In Donglanqi Village, Santa Manchu Township, Wafangdian City, Dalian, Liaoning Province, there is an old farmhouse that attracts many tourists to visit, and the farmhouse is filled with a large number of old objects of rural people's livelihood collected, up to hundreds of varieties of nearly 10,000 objects, both folk customs, civil classes, and crafts, and one by one, listing the local people's livelihood stories across the centuries.
The owner of the old mansion is called Wu Shuhua, and the local people affectionately call her Mrs. Wu. Born in 1954 in Donglanqi Village, Santai Manchu Township, Wafangdian City, Mrs. Wu entered the Liaoning Institute of Finance and Economics (now Dongbei University of Finance and Economics) in 1975. After graduation, he entered a bank and officially retired in May 2009.
"Although I have lived in the city for many years, I like the production tools and living utensils in rural life." Wu Shuhua is difficult to give up on rural life in the past. When she travels on business, she likes to visit museums and souvenir shops everywhere she goes, and always buys some local small items.
She really wanted to collect old objects after she retired. In 2009, she retired to her hometown just in time for the relocation of several villages near her hometown, which provided her with a good opportunity to acquire old objects. When she first started the acquisition, her idea was very simple: take a few pieces to play with herself, but what she didn't expect was that there were so many old objects in the countryside, and in a few years of hard work, she received more than 5,000 pieces. More and more people came to visit, including many young people, which strengthened Wu Shuhua's confidence in collection. Wu Shuhua said: Collecting these old objects is not only nostalgic, but also hopes that young people will look at these more, understand the living conditions of the old generation in the past, compare the old and the new, feel the happiness of the present, cherish the present, and create the future.
The reporter learned about Wu Shuhua's collection of news clues through friends, drove there, and took a set of pictures to share with everyone.
All kinds of old objects of people's livelihood in the 1950s and 1960s see through the vicissitudes of people's lives.
A handmade kerosene lamp illuminated the childhood hopes of those who were already half a hundred years old. Behind every object is a rich life story.
These beautiful ceramic soap boxes and old teapots are all people's livelihood supplies in the early days of the founding of New China.
The clothes-pounding mallet, the sock-sewing tray, the wooden last for handmade shoes, the rattle hammer for thread rope, and the needle and thread board for winding thread are all indispensable daily necessities for every family half a century ago.
"Water turtles", loaded with hot water, are used for the elderly and children to put in the quilt for heating.
Wu Shuhua's collection of ploughing sticks, livestock tools, and agricultural labor has thousands of pieces, which were still commonly used in the 1980s and are rarely seen in modern agricultural production.
【Source: Northland Network】