Author: Ding Linsheng
"O white orchids—white-orchids—flowers..." At the beginning of the spring rains, there were bursts of shouts of white orchids in the alleys. I saw a country aunt with a cloth scarf wrapped around her head, carrying a bamboo basket on her arm, and on one of the wet white handkerchiefs in the basket were samples of three or five white orchids with a slight yellow in white. The white orchids were covered with a small round wire ring. Probably the clamor to sell white orchids alarmed the people in the alley, and several aunts, big sisters and girls came out of the alley one after another, and came up to ask: "How did the white orchids (how) are they sold?" I'll take a look. During the conversation, the aunt who sold flowers casually opened the white handkerchief, and dozens of fragrant white orchids were placed in a row below. After the person who bought the flowers picked it up, he picked up one and hung it on the button in front of the placket. Oh, wherever she went, there was a natural and elegant fragrance that followed her. This is really "Xiaolou listening to the spring rain one night, and selling apricot blossoms in the ming dynasty in the deep alley" (land tour).
In 2017, the old grandmother (source | selling white orchids Suzhou released)
"Sugar silk, sugar silk!" The big brother who picks up the sugar shredder and barks down the alley. The children gathered around, "Sun Wukong" was bought, the "Eight Precepts of the Pig" was pulled out, and the sugar "gourd" was also taken away. There are very few sugar silk objects left on the haystack of the sugar silk seller. He sat down, picked up all kinds of sugar shreds from the hot sugar shreds of the small stove, used his skillful hands to pinch out a "Nezha Wind and Fire Wheel", and then puffed up his cheeks and blew out three or two yellow "sugar gourds", and then used the sugar wires to pour out the realistic and exquisite "peacocks" and "deer" on the iron plate, glued them with bamboo strips, and inserted them all... The children watching from the side are both curious and envious!
In 2018, selling sugar paintings (photo | Liu Jianguo)
"Toothpaste skin for foreign fire, chicken feathers and duck feathers for toothpaste, chicken gizzard skin for small sugar -- la!" The rattle shook in the air, and the ragged man was still "afraid of the deep alley", shaking, shaking, shaking, and shaking into the courtyard of the people in the streets and alleys, causing people to blame: "What is the shaking so loud, can't hear it?!" ”
Chicken feathers and duck feathers are sold (author | Xia Xiaoming)
"Make up the pot, make up the Ceizi (Hefei dialect: iron pot), make up the tea pot!" Shoulder picking a pick with a bellows, holding seven or eight pieces of copper pieces that have been dropped together, shaking back and forth, there is a burst of copper metal sounds, and the master of the white blacksmith shouts along the streets: "Make up the pot, make up the Cei, make up the teapot!" "If the iron pot seeps water, the master blacksmith takes something like a crayon stick from the toolbox, lights it with fire, burns out a black liquid, and doesn't dop and drips at the crack, and then gently smooths it with his hand." If the iron pot had a small hole, he would enlarge the hole a little, remove the rust residue, and when he saw the new stubble, he would light the furnace, pull up the bellows, burn the small crucible on the stove red, and then put a piece of iron sheet to burn, scoop up a small spoon of molten iron, follow the pot along a fire bead to the hole, and then press it with a wooden stick, so that a new scar would block the hole tightly. If the bottom of the kettle is broken, he changes the bottom for you; there is a hole in the bottom of the teacup, and he puts an "iron patch" for you...
Four Bay Lane White Iron Shop (author | Xia Xiaoming)
In the 1950s and 1960s, the streets and alleys of Hefei would constantly hear all kinds of high-pitched and long shouts: "Shovel sharpen scissors!" The shovel sharpens the scissors! It was the "old man" (the Hefei dialect's name for the northerners) with a swinging knife cloth around his waist and a shovel with a whetstone on his shoulder; "Coal balls, coal balls, honeycomb coal!" "It's a man pulling a basket of coal in a small board cart shouting, you give him coal tickets and give him money, he will pick the briquettes or honeycomb coals to your house and dump them or yard well; It was the master carpenter who walked the streets soliciting business; "Fry popcorn, fry popcorn!" "Sake koji, wine koji, do you buy koji and rice wine?" And the "three cents a banana popsicle; the banana popsicle three ~ cents ~ money ~ one ~"...
In the 1940s, Luzhou StreetScape (source | Profile picture)
In the streets and alleys of old Hefei, these wandering, southern and northern tones of shouting sounded good and pleasant at that time, and they also learned to shout behind people, feeling very proud. Later, when I think about it, the shouting always carries a little anxiety, eagerness and desolation: how much money can you sell flowers and sugar silk? The craftsman must have someone to work for him, so that he can support his family for a living! Mr. Lu Xun has an article called "Lane Tang Business Ancient and Modern Talk", which is said that after the "One·28" incident in Shanghai, the business of the vendors was depressed and it was difficult to survive, before "Hui Rice Almond Porridge" and "Shrimp Meat Wonton Noodles", the tempting shouting sound was gone, replaced by simple items, it still could not be sold, that scream was really a scream, how much desolation and sadness, anger and despair! At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a book dedicated to the various shouts in Beijing called "The Sound of One-year-old Goods", which said: "The past is desolate, he is sleeping for many years, the sound is still in the ear, and it is left for posterity." ”
The shouting tool of old Beijing (source | BRTV Winter Olympic Documentary Channel )
Now, the streets and alleys of Hefei and many cities in the shouting and selling, has long become a loud noise, which shows that people's living standards have been greatly improved, bad things have long been thrown away, and occasionally the street market also uses high voices or loudspeakers to shout and sell, but that is not the street barking of the year.
In 2020, the stall boy (photo | Li Xiaodong)
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