The leisurely life of rebirth.

After liberation in 49, due to war and other factors, the trend of large-scale fleeing to Hong Kong has appeared. The "Hong Kong Annual Report" records that in the early 50s, the war caused more than 75 residents from the mainland to flood into Hong Kong. In 1952, 32-year-old Zhang Ailing walked across the Luohu Bridge in Baoan County alone under the scorching sun and came to Hong Kong.Behind her, the rumors and legends in the apartment in Shanghai were obliterated by the overwhelming slogans and slogans, and her figure gradually drifted away in other places.

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

Under the communal "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 the bank, which greatly hurts the enthusiasm of the people for production.In the era of "prefer the grass of socialism to the seedlings of capitalism", many desperate people, with a feeling of bewilderment and unwillingness, began to flee to Hong Kong with all their eggs in one basket, especially along the Lingnan area.

Due to the geographical relationship, the number of people fleeing here is the largest.In particular, Pengcheng was still called Bao'an County at that time, and it became a human village, with ten rooms and nine empty houses, and one village escaped with only one cripple left.In order to accommodate 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.At that time, there were rumors that "the British Queen's birthday will be released for three days" and "the third world war is about to break out". Many people felt that fleeing Hong Kong was the way out.Another person sent money to his family soon after successfully escaping from Hong Kong. Others were full of longing after seeing it, and ventured forward regardless of everything. [

The frenzy of fleeing Hong Kong in 1962 had nothing to do with the famine in the mainland.In the Pearl River Delta area, in order to solve the food shortage problem, people wrote to relatives and friends in Hong Kong for help.Relatives and friends in Hong Kong put the food in zinc iron boxes and sealed them, and wrapped the boxes tightly with towels or cloth.Write down your name and address and send it back to the mainland through the post office.Out of political considerations, the mainland once ordered the prohibition of postal parcels from entering the country, so all postal parcels were returned to Hong Kong.People had no food to eat, so they naturally thought about running outside. In addition, at the time when Hong Kong's economy was taking off, in order to solve the problem of labor shortage during the period of rapid economic development, the Hong Kong and British authorities began to implement a new ID card application policy (commonly known as the "resistance policy") ”).The new policy stipulates that anyone who has successfully arrived in the urban area and has the ability to work will be issued a Hong Kong identity card.This is actually tantamount to acknowledging the "legal" status of illegal immigrants in a disguised form. For illegal immigrants, it is suspected to be an "amnesty order", which has encouraged the trend of fleeing Hong Kong to intensify. During the "Cultural Revolution". The trend of "escape from Hong Kong" has increased and decreased.

In 66, ten years of turmoil broke out.Beginning in the late 20s, a large number of educated youths who jumped in queues in Pengcheng began to choose to smuggle into Hong Kong. With an all-or-nothing mentality, they made a big gamble with their youth and fate.Yangcheng area. "When I woke up in the morning, I found that several educated youths around me had disappeared."

Although the educated youth received "ideological education" every day at that time, and their concept of Hong Kong was "the 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 return to their hometowns to visit their relatives, bringing back "novel" items and knowledge.What wafers, plastic raincoats, etc., all these make many educated youths return to the city gate.From Hong Kong, I saw a new ray of light in my life.

从1955年开始出现逃港现象起，鹏城历史上总共出现过4次大规模的逃港潮，分别是1957年、1962年、1972年和1979年，共计56万人（次）；参与者来自岭南、鄂、湘、赣、桂等全国12个省、62个市（县）。

Most of those who escaped from Hong Kong were farmers, but also some urban residents, students, educated youth, and workers.Even the military.From the perspective of political composition, ordinary people are in the majority.There are also Communist Youth League members, Communist Party members, and even Communist Party cadres.According to data from Pengcheng City, by 1978, 557 cadres in the city had participated in fleeing Hong Kong, and 183 escaped;

In those days, smuggling was an open secret.If someone successfully smuggled into a family, the family not only did not avoid suspicion, but would show off in front of outsiders, and even good-natured people would throw a big feast and set off firecrackers to celebrate.In the Shawan brigade in Panyu, Yangcheng, there was also a smuggling incident led by the production team leader, party branch secretary and security director.When they fled, dozens of villagers even went to the seaside to see them off.The Xincun Fishery Brigade of Huiyang Aotou Commune has a total of only 560 people, and 112 people managed to smuggle in just a few months.Except for one female member of the six branch members of the brigade's party branch, the other five all smuggled to Hong Kong.

In 1980, a special economic zone was first established in Pengcheng, where the "escape from Hong Kong" was the most serious, which opened the prelude to the reform and opening up aimed at making the people rich.

The birth of the Special Economic Zone brought hope to the general public, and also brought an abrupt end to the trend of "fleeing Hong Kong" that had lasted for 30 years.A few days after the announcement of the SAR Regulations, the phenomenon of smuggling and fleeing the SAR most troubled them suddenly disappeared! It is true that the thousands of people who were hiding behind the boulders in Wutong Mountain and preparing to flee in the woods were the only ones. completely gone!

He Junyao was very clear about these things, even more than the old man in front of him.The old man is a person who has experienced it firsthand, and he can consult a lot of information.

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The old man seemed to think of the things when he was a child, and smiled, "I think back to the grand occasion when Sanjiang was used as a swimming pool: hundreds of citizens were strengthening their bodies in the water of the river, shouting slogans very loudly, and everyone knew the real intention behind it." It was unspoken: for a long-distance trip that might happen at any time—smuggled across the border defense line and fled to Hong Kong.” Then his face became heavy again, “Looking back at the way we came, there are hundreds of corpses floating on the sea, smelly The sea breeze has wiped out any trace of life in this land. People who look at it in the glimmer of dawn before dawn feel terrified."

The old man said with a heavy tone, "And this extremely risky trend of escaping from Hong Kong has also given birth to a new profession - "slaughtering corpses". In its heyday, there were more than 200 "slaughtering corpses" active in Pengcheng. I I remember listening to the smugglers say that in the late 70s, the Shekou Maritime Police Station in Pengcheng stipulated that every time a "lashi man" buried a stowaway's body, he could go to the Shekou Commune to collect 15 yuan for labor service fees. There was once an old man, On the most one day, I received 750 yuan from the commune, and among the 50 corpses he buried, 4 were his relatives." It made people sigh and filled with emotion. "In fact, the main reason is poverty and hunger, which caused the tide of fleeing Hong Kong. People risked their lives to gamble on tomorrow."

For a while, the ticking of the clock could be heard in the room. In the 70s, it was those educated youths who escaped from Hong Kong. These educated youths who were dispatched to remote areas were extremely poor in material and spiritual life. In Hong Kong, the winners are, after all, a minority.Compared with the popular "Northern drifters" and "Southern drifters" in later generations, the group of educated youths who smuggled into Hong Kong have long been "Hong Kong drifters".

"However, even if this is the case, it can't stop the escapees from Hong Kong." The old man continued, "We arrived in Pengcheng on foot, and we are not familiar with the place, so we can't secretly ask how to sneak in! As soon as we knew all this, when we scratched our heads, we found a ray of light. I remember that in China at that time, in order to cope with the increasingly severe wave of fleeing Hong Kong, the local government thought of such a way. In Wutong, who 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 a "red flag village against smuggling".

There was a movement to study Mao Zedong's works in the village.The walls in front of and behind the village are covered with large slogans: "Hold high the great red flag of Mao Zedong Thought and march forward bravely!" A quotation board with "grasp revolution and promote production" was also inserted beside the well water in the field.As soon as it gets dark, the villagers are organized to sing songs. Most of the repertoires are "Sailing the Seas Rely on the Helmsman", "Books from ** I Love to Read" and so on.For a while, Xikeng Village became a well-known "red flag" in Bao'an County and even Lingnan Province.We stayed here in the name of visiting and studying.But not long after, this carefully constructed "fortress of socialist education" also collapsed. "

"Old man, you are really treacherous." Cheng Shixi joked. "Since it is a Hongqi village against smuggling, it is clear how to smuggle people."

"Hehe... You are right. The most suitable time is between the third day and the eighteenth day of August and September every year. According to the law of tide rise and fall, the local people summed up the proverb: the water flows on the 38th day of the first day. In this paragraph The time to enter the water is smooth, and you can swim to the opposite side without too much effort." The old man smiled and continued, "At that time, most of the young and middle-aged people in Xikeng Village, including anti-fleeing activists and militia cadres, went into the water with us and fled to In Hong Kong, there is the largest "man" left by a group, and an 8-year-old boy. I remember when we stood on the land of Hong Kong, a peasant woman who swam with us even left this sentence: "After I die, don't even blow the ashes back here! "The real Hong Kong miracle was created with blood and tears by those of us who risked our lives to go to Liangshan."

How ruthless was that peasant woman to say, 'After I die, don'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 all smooth sailing.

The old man took a sip of his tea, regained his spirit and said, "For us people, Hong Kong is very good, but we have no place of our own, and we have no roots there." Unbearable blessings, no unbearable hardships, just arrived in Hong Kong without an ID card, we all started from the bottom of the society, suffered all kinds of stares, worked hard, and gradually integrated into the mainstream society. It's not terrible to say, what's terrible is..."[