? Shilong Huangzhou Dongjiang River is wide, the river gurgling flow, both sides of the high-rise buildings, high-rise buildings in front of the riverside location is the noble and luxurious villas, riverside shade trees are planted with various types of plants, such as the beautiful garden, was named the United Nations Livable Towns. Night Shilong Huangzhou thousands of lights flashing, the town hall opposite the town square, where the public walk, dance, games, strolling riverside greenway, listen to the sound of the sandboat on the river air. The dark surface of the river reflects the lights of the city, such a beautiful Dongjiang River side of the drift a few broken boat, these boats in addition to the old and tattered, the horizontal and vertical nailed wooden strips all over the hull, as patched ragged clothes in general. I had always thought that these are abandoned broken boats, and then from the weak light on board to realize that it is actually boat-dwelling fishermen, small boats are not big, at most a dozen square meters of space, a boat is a family. One boat is a family. One or two smaller boats are tied behind the boat. The fishermen will use the convenient boat to go out to fish, but also set up the boat to go ashore to buy goods.
? Rarely see their figure, one early morning walk along the river, see a small boat under the surface of the river, the boat is about fifty or sixty years old granny desperately trying to use both arms to shake the sampan rowed to the center of the river, spread a small fishing net, and then rowed forward dozens of meters before closing the net, the net but there is not much to harvest. Environmental pollution, the river fish less and less, and the river large sand and container ships more and more, but also more and more busy, boat-dwelling fishermen's survival of the space is getting smaller and smaller, some people switch to open sand, cargo ship, still a boat a family, there are some people chose to go ashore to make a living.
? (Excerpt: Ancient books on the boat-dwelling family's scattered accounts are endless, the earliest text can be found in the early Tang Dynasty famous poet Wang Bo road through Guangzhou, in the six banyan pagoda written in the monument mentioned: "dialect is still manipulation of barbaric sound, in order to the euphony is still mixed with the eggs and barbarians." The words "barbarians" and "barbarians" in the sentence indicate that the indigenous boat-dwelling people were foreigners in the mindset of the early Chinese settlers in Guangzhou. In the past, the boat-dwelling people were not recognized by the land-dwelling residents, the government also does not put the mobile fishermen into the register, is not registered, equal to the wild wild growth, after death is not allowed to be buried on land, had to be buried in the sandy beach to form the sandy hillock area, some of the sandy graves after heavy rain, the remains of the body thrown out, the wild dogs compete for food, inhumane.)
? The boat-dwelling family's salty water song only the old people will sing: Shatin boat-dwelling family water flow firewood, barefoot is not allowed to walk on the street, the bitter water and salty tide floating rotten boat, the vast ocean burial of corpses. The boat-dwelling fishermen have been despised by the shore since ancient times, and are not allowed to wear shoes, build houses, or intermarry with the shore, and have been subjected to a lot of bullying.
? More than ten years ago, such a boat there are dozens of parked in Shilong Dongjiang River, now fewer and fewer, but also more and more dilapidated. This is a group of people we do not understand, I do not know how the fishermen on the boat to see the shore of the prosperous flashing lights, whether they can hear the music of the square dance, their boat only weak to penetrate the light of the lights.
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