美麗新世界
Brave New World
Every day I walk my dog through here, through the asphalt road and wetland under elevated highway, and then walk up a small slope, the scenery of the distant mountains and the little bridge will be emerged.
The road at my feet is a traffic road. Below the parapet wall is a river that goes to the sea. In front of the pedestrian bridge leads to a open space with huge railway station. The open space is a Sunday market now. During holidays, people come and go, children are on bicycles, and dogs and dog owners are strolling around; sometimes you will see neighborhood fishing by the bridge, or nearby farmers who bring their own harvest specially and sometimes you will see people who make a special trip here to take pictures of migratory birds.
Original inhabitants said to me: “It was very hard to carry water to irrigate the paddy fields here!” Some villagers also smiled and said to me:” When I was child, I saw the field scenery here is really beautiful!” I could imagine when people escaped war from central China more than 800 years ago, they settled down here and opened up thousand paddy fields from a piece of fertile soil by seeing mountains and water here.
For urban development, there was opened up to build a railway station more than 20 years ago, although the plan for development was put on hold because of economic crisis but will be restarted soon. The harvesting scene of the farmers in the distant mountains may only be felt in the huge photos of the museum. It is foreseeable that in the near future, buildings will appear under the distant mountains, shopping malls and restaurants will emerge as times go by, and people will look forward to the new life from this land.
Borrowing the name of dystopian social science fiction novel: "Brave new world" as the topic: what the beautiful world we are looking forward to, is this what we want?
