Taboos of childhood

At dusk in winter, holding a book on the balcony, the sunset sinks, covers the long thoughts, evokes the leisurely past, laughs dumbly, excerpts a few verses, and misses the childhood that will never return, innocence and innocence.

<一>, refers to the moon

It was the year I remembered, and in the evening after dinner, my mother held me and chatted with several women who were also holding children on the streets of the ancient town. As soon as I looked up, I saw a golden dangling, cut watermelon-like, shiny thing, hanging obliquely on the top of a willow tree, both novel and playful, and immediately became excited, pointing to the thing and asking my mother what it was? My mother looked in the direction of my finger and suddenly showed a look of panic: "That's the moon, I can't point to it, I pointed to the moon, the moon mother-in-law wants to cut off her ears!" Frightened, I hurried back to my small hand, looked at the moon in fear, and buried my head in my mother's arms. But my mother dragged my hand out and asked me to give the moon a beating, and also taught me to sing while making a stroke: "Mother Moon, you don't cut my ears, I will fry you a fried bun!" I chanted it several times.

Xu was my heart was not sincere at that time, the next morning I woke up, the ear root was faintly painful, the adults saw that there was a red line, really like the moon cut, two or three days later it was infected and inflamed, and the pus flowed very painfully. The mother got a few cocoons from nowhere, burned them to ashes, and then applied them to the wound before slowly getting better. Therefore, when I saw the moon in childhood, I was afraid, and I only changed my impression when I became an adult.

<二>, finger melon

Among the children, there is a saying that all melons and fruits that have just been formed cannot be pointed out by hand, and if they are pointed, they will not be able to form a vessel and rot. There are often melons and vegetables and fruit trees planted by residents in the gap on the edge of the town, and the partners often play together, it is inevitable that they will not make a fuss, at this time, they will make a few good friends, go to the melon and fruit field of the contradictory side and read it with their fingers: "Finger scratch, pumpkin (what is referred to) rot, two or three times and then leave happily to vent anger." There are indeed melons that rot because they fall to the ground after the finger, so that the curse of this mischief is established. Now I think it's funny, melons and fruits can all be formed into a vessel without falling off.

<三>, 逮 Mahjong

Watching the noisy and noisy sparrows flying and jumping foraging under the eaves, which child does not want to catch one and play with it in his hands. However, the sparrow can fly, and it is not easy to catch it, and it is not easy to catch it and cannot hold back the curiosity.

One winter, my family was drying glutinous rice, and a lot of rice grains were pecked off by chickens on the ground, and a large group of sparrows flew to grab food, and I saw that my heart was itchy and unbearable, and I still didn't die after a few back and forths. I think it's right when I hear it, how can the sparrow not see how to fly? He closed his eyes and went to catch the sparrow, and before he could take a few steps, he was tripped by a protruding stone, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the sparrow was still flying, and his knees were broken, and he was bleeding, causing the neighbors to laugh, only to know that he had been deceived, and ran home in shame to close the door tightly.

<四>, swallow orange rice

Kawanaka red oranges are notoriously sweet and slaggy, and the first time they ate oranges, they were shocked by this strange smell, and even swallowed the seeds when they tasted them. When my friends saw that I had not spitting out orange rice, they asked me if I had swallowed it, and I nodded my head and said yes. Didn't you know that the little friends were shocked, and even shouted: You are bad, orange rice swallowed the stomach to sprout, from the top of the brain shell to grow root trees, the birds flew to the trees to make nests, the birds so that your eyes can't be opened, see where you walk?! As soon as I heard it, I was frightened and cried, and rushed home to find a way for the adults, my parents were not at home, and I forgot to cry, but I was always worried that an orange tree would grow above my head!

<五>, meal madness

When I was a child, I had a problem, that is, when I was eating or coming to the guest, I always loved to find nothing to do, not to fight for seats, or to think that the bowl was large and small, or the length of the chopsticks, and picked the dishes on the table, making everyone very happy. When I met this, my mother said that I was crazy again, so I found a basket for picking vegetables and rice, buckled it on my head, and beat it on my head with a brush handle (pot washing utensils, bamboo) across the basket, and asked while knocking: "Are you still mad with rice?" Still not mad? If a few strokes really worked, the nameless atmosphere in my heart immediately disappeared, and people laughed and laughed, and they were not naughty at all when they ate.

<六>, than the snake

Once, when I went to the Fu River with my mother to wash clothes, I found a animal more than a meter long on the shore, with a body shape similar to a yellow eel, but with a beautiful pattern, swimming quickly in the grass, and she exclaimed, asking her mother to catch and play. My mother hurriedly pulled me aside and said, "This is a snake, it wants to bite people, and if you bite people, you will not heal people well!" Let's go away and don't mess with it! ”

When I got home, I talked to my friends about it and spread my arms to compare the length of the snake. Didn't you know that the little friends panicked and said, "The snake is inferior!" The snake will come to you at night to make a pillow, wrap around your neck, make you unable to breathe, and choke you to death! "As soon as I heard it, I was frightened, I wanted to cry, and when I slept at night, I held my mother tightly, and I didn't even dare to turn over, I really had a nightmare of a snake wrapped around my neck, and I struggled to wake up and see that my mother was sleeping with me in my arms, and I felt at ease."

<七>, Dream bugs

"The oil stealer (cockroach) is the chicken of the Stove King Bodhisattva, and he can't beat it, and when he hits the Stove King Bodhisattva, he wants to cast a dream to you and let you fight the dream worm!" Adults often say so.

The impression of dreamworms as a child is very deep and is still unforgettable. But anyone who has seen the old war film "Mine Warfare" will not forget that a Japanese invader with a command knife in his hand was frightened by a mine and mistaken a town demon stone for a mine and panicked, which may be designed by the choreographers based on their childhood experience of dreamworms.

The situation of the dream worm is difficult to describe, it is roughly in the dream, when the hand touches something, the object immediately expands like a balloon, even a small bean can grow like a big pumpkin in an instant, even as big as a hill, stretching and changing endlessly, sometimes a big mountain will suddenly become smaller, become a thing in the palm of the hand. Anyway, the sharp contrast, the shock to the child's young nerves is very strong, sometimes even unbearable. Many times I was woken up by the shock of playing dream bugs, and I was shocked into a cold sweat. At that time, I really believed that it was the Bodhisattva of the Stove King who punished me, because I had indeed killed many oil thieves and fed them to the chickens