8600 miles, 48 hours, from Haikou to Harbin, the Z112 train is one of the longest trains in the Spring Festival.
It is a green train, passing through Hainan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Anhui, Shandong, Beijing, and the three eastern provinces, with long hard seats and sleeper cars carrying migratory birds, elderly people, migrant workers, North drifters, office workers, students and family visitors.
This is Yang Wanhong's 7th year as a train conductor in Z112. He has seen the changes in trains and passengers over the years: after the speed, the round-trip journey of the train has been reduced from 6 days to 5 days; And Harbin's "cultural tourism fever" has also made many tourists embark on the train to the northeast.
The press conference of the State Council Information Office predicts that about 9 billion people will travel in 40 days during the Spring Festival in 2024, a record high and nearly double that of the same period last year.
This is a truly flowing Spring Festival. Z112 is like a microcosm of mobile China, those people from different provinces, speaking different accents, with different ages, occupations, and genders, they keep walking, getting on and off the bus, with the joy and sorrow of the past year, but also with the expectations and wishes for the future, running to their hometown or foreign land. part.
"Migratory Bird Train" In the eyes of Grandma Qin's little grandson, the sea is much larger than the Songhua River, and you can't see the edge at a glance.
During this year's winter vacation, the 12-year-old grandson and 6-year-old granddaughter followed Grandma Qin from Harbin to Hainan for a trip, and the children saw the vast sea for the first time during the 22-day trip. On the train, the little grandson stretched out his palm and excitedly showed off the small white conch he picked up in Wanning Riyue Bay, and he also picked up some shells, intending to string a necklace for his sister.
Grandma Qin and her grandson and granddaughter. This article ** is taken by surging news reporters Chen Sizhong, Long Yunjie and Zheng Chaoyuan.
In recent years, many Northeast people have gone to Hainan to travel, buy real estate, and retire, and in the carriage of Z112, you can often see boxes of tropical fruits, which are Hainan specialties that Northeast people bring to relatives and friends.
Train captain Yang Wanhong said that every year.
In September and October, many elderly people in Northeast China will take Z112 to the south for the winter and the next year.
Returning in March and April, Z112 is also known as the "Migratory Bird Train".
On this "migratory bird train", there is migration between the two places, and there is also the same nostalgia. Bai Xue, a flight attendant and announcer, saw passengers who used to recuperate in the south, and also saw old people who returned to the north to return to their roots.
Since the opening of Z112, Liu Feng, the director of the dining car, has been in the car.
Liu Feng, director of the food truck.
In Liu Feng's view, "the times are advancing, and tastes are also changing." Her food truck now offers a variety of colours, flavours and flavors, and the tableware is more and more delicately presented, from white dishes four or five years ago to blue and blue-decorated plates.
Trains run from south to north, and the food prepared for passengers varies. In the south, the taste of the dishes is lighter, such as roasted fresh mushrooms, roasted bamboo shoots, mushroom rape, through Nanchang, Jiangxi, will add some spicy, and into the northeast, the taste becomes heavier, chicken stewed vermicelli, potato red stewed meat served on the table.
In the past four or five years, Liu Feng obviously feels that everyone pays more attention to health preservation, pays attention to the combination of meat and vegetables when ordering food, and some people will specifically advise less oil and less salt.
She noticed that some "migratory birds" would bring their own meals to the bus, and some would cook dumplings at home and heat them with boiling water to eat. There are also people who get on the bus with rice cookers.
In order to take care of the taste of the elderly, Liu Feng will simmer the vegetables and rice softly, and sometimes when passengers celebrate their birthdays, he will cook longevity noodles for them and lay an egg. part.
If you have money or not, go home for the New Year".
Migrant workers are one of the main groups returning home on the Z112.
On the night of February 4, the train entered Guangdong, and many passengers who looked like migrant workers came to the hard-seat carriages. Li Zhongzhong, a 65-year-old native of Henan, earns 100 yuan a day as a sugarcane cutter in Maoming, Guangdong, and before that he worked as a construction worker in Ningbo, laying bricks and painting them. Because of his age, he couldn't do the work of a construction worker.
The footsteps of the laborers never stop. Two nearly 60-year-old workers work as construction workers in Sanya, and in the past few years, they have been to Henan, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
If you have money or not, go home for the New Year".Li Zhongzhong's son works in the procuratorate, his wife helps take care of his grandchildren, and he works outside the home, returning home for a few months every year to take care of the crops. Thinking that this year's salary has been settled, the child is quite competitive, and he is very content.
Passengers boarding the train at several stations in Guangdong, many queued up to pay their tickets. While waiting, they started talking, "I started buying tickets on the 20th, and I bought them for half a month", "Why is this ticket gone as soon as I grab it?" ”
A middle-aged woman squeezed out of the crowd after making up her ticket and stood at the junction of the sleeper car. She planned to go back to Shenyang, but she couldn't buy a ticket, and when she turned on her mobile phone, it was densely packed with records of standby and unissued tickets.
She has been working in Hainan for 10 years, building brick walls and doing plastering at the construction site. ”
Passengers on the train.
At night, some of the people in the hard-seat carriage lay down and curled up to rest, some put the quilt on the ground, and some mothers let their children sleep in the seats and stand aside by themselves.
After getting off the train from Fuyang Station in Anhui Province, Li Zhongzhong wanted to find another bus to go to Shenqiu and return to his home in Zhouying Township. He said that his New Year's wish is to be reunited and happy. part.
Tired and struggling.
Last year, the Guangzhou and Tianjin stations of the Z112 train were changed to Guangzhou Baiyun Station and Beijing Fengtai Station respectively. Yang Wanhong, the conductor of the train, said that many of the people who got on the train from Beijing Station were "Beipiao", and there were also passengers who changed trains.
Liang Xiashu, a passenger departing from Beijing, this trip was destined for Changchun. Since last year, he has been driving online car-hailing in Beijing, and most of the passengers he has pulled are from Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chaoyang, Haidian and Fengtai.
He gets a feel for the city from the passengers — who tend to be CBD office workers, get off work from 21:30 to 22:00, get on the bus with a tired look on their faces, and rarely talk to the driver.
Liang Xiashu recalled that there was a female passenger who started crying less than five minutes after getting on the bus, and cried for half an hour until she got off the bus. She seems to work in a bank and for some unknown reason, customers are not satisfied with her job.
In Beijing, challenges and opportunities coexist. On the train, another passenger who does Internet operations, Niu Shuang, sighed.
A young man who got on the train from Fengtai Station in Beijing, Si Swenwen, always had a smile on his face. He set off from Hangzhou and his destination was Harbin, but he didn't get a ticket for the second half of the journey, and he planned to take it to Shanhaiguan Station and then change trains.
Tired is his key word in 2023. He works as a biology teacher at a private school in Hangzhou, where he attends classes on weekdays and makes up classes on Sundays, and he hopes to be more financially prosperous in 2024. ”
Throughout the year, young people who work hard outside miss the taste of home. Lin Qi, who also got on the bus from Beijing and went to Harbin, was already imagining the situation when he was home, "My dad will definitely cook a table of dishes, which should be what I want to eat." ”
The 23-year-old has just been working for a year and is working in a car company. This time, he took a plane from Shenzhen to Beijing, and then transferred to a train to Harbin, which could save half the cost compared with a direct flight. This year, he received his salary, and he wanted to send a red envelope to his parents. part.
The year of the flow up.
The crowds are back, and it's been a year of flow.
Yang Wanhong said that this year's Z112 hard-seat car overcrowding rate reached 104%, in the past, sorting out a carriage of waste, round-trip with 20 1 meter long, half a meter wide garbage bags are enough, now 40 is not enough.
Yang Wanhong, 44, has been running on trains for 23 years and has witnessed the development of China's railways. In the past, there were few trains, and the passengers of the Spring Festival could not squeeze in the train with tickets, and the conductor was also very tired. Now there are more and more high-speed railways, and the speed is getting faster and faster, sharing a lot of passenger flow.
Train conductor Yang Wanhong.
Nowadays, people have more diverse means of transportation. According to the data, the production and sales of Chinese automobiles will both hit a record high in 2023. According to the news of the press conference of the State Council Information Office, a significant change in this year's Spring Festival transportation is that self-driving travel has become the absolute mainstream.
Passenger Liang Xiashu recalled that when he took the train during the Spring Festival 10 years ago, he always saw everyone with large bags and small bags, and now passengers are more carrying suitcases, which is much lighter.
Cheng Jidong, secretary of the general party branch of the Harbin passenger section, also said that in the past, they hoped that passengers would "walk", but now they want to "walk well".
The train has increased its speed and the hardware has improved. Three years ago, the conductor of Z112 still used the ticket holder to make up the ticket and check the ticket, but now a mobile phone can do it, and the passengers have also transferred the ticket purchase from offline to online.
Flight attendant Zhang Hongliang saw that people have become more particular about food and clothing in recent years. In the past, I used to eat instant noodles and steamed buns when I got on the bus, now I have self-heating rice, I used to wrap it tightly in a big cotton jacket, and now I wear it lightly, beautifully and warmly.
After running on this train for 3 years, the attendant Zheng Wei felt hard and often felt warm. For example, if there are children running back and forth in the car, the flight attendant will remind them that some children will suddenly deliver a small fruit; Another time, he had a fever in the car, and an old man took medicine out of his pocket.
In the green car, people seem to be closer together. Sometimes a similar accent, a greeting, and a bag of snacks can quickly connect two people who have never met.
In the aisle of the hard-seat car, two boys of similar age talked. One of them is 21 years old, from Northeast China, and has been doing e-commerce operations for 5 years; A 24-year-old from Shandong, working in a factory in Guangdong.
The Northeast boy said that he kept selecting products every day, looking for things that were both cheap and high, such as a face towel that was sold for 20 yuan on **, he could earn 18 yuan**, and at the same time earn a commission.
Last year, his most rewarding thing was to buy a 70,000 yuan motorcycle, and he stored a photo of himself and the motorcycle in his mobile phone, wearing a helmet, and looking very spirited. He said that in the future, he still wants to take the undergraduate self-examination, thinking that it may be better to find a job if his academic qualifications are improved.
Shandong boys also want to try the ** college entrance examination. He dropped out of school at the age of 14, at first he was sent to learn to make barbecue, and then he went to different provinces to work, last year he did circuit board inspection in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and could do it seven days a week. After a busy year, he looked forward to going home to eat pig's feet from his hometown, and his brother bought him more than 20.
The aspirations of ordinary people are sometimes simple. On train Z112, there are a couple of attendants, Wang Tie and Bai Xue, one is a sleeper car attendant and the other is a car announcer. They have been on this train for eleven years.
Wang Tie and Bai Xue couple.
Because of work, they can't spend the Spring Festival at home, this year, the two children in the family are settled early, and the family can finally be reunited on Chinese New Year's Eve, waiting for the two of them to come back and make food. part.
In the direction of home.
Home is the emotional common divisor of the Chinese.
Lan Lichen, who wore a black peaked cap, and Jiang Yancheng, a 48-year-old villager from Northeast China, chatted about their daughters, and a smile appeared on their faces.
Lan Lichen went to Hainan last year to work as an exterior wall insulation worker, "I have tasted all the bitter and sweet flavors of life, and it doesn't matter if I make money or not", he looked forward to going to the house, eating the hot meal made by his wife, and chatting about how to live in the future.
Jiang Yancheng didn't buy a ticket this time, so he could only rely on the train and sit on the bucket he used for work, with a pair of blue slippers next to him. He had just come to Hainan to work for less than half a month as a mango stevedore, but he was not used to the hot and humid weather, and he had rashes on his hands and legs, so he had to go back first.
In the sleeper car, there are many children who follow their parents back to their hometown in the Northeast. Lee Ming-che, a 10-year-old boy who calls himself a "social cow," wears black-rimmed glasses and shuttles through the carriage to greet his peers.
When he was 2 years old, Lee Ming-che followed his family to Hainan. He hasn't seen snow yet, and he really wants to go back to Tohoku this year to have snowball fights and build snowmen. The little friend he met on the train, Hou Xintong, also grew up in the south, and this time he returned to his hometown of Jilin, looking forward to going to the bathhouse to take a bath.
Lee Ming-che. The second generation of the Northeast who moved to another country with their parents still has a constant homesickness. Hu Chengqi, a 16-year-old boy, followed his mother from Jilin to Guangzhou to study in the fifth grade. The classmates in the south were very curious, and asked him a lot about the Northeast; And he misses the spicy tang and barbecue in the Northeast very much.
At Changchun Station, a young man with a backpack was about to get off the train. He did insurance in Guangdong, last year there were many typhoons, there were many insurance cases, he went back and forth in Dongguan, Zhuhai, Shenzhen on a business trip, this year is busier than in previous years, he has not been home for four years.
Window grilles on train Z112.
The train heads north and gets closer and closer to the terminus. Someone put on a thick hat for a child, and a young girl touched up her makeup. At this time, the immature voices of the two children sounded, "Auntie, both of us have bear ears in our hats."
Outside the window, the snow was getting thicker and thicker, and the sun was slowly sinking, casting an orange-yellow glow on the northern land. A middle-aged woman with curly hair, looking out the car window, hummed the tune of "daylily flowers".
Far away in the sky, daylily flowers bloom, each one is my concern, let it bloom all over the way I am waiting for you to go home, as if I have never left your side ......”
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Editor-in-charge: Jiang Yujun.
Review: Wang Longlong.
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