Chapter 56 Miscellaneous

As the years go by and the clouds turn, the New Year is in a hurry. The long street is full of department stores for the New Year, and it is also crowded with people who sell New Year's goods.After looking around in the crowd for a while, I found several kinds of New Year's goods from my hometown in a food company. I felt my index finger twitched, and I was about to buy some back to comfort my hometown.Suddenly, a friend in the crowd greeted me, calling out to my fellow countrymen.This friend is from Sichuan.He called me that, which made me startled, and I quickly asked him when he became my fellow countryman. He smiled and said that it was today, and then took out a newspaper clipping from his pocket and handed it to me:

"Look, if I hadn't read this article, I wouldn't have known that we were fellow villagers!" I took it over and took a look. It was a small textual research article cut from a newspaper. The title was "The History of Nanjing". ", this friend's hometown Chengdu is one of them. It was named in the 15th year of Emperor Xuanzong Tianbao in Tang Dynasty. In order to avoid the "Anshi Rebellion", he fled to Chengdu, Sichuan, and renamed Chengdu "Nanjing". For the other places called "Nanjing", apart from the Liao and Jin Dynasties who called Kaifeng Nanjing, the Song Dynasty also called Shangqiu in Henan Province Nanjing.The most interesting is today's Beijing, also known as Nanjing under the rule of the Later Jin Dynasty in the Five Dynasties.

As a result, I can only apologize to him. I cannot deny that he is not from my hometown, and I have to admire his erudition.At the same time, in terms of fellowship, we have to call him a junior, because his hometown Chengdu was called Nanjing in AD 756, while my hometown was not named Nanjing by Zhu Yuanzhang until 1368, which is almost later than him. for six hundred years. This small episode not only increased my knowledge of history and geography, but also invisibly expanded my mind. There are so many places called Nanjing, so why should my hometown be limited to the place where I was born?Therefore, salted duck and fragrant tripe are of course special products of my hometown, bamboo leaf greens from Shanxi, red dates from Henan, persimmon cakes from Shandong, candied dates and candied haws from Beijing.Even Suzhou's pine nut candy, Sichuan's Guangkan, Guangdong's Xinhui sweet orange, and Guangxi's Shatian pomelo are all products of my hometown.So I opened my hands to buy from this food company, and I was no longer constrained by the narrow local concept in the past.

Since my hometown is everywhere, and my hometown is close in front of me, my nostalgia suddenly disappeared. I just feel that the products of this big hometown are so rich that they can’t be bought, and they really love me as a wanderer.I talk about homesickness all day long, and it seems that my hometown cares more about me than I do myself.