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Just like the hundred-year-old banyan trees in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Part that I just photographed (above), life in my hometown Shima has not changed a lot. Most ordinary folks still hold on to their ￥1500 minimum monthly income, some doing the handicraft work that earned them a meager ￥50 over 31 hours. Those with money or power, or with good friends, can enjoy specialty crabs pricing at $150 per pound, or specialty tea and wine ten times more expensive. To me, hometown Shima is more unfamiliar than otherwise, even though. I grew up here until I finished high school. Today as I strolled along hometown streets, I never came across an acquaintance. With pedestrians, tricycles, motorcycles and cars, our narrow streets are getting narrower. But people do not seem to be in a hurry. They move along patiently and good-naturedly. Forty years ago, a monthly salary of ￥100 was impressive. The massage girls we met the other day are now earning between ￥5000 to more than ￥10000. （They do work long and hard hours.） So, people's living standard has improved a lot, despite the inflation--and despite the fact that our next-door neighbor salvaged every empty box we had put in the trash pin. |
就像中山公园（上图）里的百年老榕树，石码人的生活节奏变化不大。如今，普罗大众仍然在一千五百块的月收入下过勤俭的日子，包括做31小时挣50块人民币的手工。有钱有权有朋友的人们可以吃几千块的大闸蟹，喝上万块的茶叶和洋酒。 这个小镇对我陌生多于熟悉，尽管我从小在这里生长，读小学读中学。在街上，看到的脸孔全是陌生的（不过他们的标准配置仍然是钥匙圈加香烟）。窄窄的街道更窄了。除了自行车和三轮车，还多了大量的摩托车和一些小汽车。但人们仍不急不躁地慢慢移动，相互礼让。 40年前人们的月工资有100块就很高了。前天去洗浴中心洗脚，洗脚女们说她们一天工作10-20小时，月工资五六千到上万。所以，是有通货膨胀，但人们的生活水平也普遍提升了，尽管我们家对过的邻居仍然在捡别人扔下的空盒子。“不一定是为了生计，是由来已久的节俭习惯。” 我们的诤友陈书记如是说。 |
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to Yannan 2018 homeland visits 7: outing in 20 minutes;
二十分钟后自动转到 燕南2018年故乡行 7：畲族探幽
My glimpses of hometown Shima is fairly restricted to the part I live and walk around. I do not yet have time to set foot on newer and bigger Shima where tall and fancy buildings have sprung up.
