Don't ask me where I come from, my hometown is far away.

? Sanmao, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province, is most famous for her romantic love story with her husband Jose. Countless women have read San Mao's prose about this story in their girlhood, and it is estimated that they will yearn for such romance in the future. However, there is also a well-known song "Olive Tree", written by Sanmao, whose lyrics express the voice of a wanderer.

We in China have been deeply influenced by agricultural culture. Since ancient times, people who have left their hometown have a strong homesickness for their hometown. With the development of industrial and commercial civilization in China, this complex gradually faded in people's minds.

At present, a large number of young and middle-aged rural laborers in China go to work in cities. Some of them are married and have children in the city, but they only go back to their hometown for a few days every Spring Festival and then leave in a hurry. Hometown is becoming more and more strange to them.

For a child, he was born in a certain place and grew up here, so everyone and things in this place have built an important element in his own consciousness for the formation of the concept of hometown. I have a distant relative. She is from Mianyang, Sichuan, and her husband is from Xiamen, Fujian. They met and got married in Chengdu. Their children were born and raised in Chengdu, and now they are in junior high school. If you ask this child: Where are you from? His answer must be: I am from Chengdu. His parents' hometown is not his father's or mother's hometown. They just stay for a few days during the Spring Festival holiday, not where he was born and raised.

However, a large number of migrant workers in the first-tier cities of Imperial Capital and Modu, although some have been married and have children in this city for more than ten or twenty years, still have no possibility of obtaining household registration here. Many people on the Internet spoke out about the 20 17 policy of settling down in the imperial capital, in order to save the earth, they can get this household registration.

At the end of 20 17, the registered population of Beijing was135.92 million, and the permanent population was 217.07 million, including 7.943 million permanent residents. A total of 124657 people applied for settlement through points, accounting for1.57% of the permanent foreign population; The final settlement scale of points is 6000. According to the principle of the same score and the same fall, the actual public list is 60 19 people, accounting for 4.83% of the total declared population, accounting for 0.76‰ of the permanent foreign population, and the corresponding minimum score is 90.75. More than 6,000 people who have successfully settled in Beipiao are mostly social elites with master's degree or above, high income and engaged in high-tech industries. Many of these elites come from well-known IT companies such as Huawei, Ali and Baidu, and their annual income is more than 500,000 yuan.

The vast majority of migrant workers who can't obtain household registration, their children are also born in the city where they work, where they studied kindergarten, primary school and junior high school, but they have to take the college entrance examination in their parents' hometown where they are registered. Their sense of identity with their hometown will be greatly reduced, and they may even feel that they don't know where their hometown is. Being born in a place where you grew up or where your parents didn't stay for a few days didn't give them much sense of belonging.

In the era of agricultural civilization, only a few people have the opportunity to go out of their hometown due to the restrictions of traffic and other conditions, and the living radius of most people in Fiona Fang will not exceed 50 kilometers. In today's developed commercial civilized society, most people have the opportunity to travel thousands of miles. A person has been changing his residence since he was born. If he changes frequently, it is difficult to have a hometown complex that is very attached to any place.

Although Alexander Guy Odahara, the guest of Informal Talks, is British, he has been moving with the changes of his parents' workplace from birth to adulthood. He has been to several different countries on several continents, and lived in England for only a few years when he was in his twenties. Influenced by these different cultures, he is no longer a pure Englishman. Although I lost my sense of identity and belonging and enriched my personal life experience, I greatly enriched my life experience. Obviously, I have much greater advantages in accepting new things, new ideas, new ideas and foreign cultures than those who only accept the values of one cultural system, as if I had lived several lifetimes longer than others.

I once heard a TED talk, and the speaker was a stateless person. She described the tragic situation of being forced to wander in different countries all her life because she didn't acquire any nationality. For various reasons, the application for nationality has not been approved by the country where they live. For example, the rootless duckweed is forced to wander around, received a cold reception, has no identity, and cannot get a legal, long-term and stable job and residence. You can only make a living by doing odd jobs, doing short-term jobs, or finding illegal jobs on the black market. If you are cheated, you have nowhere to complain.

Familiar places, people and things make people feel comfortable, warm and have a sense of belonging. Due to normal job transfer, constant migration and statelessness, they are forced to wander around, but their moods are very different. The former may be "a bird flying into the sky, a stream flowing lightly in the mountains, a vast grassland" and actively running around. The latter is wandering around without any choice or retreat.

? As the Spring Festival approaches, the army of migrant workers will set off a new wave of returning home in Spring Festival travel rush, and they will return to that familiar and unfamiliar place for a short stay for a few days.