Li Huandi visits an art exhibition
I just met a friend named Li Huandi, who was a very simple and upright person I met after moving to a strange city. We met while walking around the lake. She often wore headphones, muttered to herself from time to time, and sometimes popped out a few fluent words of English.
I met her on a rainy and sunny afternoon, and many people lost no time in coming out to "bubble up".
I was walking by the lake and was attracted by a burst of cheerful music and saw several people in the lakeside pavilion rehearsing the show. One person is directing two other people to perform "Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies". I walked over and asked, "Can you enjoy your performance?" "Of course, welcome to join." The "choreographer" pulled me over enthusiastically. Later I learned that she was Li Huandi.
She usually does not wear makeup or fashion, just like a middle-aged woman who leaves work from the factory, but she does not have a bloated belly and walks like a fly. With short shoulder-length hair, like most middle-aged people, you can see that white hair begins to take a prominent position on the head.
You must be as curious as I am about her name.
After we got to know each other well, I jokingly asked her, "Are you a relative of Li Huanying?" Guess what she said?
She explained the origin of her name:
She was born in the 1970s, when some people had just become rich in the reform and opening up.
She had two older sisters in her family, and when it was her turn to be born, her parents were looking forward to having a younger brother, first, a boy in the countryside who was a heavy laborer who could do physical work, and second, and people in the village who laughed at their inability to give birth to boys shut up. Who would have thought it was a girl again! The name of the prepared boy can't be used, just call it HuanDi, take the meaning of brother. When registering with the village group, it was written by hand as the land of the land. This name is also really grounded.
Later, because of this name, her classmates guessed that her parents gave birth to boys. She had been ashamed of her name to the point of inferiority.
I comforted her and said that many names in that era had the characteristics of the times, and it was not the fault of her parents. For example, "founding the country", "National Day", "self-improvement", "Zhao Di", "Red Plum"...
80s
She recalls her childhood, although materially poor, but also very happy. She said I'd rather go back in time, when my childhood was simpler and more relaxed than today's childhood. There are no computers, mobile phones, video game consoles and other electronic devices. At that time, few people wore myopic glasses.
At that time, my fathers had just experienced the collective production of the brigade headquarters that earned centimeters, and each family began to have its own field. Began a life of paying public grain. At that time, the most important thing I thought about was how to produce more grain, and in addition to the extra part of the public grain paid, I could sell it for money to maintain daily use and children's education.
Threshing ground in the 80s
Elementary school students in the 1980s did just write new words and math problems a dozen times. Only at the end of the year when the entrance examination is held, the exam is taken one by one.
At that time, there was no printer in the village school, the rolls were mimeographed, there was a great smell of ink, and when writing the answer, I would accidentally rub ink everywhere. After the test, you will see that your hands are all black. If you wipe your face or rub your nose, it will turn into an oil painted face and make everyone laugh a lot. In order to avoid copying, the teacher asked the students to move the stools to the playground and spread them out, crouching on the ground, and placing the papers on the stools for the examination. In addition to the tanning spots on the body, the sun can also supplement calcium. At that time, there was no concept of sun protection and hydration. The children in the village are wheat-colored and healthy-skinned. At that time, childhood role models were those who went to college. Whoever is assigned to work by the state is holding an iron rice bowl.
Unlike now, college students have to find their own jobs after graduation and take their own civil service examinations.
Lingxiao flowers in the sun
Li Huandi has a lot of fun stories, if you like to remember to pay attention to Oh, next time there are fun stories. For example, how can she still learn English at such an old age?
If you also want to talk about some of the phenomena of the 70s and 80s. You can leave a message to discuss.