Nanjing North Railway Station

A hundred years ago, the two rivers in the Jianghan River Basin in Hubei swelled together, causing turbid waves and thousands of hectares of fertile farmland being swallowed up by floods. The starving refugees were forced to leave their homes and embark on an unknown migration path. One of them, a family surnamed Liu from Wuhan, moved around and finally settled on the Pukou River in Nanjing. From then on, they took root here and witnessed time together with the century-old railway station by the river. They witnessed the corruption and collapse of the Qing court and experienced the short-lived prosperity of the Republic of China. I have seen the back of Zhu Ziqing's father staggering to buy oranges, and I have also seen the coffin of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the nation. As the years went by, they rose to prominence and became the masters of the old local society, but eventually they awakened in the tide of the times and devoted themselves to the liberation of New China. They are not only the victims and exploiters of the old era, but also the penitents and awakeners of the new era.