Above: The cheap green car is the choice for many people to return home for the Spring Festival.

Middle picture: When it comes to food, the aisles are full of instant noodles.

Below: Because there is no desk, Yuhang squats on the ground to do his homework.

Tang, a teacher from Hangzhou Jinghua Middle School, went home this winter and experienced a special trip back home. With the rapid development of China's high-speed railway, since the birth of children, they have always taken bullet trains back to their hometown in Sichuan.

Now my son is in the third year of junior high. This Spring Festival, he had already booked a bullet train ticket, Teacher Tang and her husband discussed: "Now children are all grown up in a happy nest, and we can create good conditions for him now, but there are many difficult and bumpy roads in life. You can't say how much better than his own experience, let his son go back with us by green train, and such experience can give him some gains on the way of growth."

So, we have this 3740 km, 36 hour journey home by green train.

The Tang family has settled in Hangzhou for more than 20 years, and still insists on returning home every year, especially taking their children home for the New Year, to worship ancestors and visit relatives and friends. Teacher Tang's husband is a person with strong family values. He hopes to take the opportunity to return to his hometown to guide the children to take root in the children's hearts of the Chinese concept of family affection, and teach him to remember his own roots and integrate with the spirit of being far away from home.

In previous years, people on green trains carried large and small snakeskin bags and woven bags, and a small section of carriages were full. Tang recalled that he hadn't taken the green train for nearly ten years. This time, he found that there were fewer snakeskin bags and most people were carrying exquisite suitcases, which showed that people's living standards were improving day by day. She also noticed a subtle change, that is, the relationship between people in modern society has added a sense of harmony. There was no place to sleep in the middle of the night. A mother spread a layer of plastic cloth on the ground for her child. The child lay on the ground where the heat was blowing hot, so it was not too cold to cover a single coat. The uncles and aunts next to her took the initiative to make room for the baby to sleep well. With the roar of the train, the child was safely dreaming of returning home under the care of a group of strangers on the train.

After 36 hours of crowding in the same carriage, the riders gradually get to know each other and chat with each other. Teacher Tang learned in conversation that one of the Sichuan villagers worked in Hangzhou, and he had to support four people in the family - a sick wife in bed, two hungry children, and an 80 year old mother. He sells houses in Hangzhou and spends thousands of yuan a month. His relatives are all in his hometown. This trip back should be a long farewell and reunion.

Mr. Tang's son, Yuhang, met all kinds of people on the train and felt a lot. Born in Hangzhou, his father is a civil servant and his mother is a teacher. He has never worried about food and clothing since he was young. As long as he reads the books of sages in a boarding school, he has no chance to contact the outside world. On this green train, he was in a living space that he had never touched before. Aerospace felt the pressure of ordinary people's survival. "Compared with people who work hard, I am lucky. I should work harder to make a difference in this society."

Yuhang told reporters that there were people in the corridor, toilet and water room of the green leather train. "The train was bumpy all the way, and there was a small table on the high-speed train. There was no place to get a foot in here. Going to the toilet had to go through several carriages, and he didn't dare to drink more water." However, he quickly adapted to the environment, and not only could eat instant noodles happily, Can also squat on the ground to do winter homework.

Yuhang likes his hometown in Sichuan very much. He said that the night in the countryside is full of stars, and the air quality is much better than that in the city. What attracts him more is the lively atmosphere of reunion in his hometown, and the friendly and peaceful environment between relatives. This time when he returned home, Yuhang had a different harvest. In previous years, he hid in his room to play games when his relatives and friends were reunited. This year, he will "put on a dragon's gate array" with his relatives (meaning chatting in Sichuan dialect). (Liang Jianwei)

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