown. At that time, she was the beginning of the lights of the magical Hong Kong, a dazzling shopping paradise and the most beautiful skyline internationally renowned. For three years, I lived in a room of less than six square meters and spoke unauthentic Cantonese, so I had to start thinking about expenses and learn to be frugal. As far as I was concerned, Hong Kong was gradually losing its makeup and the beauty was no longer bright.

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Today, when I look back, I find Hong Kong's cramped housing, crowded roads, impatient passers-by, hot and humid climate, an inexplicable sense of superiority-she only has naked makeup. But even so, I still love her, still tears at the moment the plane took off, in the midnight dream, think of the traffic lights on the road tick-tock, sleepless night.

I have lived in two places in Hong Kong. When I was a student, I was in the first City of Sha Tin. After earning my living, I only lived in the old-style foreign-style building in Kwai Hing. In that bedroom, which is less than six square meters and smaller than the toilet of my house, one house lasts for two years. Such bedrooms are medium in Hong Kong. I once wondered why, in such a narrow living environment, some people would be willing to invest and immigrate and trade a huge suite on the mainland for an inch of the world here, and why some people would be willing to give up the condition of being comfortable. to find even the slightest sense of existence in this city with the highest population density.

[big freedom of small space]

but I finally understand how irresistible charm it is in this belief in the "rules", where hard work depends less on parents, does not mention human feelings, and even the capital city can be investigated. Those small houses can connect to the wide parks around them and the convenient subway. No matter whether they live in Yuen long or Sheung Shui, within an hour, they can go to Hong Kong Island to fight for their ideal life. From Tsuen Wan to North Point and then to Sheung Wan, you can hear more than four languages, people of different skin colors shuttling back and forth, just like downtown signboards, you can say anything and love anyone. From craftsmanship to political ideals, some groups and associations can be accommodated.

it is not difficult to find a job in Hong Kong. Thousands of NGO societies provide tens of thousands of jobs every year. If you join them and work hard, you will have your food and clothing. The golden rice bowl in the eyes of the mainland, within the system, is no longer the only way to live a chic life. Pluralism and freedom have given rise to unlimited possibilities in this seemingly narrow space of Hong Kong. Also let me come back, no longer hold absolute negation to any kind of opinion, no longer superstition authority, follow others.

[order and sense of security]

Hong Kong is world-famous for its congestion. If you have seen Sha Tin on weekends and Mong Kok in the afternoon, you can't help living on any street on the mainland.

Hong Kong is incredibly crowded, with more than 7 million people huddled in a complex and narrow city, but this has given rise to incredible order. The elevator is on the right, the aisle is on the right, and the subway is always getting off first and then going up during rush hour, and there is always a group of people queuing up to take credit cards at the entrance of the gate. In this hurried place, most people can unhurriedly abide by that set of rules. Shop where you should, and give way where you should. Christmas countdown, book fair, tens of millions of people gather, staff plan the way out, adjust the entrance, no matter how dense the scene, there is always the best way to evacuate. For three years, I enjoyed such priceless and amazing security, and I was always impressed by its charm.

[pragmatic and humane]

when my father advised me to go home, he always said that Hong Kong would soon be overtaken by mainland cities. In two years, the growth rate of the mainland economy will lag behind Hong Kong. Over the past few years, "bad-mouthing" Hong Kong has also become a cliche é in the media, excluding the "one-sided facts" reported by some media. Hong Kong's economic growth has indeed slowed down in recent years, and it may indeed begin to decline in a few years. However, I still think that measuring the happiness of a city is not cold figures or hard-to-feel economic growth, but it gives you personal convenience and peace of mind.

there is a cover when walking an overpass, a hook when taking a bus, someone listening when making a government phone call, not being blocked when reading the web page, not filling in a pile of social relations at work, and a bunch of certificates from various institutions. You don't have to fill out the same form repeatedly and waste time. When you are in the heat or heavy rain, you can take a walk from the Sheung Wan office to Wan Chai without taking an umbrella. When you are disabled and do not need anyone's help, you can ride the subway, eat western food, watch movies and go shopping alone in a wheelchair; when you are in a foreign country and do not understand the language, you can also see the direction of your destination from each sign, and you do not need to ask a person. Only in such a city can you be lucky and lucky. It has long crossed the level of first and second lines, and it is an international city with a distance that mainland cities still need 30 years to catch up with.

where I work, there are many senior cadres sent by the mainland, and these people with both high ability and quality are also extremely objective when talking about Hong Kong and the mainland. On the one hand, they are proud of the progress of the mainland, on the other hand, they are well aware of the gap. The leader of a first-tier city on the mainland told me that the covered bridges in Hong Kong are what he admires most. "diversion of people and vehicles and seamless docking with important buildings" is the key to improve the quality of life. "in the last century, my city organized a team of experts to study urban construction in Hong Kong," the leader said. Saying, "after so many years, only high housing prices have been learned."

[put aside the media and ask you to know the real Hong Kong]

when I worked in Hong Kong, the contradiction between mainland China and Hong Kong intensified. As a mainlander studying and working in Hong Kong, I did not feel that I was in too much difficulty in life, but my father, who made a video call with me every day, told me to "hide at home and not easily take to the streets." Mainland friends who want to come to Hong Kong also asked me, "do I have to wear a mask when I go to Hong Kong? do I not speak Putonghua? will I be beaten?" I didn't know the source of this strange speculation until I opened the news feed on the mainland.

most of the media have no other use but to intensify contradictions, watch lively, and engage in all kinds of Quyi gossip. Believe in the Hong Kong media, it tells you that mainlanders defecate anywhere, jump the queue, corrupt officials roll money, and people don't know how to complain. Believe in the mainland media, it tells you that Hong Kong people are blindly superior, indifferent and arrogant, hurt tourists, kneel and lick ghosts. But are these all true? It is a one-sided truth at best. If you live on the mainland, you will also be polite, fluent in English, enthusiastic and restrained, able to talk about human rights and freedoms, and understand gratitude and respect. In the city where I live, young people can also line up, wait for buses, crowded buses, and know how to give up their seats anytime, anywhere, old, weak, women, and children. When you set foot on the land of Hong Kong, you will see that people here will give thumbs up to a man who is stranded at the airport on the mainland, who only eats instant noodles, gives thumbs up to save money, and goes back to his hometown to visit relatives, and will patiently show the way for mainland aunts in Putonghua.

Information explodes and flies all over the sky. If we don't maintain the freedom not to be disturbed, think freely, and see for ourselves, what's the difference between us and being imprisoned?

[is Hong Kong afraid of the mainland?

Hong Kong does have prejudices against the mainland, and the media say that "Hong Kong is afraid of the mainland", which is right. However, the reason for fear is not the fear of being overtaken by mainland cities or the strength of our compatriots on the mainland. This is a cooperative society, belonging to the same country, and powerful compatriots will only provide better exchange and sharing of resources. Hong Kong's high-level and wealthy businessmen like to see it. Hong Kong has rich capital accumulation and different systems. Hong Kong has its meaning in the international arena. Hong Kong cannot be separated from the motherland, and it is impossible for the country to really "throw" it. We need each other.

what Hong Kong fears is assimilation by the mainland. It is not that anyone has a more advanced culture. I always firmly believe that Hong Kong is the Hong Kong of China, but it is also a place with its characteristics. Hong Kong attracts visitors because this city is different from mainland cities. I understand their unwillingness to be assimilated.

similar buildings, similar layout, similar road names, similar large slogans, the difference between cities is easily blurred. In Quanzhou, like Fuzhou, in Shenzhen, and like Guangzhou. For a long time, Hong Kong has maintained its local characteristics: ice rooms, teahouses, Chungking Mansions, neon signboards, jingle cars, and racecourse; Mong Kok, Kowloon, Central, Causeway Bay, Quarry Bay (Chong); every word belongs to Hong Kong and only describes Hong Kong, becoming a symbol of it, and the songs and the scenes in those movies make me feel that it shines even if I have never seen it.

[I'm just a passer-by]  

I finally left it. In life, in addition to self, there are parents and family, we often can not live such a chic life. So when someone says, how much I wish I could never grow up, I burst into tears.

to me, Hong Kong has never been a home or a destination. It's a site. It's just that when I passed by, I watched it nostalgia for three years, and in the three most important years when my values were formed, I finally had to wave to it, bid farewell to the scenery, and then embark on my future.

it's just that when I close the door of the small bedroom and turn off the lights in the windowless hall when push my luggage and stand at the departure security check, my feelings for the city drown me. Although I know that in this fast city, three years ago, three years later, dragging my suitcase, I came and went, always a passer-by, never a homecoming. But to me, it is not only a process but also a kind of eternity.

Hong Kong, you have the wind of freedom and endless possibilities, but when I leave and hold out my hands, I can take nothing with me but heavy memories and growth. That kind of idea, that kind of belief, has become my gentlest expectation of Xiamen. I just hope that I will turn the scenery deeply rooted in my memory into sound, into words, to talk and write, to do my part, to push my home forward step by step, step by step, slowly.