Chapter 228 Different Time and Space
When Yang Jing got off the plane from Kai Tak Airport next to Kowloon Bay and left the airport, the oncoming aura made Yang Jing feel both familiar and unfamiliar.
Due to the limitations of terrain, Kai Tak Airport is located in the city center of Hong Kong Island. Moreover, this airport with only one runway was completely built in Kowloon Bay by land reclamation.
Similarly, this international airport, with only one runway, ranked third in the world at its busiest time, and the cargo volume was directly ranked first in the world!
This narrow and cramped airport has created such impressive results with a runway, which has to be said to be a miracle.
After leaving the terminal building from the airport gate, the situation in front of Yang Jing fell into a strange memory.
Whether in the original time and space or in the current time and space, this is Yang Jing’s first time to come to Hong Kong Island, but this does not mean that Yang Jing is not familiar with Hong Kong Island.
When I was in college, although it had entered the second decade of the 21st century, Yang Jing still liked to watch old Hong Kong movies, especially Hong Kong movies in the most glorious period of the 1980s and 1990s.
Brother Fa, Brother Long, Hong Gu, the Four Heavenly Kings, Principal, Brother, Xingzai... A series of familiar names have led to the extreme development of the film and television industry in Hong Kong for the past twenty years.
And Yang Jing once likes to watch the movies that have been the most popular movies.
Through the movie, Yang Jing has seen many streets and city appearances in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s. Therefore, even though it was his first time to come to Hong Kong Island and to Hong Kong Island in the early 1980s, Yang Jing is not unfamiliar with this city from the feeling.
On the way to the hotel by taxi, Yang Jing could see a familiar street scene that he had seen in movies or TV from time to time. Although his memory was a bit blurry, when he saw these street scenes in his memory, he could still remember which movies or TV this place had appeared in...
Moreover, most young men on the streets have long hair, while most girls are permed and exploded. Jeans and bell-bottom pants are filled with the streets and alleys.
Yang Jing also knew that in a few years, the dress of young people from Hong Kong would be introduced to the mainland and would be completely spread in the mainland.
Not to mention anything else, Yang Jing has seen photos of his parents when he was young in the old photo album at home more than once, especially when the couple first met, it was about 1988. At that time, my father had long hair and bell-bottomed pants, and my mother's previous big braid was gone, and the photo appeared in the photo was a girl with a perm and explosive head. If my grandmother hadn't told Yang Jing very surely that this was your mother, Yang Jing wouldn't believe that the mother who worked as a wheelbarrow in a cotton spinning factory had such a trendy side...
In fact, until the arrival of the new century, Hong Kong Island was the popular vanguard of clothing in the entire Eastern continent, always leading the fashion of the people of that huge country in terms of clothing.
This view of admiring Hong Kong Island from a future person's perspective made Yang Jing feel really amazing, which led to Yang Jing staying in Hong Kong Island for two more days.
Afterwards, Yang Jing took the relevant travel procedures and took the train to pass the Luohu Port and entered the boundary of Pengcheng.
In fact, it was also due to Yang Jing's curiosity. He really wanted to see what Pengcheng, one of the four first-tier cities in China in the future, was like in 1980.
Thanks to the existence of the Guangjiu Railway, Pengcheng, a place that was originally just a small village, was finally officially established as Pengcheng in March 1979 last year, and then in November of this year, Pengcheng was upgraded to a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the province.
And Yang Jing also knew that on August 26 this year, Pengcheng will officially establish its status as a special economic zone, and this day will be the birthday of Pengcheng in later generations.
Then from this day on, Pengcheng was like a rocket filled with booster fuel, and began to take off quickly to make the world stunned, and in less than 40 years, it developed into a world-class city.
This is the famous "Pengcheng Miracle"!
But now, Pengcheng, which has not started to ignite and launch, is really... very primitive...
Although Hong Kong Island in 1980 was relatively primitive in Yang Jing's eyes, compared with Pengcheng, which is only separated by a river, Hong Kong Island is simply in the sky, and Pengcheng, which has not yet started, is a complete mud-legged piece.
At this time, Pengcheng has not yet begun the beginning of the construction of the big city, and this small city is still purely original at this time.
There were seven railway stations in Pengcheng in later generations, and now there is only one small pitiful railway station, and even the waiting hall is simply a row of bungalows...
After leaving the train station, Yang Jing walked all the way. Of course, his standard and wrong appearance naturally attracted the attention of many people in Pengcheng.
In this era, although Pengcheng and Hong Kong Island were separated by a river, foreigners who often appeared on the other side of the river were rarely seen in Pengcheng, especially foreigners accompanied by police, which was even rare.
That's right, just after getting off the train, Yang Jing was invited into a bungalow, and when he came out, there were two more police comrades wearing white 72-style police uniforms around him. In this era, even if foreigners come here to travel, they still need to be accompanied by police comrades. As for the purpose, they want to go by themselves.
However, Yang Jing didn't care. He knew that one of the policemen with guns was purely for protecting himself, while the other younger policeman was accompanied by the whole process as an interpreter.
However, when the three of them were alone and Yang Jing spoke fluent Mandarin, the two police comrades immediately looked like they had seen a ghost.
"Police Li, Officer Wang, although I am a British, I have always been very yearning for the great Chinese culture. Since I was a child, I have learned Chinese with a Chinese from Chinatown, our city, so I can speak such fluent Chinese."
Yang Jing's explanation made the two of them understand a little, but they seemed to be more alert to Yang Jing in their expressions.
Yang Jing had no choice but to be vigilant about this kind of vigilance. Who made this happen in this era? It is not the era of later generations. Foreigners can be seen on the streets of big cities. In this era, when foreigners enter the country, personnel from relevant departments must maintain a high degree of vigilance...
Yang Jing had no choice but to do this. He couldn't take the initiative to expose his old truth.
In this way, accompanied by two police comrades, Yang Jing hurriedly took the train back to Hong Kong Island after a walk around the calm and primitive "downtown" of Pengcheng without even taking photos.
This feeling of being monitored was not good, but Yang Jing was really open-minded. It turned out that Pengcheng was like this in early 1980.
It is said to be a city, but at this time Pengcheng was not much bigger than a small town.
Entering the city center, the commercial area near the East Gate of Luohu, Pengcheng, later generations, is the Dongmen Pedestrian Street, is not a pedestrian street. In this era, it was called Jiefang Road, but it was just an asphalt road that was only five or six meters wide, with residential buildings only two stories high on both sides. The tall buildings that rose from the ground in later generations were nowhere to be seen at this time.
As for the Yingbin Garden Square near the Old Street, at this time, there was an open space full of trees, with some stone benches and tables under the trees...
At that time, in Yang Jing's opinion, Zhongying Street was not as good as Lao Jiefang Road. The streets were covered with ordinary farmers. Occasionally, you could see a passing by on a big golden deer bicycle, which would arouse many envious eyes...
No matter what, Pengcheng really didn't look like in the future at this time. At first glance, it was all of them with two-story old houses with decades of history...
After taking the train back to Hong Kong Island from Pengcheng again, Yang Jing spent another two or three days to complete the travel procedures to Yanjing, and then took a plane all the way north to Yanjing in early 1980.
In February, Hong Kong Island and Pengcheng can wear single pants and jackets, but in February, Yanjing can still be cold enough to freeze people into a dog. Fortunately, Yang Jing bought down jackets and other winter clothes in Hong Kong, so that he would not be frozen into a dog.
However, Yanjing in this era is really primitive. Even though Yanjing in later generations has long surpassed Hong Kong Island, it has to be admitted at this time that Yanjing in this era is still not as good as Hong Kong Island.
In this era, the most common bicycles in Yanjing were bicycles, as if all the bicycles in the world were concentrated in this great city. Anyway, no matter where Yang Jing went, he could see tides of bicycles.
On Hong Kong Island, there are no bicycles, but there are more of them all kinds of square cars. But on the streets of Yanjing, cars are really rare, except for those round-headed buses...
However, the air in Yanjing at this time was so good, and it was so naive that Yanjing was far from comparable to that in more than 30 years later.
Yanjing in this era is more like the capital of this great country. Although there are fewer modern things, the simplicity and grandeur are rarely felt in later generations.
Although Yanjing in later generations was larger and more prosperous, it seemed that there was a little missing in the dark. It was just that the simplicity could be felt in the Forbidden City or the protected old Sihe courtyard areas.
In this era, just looking for a place, you can feel the simplicity that has been preserved by the thousands of years of history of this city.
If Yanjing was a giant rejuvenated after more than 30 years, then in this era, Yanjing was an old man full of wisdom. The former may be more vital, but the latter can make people indulge involuntarily.
PS: Bow to thank the "Purple Flame Genius" and the "Ice Octave" for the reward of 500.
Chapter completed!