自由，往往使我们產生狠多的幻想和回响，也许是幻觉，似有还无的在人们的生活中游荡。自由行，不是现代人的专利，古代的游吟诗人是自由行的先锋，且比我们更懂得自由行的真正意义。近年自 由行亦由正面客观慢慢走向两极，更与澳门结下不解之缘，悄然地改变著澳门的社会形态，人们的生活模式。自由行对当今中国是一种政策，而在不同地域有不 同的理解，但他更应该是一种生活态度。

The notion of ‘freedom’ can trigger in us lots of imaginations and echoes, or maybe just illusions that seemingly haunt our daily lives. The concept of free individual travel isn’t something unique to contemporary people as the ancient troubadours were indeed pioneers who knew already very well its true meaning. In recent years, the trend of free individual travel has become widely popular, while at the same time gradually generating extremes of behavior, straying from its originally positive and subjective nature. (As a tourist destination favored by China’s Individual Visit Scheme policy) Macao SAR experiences vividly this phenomenon, as its policies have been changing local social forms and people’s lifestyle imperceptibly. In mainland China, free individual travel, or Individual Visit Scheme, is understood as a government policy. Though it is interpreted differently by each region, universally it should be more a lifestyle than a political issue.