Our Disappearing Rural Life in Huizhou

[Synopsis]

Huizhou has been a remarkable land throughout history. Its hardworking, resourceful people created a brilliant Huizhou culture. Under the impact of modern civilization, traditional customs in many parts of Huizhou are slowly disappearing, and traces of traditional life are drifting farther away from us. If they are not recounted and recorded in time, many local customs and traditions scattered across the land of Huizhou will gradually be swallowed by the river of time.

The author was born and raised in Huizhou and is also a veteran journalist with twenty years of experience in reporting and editing. With deep affection for her home, she recounts rural life in Huizhou before the 1990s. Through her words, we see an ancient Huizhou, yet also a newly born one; a Huizhou of the past, yet also one whose traditions endure.