After spending a day at this 'no-frills farm'

After spending a day at this 'no-frills farm'... The person in charge of 'Chun Ting Pu Men' on Chongming Island in Shanghai, Brother Xiong, is an architect by trade. Wearing an apron, slim and dark, he looks very capable. When our colleagues call him 'young man', he seriously corrects them, 'Is there such a thing as a young man over 50?' Brother Xiong and his wife have built this 18-acre farm. They often disappear into the farm, promoting 'natural ecology, no service' and 'self-sufficiency'. After spending a day there, I suddenly reconnected with the original way of life: - Green bean soup and jasmine tea for cooling off are in glass bottles, but you have to pour them yourself; if the cup is dirty, you wash it yourself; - If you want coffee, there are beans, but you need to grind and brew by hand to experience the process from nothing to something. For those of us accustomed to the convenience of electric coffee machines, this seems slow, but from this moment, my focus returned to the coffee itself, to the matter of how to enjoy a good cup of coffee. - There's a very tasty farmhouse dinner, with pink wildflowers from the farm in a blue clay vase, and clean large bricks as our dinner bowls; simple dishes like tiger-skin peppers, eggplants, malantou, Chongming cakes are delicious, as well as tender free-range chicken and fragrant chicken soup. The key point is, the dishes are prepared and cooked by the farm, but after eating, you need to clean up the bowls and table yourself, then wash each bowl clean. In the process of cleaning up, everyone cooperates, some collect food, some throw away trash, some bring the dishes to the kitchen, and someone is responsible for washing dishes. Night has fallen, and everyone is busy in the light, returning to the essence of a family feast: sharing, labor. - There are looms here, and the bed sheets and covers in the wooden houses are made of homespun fabric; - There's a warm light incubator where you can see newly hatched quails huddling together for warmth and play; - There's a tractor chugging along, tilling the land, ready to sow; - There are simple but clean wooden hut toilets, clean and ventilated, equal for everyone; - There are handmade woodworking pieces, beautiful wooden boats that can be put into the river to row; - When night falls, it's very quiet around, so light a bonfire, everyone sits around talking, playing the guitar, dancing a simple, happy dance - There are wooden cabins filled with the scent of pine for rest, sleeping on the floor, covered with cotton quilts with homespun covers, in the dark and quiet rural atmosphere, letting sleep be just sleep. Yes, there's not much service here. But it makes me feel that here, everyone sheds their social status and masks, and only those with the most sincere love for life can enjoy it, because what flows here are only the most basic but also important needs of life: labor, harvest, feed oneself, warm oneself, and rise with the sunrise and rest with the sunset. And these are precisely what we need to constantly awaken and revisit in our busy, competitive, demanding, materialistic modern life.