Edited and translated
by Huang Jin, People's Daily
Online
It was a cold
night in Beijing in March. Zhao
Zhengyu, a welder, entered into a
public phone box to talk to his
mother. It was her mother's 67th
birthday. He tried four times, but
failed to connect her. It's his
first time to pick up the phone
just for saying happy birthday to
his mother.
Wang shaomo and
his wife are both green workers
in Beijing. Every Friday or Saturday,
they come to a public phone
booth near Wenhui Bridge of Xizhenmen
area in Beijing to talk with
their daughter who studies in six
grade in a primary school in
Linbao of Henan - their hometown. The
conversation lasts about 30 minutes. It
has never been interrupted even at
coldest time.
Now almost
everyone has a mobile phone. The
public phone box has gradually faded
out of sight. Some young people
don't even know how to use
an IC telephone card.
However
when night comes, some people still
stop occasionally at the phone boxes.
Most of them are strangers in
the city and come to make a
long-distance call. Maybe only in
those small boxes, they can feel
safe and relaxed to express their
nostalgia...
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