Chinanews client, Beijing, October 3 (Zhang Xu) He is a stranger in a foreign country alone, thinking about relatives every festive season.
Why didn’t you go home this Mid-Autumn National Day holiday?
With this question in mind, a reporter from Chinanews.com interviewed 5 people from different places. Their professions and identities are different, and the reasons for not going home are also different, but "cloud reunion" has become their common choice.
Video blogger
Katie
Coordinates: Beijing
Reasons not to go home: take a video and rest yourself
"Help me get the phone, the clip won't fix it. Yes, from this angle, I said to start shooting." When the reporter saw Katie (a pseudonym), she was shooting the next video with her assistant.
Katie is a graduate student in a university in Beijing. When she wanted to introduce her interested foreign culture to more people, she chose to become a video blogger.
More than a year later, she has more than 20,000 fans at station B, and has a certain reputation in wearing circles. In August, she was invited to participate in an open class at station B, and commercial cooperation with Japanese clothing brands also followed.
In August this year, Katie was invited as a guest speaker at Station B.
Photo courtesy of respondents
"Previously, I made the video mainly for personal hobbies. I only have to face the audience. The order is different, and there are more businesses. Therefore, the requirements for costume makeup and styling are higher. The time we start shooting is carefully selected. In the evening, the light won't meet the requirements, so you should take photos quickly."
She told reporters, "Last week, I cut the video for several days until one or two in the morning. In addition to filming the video this holiday, the most important thing is to take a rest and prepare for the internship after the holiday in a better state."
"Although I don't go home during the holiday, my mother just came to Beijing from Zhejiang to see me in July. Coupled with the video, I can eat mooncakes and chat together. I can see my family and it is no different from going home." Katie was very happy about this holiday. satisfaction.
Courier Cao Luming
Coordinates: Qingdao
Reasons for not going home: make more money for parents
Cao Luming is from Changzhi, Shanxi, and currently works as a courier in a franchise express company in Qingdao.
During the National Day, the station was on duty in turn, and he stayed at the station for delivery as planned.
Although there is no holiday, the wages during the holidays are higher than usual, and the delivery volume is larger. Cao Luming feels that it is good to earn more.
"I will pay my family back regularly. October 1st is the Mid-Autumn Festival. I just watched a video with my family and ate mooncakes together. I was very happy. However, I found that my dad’s mobile phone video was not clear enough and I plan to change to a new Give him and buy some new clothes for his mother, so that she can dress up well."
The picture shows a student picking up his belongings on the shelf in the campus express delivery point.
Photo by Zhou Yi
Supporting student Wang Yixin
Coordinate: Guizhou
Reasons for not going home: The place where I support teaching has become my "second home"
Wang Yixin comes from Xianyang, Shaanxi, and is a student of the Graduate School of Ocean University of China. He currently teaches at Wujiang Middle School in Bozhou District, Zunyi, Guizhou.
Wang Yixin’s school is located on the top of a mountain by the Wujiang River. There is only one teaching building. Life on the mountain is relatively monotonous, and most of the time he prepares and lectures.
Occasionally go down the mountain to collect express delivery, stroll through the supermarket, and relax.
The rain here lasted for half a month, and Wang Yixin finally realized what it was like to be "Yiyu Feifei".
"Although you can't see the sun in the sky, every student in the class is like a'little sun', full of vitality and vigor." Wang Yixin said, there are male students who are naughty and annoyed in class, and some quietly hand over papers after class. Give it to me the girl who says "Teacher should be happy every day".
"The life here is more full of moving, and I will definitely be reluctant to leave here in a year." Wang Yixin said.
Wang Yixin is teaching the children.
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Speaking of not going home on National Day, Wang Yixin said that after living in Zunyi for a while, he has adapted to the spicy diet and humid climate. Unknowingly, this place has become her "second home". I will definitely want bad peppers, Wujiang tofu fish...
Wang Yixin decided to take advantage of the holiday to walk around to learn more about Zunyi and Guizhou.
The family members also supported her decision during the video, saying that there is no need to rush back.
"This year can be regarded as Yun's reunion. Although I didn't go home, there are more team members and children to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with me."
Speaking of his holiday plans, Wang Yixin is going to go to Guiyang City to buy some winter clothes and take a stroll around Qingyan Ancient Town.
Then visit the Zunyi Conference site in the downtown area of Zunyi.
On the evening of the 8th, students will return to school to study in the evening, so for the last day or two of the holiday, they will return to school to prepare lessons in advance.
Zhou Xingxing
Coordinate: Shanghai
Reasons for not going home: to meet old classmates is also a free break
Zhou Xingxing has been looking forward to this holiday for a long time.
"The advertising business is Party B. It wants to meet all kinds of customers, one demand after another, and the holidays are unavoidable to answer the phone to revise the draft. Finally, after the long vacation, this time I came out to find my old classmates and just went shopping."
"We watched the video yesterday that our parents were all in good health, so we were in the mood to come out. A relative suffered a sudden illness some time ago, but fortunately, he was surprised and unsafe afterwards. The more you grow up, the more you realize how blessed your family’s health is." Zhou Xingxing told reporters.
The few people who gathered together with him were roommates in their undergraduate years. They came to Guangzhou from Beijing, Shenzhen and other places. This is also the first meeting since they graduated more than two years ago.
Zhou Xingxing said: "We will get together next time, maybe it will be at someone's wedding."
During the National Day, the ticket prices continued to drop instead.
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Zhou Xingxing bought a flight from Shanghai to Guangzhou on October 2, which only cost more than 300 yuan.
He kept sighing when he booked the ticket that the ticket could be so cheap.
When I checked the ticket on September 28, the ticket from Shanghai to Guangzhou was still 450 yuan, and it was 150 yuan cheaper the next day.
Another Liu Xupeng, who went to Guangzhou for an appointment from Beijing, also found that in previous years, the price was higher as the holiday approached. Unexpectedly, the air ticket was booked four or five days in advance. On October 1, the minimum was 300 yuan.
"The bigger bargain is not taken up, but the price is very good compared to previous years. I will wait a few days to meet with my brothers and relive the old." Liu Xupeng told reporters.
Zhou Xingxing will fly from Shanghai to Guangzhou.
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Police Officer Lu
Coordinates: Kaifeng
Reasons for not going home: On duty during the holiday, I am fine, my family feels distressed
It was not planned that Police Officer Lu in Kaifeng, Henan did not return home this year.
"When everyone was preparing for the long vacation, I suddenly received a notice at 7pm on September 30: the vacation was cancelled and everyone went to work. I had been working for 10 consecutive days a while ago, and I will continue to come for another 8 days without subsequent transfers."
In Officer Lu's 16 years of police career, this year is a very special year. In his words, he has basically never rested since the beginning of the epidemic this year. I am fine, but my family feels a little bit painful.
The particularity of work determines the particularity of police life.
"All walks of life have their own difficulties. We are often at the crime scene. Even in the hot summer, it takes a few hours to investigate the scene. With forensic medicine, it is more common to stand for a whole day. In this single person In more and more years, the discovery of the death of elderly people living alone has become one of the more surveyed sites. People who are middle-aged, it is very uncomfortable to see these things, and they miss their families more at this time."
At 10 o'clock in the morning on October 1, three police helicopters of the Police Air Force of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau hung a 6.45 x 4.3-meter five-star red flag over the Huangpu River, attracting citizens and tourists to stop and watch.
The picture shows the Shanghai public security police saluting the national flag.
Photo by Yin Liqin
Officer Lu’s greatest hobby is night running, which is also his only way to decompress.
"Because there is no time during the day. For 16 years as a police officer, although there is no big ideal, as long as I give an order, I will still stand in front of the people and face the gloom of the world." He said.
Why didn't you go home this Mid-Autumn National Day holiday?
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