Non-local people’s children lives in a renovating farmer market by CAI Xiaoqing

Non-local people’s children lives in a renovating farmer market.

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photo by: CAI Xiaoqing (20459815)

Chang Sha--- Zhuang Zhuang and Xiao Zhang are 6 years old boys from different province who both live in Liuzheng Street, study in the first grade of Liuzheng Street Elementary School. They have been playing together since they were three years old. They are each other’s best friends and neighbours in Liuzhen street block .

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Wherever they go, they can have fun sitting on the ground, sharing snacks, sharing toys, and they also like to run in the Changsha World Trade Shopping Center which is the tallest and latest building near the old block.

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Bittern Foods is a very popular and traditional local food from the southwest of China like Hunan, Sichuan and Chongqing which is made by stewing various Chinese spices(like anise,cassia,cardamom,dried chilli,pepper...) with foods.

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Xiao Zhang is satisfied with the digital portable watch named 'Xiao Tian Cai' which with a small lens is popular among primary school students in China.

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"my dream is to be a scientist," Zhuang Zhuang said, "Although i played poker very well."

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Xiao Zhang is from Henan Province and his parents sells vegetables in this street which is near Zhuang Zhuang's shop. He has two older sisters because his parents really want a son.

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Zhuang Zhuang also knows to play Chinese poker games in smartphones, he try to tell me how talented he is and show his mature poker skills to me.

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Zhuang Zhuang is a little boy with glasses, he comes from Anhui province but he was born and grow in Changsha, He has an older brother in college, and his parents run a bittern foods shop.

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Their weekend activity is lie down on the first floor of the Lidu Building near the grocery market to play micro toy blocks, then they will buy snacks and go to the nearby World Trade Building.

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"Because of the renovation outside, the number of buyers is declining.", Zhuang Zhuang's mom said, "the outside street is unsafe to my child, so i hope that the renovation could be finished as early as possible. when he go out, i was worried."

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Liuzheng street, in Changsha’s old block, is more like a vegetable market.
There were different kinds of small shops along the street for selling vegetable, grocery, meat, local food and clothes…

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Zhuang Zhuang said that he was good at playing cards while he has been playing poker since he was 3 years old.

at the spare time, Zhuang Zhuang usually plays poker with his mom nearby the shop.

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Recently, this street has been experienced a renovation with the destruction of road and scaffolding has been erected around the buildings.

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Xiao Zhang said that he fall in love with a girl whose name is Ting Ting, the classmate of Zhuang Zhuang.

They play with each other everyday no matter how bad the weather was, buying micro toy blocks and snacks in this street.

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"we can get free snacks and beverage in this shopping center! " they said，"Let's Go!!! Let me take you there！"
[Haidilao hot pot in Chang Sha World Trade Shopping Mall.]

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"i don't really know what i want to be in the future," Xiao Zhang said, " but i wanna be Zhuang Zhuang's BEST FRIEND forever."

Thank You.

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Nov 22. 2020
all photos were shooted by CAI Xiaoqing, in Liuzheng Street, Chang Sha, Hunan Province, China.