Chang Linxia: Reminiscing about childhood

Bing Xin once said: "Childhood is the truth in the dream, the dream in the truth, the smile with tears when recalling." "It seems that the childhood in the memory is the most beautiful." Streamers are easy to throw people, red cherries, green plantains", when the wind of the years blows through the atrium of my heart, only memory is eternal...

In my childhood, there were many things that confused me when I was a child at the time. When I watch TV, I always wonder how the host got into my TV? Every day when the TV is turned on at 5 o'clock, it always stops, when will the TV people wake up? It's really silly in retrospect. When I was a child, when I ate watermelon, my mother told me that I must spit out the watermelon seeds, and if the melon seeds were eaten in the stomach, they would take root and sprout in the stomach. I remember that day I accidentally said that the melon seeds were swallowed into my stomach, and then suddenly remembered the words my mother told me, I was so scared that I cried loudly, afraid that small watermelons would grow in my stomach.

When I was a child, I always fantasized about how good it would be if I had superpowers like Superman. The elementary school teacher said that the white clouds in the sky were like marshmallows, so I was eager to fly to the sky one day and taste whether the white clouds were as sweet as marshmallows. When I was a child, my favorite food was instant noodles, a bag of 5 corners. Every time I eat, I always chew and swallow slowly, and I always fantasize that the amount of instant noodles can be eaten more and more. Even once, like discovering a new continent, I found a good way: sprinkled water on the crushed instant noodles, and after the instant noodles swelled, I naively thought that the instant noodles had really become more, and I was proud in front of my brother.

When I was a child, I was in the teeth replacement period, and I accidentally lost my teeth that had already moved due to my mother's beating, so that I cried loudly, and was comforted by my father who just came back: "When I was working in the field, I heard my girlfriend crying, hurry back to see, what is this?" The more comforting my father was, the more painfully I cried, as if I had found a patron, shouting, "Mommy knocked out my teeth!" "When we were young, we only had ourselves in the world, and the sesame mung bean thing was the whole world!"

When I was a child, I always had a lot of strange thoughts in my head, and there was always confusion that I couldn't understand, and I was looking forward to growing up quickly. Today, these mysteries have long been solved, but they have also lost the innocence of childhood.

When I was a child, I never had to pick up and drop off when I went to school and after school, I didn't need my family's advice for daily homework, and there was no so-called nutritional combination for three meals a day. Some are just on their own, late or unable to complete their homework, and willingly accept all the punishments of the teacher. Hungry, there are different meals for you to pick, or even hungry after school, when you meet no one at home, you will use my petite and thin body to drill into the door, take a big bun, and then drill out sharply, pat the dust on your body, and nibble on the big bun and play around.

Life is a landscape, always standing in place, the scenery can only be unchanged, we will never have new discoveries, only along the way, we can find the most beautiful scenery on the way. The sweet and sour taste of childhood, the wild thoughts and precious friendships of childhood, and the best memories will forever be engraved in my childhood stories.

The taste of childhood

In my childhood, the back of the rickety back and the simple smile were unforgettable, and what lingered was the sweet and sour taste of childhood. The persistence and persistence of the uncle who sells sugar gourds has always been deeply burned in my heart, and the sweet and sour taste has always lingered on the tip of my tongue. Whether it is the scorching summer or the cold and windy winter, the figure has been shuttling through the streets and alleys, shouting loudly: "Ice sugar gourd, ice sugar gourd, three dollars a string, freshly made!" The voice was sonorous and powerful, high and loud. Seeing his cousin holding a red shiny sugar gourd in his hand, he couldn't help but swallow, always trying to do everything possible to pestering his mother to buy a bunch.

As the saying goes: one pig does not eat chaff and two pigs eat fragrant. I have always disliked eating sugar gourds, and every time I buy a sugar gourd, I only eat one or two of them and then I don't eat them. Children are always like this, their own will never be delicious, and it is fun to eat together. Sitting under the wall with my cousin, first licking the outer layer of transparent and shiny sugar of the sugar gourd in my hand, and then biting the sour hawthorn inside, the sweet and sour stimulated my taste buds, the sugar gourd was eaten, and the mouth was stained with sugar residue, and the satisfaction was very strong. My cousin and I watched each other's faces turn into flower cats, and laughed, the child's world is so simple and happy, simple and beautiful. The tastes that were once cherished are rarely tasted now. Although I can still occasionally see sugar gourds selling on the street when I go shopping, I only glance at it and recall the good times of my childhood and the taste of childhood.

A promised land of childhood

In my childhood, the place I visited the most was the "park". The natural world is so beautiful, showing off its colours everywhere, the birds and insects chirping everywhere, and the intoxicating aroma wafting everywhere.

At dusk, someone walks on the trail walking the dog, some people do gymnastics and play tai chi, while me, and my cousins and cousins play in this "wonderland", play hide-and-seek in the flowers, roll around in the grassy grass, you chase me; play eagles and chickens on the flat cobblestone path, swing under the big trees. We laughed heartily when we saw the red koi "swimming" in the clear lake eating the crumbs and steamed buns that people put in; we laughed even more wildly when we watched the small fish rush into piles and scramble for food; we laughed even more wildly when we saw the ducklings swimming around on the surface of the water. We will also have a singing contest with the sparrows to compete for the king of music.

The child's vitality is always full and seems to be never tired. Under the sun, the childish face with the corners of the mouth raised has always been engraved on my heart, and the paradise of childhood engraved with laughter and vitality, the park, has always been on my heart.

About the Author

Chang Linxia is a teacher at Jiyuan Jishui Xuanhua School in Henan.