When you walk into North Korea, you will find that everything seems to slow down. There are no small online videos, no mobile games and no shuttle express. People are in no hurry to walk. The few shouts and greetings on the street seem to be our aunts who are traveling.
Many people say that this is the dream "slow city life", and quietness is a kind of enjoyment, without impetuous desire; There are also many people who say that you are incapable of getting rich. If you were rich, you wouldn't say this. Let's feel it:
Koreans are used to walking. Around us, most people who walk aim at fitness in order to consume excess fat. But in North Korea, walking has returned to its original function. More interestingly, North Koreans walk in no hurry and have no hurry.
Our tour guide said that North Korea's state-owned factories usually go to work at 8: 3 in the morning, but when we look at the clocks erected by the roadside, it's obviously time to go to work, and pedestrians are still flowing in an endless stream. Here is a strange place: there are clocks and watches at some major intersections and subway entrances in North Korea, but few pedestrians look at them, or turn a blind eye.
When people leave work in the evening, they are even less anxious. The sunshine falls on people's shoulders through the leaves, and everyone doesn't talk. They just walk quietly, still wearing their work clothes, as if they were attending some important meeting.
The tour guide told us that it is the most leisure time of the day to get off work in the evening. Women go home to cook, men chat by the roadside, or fish by the water, or three or five friends go to the beer house for a drink, and then go home when it is estimated that the food at home is ready.
Koreans are used to going to bed early. After dinner in the hotel, we asked the tour guide for permission and took a walk along Wutan Jiang 'an Street. The tour guide repeatedly told us to come back before 9 pm. We are surprised at this time and feel that nightlife has not yet started. But still obedient, back to the hotel room on time.
We lived on the 22nd floor of Yangjiaodao Hotel. At 1 o'clock in the evening, we opened the curtains and looked out. We found that the street lights on the riverside street we had just passed had been turned off. Across the Datong River, the Dong 'an Cave and Liucheng Cave opposite the hotel, the residential area is already dark, with occasional lights in the windows.
The brightest Pyongyang station goes to the front street of the hotel, and there are only a few dim street lamps, most of which are out. It turns out that the landscape street in Pyongyang is specially prepared for the convenience of foreign tourists for night trips, and there is a time limit for lighting.
The next day, when we talked about it, the tour guide told us very flatly that Pyongyang residents usually have dinner at around 7: 3 in the evening, and at around 8: , the whole family watches TV programs, the main content of which is the big events and small feelings around them, and then they start watching TV dramas. Many families buy DVD players and like watching China TV series best.
it's about ten o'clock in the evening, and I'm ready to go to bed. At this time, the electricity consumption began to be unstable, and the solar battery panels installed on many family balconies can come in handy at this time.
There are no takeaway brothers on the streets of North Korea. North Koreans don't seem to have the habit of eating breakfast outside. At 7 o'clock in the morning, we took a bus to Kaesong and passed the gates of several communities along the way. There were no gates and no security guards in the North Korean community, so we could see the inside of the community at a glance. But we didn't see any stalls selling breakfast, and we didn't see any kiosks open for business. And people waiting in line for buses on the roadside didn't eat.
The tour guide explained that all Koreans have breakfast at home, and housewives get up early and go out for breakfast, so they will be laughed at by their neighbors and called lazy.
cangguangyuan street is surrounded by qingliu pavilion, skating rink, cangguangyuan amusement park and many other units. when we got here, it was almost noon, but we didn't see any young people coming out to eat, let alone the little takeaway brother who walked through quickly. Without them, it seems that the whole city has slowed down.
The tour guide told us that there are big canteens in North Korea's state-owned factories, and workers eat in them. With the meal tickets issued by the unit, they eat for free.