The 2022 Sand Ridge Tour

Under the busy working conditions, I heard a suggestion from some people in the community to fly the flag at half-mast during the Qingming Festival to mourn over 7,000 people who died under the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong. , coming soon.

In the past two years before and after the Qingming Festival, I also visited the Shaling Cemetery, the final burial place of the unclaimed remains of the deceased in Hong Kong. This originally unknown place, with the opening of the frontier restricted area and the protest movement in 2019, its significance began to be widely discussed and circulated by the public. Therefore, during the Ching Ming Festival in recent years, some ordinary citizens have also begun to come to this place from afar, while mourning the deceased who have been forgotten by the public or the regime deliberately does not let people remember, and at the same time thinking about life. Although the change in social atmosphere has made this meaning less mentioned, the existence of ideas still makes the Shaling Cemetery become a relatively sensitive place during these times.

In the first quarter of 2022, in the face of Omicron's visit, all kinds of absurd "anti-epidemic" policies have made Hong Kong a mess, and the economic and social atmosphere has entered a severe winter. In Hong Kong at the beginning of April, a rare low temperature of only 14 degrees may echo the current situation. When I got on the train to Sheung Shui, I remembered yesterday's April Fool's Day, the anniversary of my brother's death. Fans and citizens were not allowed to mourn in an upright manner. All the flowers placed outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel were mercilessly thrown away, and my heart began to feel a little confused. ”, will this place also take some precautions?

Sure enough, at the intersection of Shaling Road, there was a police car and three plainclothes guarding it, and the loudspeaker also played the announcement of not violating the two-person gathering restriction order. Empty-handed, I immediately passed by pretending to be a hiker. On the first staircase near the intersection, there is a widely circulated unnamed tombstone segment. In the early years, a willing citizen wrote the prompt word "worshiping siblings". In such a situation, deliberately do not turn up, continue along the road, avoid swagger.

It turns out that Shaling Road also has a certain length. On the road, you can also see the former China-Brazil Aisha rich man who was converted into a "bus house". After walking for more than ten minutes, I couldn't see anyone chasing after him, and I unknowingly came to the end of the road, which turned out to be another place turned into a cemetery.

In the section of tombs near the intersection last year, I saw that there were only 119 unnamed tombstones set up in 2020. It was strange that the unnamed tombstones set up later were placed in this deeper position. Seeing the number of anonymous tombstones established in 2020, the total number is 315, which is a reasonable number in terms of the social situation at that time; in 2021, when the epidemic is a little off, the number of anonymous tombstones will decrease. According to the information on the sign, There are only 201, and at a glance, there are at least more than 50 unnamed tombstones established in 2022, and this section also seems to be in the process of leveling and expanding.

After waiting for a while, I bowed, the weather began to deteriorate, and when I decided to retreat, I found that my whereabouts were still reported by the east window. The police car and the three plainclothes who were originally at the intersection had already followed to this section. grave. Fortunately, he also had the experience of being "copied" by others, so he made up some excuses, and after a simple warning, he finally succeeded in "throwing away". The three returned to the police car and turned around and left.

On the way back, I searched for the official numbers of unclaimed bodies in Hong Kong over the past few years, but couldn't find them anywhere. Omicron has visited since the beginning of the year, and there have been at least 7,000 people who died directly due to the epidemic. The data also shows that many of them are elderly. Yuan Guoyong also said that a large number of elderly people died of the epidemic because of this wave of epidemics in Hong Kong. a very heavy price. These many elderly people may have no children, their wives died early, were abandoned by their children, and lack social networks. When these people who are not remembered in society, unfortunately die from the epidemic, they can only be turned into death numbers one after another, and the cemetery will become their final destination.

The man-made disaster caused by the absurd anti-epidemic policy, there may be more people who have become victims: starved to death due to being grounded/daring to go out, starved to death due to lack of water and food, unable to bear the pressure of economic reversal and chose to commit suicide, unable to work for a long time. Normal social life constitutes a person with mental problems, and so on and so forth. In a time when the media ecology has become withered, the real plight of Hong Kong people under the epidemic, the stories of many deceased and people around them, have not been well reported and recorded.

A Chinese netizen who read on Mammoth said that in time, the CCP will still claim that it has overcome the epidemic, and describe this period as a "three-year difficult period", but does not mention the various man-made disasters behind it. This, in a few years' time, is also likely to become the official discourse and historical view on martial arts in Hong Kong. At that time, the number of anonymous tombstones finally established in 2022 may become a little bit of telling the truth.