Childhood (essay)
Text/Han Lixia
I spent most of my childhood in the Daxing'anling Forest Area. There are my unforgettable years and unforgettable memories.
In the spring, the mountains are full of red flowers. The large flowers reflected the red mountains, like the brilliant morning glow of the sky. Whenever our friends go to the mountains to pick the safflower flowers, we have to wade through a long stream. The creek is kneeless and babbling. We walked into the Yingshan Red Flower Garden, as if we were in a fairyland on earth. The yingshan safflower is similar to peach blossoms and plum blossoms, with five petals and not too many leaves. Our little friend picked a bunch of Yingshan safflowers, and after playing in the mountains, he walked out of the mountain with the flowers. Put the flowers in a water bottle. Then it was taken to the school, placed on the window sill of the classroom, and the classroom shone brightly. Echoes the aroma of green pine. Warm classrooms and childhood.
There are many wildflowers in the mountains, there are lilies, bright red and beautiful. There are matchsticks, orchids, cockscomb flowers, and flowers dotted with stars, dotted with mountains. Make childhood incomparably beautiful. We also went to the mountains to catch grasshoppers and grasshoppers. Put the grasshopper in the bottle. The grasshopper's call is very pleasant, crisp and pleasant. Grasshoppers often have enough of playing, putting it in the fire and roasting it to eat, the aroma is beautiful.
My favorite game to play as a child was home. Some people are fathers, some people are mothers, and rag dolls are children. That rag doll was beautiful, with beautiful clothes and skirts, big eyes, and long eyelashes. In the end, the ragdoll was killed, and the inside was made of foam, and the ragdoll died, and we were very sad. Childhood lets us know what cruelty is.
Childhood games were hide-and-seek, in the house, which could be hidden in cellars, warehouses, and large closets. Often found by small partners. Childhood hide-and-seek is joyful.
The summer vacation of childhood was a good time to pick wild fruits. In the mountains, the autumn wild fruits are fragrant. There are mountain dice, there are blueberries, there are wild strawberries, there are black plums, there are northern red beans (Yagonda) and mountain grapes, water grapes. We pick wild fruits, often wearing large leather boots, afraid of poisonous snakes. Carry a canvas school bag. If you look for it in the mountains, you can pick a lot of wild fruits. The wild fruit was very refreshing, sweet and sour. Wild fruits are small, not as big as home-grown wild fruits. But it was the best fruit of my childhood.
The girls also played games such as kicking shuttlecocks and jumping leather bands. The games played by boys include playing tops, basketball and other activities. Girls jumping on the leather band will jump high and high, and even jump to a big lift, taller than a tall, need to raise their arms to support the leather band.
Winter vacation is the happiest time for children. Winters in Daxing'anling are long and cold. Summer vacation is one month, winter vacation is often two months. Our little friend first did winter vacation homework, allowing the snow outside the house to fly and freeze. After the winter vacation homework is done, I play many games. For example, play poker and play wargame. My favorite is playing military chess, which always wins. The military chess piece paper is rotten, so I will draw another one. We sat on the small table of the earth kang, and there was a charcoal fire in the house, which was very warm, and the friends were also playing hot. It's New Year's during winter break. The children wore new clothes, scarves and hats, and walked the streets to pay their respects to their uncles and aunts. Carrying a small red lantern at night, running around Chinese New Year's Eve night. It was very cheerful. The dark night was happy, and I didn't dare to go out at night on weekdays. Afraid of the dark, afraid of the legendary demons and ghosts.
My favorite thing to read in my childhood is the villain book, which has fairy tales and movie stories. It makes us read with relish. See a different life.
In addition to villain books, my favorite thing to watch is open-air movies. I went to see it in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and there was no late self-study in the school at that time. Watching the movie broadened my horizons and saw the world outside the mountains. Memorable.
Later, I occasionally went to my hometown in Shandong or visited relatives, and I lived for more than a year, when I had not yet gone to school. The ones I remember the most are the larvae that catch cicadas on summer nights. There are many trees in the village, and flashlights are used to catch cicada larvae at night. Often catch a lot. The next day I fried the cicadas in oil and ate them. The flesh of the cicadas is fragrant. Grandma thought that we children were wasting oil, saying that the oil was finished, so we did not use the oil in the pot and roasted it. I feel that my grandmother is stingy.
Childhood is joyful, short-lived, carefree. In the depths of memory, there will never be a return to the good old days of childhood. Leave the most beautiful and profound memories in life for a long time.
About author:Han Lixia is a teacher at Changxing No.1 Middle School in Dongming County, Heze City, Shandong Province
Editor: Ma Xuemin
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