[New Year Chronicle] Beihai "Migratory Bird People": The place where there is love is the hometown

  [Explanation] The Spring Festival is approaching. In Danjia Town, Yintan Town, Beihai City, Guangxi, sojourners from the north and south read books at the migratory bird station, or sing, dance, and practice Tai Chi in the square. There are also old sojourners sitting on wooden benches in the community. Bathed in the warm winter sun.

  In the town square, Feng Piqian from Handan, Hebei, is playing Tai Chi with his wife. In 2017, he first came to Danjia Town and fell in love with it. Since then, Danjia Town has become his winter favorite. destination.

  [Concurrent] Feng Piqian, a sojourner from Handan

  It’s the fifth year of this year, and I’m here every November. When I go back at the end of March, it’s too cold when I’m at home, and my old body can’t stand it. I’ve come here for the first year and feel pretty good. I’ll come next year. As long as you can come, insist on coming every year.

I have a Tai Chi team in Hebei. Every day I come here, I play boxing here. Someone will learn from boxing here, and we will teach enthusiastically when people learn from you.

  [Explanation] Danjia Town is the largest resettlement area in Beihai City. It is also the main gathering place for many sojourners who come to Beihai for wintering. The villagers here were originally engaged in fishery, so the Danjia folk customs that live by the sea are local Keep the heritage.

In 2017, the Beihai Municipal Government decided to build this resettlement area into a Danjia town full of fisherman style and characteristics.

Nowadays, Danjia Town has built an industrial chain of tourism service + "migratory bird economy", which has become another tourism business card of Beihai. In summer, it is a destination for tourists from all over the world; in winter, it is a paradise for tourists from all over the world. On both sides of the town streets, you can see inns that receive migratory birds in the winter.

  [Explanation] Wei Lifang, a small town resident, has been running an inn for four years. She told reporters that she used to be a dried seafood business in the market, but now she runs an inn, so she can have more time to take care of her family.

  [Concurrent] Innkeeper Wei Lifang:

  The living standards and environment will be better here. Many villagers used to live in bungalows, but now it is good to have their own buildings.

At that time, I didn’t want to make it, because at that time our family lived on our own. We made a brand of herbal tea later, and then a lot of elderly people who spent the winter came over and liked that herbal tea. They said why not make our own house an inn Well, they come to spend the winter every year, and then they do it.

  [Explanation] In order to better serve the group of sojourners, in 2017, Danjia Town began to establish a migratory bird station, and set up 8 studios including singing lovers, reading newspapers, legal consultation, volunteer services, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and old roads. , Infused with 42 service contents such as red classroom, government service, legal service, health service, volunteer service, cultural and sports activities, and sojourners who report to the inn can be incorporated into the migratory bird art troupe or voluntary service according to their personal interests and voluntary service intentions team.

  [Explanation] Kang Dengjiang, an elderly sojourner from Lanzhou, Gansu, is the captain of the migratory bird volunteer service team in Danjia Town and the “political commissar” of the migratory bird art troupe. He often helps new migratory bird friends solve living problems such as finding housing and renting.

Kang Dengjiang said that the migratory bird station makes Danjia town more "adsorbing". With the migratory bird station, friends from all over the world come here, and there are more than 500 members of the migratory bird art troupe.

  [Concurrent period] Kang Dengjiang, a Lanzhou sojourner:

  We have established a migratory bird art troupe here. We have more than 20 teams, so we don’t feel lonely here. We rehearse together, read books and chat together, we arrange some programs together, and also contribute to local cultural entertainment. Life provides a variety of activities, so local people also get along with us very well. Let's merge with each other.

  [Explanation] In the Migratory Bird Station in Danjia Town, a wall dedicated to the volunteer service team of sojourners says: "The place where there is love is the hometown!".

Kang Dengjiang said that there is sunshine, sandy beaches and love here, and Danjia Town has become his second hometown."

  Zhai Liqiang Wang Weichen Huang Qiuyan reports from Beihai, Guangxi

Editor in charge: [Li Ji]