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Sanya Houhai Village is becoming the second Dali.
After the epidemic, this surfing resort surrounded by the sea on both sides attracted the group of young people who “played the best” to stop here.
Houhai Village is surrounded by the sea on both sides of the unique terrain
Girls surfing in Houhai Village
In Houhai Village, there are countless ways to kill boredom. The village is so small that you can go shopping in 10 minutes. The new villagers look up every day and see when they look down. They go out to the sea during the day to find waves, sunbathe, play dodgeball, and listen at night. Music, drinking, and dancing, there is a party every day, just like the Burning Man festival that never goes out for 24 hours.
The girls here dress freely, with black as their beauty, forming a unique “Houhai Village style”.
Houhai Girl
At the end of March, one went to Houhai Village and chatted with a dozen new villagers. The following is their story.
Houhai Village, a holy surfing resort
In March, there was a sandstorm in Beijing, Shanghai was rainy and rainy for weeks, and Sanya was always sunny.
In a blink of an eye, Bingbing, an independent director in Shanghai, has lived in Houhai Village, Sanya for a month. The village is not big, you can walk around in less than 15 minutes. It is surrounded by the sea on both sides, and you can walk to the beach just a few steps.
The Bingbing Plan planned to stay here for five or six days, but after it came, it seemed to be sucked into the “black hole of time”, and the return ticket was repeatedly changed.I first stayed from the end of February to the beginning of March. I planned to leave on March 6th, but it was postponed to the end of March.
“I got a little addicted after I got here,” the girl who looks like Liu Wen, with a bohemian blue cloth on her head, was sitting at the bar of a surf club on the beach and eating Hainan specialties to refresh her cool. .
Houhai Village has a totally different aesthetic from that of the city. Looking out from the surf club where Bingbing is located, we can see groups of girls wearing bikinis and holding surfboards, preparing to go surfing in the sea.
The hot girl is the key word in Houhai Village. Under the caress of the sun and sea breeze, the girls seem to have received an amnesty, unscrupulously using bikinis and bare bronze skin to show their sexy and charming.
Girls wearing bikinis on the beach in Houhai Village
They are sturdy, dark complexion, and all shades of black, wheat, bronze, brown-black, carbon black…The darker the complexion, the longer the time spent in Houhai Village. The longer, the deeper the qualifications.
Bingbing is naturally darker than others, and is very comfortable here. “In such a diverse place in Shanghai, friends around me still care if they are not white enough.”
But in Houhai Village, on the contraryPeople who don’t get tanned are quite troubled. Bingbing knew a girl who went to the beach every day to take pictures of people without getting tanned. When she met a local aunt who joked with her, “You are too white. You are not like a person in Houhai Village. You will be bullied. .”
Houhai Village is a mecca for sports enthusiasts and party animal(party animals). Surfing during the day and dancing at night. When night fell, the beach became a song and dance hall for tourists. One group of people tried their best to step on the rhythm and danced wildly beside the fluorescent lunar device, another group set up outdoor KTV, European and American dance music and melancholic love songs were staged in turn, and there was another wave. People bought fireworks and firecrackers, trying to create a shooting star and loud noise in the night sky.
The curfew at 23 o’clock and the music ends, but the party will not stop. People who are not having fun will pick firewood, make a bonfire, sit in a circle on the beach at night, drink, chat, and make new friends.
Houhai Village Every Night Shengge
And what makes Bingbing addicted is the overwhelming and fun young people in Houhai Village. If it weren’t for the epidemic, these gambling cafes would have been scattered on unknown islands in Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. Usually at this time, Bingbing would choose to go to Thailand instead of Sanya, but under the blockade of the epidemic, Houhai Village The tiny place is attracting young people trapped across the country with an unprecedented density.
In Houhai Village, anything can happen. Bingbing met a pair of difficult brothers who worked as directors and actors in Beijing. After coming here, they sold handmade coffee and cigarettes, and went to various places in the village every morning to sell them with cloth poles. Bingbing asked when his actor friend would go back, and he said, “If I don’t earn this book, I won’t leave.”
Dirty braid girl star
Hand-made people from generation to generation
A lot of professional flight attendants
The craftsmen from Dali have been riding motorcycles on the road for many generations. They are “friends picked up from the street” by Bingbing. One day Bingbing passed by her booth at the entrance of the bar, and the two had a good time talking, and now they can go to each other’s house to have a relationship.
Dirty braided girl Daxing, has been a street singer for 6 years. She originally came here to play with friends in Inner Mongolia, but unexpectedly met her current boyfriend. She decided to stay here and opened a hamburger with her friends. shop.
I have met a lot of girls like this, and Bingbing came up with the idea of taking a group of photos for the “Houhai Girls”. She feels that Houhai Village has a magnetic field that attracts people with unruly personality.
1. There are countless ways to get rid of boredom in Houhai Village
Lucas, who claims to be academically sublime
The 25-year-old Lucas is a new villager who has spent more than a year in Houhai Village. He does the same job as Bingbing. He usually makes a living by taking pictures of ronin and tourists. He rented a house with a view of the sea at the entrance of the village, with a monthly rent of more than 1,000 yuan.
Before coming to Houhai Village, Lucas worked as an event planner in a youth space in Beijing, and once organized an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of 1968.
He has always longed for the hippie spirit of the youth in the 1960s. In his spare time, he went to Peking University to take classes, eat in the student cafeteria, go to the drum tower to listen to rock and roll, and live a life of “academic vagrant”.
At the beginning of last year, the Youth Space was shut down due to the epidemic. Lucas from the Northeast simply left Beijing and came to Hainan to take shelter. He knew that surfing was possible here. The first stop he went to was a surf club in Riyue Bay, Wanning. He planned to volunteer as a photographer and learn surfing at the same time.
“The moment I went in, I saw that everyone in that shop was chill and lazy. The beach was very comfortable, lying in the sun and playing basketball.Skateboarding, drinking and music at night,” Lucas said, “Really, this is the hippie life I once imagined. “
He felt that he could stay at the beach for a long time. The surf circle was very small. Later, he heard people say that people in Houhai Village are more good at playing, so he moved over without much thought.
People on the beach in Houhai Village
“The Riyuewan living area is far away from the scenic spot, and it closes at night,” Lucas said. “The Houhai Village community feels better. Living facilities are available and there are many interesting things. People.”
Houhai Village is very small, basically composed of surf clubs, homestays, bars, local restaurants, and houses. For a long time, the whole village has only one cafe and a few bars. The long-lived new villagers will see you every day without looking up, and you can get together in three or five days.Familiar face.
There are mainly three groups of new villagers who moved to Houhai Village after the epidemic:
A group of people came from big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu. They were originally freelancers or doing business here. Clubs, bars, and restaurants were opened by this group of people.
A group of people came from Dali, mostly hand-makers and artists, brought in hippie elements such as tobacco and bohemian style.
A group from Inner Mongolia and Tibetan areas, mostly stray singers and DJs, are the leaders of the electronic music party in Houhai Village.
Lucas is a typical social animal, and he is prone to depression when he is alone. In Houhai Village, he said that he was very happy every few days.
“Every day when you go out for a stroll, you can meet a bunch of friends when you go shopping in the street, and you can join anyone who sees eating and drinking.” Lucas said.
Lucas’ daily life in Houhai Village
It is also surfing during the day and dancing at night. The new villagers who live in Houhai Village have a different gameplay from tourists. Visitors ride small waves, and villagers ride big waves; tourists listen to pop music, and villagers listen to electronic music; tourists dance wild on the beach, and villagers dance on the club.
“In Houhai Village, there are countless ways to get rid of boredom.” Lucas said that during the day in the village, you can surf, sunbathe, play dodge ball, balance beam, and go a little further and go to the forest. The container on the side drinks and listens to music, goes to the rocky party on the opposite pier for a picnic, catches up with good times, and can go out to sea to watch the fluorescent waves.
Ruroin Surfing
The girl is basking on the beach, and someone buries her body in the sand next to her, showing only one head
Friends who have a drink and barbecue in front of “Vansurf”
And night is the essence of life in Houhai Village.
There are two DJs in the village, nicknamed Xiaowen and Mummy. They go to surf clubs or bars to play DJ from time to time. After receiving the news, the new villagers will run around and tell each other. Some learned from a DJ group of over 100 people, some heard about it while eating hot pot with friends who frequent them, and some just went out to get lucky.
“There is a party here every day.” The Changsha girl CC and Lucas came to Houhai Village at almost the same time and cherished the characteristics of each club and bar.
The veteran surf club in Houhai Village, “Gan Le”, likes to hold retro parties and has a costume party every Halloween.
The bar “Endless Summer” with the slogan “City life sucks” hosted a silent earphone party. The music was not played out. The earphones have two channels for FM. Everyone wears earphones and tunes to the same one as the one you like. Channel, dancing on the brightly lit beach.
The “Malt” near the pier has a band every week, Li Zhi and Xin Pants have been there, and the surf club 8mm has opened a small room specially, sometimes the lead singer is not there, the audience volunteers to sing on stage, and the musicians will play together. song.
2. Hot girls restaurants, no teasing girls
The accounts have been moved to Hot Mom CC in Sanya
If her friends call her “Mom C”, no one can tell that CC is already an 8-year-old mother with both children.
She has exquisite features and loves sports. She has the iconic figure and fitness of a Houhai girl. She wears a pair of calf-long white skateboard socks in addition to a sports vest and shorts.
After graduating from CC Normal University, she married and had children. She opened a beauty salon in Changsha with her friends. She has free time. Whenever she is free, she runs and volunteers all over the country and tries new things.
She followed the “Houhai Village Time Black Hole Law” when she came to settle in Houhai Village. At first, she just wanted to come to Houhai Village to learn surfing. Six months later, she decided to end her long-problem marriage and move her household registration here.
“(April) The original plan was to stay for 3 days. I found it very fun. When I met some friends, I changed my sign to 4 days. 5 days, 6 days, and then it becomes May, July, August again,” CC said, “I (in the city)Two months of hard work, just to come here to play for half a month, why don’t I stay here all the time?”
CC
During the six months between the city and the sea, she gradually realized the life she really wanted in her heart.
First of all, “You are free to dress here. It doesn’t matter if you wear leather, long sleeves, ordinary suspenders, no chest pads, bumps, it doesn’t matter, including your hairstyle to your makeup, plain makeup, and thick Makeup is fine, no one will say you are good or bad.”
CC lived in “Gen Le” when he first came.Sanya in April was already very hot. After the wave, the wavers couldn’t wipe their bodies. They were shirtless, dripping water, sitting in front of the dining car and drinking, “especially eye-catching.”
On a hot summer day, if someone walks on the street wearing a down jacket, people in the city may glance at it, curse “madness” and walk away, but in Houhai Village, everyone will find this person a bit interesting. I want to talk to him.
The local aunts in Houhai Village are very tolerant. When the girls in bikinis are posing together to take pictures, they will not say “how is the little girl like this at a young age”, but sincerely sigh, “It’s nice to be young, I really have capital.”
“Houhai Village is very rich and rich in everyone.” During the six months between the city and the seaside, CC has its own social circle in Houhai Village. In this circle there are Mongolian, A Tibetan friend, a friend of children’s education with a dirty braid, her surfing instructor, Akang, the first generation Ronin, has not read much, but has super hands-on skills. He was already in Houhai from Hainan on foot from Tianjin. The village stayed for 7 years.
CC’s daily life in Houhai Village
There is also a Dink couple who opened a homestay in Dali. The woman is a dozen years older than the man. Sanya was originally their first stop on their trip to China. They did not expect that the boys fell in love with surfing, so the plan was stranded and the boys stayed. Become a surf instructor, the girls are in chargeThere was a noodle restaurant in the street.
After CC moved to Houhai Village, I spent time with these fun people every day. Sometimes I went to Riyue Bay and Qingshui Bay to find waves, took a tent and went camping. The next morning I woke up and went to surf with a board, sometimes Play in the basketball court at the pier, go to Linwang to exercise, sometimes go to the waterfall, go diving, go skateboarding, “Everyday life is fulfilling to be arranged. I get up in the morning and go out with a bag, and I will come home very late.”< /strong>
After living such a full and simple life for a long time, CC obviously feels that his material needs are declining.
She used to buy expensive bags, necklaces, and watches in cities, but in Houhai Village, everything is based on practical value. CC carries dozens of small cloth bags to go out every day. Necklaces and watches are easy to lose. Remove all of them. Whitening skin care products are not needed. At most, buy a little sunscreen mud and coconut oil. It started with two or three hundred sets and now has two or thirty sets.
“The most important thing is that all your friends around you buy are those in the 20s and 30s, more than 50 are considered expensive,” CC said, friends will not think you wear expensive bikinis, such a big name, good If there are grades, I will only ask sincerely, “Is it necessary?”
In the six months since moving to Houhai Village, the question CC has been asked the most is, “How do you live here? What do you rely on for food?”
“You can find a job here. There are three or four thousand, including food and housing. If I settle down, the government will give subsidies every month.” CC felt very puzzled: “You are here. Staying for a long time, there will always be resources.”
At the moment, the “Spicy Girl Restaurant” opened by CC and the three sisters is also open. They thought of a slogan called “No Liaomei”, which means “I can harass, you can’t harass”. The service in the store is also ready to follow the example of a friend who opened a noodle restaurant from Dali: Love Eat or not.
Since I have fled the city and opened a spicy girl restaurant, “We just want to pull a little bit and have a little attitude.”CC said.
CC and friends are hot girls
Three, in fact, no life is “too bad”
A digital nomad who knows what a real hippie is
At 8 o’clock on Monday evening, the nightlife of the villagers in Houhai has just regained.
The newly opened Reef bar plays jazz music. The proprietress Pengpeng is a typical Houhai village hot girl. She changes various looks within a week. The village is very windy on this day. She tied her black and fluffy curly hair into two twists. Braids, drooping on the left and right shoulders, wearing a toad mirror and talking to Pengpeng is her fellow in Inner Mongolia, a vagrant singer who sings reggae.
People came to the bar intermittently, greeted and greeted each other skillfully, as if they had known each other for a long time. The wandering singer began to ask people “how to recognize a neurosis” brain teasers, and then made a few jokes of tourists who love to eat betel nuts, with blood in their mouths. After half an hour, he will appear in a music restaurant in the village to sing. .
Lucas is playing with the balance beam on the side of the bar. In a few minutes, Josh, a digital nomad in a blue shirt and schoolbag, is about to finish his day’s work and came here. He said, “Houhai Village has There are two kinds of people, one is a neuropathy, and the other is a person who pretends to be a neuropathy.”
Pengpeng, the proprietress of Reef Bar
Josh the digital nomad
Josh is a programmer. The company is headquartered in Sweden and allows online work. He went to Shenzhen for a month and a half before coming to Houhai Village.
He thinks life in Shenzhen is quite boring. He commutes to get off work every day and goes rock climbing or surfing on weekends. Sometimes he sits in the park with his friends and then goes home to sleep. Later, he found a foreign language agency to teach others. Learning English is meaningless.
Josh went to Australia to study and work after graduating from high school. He has been studying and working in Australia for 12 years. He believes that his personality is relatively laid back(relaxed),” Everyone in Shenzhen likes to talk about this housing price. Even the most interesting people have to end up on this level. They have to make money, struggle and succeed in their careers.”
When he was in his early 20s, he experienced the hippie community abroad, “The thing that hippies resist is the mainstream society.” Josh and a few hippie friends carried tents and bags and drove to the mountains to attend the music festival for four or five days. Everyone forms a small community, cooks together, eats vegetarian food, meditates, dances, surfs, and runs bare but no one talks about you.
Until now, Josh still goes to the mountains to meditate every year, without talking to anyone for 10 days.
By chance, Josh learned from a surfing instructor friend that there are a group of hippies in Houhai Village. During the Christmas holidays, he made a special trip to Houhai Village and saw, “No, hippies are not like this.” Josh said, “It’s not a tan, braided, and bohemian costumes are hippies.”
Villagers play volleyball on the rooftop of Reef Bar
Villagers eat hot pot on the rooftop of Reef Bar
“The core of hippies is love and acceptance. Their yearning for the world is that everyone is one, just like an octopus. Everyone is an octopus’s tentacles, so when you’re happy Sometimes, I will also feel happy. When you are sad, I don’t have to pity you because we are the same octopus.”
“It only takes three days to dress up as a hippie, but it may take 30 years to truly be a hippie.”
That time, Josh just thought the sun was very comfortable here, and he was only two steps away from the beach, and he settled down. He likes a fixed life. During the three months in Houhai Village, he would go to work in a cafe in the village during the day from Monday to Friday, and sometimes sit until the door closes at 11 o’clock before leaving.
In the crevice of work, he would go to the coffee shop to smoke a cigarette, chat with the familiar villagers, and when he had little work on hand, he would go to the bar to sit after work. “I have a programmer friend who has a party here every night, drinking and playing too hard, which affects work efficiency, and was later fired by the company.”
Josh remembered the slogan “City life sucks” in “Endless Summer” and said: “Actually, there is no sucks in any life(too bad) span>, only youSucks not sucks. “
A coffee shop in Josh’s permanent village
Fourth, we don’t have much money, but we can share
Hand-made hippies on the road from generation to generation
The hand-crafted people from Dali didn’t plan to be the head of Houhai Village from the beginning. She always had the personality to leave. The house shared by the pier with her friends was posted with “City life sucks” everywhere. “The sticker, the place where she lived on behalf of her was originally the living room without a bed. Instead, she was replaced by a tent that had been with her for a long time.
I have been in Dali for 3 years. She has nose studs on her face and wears bohemian clothing. She has painted on her chest and both arms. She wears jewelry made by herself on her wrists and neck.
A group of immigrants from Dali gathered in Houhai Village. The generations came here after studying ceramics from Jingdezhen in December last year. Originally, I just wanted to find a warm place to spend the winter. I didn’t expect to meet friends who had been away for many years every few days.
“On the first day I came, I ran into a friend from Dali. He told me who was coming in a few days and who was coming in a few days. Sometimes I walked on the street or set up a stall, “Eh, what do you do?” Coming’.”
Dali has a deep influence on this Guizhou girl. After graduating from university, she studied graphic design and went to an Internet company in Zunyi to do UI. After working for 9 months, her body couldn’t bear it for generations, and her relationship with her boyfriend who was doing photography was not going well.
Hand-made from Dali, from generation to generation
“My relationship is not going well, it will affect my life a lot, and I will want to escape.” After being broken in love, generation after generation resigned in anger and temporarily bought Zhang Daniansan Ten air tickets to Dali.
In the first few months, generations felt that Dali was their utopia. “City life is actually the same. It’s a lot of pressure. I go to work, eat, and go off work every day. After get off work, I make appointments with friends to watch a movie, and occasionally go to drink.” Dai Dai said, “In Dali, it’s really a party every day, drinking every day. I am irritable every day.”
In Dali, she met all kinds of craftsmen, and from generation to generation felt that she had found her heart-drawing mandala and making thread crafts.
But this kind of life soon becomes problematic, “Drinking every day makes me depressed. Alcohol will make you very happy, and your mood will go up. The next day you sober up, your depression is Here, I can’t get back to my usual feelings.” Daidai said that there were not a few friends who had been playing around at that time.
The most important thing is that your hands will tremble after drinking, and you can’t do crafts at all. As a result, the base areas in Dali began to move to places with few people from generation to generation, first from the lively neighborhoods of the ancient city to the less lively neighborhoods, then from the ancient city to the beach, and from the beach to the mountains, “the quieter the more comfortable” .
Jewelry on behalf of the generation
If it weren’t for breaking up with Dali’s boyfriend, the generations might still be in Dali now.
In the three months since she moved to Houhai Village, she looked at her mood and went out of her way. She often stayed at home to do handicrafts. Sometimes she rented a motorcycle to wander around the mountains in Wanning. The huts over there are particularly beautiful.
My friends all say that this is like a little Dali, a 24-hour party, like the unquenchable Burning Man Festival, where people are “free, classless, and peaceful.”
I have been to clubs in Shanghai for generations, and I think people are holding them, sitting down and chatting together. They talk about how many houses in our house, or maybe you take me to do something, in Houhai Village, Everyone is not interested in the urban one, “If you say that I rushed into a wave today, it’s too awesome, you are still interested in listening.”
In the city, everyone plays together, buys what to eat, what to buy, and generally buys each. But in Houhai Village, buy a bottle of water, “I will pass it to you after I drink it, and then pass it to you. He, pass it to her and buy a bottle of wine, too,” Dai Dai said, “We don’t have much money, but we can share.”
5. “If you don’t want to stay someday, just leave”
Peach, the overbearing president who is quite a surfing coach and opened his own shop
Among the villagers in Houhai Village, Taozi, the owner of the surf club “Sybo Space”, looks like a different kind.
He basically doesn’t go out to socialize, and he has no sense of the nightlife and community culture in Houhai Village. He lives in his middle age and spends his daily life between the store and the beach, surfing in his spare time, and going to the beach to drink at night, sometimes Listen to the sea alone.
The tall peach is JiangsuA native of Suzhou, he is a literary and artistic youth in his bones. In high school, he found that he was talented in singing. He played rock, rap, and street dance. After graduating from college, he stayed in Nantong as a nightclub resident singer and devoted himself to singing for four or five years. Gradually, there is no ideal, thinking about making money.”
The ambition of the poor boy came in handy at this time. Taozi went all the way from singer director to stage director, and opened his own restaurant and bar in the middle. In 2016, he was persuaded by his old partner to go to Qingdao as vice president of the nightclub group. Half a year later , The new nightclub brand has gained some fame, and Taozi is tired again, “There is no challenge, it’s boring to stay here every day.”
So, he resigned quickly, went hiking with his friends, climbed the Haba Snow Mountain, took a tent to camp at Erhai Beach, and listened to the barking of wild boars and dogs while walking the Hong Kong trekking route, and fresh things poured in constantly along the way. , Taozi felt very excited.
Taozi is in front of her surf club shop
Before coming to Shanghai in August, Taozi and a few friends drove to Xinjiang on a self-driving trip. Unexpectedly, the epidemic broke out midway. After returning, Taozi came to Sanya’s Houhai Village to learn surfing.
He didn’t hire a teacher, so he bought a surfboard and went to the sea every day. After a period of time, he felt that he had to do something, otherwise, “just take a board every day, it would be boring in the sea”, he went to apply for a surfing coach, but the other party either thought that he was too old, or that he could not be a coach. Requirements.
“Can I not survive here?” Taozi thought to herself, “Then just open a club.”
When the store just opened, the blood in Tao Zi’s body was reactivated. Every night, I thought about how to make the store. “When I think of something to measure, I get up from the bed and go to the store. Measure it and go back.” When the shop was opened, Taozi felt bored again.
Peach
This sense of emptiness, which can’t be shaken off anyway, has been entwined with peaches since 2016. In the past, he was sensitive and delicate, and his circle of friends was full of poems. In the next rain, he could write a “Sentiment after the Rain”, which lasted for seven or eight years after breaking up with his first girlfriend. He would send his circle of friends blessings every birthday.
And he describes himself as a walking dead, his senses are numb, it is difficult to concentrate, and drama movies can’t stand it anymore. Every day is eating, drinking, playing, and working.
“It may be a bit hypocritical,” Taozi said. “For example, tomorrow I will talk to a girlfriend and I will be found on two boats. I won’t be sad. No one can hurt me.”< /p>
The reason why he moved to Houhai Village was to see if he could find his original self. Now three months later, the answer is “no.” When someone asks Taozi, how long do you plan to stay in Houhai Village? He will reply, “I don’t know, I will leave if I don’t want to stay someday.”
The characters in the text are all pseudonyms, and some pictures are provided by the interviewee. This article is from the WeChat official account:One piece (ID: yitiaotv), Written by: Xie Yimin, Photography: Shen Weihao