Why is Jiahe Wanggang in Guangzhou called by netizens – “the parting of youth”?

When it comes to Jiahe Wanggang, the first impression of old people will be: far away! Unless you live in the outer areas of Guangzhou - northern Baiyun, Huadu, Zengcheng and Conghua, you need to commute from north to south every day.

Otherwise, few people living in urban areas will go to Jiahe Wanggang.

Recently, Jiahe Wanggang has suddenly become popular on the Internet, attracting not only the attention of urban residents, but also friends from other provinces coming to join in the fun. They associated Jiahe Wanggang with words such as "we part ways and see you again" and lamented that their time in Jiahe Wanggang left no one behind. There are even many netizens who used this as the background material for vlogs and shot a series of youthful farewell videos in Jiahe Wanggang.

I still remember that Jiahe Wanggang was never absent from the topic of "Guangzhou's strange subway station names". Jiahe Wanggang is not an independent place name. It is named because it is located at the intersection of Jiahe Street and Wanggang Village.

If you zoom in on the Guangzhou map, you will find that it is like the "golden section" of Guangzhou: first, it "perfectly" separates the urban area from the suburbs; second, it is located between the airport and the high-speed rail station. In the middle of the big hub. Netizens refer to it as "the parting of youth" because it is the "golden section".

Today's Jiahe Wanggang is a transfer station for Line 2, Line 3 and Line 14. To the north is Guangzhou Baiyun Airport and to the south is Guangzhou South Railway Station. Outside the station, there is also a large comprehensive bus hub station where suburban passenger flow gathers and disperses.

The extension of Line 14 is one of the gathering places for universities in Guangzhou. How many college couples, friends or classmates broke up here and never saw each other again. And even taking city buses, considering the city’s 7,40 square kilometers of Guangzhou, means going separate ways.

As a result, Jiahe Wanggang has the meaning and expression of "parting ways" and "unexpected reunion". Every day, stories of encounters and separations are staged here.

If you know something about the road conditions in Jiahewanggang, you will definitely observe that going north from Jiahewanggang until reaching the urban area of ??Huadu, you will pass through contiguous farmland and self-built houses. More than 10 years ago, Jiahe Wanggang was a suburban area, unlike today. Not to mention the area around Renhe and Longgui.

At that time, at night, the Jiahewanggang-Airport South section of the northern extension of Line 3 (there was no Airport North Station at the time) would close earlier than the Tiyu West Road-Jiahewanggang section. If you miss the last subway train, the time it takes to get back to Hehe and Longgui will change from 10 minutes to more than an hour.

In Guangzhou, once you leave the central urban area, the pace and style of life will be quite different. As a result, some people, tired of the hustle and bustle of the central city, headed north and retreated to the outer suburbs; some people guarded their urban dreams and worked hard in the city. Jiahe Wanggang is a city gate that they must pass through. It takes courage to enter and exit the gate.

Among the countless "Guangzhou drifters", there is a group of people: although the first four digits of their ID cards are 4401, Guangzhou is a "familiar stranger" to them. They are a group of young people born in the outer urban areas of Guangzhou.

People living in northern Baiyun, Huadu, Zengcheng and Conghua, if they take the subway into the city from north to south, they will definitely pass through the "Jiahe Wanggang" city gate. When arriving at Jiahe Wanggang, to the "left" is the modern Tianhe, and to the "right" is the old city full of Cantonese charm. Whether to work as a CBD-level white-collar worker in Tianhe or run a corner shop in the old city is a choice faced by young people in the suburbs.

For "those who leave Guangzhou", Jiahe Wanggang is the place where they say goodbye to Guangzhou and represents an end point.

For "people who come to Guangzhou", it is the beginning of reaching out to Guangzhou city and a new starting point.

Jiahewanggang is such a "golden section", neither south nor north.