For Zhou Fangyuan, there is nothing to see in this World Cup, because he has seen it all, and when he came to Germany, on the one hand, he was to accompany the whole family to play, and on the other hand, it was nothing more than to feel the atmosphere of the scene again.

When he's not competing, he also takes his family out for a walk.

As an old industrial power, today's Germany has already gone through the stage of primary industry, and most of the industries have entered a fairly advanced stage, so they have long ago begun to pay attention to environmental protection, and the domestic environment can be said to be quite good.

And Germany has a well-developed tourism industry. Every year, a large number of domestic and foreign tourists visit Germany.

Germany has 38 World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites, the fourth largest in the world after Italy, China and Spain, and the fourth largest in the world after France, although 36 of them are cultural heritage sites and only two are natural sites. Famous sights include Cologne Cathedral, Berlin Reichstag, Rothenburg, Deutsches Museum Munich, Heidelberg Old Town, Neuschwanstein Castle, Black Forest, Königssee, Dresden Gallery and many more.

In the past, the German Tourism Center published a report, which seems to be around 2012, and it is said that the number of foreign tourists coming to Germany at that time exceeded 46 million, and it continues to grow, and most of the tourists come from other European countries, United States and Asia. A trip to Germany is not limited to city tours, but also small towns.

Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dresden, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Nuremberg are the ten most popular German cities for foreign tourists, and the most popular federal states are Bavaria, North Rhine-West** and Baden-Württemberg.

Famous attractions include the Brandenburg Gate, located in the center of Berlin, with the end of Pariser Platz and Unter den Linden on the east side, and the starting point of March 18th Square and June 17th Avenue on the west side, which is the symbol of Berlin and the national symbol of Germany, which has witnessed many important historical events in Berlin, Germany, Europe and even the world. In 1788, King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia united the German Empire. At that time, the famous German architect Karl Goethehar Langhans was commissioned to undertake the design and construction work, he designed this triumphal arch-style city gate based on the ancient Greek colonnaded city gate of Athens, and completed it in 1791, was named the "Gate of Peace", and the goddess on the chariot was called the "Goddess of Peace".

Sanssouci Palace is located in the northern suburbs of Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg in the eastern part of the Federal Republic of Germany. The name of the palace is taken from the French word for "carefree". Sanssouci and its surrounding gardens were built during the reign of King Frederick II of Prussia (1745-1757). The entire garden covers an area of 290 hectares and sits on a sand dune, so it is called the "palace on the dune".

Cologne Cathedral, the most perfect Gothic church in the world, is located on the banks of the Rhine River in the heart of Cologne, Germany. The hall is 42 meters high, the top pillar is 109 meters high, and in the center are two double spires connected with the door wall, and these two 157.38-meter minarets are like two sharp swords, reaching into the sky.

Neuschwanstein Castle, also known as Neuschwanstein Castle, is a mythical castle with white walls and a blue roof, located in the small town of Fussen, Texas, in the Alps, one of the residences of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the most photographed building in Germany. It is also one of the most popular tourist attractions.

Finally, the ruins of the Berlin Wall, the 3.5-meter-high wall is a cement slab structure with cement pipes in the upper part of the wall. It was erected in 1961 as a witness to the division of the German nation and the Cold War, and in 1989 it was dismantled as a symbol of friendship when the nation was about to be reunified, promoting the unification of East and West Germany. To be honest, this should actually be the most interesting attraction, and basically tourists who come to Germany do not come here to have a look.

Because this place represents a very interesting history.

The Berlin Wall, officially known as the Anti-Defense Wall, is a border system established by the German Democratic Republic on its territory to surround the border of West Berlin.

It was built on August 13, 1961 and has a total length of 155 kilometers. Initially a border fence made of barbed wire and masonry, it was later strengthened into a border defense consisting of watchtowers, concrete walls, open strips and anti-vehicle trenches. The Berlin Wall is a symbol of the division of Germany and an important landmark of the Cold War. Because the Berlin Wall encircled West Berlin like an island in the GDR, it was also called the "showcase of the free world". It is an important landmark of the division of Germany and the Cold War after World War II, and has also become a symbol of the Iron Curtain that divided Eastern and Western Europe.

It was not until November 9, 1989, that the GDR government announced that citizens would be allowed to apply to visit the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as West Berlin, and the Berlin Wall was forced to be opened. In June 1990, the GDR government officially decided to dismantle the Berlin Wall.

The fall of the Berlin Wall provided the Federal Republic of Germany with a large number of laborers, advanced technology and capital to the GDR, and improved the lives of the people of the GDR. It also represents a united Germany as an important part of the European economy. After reunification, Germany's development can lead to the economic development of the whole of Europe and make the world economy develop towards a trend of diversification.

But how to say it, this Berlin Wall was not easy to build, and if you want to tear it down, in fact, it was also difficult at that time.

Those who know this history should be well aware that there were two options for the reunification of Germany at that time: one was to purely amend the original West German Basic Law to extend power from the original regions to the five East German states, and to constitutionally determine the integration of the two sides, and the other was to treat the reunification process as a merger of East and West Germany and to rewrite a constitution.

Neither plan was easy, and at the time, the two sides had actually negotiated and negotiated countless times.

Of course, in the end, the two sides unanimously chose the first option. Although the procedure was relatively simple, it was tantamount to not treating East Germany as a sovereign state, and it caused a lot of controversy at the time.

In fact, there is a clear difference between East Germany and West Germany in history. Most of East Germany was a former Prussian region with a strong ideology and authoritarian overtones, while West Germany was an economically active part of the German Confederation. In terms of geographical factors, West Germany is relatively close to the Netherlands and Denmark, which have active commodity economies, with well-developed water systems and superior basic conditions, while East Germany obviously does not have such advantages, and its social and economic level is slightly weak.

After the end of World War II, according to the mutual agreement of Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference, it was decided to divide the defeated Germany into four, which were occupied by four victorious powers. Although they were divided into four countries, they jointly formed the "Allied Control Council" to deal with German affairs. Due to the high degree of convergence of goals and demands, the occupation zones of the United States, Britain and France gradually "huddled together" and established a completely new state, West Germany, with West Germany as a center for the revival of Europe. The Soviet occupation zone, because of the opposition between ideas and ideologies, later formed another state, East Germany.

Since then, the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR have been facing each other.

And this is where the Berlin Wall came from in the first place.

Influenced by the policy orientation of the former occupying powers, there were considerable differences between East Germany and West Germany from the very beginning of their establishment: West Germany practiced the same capitalist system as Britain, the United States, and France, and highly followed the pace of the Western camp in terms of economic and diplomatic standpoints, while East Germany, under the influence of the Soviet Union, established a typical socialist system and developed a highly strict planned economy. Looking at the world situation at that time, although the nightmare of *** has faded, the invisible smoke of gunpowder is still violently filled. The wrestling in the political field, which has been secretly contested between several major powers, has been going on for decades.

For various reasons, the differences between the "two virtues" are obvious, and the development also has its own characteristics.

First of all, East Germany, which was relatively small in size, followed in the footsteps of the Soviet Union's "big brother", and in terms of economic system, East Germany implemented a highly unified planned economy: the implementation of a five-year plan, the development of agricultural production and handicraft production cooperatives, and the establishment of a large number of state-owned enterprises...... With its own industrial base and the strong support of the Soviet Union, East Germany was once very strong among the countries of the socialist camp.

But West Germany, on the other hand, is clearly more competitive than East Germany. The first is the international dimension. The United States put aside its hatred and pursued the "Marshall Plan" to help Germany and other Western European countries recover their economies. This plan is not only in line with the long-term interests of the United States in Europe, but also achieves the role of setting a model for the countries of the Eastern European bloc. The second is its own good industrial base. The West German industrial zone, represented by the Ruhr area, is actively realizing transformation and upgrading, and exploring the "industrial law" in the new era. They played an indispensable role in the post-war economic recovery of West Germany. As a defeated country, West Germany surpassed Britain and France and other European powers in the 60s of the 20th century and became the TOP1 of the total European economy.

Where there is comparison, there will be harm. Although East Germany did well among socialist countries, it still paled in comparison to the radiant West Germany.

In the years that followed, all kinds of contradictions began to intensify, and there is not much to say here, and those who don't know can check it on the Internet.

In short, gradually, the dissatisfaction of the East German residents with the status quo began to deepen, and finally one day, it was quickly ignited. They have organized weeks of protest demonstrations, especially since the beginning of the "Eastern European upheaval", and they are eager to influence and even change the future direction of the country in the same way. Among them, there is not only an ardent hope for improving the economy, but also an ultimate wish for the completion of national reunification. On 3 October 1990, the German Democratic Republic completed the final reunification of the "two Germanys" by its incorporation into the Federal Republic of Germany. Germany, which had been divided for more than 40 years, has come back together.

However, although the integration has been completed in form, it is clear that there is still a long way to go to achieve economic, cultural and social unanimity.

Before the split, the "two Germanys" were one family, and there was not much difference in strength, but the former West Germany, represented by the Ruhr area, had a significantly stronger industrial base than the former East Germany. The divergent direction of economic policy after the split led to a more pronounced and pronounced disparity: the former East Germany became more and more backward from the former West Germany, and even after the completion of reunification, this situation could not be reversed for a while. The new German government is also aware of such problems. They began to actively plan corresponding policies and measures to achieve the goal of ensuring social stability in the former East Germany and promoting the unity of the country.

For example, the modern factory building built by Volkswagen in the former East German region, and the unification of the currency, improved the originally backward economic situation in the east.

After reunification, the German government provided sincere support and assistance to the former East German region. However, factors such as basic disparities, geographical disadvantages, and population loss have not been able to bring about a real qualitative change in East Germany. Especially in terms of talent, because of the original regional gap, young people will always subconsciously choose more prosperous and developed regions to make a living, not to mention the young people in the west, and the young people in the east naturally want to go to the west to seek development. Just like in China today, many young people in inland cities will always take the initiative to go to coastal cities and several super first-tier cities after graduating from university, and the reason is the same.

Over time, even if the government has given a great degree of support, how can the eastern region not be able to retain talented people at all, and how can the eastern region develop without talent?

It is no exaggeration to say that not even a single region in the GDR is as productive as the weakest state in West Germany.

The gap between the two sides is so large that it is visible to the naked eye.

And these are actually some background stories that you should know when visiting the Berlin Wall. Zhou Fangyuan's grandfather came from that war era, and his father still likes to watch all kinds of war movies until today, so standing in front of this Berlin Wall, everyone has a lot of feelings. Zhou Fangyuan didn't have much feeling, he just accompanied his family to visit as a tourist.

And even if everyone comes to watch the World Cup games, there are always some people who like to watch football and some people who don't, such as father, second uncle, third uncle and uncle, and grandfather, so naturally they have to watch the games that they can watch. The women of the family are different, they prefer to go shopping and play. And considering that the conditions at home are different now, things that I didn't have the opportunity or ability to do before can also be tried now, such as: going abroad.

Naturally, there are many good universities in Germany, and the most famous of them is the University of Munich.

So during the World Cup, Zhou Fangyuan accompanied his mother and grandmother to visit the University of Munich together.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that after the visit, when the family was about to leave, a person he couldn't have imagined suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Long time no see, Zhou Fangyuan. ”

A soft, lingering voice, one that he would never forget, just like that, without warning, appeared in his ears.