On the eve of New Year's Day, Mr. Sun Jiandong, a painter who is quite famous in the painting circles at home and abroad, and Ms. Zhai Yanna, the eldest disciple, sent me several wall calendars and desk calendars, which reminded me of some past events associated with the wall calendar in my childhood.
When I was a child, there was only one page of calendar in the family, whether it was my parents or my grandfather who wanted to see the days, they would come to look at it, for the convenience of the family, the old mother also found two rubber bands, tied them to nails, and every time she turned a page, she used a rubber band to turn a page.
In the 1980s, with the change of people's traditional consumption concepts, the "wall calendar" that printed 12 months on a piece of copper plate paper began to enter thousands of households, and some of these "wall calendars" were printed with big stars, some were landscape paintings, and some were simply a big blessing word, which may be deliberately printed down, which means the meaning of blessing.
When I was in Fujian, I liked to use the pocket money and food money saved from the gap between my teeth to buy beautiful stamps and novels, and I remember that I had bought a four-book set of "Dream of the Red Chamber" for a whole month without meat.
After the book was bought back to the dormitory, he looked around for the discarded wall calendar, and then carefully wrapped it with scissors and a ruler.
Because I often bought books, when I wanted to return to Kunming later, I found that there were so many books that it almost became a burden, so I went to my father and grandmother again to find a wall calendar, to pictorial newspapers, and finally I finally packed them one by one, tied them with tarpaulin, and shipped them home from the post office.
In the blink of an eye, when I reached the age of my son's schooling, I remember that my son was preparing to go to Yuhong Primary School on Dongsi Street, and after paying the registration fee, his grandfather received a large bag of teaching materials and teaching aids, and it was about that time that I began to try to teach my son how to package books with a wall calendar.
Fortunately, at that time, all units and enterprises were fashionable to send wall calendars, and with these inexhaustible "raw materials", I asked my son to use ballpoint pens and pencils to compare the teaching aids to the auxiliary books, first sketching the size of the books on the wall calendar, and then using large scissors to cut out the seams, folding out the diamonds, corners, and wrapping them on the books.
Later, I taught my son to use the wall calendar to wrap the books, so that he won the praise of the teachers of the school, and later, whenever the new wall calendar was replaced at home, he would receive the old wall calendar to his room, and then after receiving the new teaching aids, he would let me teach him how to wrap it into a bookcase.
Journalist Zhang Yaohui