When I was a child, my favorite thing to listen to was the ringing of the bell pressed by my uncle who was wearing a green costume and riding a green golden deer bicycle at the door: Resident of No. 3, One Street, Three Alleys, and the book you subscribed to arrived.
I got into a relationship with books when I was in elementary school. At that time, I was still in the first grade in a classroom in the countryside of my hometown. There were not many people in the village, education was backward, more than 30 students were in three grades, I sat in the row against the wall, the second grade sat in the window row, and the third grade sat in the middle.
Thank you for my far-sighted grandfather, at that time there were some young people in the village, grandpa often went to them to borrow books for me to read, very thick books can not understand, just find some villain books to read, and then the villain books read almost, grandpa every weekend, will pick up the flat burden, one end picks the bean cake made of beans, one end picks the bamboo basket, the box is me.
Every time Grandpa sold bean cakes, he would take me to a bookstore and buy me a villain book. "Chicken Feather Letter", "Red Sun", "Kangzhuang Avenue", "Shining Red Star" and so on, but my favorite is still a set of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", etc., at that time the village was very poor, Grandpa could only buy me a five-cent or a dime little book every time, I saved one by one, and now, I still have a full set of comic strips such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" published in the 70s of the last century, "Liaozhai Zhiyi" and so on.
Later, my mother felt that education was really delayed in the countryside, so she took me to the city. I clearly remember that on the day I left, I didn't bring anything else except the villain book.
I went back to first grade, and although I was a year older than the other kids in my class, it gave me some advantages in writing, when I often wrote essays that surprised the teachers and had access to books outside of textbooks. So the world opened a wonderful window in front of me, allowing me to look at the wider world, which was my poetry and the distance.
Later, the teacher suggested that I could subscribe to some newspapers and books. For the first time, I also knew that there was a kind of newspaper called "China Juvenile Daily", there was a kind of teenager called "Oriental Teenager", there was a kind of literature called "Juvenile Literature", and there was a kind of literature called "Children's Literature". Books unfolded in front of me in an infinitely beautiful world, and I was like a hungry child, seeing a delicious meal.
I read with hunger and thirst, and as I read more, so did I understand more and more things. The world in the book is so beautiful, how can you be willing to put it down? Therefore, on the way to and from school, I have been holding a book and reading. Thanks to the era when the road was narrow but there were very few cars, I could cross the road at will and read and hum songs on the road.
My favorite places to go are bookstores and book stalls, because my family gives very little pocket money, often only give one dollar, in order to read more books, I often go to the book stalls in the market to rent books to read.
Renting a book, I went home to help my mother light the fire while making up the light, and at night I went to the street lamp, and even when it was established, the street lamp was quiet, not as noisy as it is now. Under a telephone pole, I finished reading "The Armed Forces Behind enemy lines," "The Storm," "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City," and "The Red Women's Army," as well as "Dream of the Red Chamber," "Yang Jiajian," "The Legend of Yue Fei," and the stories of the Spring and Autumn Kingdoms, all of which I read with relish.
How few books were there at that time! If you subscribe to newspapers and periodicals, you can only buy one or two books for pocket money, and you can only read three or four days to pay back rented books. In order to save more books and read good books, the manuscript became a kind of memory that I still have.
1979 version of "The Second Handshake"
A girl drawing a manuscript "The Second Handshake"
At that time, the manuscripts were basically circulated among us teenagers, and the more famous ones were "The Second Handshake", "An Embroidered Shoe", etc., especially "The Second Handshake", and there were many stories.
"The Second Handshake" narrates a love story that is not very clever, but in the era when only "revolution" and does not talk about "feelings", the protagonist of the book, Ding Jieqiong, said that "a person's life should only have one love, and there can only be one love", which makes the entire generation of Chinese unforgettable. This sentence, even now, is it still lamentable?
Many people are familiar with the 80s version of "The Legend of the Archery Hero"
In junior high school, it was the golden age of crazy reading martial arts novels! A set of "Legend of the Archery Hero" is a thin sixty copies. A classmate rented a dime from a book stall and then circulated it in the class. This is the earliest martial arts novel in life, ah, at that time there was a particularly interesting phenomenon in the class, boys are copying "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", "Girls" are copying "Outside the Window", and then slowly developed to many students have begun to write martial arts novels, write romance novels. Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, Qiong Yao, Sanmao, etc., the names of these writers are an era.
Reading in school in the 1980s
What a wonderful world! At that time, we were excited, and I felt that the whole world was much more interesting than listening to the teacher's lectures! Therefore, in the classroom, the discipline was surprisingly good, and everyone was immersed in martial arts novels and romance novels. Therefore, it was quickly discovered by the teacher, and soon banned and confiscated by various kinds, but until now when the junior high school classmates gathered, there were still boys who relished the feats of that year---- several students went to the class teacher's office to ask for advice, in fact, it was Wei Wei to save Zhao ---- surrounded the teacher, and one of them quietly stole the confiscated books.
In high school, we moved from bungalow to building, and I went from squeezing into a bedroom with my brother to having my own space. When I moved, I told my mother that I didn't want appliances, radios, tape recorders, or bicycles in my bedroom, I just wanted a wall of bookcases.
Popular in China in the 1980s "Selected Poems of Five"
At that time, it was simply the diamond age of reading, and my eyes began to shift from martial arts novels and romance novels to Pushkin, Roman Roland, Tolstoy and other people. Later, the obscure poems came, Beidao, Shu Ting, Gu Cheng... I began to write poems frantically, and the Selected Poems of the Five was almost destroyed by me, "I am a kapok near you, standing with you as the image of a tree"; "Mother, I am the miner's lamp that is black on your forehead, and you are wandering in the tunnel of history"; "The noble is the epitaph of the noble, and the despicable is the passport of the despicable"; "The night gives me black eyes, but I use it to find the light", and it turns out that poetry can also be written like this.
So I also began to write poems, also began to publish everywhere, I became a well-known poet, but I felt that it was not enough, in order to make my work appear in the newspaper, I and a few other poets began to print mimeograph tabloids, life at that time was simply too fun, every time I wrote a poem that felt good, I had to read it aloud.
At that time, if you said that you were a poet, others cast it, you must have looked at it with envy, and you, for every reason, walked with your head held high and swan-like.
There are more and more books in my bookcase, Maupassant, Gogol, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Balzac, Hugo, Dumas, Jane Austen, George Bernard Shaw, Dickens, etc., there are more writers in the country, "Novel Monthly", "Novel Selection", "Stars Poetry Journal", "Poetry Journal" I buy and read in the period, so that there are still thousands of books in the bookcase that I have not read.
At the end of the 1980s, young people were studying
But my favorite is Resurrection, Anna Karenina, John Christopher, The Red and the Black, and I often say to the poets of the day, if you haven't read any of these books, how can you write?
Later, writing seemed to become my home page, I began to write various novels, and now I write various articles, but I still miss the old days.
My daughter also likes to buy books, and my bookcase is now freed up for a third of the place, and her books have begun to change from online novels and hot novels to many realist novels. That day, she bought a brand new copy of "Alive", I said we have several copies at home, and my daughter said, I like the smell of books in it.
Are there still such books?
Yeah, times have changed, how many people still smell the aroma of books? How many other people have bookcases? Or how many other people still have a few world famous books in their homes? For young people, fast food novels on mobile phones, virtual worlds in games, discounted information on clothes and bags on various platforms have taken up most of their time and their time, even in college, in addition to those compulsory subjects, how many people have read the books of those literary masters?
Read a book, as long as there is a book, life will not panic. Reading can enlighten wisdom, reading can be reasonable, and reading can be established. Reading books can meet your beautiful self, reading may not make you rich, but it will certainly make you more exciting.