Deep in Lou Mountain

The generation born in the 1980s is the most special and irreplaceable generation. Witnessing the rise of my country and my country, I missed all the dividends of the times, and spent half of my life living in the cracks of the times. I will always be nostalgic for the pure and hot youth in my heart. When they were young, they suffered from prejudice and were often labeled as unable to bear the heavy responsibility, but they grew up quietly in the years, silently shouldered the burden of family and society, and survived the years of poverty, but lost their carefree childhood. In 1984, Gangzi, a young mountain boy, was born in the isolated and barren Dalou Mountain Village in Guizhou. The mountains cut off the prosperity of the world, and our ancestors were trapped in the mountains and fields and worked all their lives. The barren land restricted the lives of our parents, but it could not restrain the youthful vitality of young people. His childhood was an out-of-print time that children today can no longer reproduce. Going to the mountains to pick wild fruits and playing in the mountains, skipping rope to attack the city and squeezing oil residue between classes, and hide and seek in the streets in the evening. Simple local games are filled with the purest joy of youth. Gangzi is unruly and free-spirited. He doesn't like rigid schoolwork, but he is talented and has excellent grades. He likes to explore new knowledge in the mountains and dismantle utensils. He is stubborn and sincere, and he grows up in the local fireworks. Times have changed, and the countryside has come to an end. High-rise buildings replaced the fields, schoolwork and cram schools constrained children, and the free and unfettered childhood in the mountains was completely gone. After being away from home for more than 20 years, Zhang Yang grew up to be a middle-aged man with heavy burdens, spending half his life on the road. At the end of middle age, people wake up: our nostalgia is never about poverty, but about the magnanimous and pure self who does not need to calculate. This is the growth history of young Gangzi, and it is a true epitome of millions of people born in the 1980s in rural areas. To all those born in the 1980s who are carrying a heavy load.