This article comes from the WeChat public account:One (ID: yitiaotv), editor: Xie Yimin, the original title: “Dali soaring house prices, these people were rushed to the mountain, but they still refused to go”, the first picture from: Visual China
Around 2017, house prices in Dali city skyrocketed, many places on the Erhai beach and Cangshan were shut down, and the old Dali people on the people’s roads left one after another. “Escape from Dali” seems to have become a new trend…
In May this year, an interview with Dali’s new immigrants, “As if there is light” was published, with a Douban score of 8.7.
The book tells the story of 14 new immigrants from Dali. They have stayed in Dali for 6 years and the longest has been 22 years.
Why go to Dali?
How are the lives of new immigrants in Dali after soaring housing prices?
The author Huang Ju was a reporter for China National Geographic. We interviewed her and selected 4 Dali immigrants from the book, including film directors, writers, bookstore owners, and kindergarten directors.
“Their memories brought us back to the classical period of Dali. Their life practice led the pioneering period of Dali. At that time, I often felt that Dali was shrouded in divine light, but now with a complicated mood, we witnessed it together It entered the torrent of the times.”