1 Childhood Memories - Old Objects
Author: Sun Huichang
In the winter of the previous year, he was warmly invited by the manager of Qilu Baorong Antique City to participate in his personal antique collection city. Its address: Biyang Village, south of National Highway 105 in Pingyin County. Two floors up and down, a compound in the south of the building, the east and south sides of the courtyard have partial houses, and the north of the building is an open space, close to the 105 National Highway. The total area is about 5,000 square meters. In addition to offices, bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms, the upper and lower floors, the side rooms, the courtyard inside and outside, and even the spacious openings at the entrance are filled with antiques and stone tools that have been collected for more than 30 years. From the Song and Tang Dynasties to the 1960s, 70s and 1980s, there are many collections, which can be described as dazzling.
I was influenced by some old objects in modern times, stirring up the nostalgia of those years. These old objects, witnessing the progress and development of the times, once again evoked my unforgettable childhood memories. Once again, these old objects have made me find the most sincere version of myself.
These past events and memories that have been sealed for more than forty years have witnessed how many people, things, feelings and stories have been witnessed...
Many old objects have gradually been indifferent with time, and the old objects that were once old are the witnesses of the times, and they can never come back in the past. Now, I share a few old objects with you, present these old objects to everyone more realistically, and regain the original childhood memories.
Food stamps are the memory of those of us in the fifties, sixties and seventies. It has witnessed the changes of the times in those years. Since the 1950s, not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has been poor and white, with insufficient materials and grain rations. On August 25, 1955, the 17th meeting of the plenary session of the State Council adopted the "Interim Measures for the Printing of Municipal Grain Ration Supply Vouchers", and food stamps came into being. Food stamps, cloth bills, and oil stamps were one of the indispensable tickets of that era, when tickets were as important as the renminbi today, and food, clothing, housing, and transportation were purchased with tickets. It was not until 1985 that food stamps were cancelled.
The plow cane tobog is the memory of a rural person when I was a child, and I have seen the plow cane sled with my own eyes when I was born in the seventies. Maybe the Road to Russi is still quite hard, the sledges are equipped with plows, hoes, rakes and other agricultural tools, it seems that even the livestock in the large collective period have suffered with the crime, to work in the fields to pull the plough, not to mention, the road also has to pull enough two or three hundred pounds of things, more excessive is that the thing has no wheels, it can be said that it is dead pulled hard, and where it passes, it is polished up with two bright and shallow ruts. Later, the villages with conditions installed iron wheels on the sleds. After the distribution of the production to the household, many people are reluctant to let the cattle suffer anymore, and they use vultures (dialect: wheelbarrows) to push or people carry plows, rakes and other agricultural tools to the ground.
Inside the three holes in the outer end of the bent oxen made of branches, nearly ten meters of rope is passed through the rope, and the two tail ends of the rope are fixed to the two ends of the cross-bearing that is more than half a meter wide. The oxen is put on the shoulder of the ox, and the ox is secured on the cart or plough for pulling the cart, plowing the ground, or putting the cattle in the yard to grind wheat, millet, etc.
Speaking of which, I saw the stone again. The stone is cylindrical in shape, about 80 decimeters long and about 50 decimeters in diameter. At each end of the column, there is a smooth round nest in the center of the circle, which is used for wooden pots. Put on the cattle to pull the stone on the dry and crispy wheat, soybean grain on a circle of rolling milling, wheat, bean grains will be "detached" from the crop, in our rural childhood to use it to roll the yard, every family must.
The bicycle special basket is an old object, mainly used by small traders and hawkers to tie it to the rear shelf of the bicycle to carry rice noodles and grain or sell green vegetables. At that time, there was a bicycle-specific basket that was really practical and could hold a lot of items. It is mostly woven with purple locust strips, with two ends like deep baskets, high and flat in the middle, easy to carry on the bicycle shelf, strong and durable.
Pot beams and grates are used for steaming nests and steamed buns. At that time, it was common in the countryside to cook on large pot stoves. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer grates made of tree branches and sorghum stalks, and many of them use stainless steel pot beams and grates.
Soap and traditional pancreas are two different things. In my hometown of Yaozhai in Dong'a County, soap and soap are collectively called "pancreas", soap is called incense pancreas, soap washes the face, and pancreas are used to wash clothes. The pancreas made by the soil method is made by adding pig pancreas with pig pancreas and adding an appropriate amount of lye water to mash and stir evenly saponification, making a piece of yin dry storage, so it is named: pancreas.
There are countless old objects, which I will not dwell on here. But seeing these farm tools and daily necessities that I have used or seen, how can I not awaken my memories of my childhood! Have you ever seen these memories of the years that I will never forget- old objects? If you really don't know what it is or haven't seen it, you're really too young, yeah! It's nice to be young.
Sun Huichang, male, 52 years old, origin: Dong'a County, Liaocheng. Current residence: Pingyin County, Jinan City. He is a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, a member of the Qilu Calligraphers and Painters Association, and a star of learning for the people of Shandong Province.
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