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This is a story about returning home. I imagined my distant hometown in Shenzhen. There are 18 million hometowns for 18 million migrant workers. As far as the modernization process is concerned, all hometowns in China are the same, with popular trends blowing in and young people leaving. During the holidays, we come back from distant cities and bring something new. Young people are proud of themselves, but the older generation can't stand it, lamenting or clenching their teeth and cursing the world. Nowadays this is called urbanization. To understand urbanization, there is a starting point, a destination, and the so-called "human urbanization." In my opinion, the city is not a container, but a fractional symbol like a sieve. The appropriate ones stand on the numerator, and the inappropriate ones are sieved into the denominator. Whether the numerator or the denominator, the key lies in whether the younger generation has really found its own coordinates in the city and whether it really understands urban civilization. Who will settle these souls? Who will give them the answer?