The leisurely life of rebirth

After the liberation in 1949, due to war and other factors, a large-scale trend of fleeing to Hong Kong began. The "Hong Kong Annual Report" records that in the early 1950s, war caused more than 750,000 residents from the mainland to flock to Hong Kong. Read the full text of Nongmen Chunse in Hong Kong.

.In 1952, 32-year-old Zhang Ailing walked alone under the scorching sun across the Luohu Bridge in Baoan County and came to Hong Kong. Behind her, the rumors and legends in the Shanghai Apartment were obscured by the overwhelming slogans and slogans, and her figure was

Fading away in a foreign land.

This is just a preview of the mass exodus to Hong Kong after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Under the commune-based "big pot rice" model, everything is returned to the public, such as personal property. All gold and silver jewelry must be reported to the government and then deposited in banks, which greatly harms the people's enthusiasm for production. In the context of "I would rather have socialist grass than

In the era of "seedlings of capitalism", many desperate people began to flee to Hong Kong with all their might, especially in the area along Lingnan.

Due to the geographical location, the largest number of people fled here. Especially Pengcheng, which was still called Bao'an County at the time, became a human village, with ten rooms and nine empty houses. In one village, only one cripple was left. In order to take in the captured stowaways,

The local government has built more than a hundred new shelters, but they are often overcrowded.

In 1962, due to three years of natural disasters, a large number of people who had no food to eat fled to Hong Kong like a tide. The Hong Kong media once dubbed it the "May Escape" and the "Mercury Flooding Land". At that time, there were rumors that "the Queen's Birthday, the Great Escape"

(Border) Three Days" and "The Third World War is about to begin." Many people feel that escaping to Hong Kong is the only way out. Some people quickly sent money to their families after successfully escaping from Hong Kong. Others were full of longing when they saw it and ignored it.

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The reason why people fled Hong Kong in 1962 had nothing to do with the great famine in the mainland. In order to solve the food shortage problem, people in the Pearl River Delta area wrote to their relatives and friends in Hong Kong for help. The relatives and friends in Hong Kong put the food into zinc iron boxes and sealed them with towels.

Wrap the box tightly in cloth or cloth, write your name and address, and send it back to the mainland through the post office. Due to political considerations, the mainland once banned the entry of postal parcels, so all the parcels were returned to Hong Kong. People had no food to eat, so they naturally thought about it.

In addition, it coincided with the take-off of Hong Kong's economy. In order to solve the problem of labor shortage during the period of rapid economic development, the British Hong Kong authorities began to implement a new ID card application policy (commonly known as the "barrier policy"). The new policy stipulated that any successful

Everyone who arrives in the city and is able to work is issued a Hong Kong identity card. This is actually equivalent to a disguised recognition of the "legal" status of illegal immigrants. For illegal immigrants, it is suspected to be an "amnesty order" and encourages escape.

The trend in Hong Kong has intensified. During the "Cultural Revolution", the trend of "escape from Hong Kong" increased and decreased.

In 1966, ten years of turmoil broke out. Starting from the late 1960s, a large number of educated youths who jumped in line in Pengcheng began to choose to sneak into Hong Kong. With an all-or-nothing mentality, they made a big gamble with their youth and destiny. In the Yangcheng area. "As soon as I woke up in the morning

, I found that several educated youths around me had disappeared.”

Although the educated youth at that time received "ideological education" every day and their concept of Hong Kong was "the colorful world of capitalism", "a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor", they often secretly listened to Radio Hong Kong in private. In addition, from time to time Hong Kong

People go back to their hometowns to visit relatives and bring back "novel" items and knowledge, such as wafers, plastic raincoats, etc. All these allow many educated youths who have returned to the city to see a new light in life from Hong Kong.

Since the phenomenon of people fleeing from Hong Kong began to appear in 1955, there have been four large-scale waves of people fleeing from Hong Kong in the history of Pengcheng, namely in 1957, 1962, 1972 and 1979, with a total of 560,000 people (times); participants

They come from 12 provinces and 62 cities (counties) across the country, including Lingnan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Guangxi.

Most of the people fleeing Hong Kong are farmers, but also some urban residents, students, educated youth, workers, and even soldiers. In terms of political composition, most of them are ordinary people. There are also members of the Communist Youth League, Communist Party members, and even Communist Party cadres. Some are from Pengcheng City.

Data show that by 1978, a total of 557 cadres in the city participated in the escape from Hong Kong, and 183 escaped; 40 cadres at the deputy section level or above from municipal government agencies fled.

In those days, smuggling was an open secret. When someone successfully smuggled into a family, the family not only did not avoid suspicion, but would show off in front of outsiders, and some good-hearted people would hold a feast and set off firecrackers to celebrate. The sand in Panyu, Yangcheng

In the Bay Brigade, there was also a group headed by the production captain, with the participation of the party branch secretary and the security director.

Smuggling incident. When they fled, dozens of villagers even went to the beach to bid farewell to them. The Xincun Fishery Brigade of Huiyang Aotou Commune has a total of just over 560 people, and 112 people were successfully smuggled into the country in just a few months. The brigade party

Of the six branch members, except for one female member, the other five were smuggled to Hong Kong.

In 1980, the special economic zone was first established in Pengcheng, where "flights from Hong Kong" were the most serious, thus kicking off the reform and opening up aimed at making people rich.

The birth of the Special Administrative Region gave the general public hope, and also brought the "fleeing to Hong Kong" trend that had been escaping for thirty years to a sudden stop. A few days after the promulgation of the Special Administrative Region Regulations, the phenomenon of people smuggling out of the Special Administrative Region that troubled the most suddenly disappeared from the leisurely landscape.

Read the full text! Indeed, the thousands of people hiding behind the boulders in Wutong Mountain and the crowd preparing to flee in the woods completely disappeared!

He Junyao knew these very clearly, and even knew more than the old man in front of him. The old man had personal experience, and he could look up a lot of information.

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The old man seemed to be remembering what happened when he was a child, and smiled, "I think of the grand occasion when Sanjiang was used as a swimming pool: hundreds of citizens were exercising in the same river, and the slogans were shouted very loudly, and everyone knew the true intention behind it.

It is tacitly stated: for the long journey that may happen at any time——

He sneaked across the border line and fled to Hong Kong." Then his face became heavy again, "Looking back at the way we came, there were hundreds of corpses floating on the sea, and the smelly sea breeze wiped away any trace of life on this land.

Those who watch it in the ray of light before dawn are heartbroken."

The old man said in a serious tone, "And this extremely risky trend of fleeing Hong Kong has also given birth to a new profession - "cadaver pulling". At its peak, there were more than 200 "cadaver pulling" active in Pengcheng. I

I remember hearing from stowaways later that in the late 1970s, the Shekou Maritime Police Station in Pengcheng once stipulated that every time a "corpse puller" buries a body of a stowaway, he can obtain it with a certificate.

Go to Shekou Commune to receive 15 yuan for labor service. There was once an old man who received 750 yuan from the commune at most in one day, and among the 50 corpses he buried, 4 were his relatives." It makes people sigh and sigh.

Wan Qian. "In fact, the main reason is the wave of people fleeing Hong Kong caused by poverty and hunger. People risk their lives to gamble on tomorrow."

For a moment, the room was so quiet that one could hear the ticking of the clock. In the 1970s, it was mainly the educated youth who fled Hong Kong. These educated youths were sent to remote villages. Due to the extreme poverty in material and spiritual life, they could not bear it.

Due to heavy physical labor and the pain of leaving their hometown, they desperately rushed to Hong Kong. After all, there were only a few who succeeded. Compared with the "North Drift" and "South Drift" that became popular in later generations, this group of educated youth who smuggled into Hong Kong had already

It's "drifting from Hong Kong".

"However, even this cannot stop the people who are fleeing Hong Kong one after another." The old man continued, "We arrived at Pengcheng on foot. If you are not familiar with the place, you can't secretly inquire about how to sneak across! When will the boat be launched?

As soon as we knew this, we found a glimmer of light just when we were scratching our heads. I remember that in China at that time, in order to cope with the increasingly severe wave of people fleeing from Hong Kong, the local government had thought of such a way. When Wu Tong fled to Hong Kong,

On the mountain, there is a village called Xikeng. At that time, Baoan County was determined to "launch a desperate struggle" here and build Xikeng Village into an "anti-smuggling red flag village."

There was a crusade to study Mao Zedong's works in the village. The walls in front of and behind the village were covered with large slogans: "Hold high the great red flag of Mao Zedong Thought and march forward bravely!" On the edge of the well in the field, "

"Seize the Revolution, Promote Production". As soon as it gets dark, the villagers are organized to sing. Most of the songs are "Sailing the sea depends on the helmsman", "**'s book is my favorite to read", etc. For a time, Xikeng Village became

The famous "Red Flag" in Bao'an County and even Lingnan Province. We stayed in the name of visiting and studying. But soon, this carefully constructed "fortress of socialist education" also collapsed."

"Old man, you are really treacherous." Cheng Shixi joked. "Since this is the Hongqi Village that fights against smuggling, you know how to smuggle people in."

"Haha... You are right. The most suitable time is between the third and eighteenth days of August and September every year. According to the rise and fall of sea tides, the locals have come up with a proverb: The water tops out on the thirty-eighth day of the lunar month.

During this time, you can swim with the current, and you can swim to the other side without too much effort." The old man smiled, and then said, "At that time, most of the young adults in Xikeng Village, including anti-fleeing activists and militia cadres, went into the water with us.

After escaping to Hong Kong, there was a group of eldest "men" left behind, and an 8-year-old boy. I remember when we were standing on the soil of Hong Kong, a peasant woman who swam with us even left this sentence

He said: "After I die, don't even blow my ashes back here!" The real miracle of Hong Kong was created by those of us who risked our lives and went to Liangshan with our blood and tears."

How cruel must that peasant woman be to say something like, ‘When I die, I won’t even blow my ashes back here.’ However, for those who have just set foot on the land of Hong Kong, the road ahead is not always smooth.

The old man took a sip of tea and regained some energy and said, "For us people, Hong Kong is very good, but it has no place of its own. There is no root in floating there." He paused and said, "There is no need to worry about hardship and fatigue, only enjoyment.

There is no unbearable blessing and no unbearable suffering. We just arrived in Hong Kong without ID cards. We all started from the lowest level of society, suffered a lot of contempt, and worked hard to slowly integrate into the mainstream society. However, these are for us

It’s not terrible, but what’s terrible is..."[