Over the years, more than sixty years have passed imperceptibly, but recalling some childhood memories of the Spring Festival at that time, I still have a lot of emotions and endless memories. Almost a jiazi time has passed, although many childhood memories are not so vivid, but every time I recall them, some of the past events are still as vivid as yesterday, which is unforgettable.
I remember that it was the Great Famine in the sixties of the last century, and the large canteen had just been closed, and people were in time for the Spring Festival in 1961.
It's the New Year
The days when the big canteen ate soup and water every day, and the hungry people were thin, just a few months later, it was the Spring Festival in 1961. After the large canteen was closed, people gradually bought pots and stoves to prepare firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea, and at that time, people generally had no economic resources. You can imagine how poor and boring that Spring Festival was!
I remember that year's Spring Festival and New Year, the production team gave each person a pound of white noodles, and the rest had some red noodles, cornmeal or something. Moreover, according to the head, both adults and children are paid one yuan each. People used to say figuratively; Money given to children as a gift during lunar New Year. One dollar per person. You said that one pound of white noodles per person, one dollar per person, although the price was cheap at that time, but what can a dollar do! It's Spring Festival and New Year again. I remember back then when other things were very cheap, but carrots were very expensive, five cents a pound. At that time, people used to say figuratively; Carry a bag of carrots, go to Beijing, go to Tianjin, and come back with two pieces of five. It shows that at that time the price of goods was cheap, and the price of carrots was high.
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Year painting Every year there are fish
Spend a few cents to buy a few beautiful New Year paintings and paste them, and the humble home will look a little magnificent.
As the saying goes: if you have money, you can't have money, just clean and clean for the New Year. Although people don't have much money in their pockets, the cleaned and clean meals (Jushen native dialect refers to the bedroom chanting the four sounds of shuo) are also to be decorated beautifully. There is money to pay attention to, no money to accommodate, rich to live the way, poor and poor to live. Therefore, I spent a lot of money to buy two flower windows (a kind of flowery green paper pasted on the window in our local name hemp paper), the content is generally happy and festive, auspicious and other patterns. For example: fish every year, flowers bloom and are rich, etc. Spend a few cents to buy a few beautiful New Year paintings and paste them, and the humble home will look a little magnificent.
In the Spring Festival of 1961, many families ate dumplings on the morning of the New Year, and the second day of junior high school was miscellaneous noodles or something, leaving some white noodles and preparing guests to entertain guests. That's really the old saying, eating dumplings for the New Year, for the first time.
Rushing to the Big Fair While chanting the things he "big" to buy: "green onions, coriander, ginger", "green onions, coriander, ginger".
Although there was material poverty and poverty at that time, people at that time were still very particular about the Spring Festival and the New Year. On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, he sent the master of the stove to the sky, wiped and cleaned it on the twenty-fourth, bought cabbage and carrots on the twenty-five, cut the pork and mutton on the twenty-sixth episode, until the Chinese New Year's Eve night to receive the gods, greet the gods, and on the first day of the new year, there are many offerings to the prince of heaven and earth, and it is still not small. It's just that because of the lack of all kinds of materials, everything is to be accommodated.
But although it is a fight for accommodation, but the Spring Festival and the New Year should pay attention to it, and they all say happy and auspicious words, and cannot say unlucky words. For this reason, we also have a local joke that tells the story of a family celebrating the New Year:
The 29th day of La Yue is the last big episode before we perform Wuzhen, and the family wants to make some cup meat, and the meat and vegetables are available, but there are still some "green onions, coriander, and ginger" missing. So he sent his boy to the market to buy it. His boy is a stunned blue, and his brain is a little dull, and his memory is not good. His old son was afraid that he would make a mistake, and he wanted to buy "green onions, coriander, ginger, green onions, coriander, ginger".
He immediately gave the money to his boy and told him again to buy "green onions, coriander, ginger", and the rest of the money could buy something he liked to eat.
That stunned young boy has long wanted to go to the big set. When I heard that I was shopping for something at the big fair, and that there was still surplus money to buy something to eat, I couldn't help but jump up with joy. Taking the money given by his "big" (father), he rushed out the door, bouncing and elated along the way, and he was afraid that he would forget what he "big" told him to buy, so he jumped and happily rushed to the big fair, while chanting the things he "big" wanted to buy: "green onion, coriander, ginger", "green onion, coriander, ginger".
But Le was extremely sad, just as he was chanting "green onion, coriander, ginger", "green onion, coriander, ginger" jumping and walking, he accidentally stepped on a piece of rotten cabbage thrown by people on the road, "Snap" "Snap!" In a moment, the stunned young boy fell to the ground, and the money in his hand disappeared, and this fall was neither light nor heavy.
The stunned young boy was hungry (hunger means smart, understand, not good), a carp beat up quickly, did not care about patting the soil on his body, quickly picked up the money scattered on the ground, counted, fortunately the money was there, not a single one was lost.
But this stunned young boy stood there and got carried away, forgetting what he "big" told to buy. Standing there scratching his ears and scratching his cheeks for a long time, he couldn't remember what he was "big" to buy.
Just when he wanted to go back and ask him about his "big", suddenly the owner of a stall not far ahead was peddling what he sold at the big fair: "Jinjin, Lianzi, Incense (Note 1), Jinjin, Lianzi, Incense, Jinjin, Lianzi, Incense, Golden Gold, Lianzi, Incense for the New Year Sacrifice to the Immortals." ”
When that stunned young boy was thinking about what he was "big" to buy with an attachment, he heard the boss shouting about the "gold gold, lianzi, and incense" used for the New Year, was it similar to the "green onion, coriander, ginger" he bought for the New Year with his "big" attached!? The stunned young boy patted his head, used for the New Year. Right! It is it, the "gold gold, lianzi, incense" used for the New Year.
At that time, the "gold, lianzi, and incense" used for the New Year were sold at the village fair
So, the stunned young boy rushed to the past and bought the "gold, lianzi, and incense" for the New Year.
In this way, the stunned young boy bought the "green onions, coriander, and ginger" that he used to make meat for the New Year, and bought the "gold, lianzi, and incense" offered for the New Year. And bought a sugar gourd with the rest of the money, happily ate the sugar gourd and went back to the errand, the consequences of the delivery are predictable.
New Year painting Attract wealth into treasure
And after receiving all the immortals in the Chinese New Year's Eve night, his old son told the children to say auspicious and festive words during the New Year's Day, and not to say unlucky words.
On the morning of the first day of the new year, his stunned young son, got up in the morning to put on the new clothes made by his mother, when he wore shoes, the shoes were three-nosed new cloth shoes made by his mother for him (three-nose shoes, a kind of cloth shoes that we generally wore at that time, handmade soles, several shoe noses on the upper, very strong, now extinct), generally new cloth shoes, are very tight, very difficult to wear, some people mostly Chinese New Year's Eve or let the children wear it a few days earlier, in order to step on the shoes, It will be easier to wear in the future.
But his mother was afraid that she, a stunned young boy, had put her shoes dirty a few days earlier. So I didn't dress him earlier. Therefore, on the morning of the first day of the new year, when his stunned young boy put on shoes, the stunned young boy was still an acute child, and he couldn't wear it on left and right, and he "snapped, popped, snapped" and kicked the kang heel hard, and cursed fiercely in his mouth; "What rotten shoes, the dead are big, the coffin is small, you can't wear it anyway."
Hearing him say unlucky words, he blew his beard and glared, but because of the first day of the new year, he was embarrassed to have an attack. And because of the fire in his house on this day, a little upside down, he was ready to monitor the chimney (Note 2), but the chimney had to look at the direction of the wind, so he said to the stunned young boy with a fire; "In the future, I will never dare to say unlucky things again." Go, go out and see what wind is blowing today. ”
I saw him stunned young boy, wearing new three-nosed cloth shoes, running to the yard, looking, no movement, no wind!
So, I found a half-headed brick in the corner of the wall, threw it into the sky, "snap"! Half of the brick fell straight to the ground, "straight wind"! The stunned young boy happily told him Lao Tzu; Until the New Year in the early years, people often talked about this story.
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After the story is told, let's talk about the money at that time, remember that the money at that time, most of it was one or two cents, just like that, the children were still very happy. For the New Year, I bought a firecracker for a dime, and a firecracker sounded 100 times, moreover, I was reluctant to let it go, but I took it apart, put it at home, put one or twenty in my pocket, put it and took it again. If some do not ring, they must be broken, and a firecracker with a twister will be placed on the ground, and the firecracker will be pointed at the firecracker with a twister, and then lit with incense, you listen! "Boom, boom, boom, snap!" of a sound. At that time, our children called it a monk in his sister-in-law. Looking at the current children's money, the two are simply not the same.
Let's talk about the Spring Festival New Year fruits at that time; I remember that at that time of the Spring Festival and the New Year, there were no fresh fruits, even ordinary apples, pears, not to mention bananas, oranges and other fruits. Only dried dates, fruit slices, dried apricots, and walnuts, etc. If someone buys a little chestnut, it is very luxurious, and the children have a few in their pockets, and they are reluctant to eat them for several days, and when they meet other children, they have to take them out to show off, until they are willing to eat them when they are dry.
Although the material life of the Spring Festival was quite poor and boring at that time, the children at that time were free and happy, unrestrained, and happy.
At that time, most of our children were about ten years old, which was when the Southern Song poet Xin Jiu said that "young people do not know what it is like to worry". I remember that during the Spring Festival and New Year, our children were also unrestrained and played.
However, sometimes it seems that there is no tutor or self-happiness, I don't know if it is the child's whim, we a group of children, one by one wearing new clothes, holding bamboo boards in their hands, dressed as beggars, asking for food, when they arrived at the neighbor's door, playing bamboo boards, and chanting words in their mouths; "Grandpa, grandma, uncle, mother, uncle, aunt, be pitiful! Give it a bite! "But as soon as the neighbors came out, our children ran away with yellow dust, and then went to another house later, which disgusted some of the neighbors. You say, how willful and mischievous the children were back then!
The picture is a picture of the ascended priest
Sometimes, our children also play some money-playing games, that is, the Sheng Sheng Priest at that time (Sheng Sheng Guan, the author's documentary self-rotating rural story memoir "Grassroots Spring and Autumn" article "Childhood Gambling" is detailed), or Zheng Qizi, Flip Money, etc., but that is, winning or losing one or two cents of gambling, at most winning or losing is one or two cents.
In short, the Spring Festival of 1961 was very poor and difficult. After 1962, it got better every year. Decades have passed, and every time I think back to the New Year life at that time, I am really full of emotions and feelings.
(Note 1) Jinjin, Lianzi, Incense; At that time, the gold and gold used to worship the ancestors for the gods were about 5 centimeters square, one had a golden surface and the other had a silver surface, and people bought it back and folded it into ingots and other shapes for offerings. Lianzi is red, yellow, blue, purple, and white five-color paper, about thirty or forty centimeters square, and is also used for offerings. Incense is ordinary incense.
(Note 2) Chimney supervision; In order to make the fire smooth and hot, we sometimes adjust the wind direction bricks on the chimney according to the wind direction.