The story takes place in the sixties and early seventies of the 20th century, and we have struggled for nineteen years in this yellow land. At that time, according to the six-character policy of the central layout of "by the mountains, by the water, and scattered", a new type of construction third-line factory was born at the foot of Damao Mountain in the northeast bay of Jiangxi, and its mailing address "702 mailbox", known as 702 factory. Years flew by, and ten years passed, and now, when I meet this amorous homeland again, people suddenly become very small. The old factory area and dormitory that once stood on this yellow earth can accommodate thousands of entrepreneurs and strugglers, you can imagine the lively and light here in those days! Now only the headquarters office building, the second branch factory and the seventh branch factory and other buildings remain, still intact in the picture, but people go to the empty building, lamenting the years, its environment is devastated all around, giving people a sense of desolation and decay, losing the vitality and vitality of the past, only the crooked old green pine standing on the peak ridge of Damao Mountain has witnessed the history and glory of the 702 factory, and also witnessed our youth and dreams come true, the years of the years... I have dreamed of returning to my hometown many times.
(i)
Recalling that in those days, we came from the south and north of the world, and all over the world to Huaqiao Ancient Town at the foot of Damao Mountain, known as the "hometown of gold and bamboo, with gold in the ground and bamboo on the ground", it is nature that is so kind to here. It was officially put into infrastructure construction in 1969, and the general layout was recommended according to the central six-character policy. From the date of preparation to trial production, it took more than a year, and there were internal employees from Shanghai Camera No. 2 Factory, Shanghai Film Machinery Factory, Nanjing Optical Instrument Factory, Nanjing Surveying and Mapping Factory, Nanjing Mold Factory, etc. to support the construction of the third line. With the support of all parties and the help of each other, groups of builders came to this amorous land with great vitality, so that the 702 factory opened a new pattern of construction, "looking at a mountain from afar, looking at a city up close". In 1971, the 702 factory was officially put into trial production, which was divided into seven branches; The first branch is mainly engaged in the production of various optical lenses and lenses such as cameras and microscopes. The second branch plant manufactures cameras and playback cameras. The third branch plant is engaged in surface decoration processing. Fourth branch factory tooling manufacturing, equipment repair, etc. The fifth branch factory produces and assembles all kinds of microscopes. The sixth branch plant produces surveying and mapping instruments. The seventh branch plant mainly produces camera series. They set their goals in life on towering hills, embracing the glow of dawn.
(ii)
At that time, Plant 702 was a heavily guarded and extremely confidential defense and defense industrial enterprise, undertaking part of the national defense industry research and production tasks. In the seventies, the PLA General Political Department under the 702 Plant produced two high-altitude cameras. In the early eighties of the 20th century, Plant 702 began to research and produce Phoenix JG301, JG303 cameras, as well as national ST16mm cameras and 360-degree surround screen cameras, which achieved the glory and glory of a generation of 702 factory people.
Factory 702 is a small society, with schools, kindergartens, hospitals, service communities, etc., and everything in life. Every morning at six o'clock, the factory's radio horn will sound on time. Accompanied by the start of the news and newspaper summary program of the Central People's Radio, people eat breakfast, and the radio station will broadcast the call to work. People walk, ride bicycles, or take shuttles to the branch factory workshop and unit to go to work. At noon, the horn sounded the end of work, and people returned to the family area or the staff canteen to open meals and take lunch breaks. Children read and study in the school or kindergarten of factory employees during the day, and after school and their friends run around the factory and stomp cat games, anyway, parents have no intention that the children will run away, they enjoy their childhood freely and freely. One of the happiest and happiest things about the children on a weekend night is when the city's film team comes to our factory to show an open-air movie. At this time, the children of all families had eaten early and dragged small stools to the studio to wait for the movie. What a tunnel battle, mine warfare, Shangganling, heroic sons and daughters, a river flowing east and other films. Although the film is old and replayed, it makes the children have the best memories and enjoy a happy childhood.
Whenever night falls, the autumn moon in Jiangnan is more beautiful at night, in the evening breeze, night scene, and night light of the autumn moon, take gentle steps, look up at the neon lights in the distance... In the long run. It is hard for them to forget such a magnificent Lin Yin Avenue in front of them, and they don't know how many times they have traveled, and their lives are so orderly.
(iii)
"Spring has flowers, autumn has moon, summer has cool breeze and winter has snow". We did not hesitate to leave our homeland and set up a home on this yellow land, sprinkling our youth and blood on this yellow land. When we first entered the factory, most of us were young people, only 20-30 years old, they were young, simple, positive, full of ideals and beliefs. Everyone's salary is not high, only more than 20 to 30 yuan per month, it is self-explanatory, food and clothing, to feed a family old and young life is still tight, everyone is such a dull life. Although the days are three points of hardship, in the eyes of outsiders, there are many unbearable things, but after honing themselves in the hardships, they still live up to the times and the years. Everyone can see and understand that it is more difficult to find a job in that year than to climb to the sky. Many young knowledgeable people in large, medium, and small cities have gone to border areas and rural areas to join the queue, and we are honored to have a good career. Therefore, no matter how difficult life is in the future, how tired the work is, and how many winds, frosts and snows there are in life, people still suffer from three points of life that cannot be concealed. But they insist on a self-confidence, do it to win glory for the country, work hard, treat each other with sincerity, and abide by it all their lives.
(iv)
This yellow earth carries too many and too unforgettable memories. Due to the factory situation ravine, remote cities, inconvenience of transportation and other factors, to people's daily life has brought a lot of difficulties, because of the difficulty of buying vegetables, eating vegetables, in order to survive, seek development, workers have picked up hoes and sickles to open up wasteland and cultivate land, relying on mountains and eating mountains, they learned to grow beans, melons, vegetables... He also learned to raise chickens, ducks, sheep, etc., and lived a prosperous life as a worker and a farmer. The world fireworks, the years do not stop. When people go up the mountains to clear the wasteland for farming, they often scratch their hands, feet, clothes and pants without paying attention, leaving wisps of scars. More thrilling past can not be looked back on, when some people go up the mountain to hunt, sometimes accidentally shotgun fire, accidentally injuring others for lifelong disability, leaving people with how much pain is difficult to erase the past three points of suffering, people are still fresh in their memories, standing in their eyes. In that unforgettable day, the sky was not sunny, the ground was not flat, and people were not three cents of silver, and people's lives were not all smooth sailing, but everyone still had no regrets. After the baptism of time and times, it has been repeatedly proved that nature is so kind to this place, which makes the 702 workers more confident and brave. Self-reliance, hard work, how can you see the rainbow without seeing the wind and rain.
(v)
The years have entangled many past events, and it is better to hear it for a long time than to see it. People of that age group know that the state implements a planned economy, and everything must be supplied by tickets, such as: food stamps for meals, cloth tickets for clothing, meat tickets for eating meat... Otherwise, it is difficult to buy without a ticket. Therefore, because I didn't have a ticket, I tangled up in a past that shouldn't have happened, and I regretted it. It happened one morning in 1976, we all went to work, a well-behaved and sensible little girl, only five years old, can share the worries of adults, alone with a hot water bottle to the factory staff canteen to turn on the water, and accidentally broke the hot water bottle, I not only did not care about her safety, but started to beat her, which made me unforgettable for life, is the memory of unregretted youth.
Winter is coming to spring, and spring is approaching, and it is almost the time of the New Year, and I thought to myself, when the New Year is over, I will also let my children wear new clothes and show the style of the New Year with the children in the city, which is also the expectation of childhood people. New Year's Day has arrived, and I am full of anticipation on the day of the holiday
Pedaling the old phoenix bicycle, I came to Yincheng Ancient Town, the Sanli Long Street of the ancient town, like a person knows. When I walked into the dazzling cloth village, I was dazzled, what spinning, poplin, click, shaka, and so on. And the high-grade wool, tweed... The whole nine yards. However, the rich people wore silk, tweed, wool. The poor wear cloth and are set in eight figures, and each takes what he needs. The average commoner prefers the thickness of the carding cloth, the fashion of indanthelin, the simplicity of corduroy, and the simplicity of the calico. I actually chose pale yellow corduroy, which is simple, generous and durable. I wanted to buy a few feet of cloth for my diligent wife to make a pair of pants, but I had to regret that I didn't have a cloth ticket. Although the past life has brought people a lot of trouble, people still live without complaint, do not let the sadness hang on their faces, and only hope that the past will flow like smoke.
(vi)
In the first month of the following year, my wife and children have returned to their hometown for the New Year, and in order to meet the needs of life and supplement the family, I insisted on staying in the factory on duty. At this time, the two brothers in their hometown in the distance asked for a letter and wanted to come to the 702 factory to take a look at the idle farmers in the new month. The two brothers were talking for the first time, and I refused them reluctantly, only reluctantly agreed. But I was in a complicated and tangled mood, and I didn't know what to entertain the two brothers, because the factory staff canteen had closed its doors, and I was speechless. Instantly, I remembered the Jinshan Pass meat stall
The shop was still open as usual, so I quickly went to the second senior brother's house to borrow two pounds of meat tickets, so that the brothers could eat a meal of red stewed meat, which was a very unborrowed hospitality. Because in rural areas, they can't eat meat until the New Year. The next morning, I rushed to the Jinshankou meat stall shop, it was really cold, the fields and roadsides were shining with transparent Xiaoice, and I walked cautiously and slowly, stepping on the muddy ice under my feet and making a clicking sound. Everywhere, the wildflowers and weeds on the roadside have withered and withered, losing the emerald green and fragrance of spring. In the blink of an eye, when I arrived at the butcher stall, I saw laughter and laughter in front of me, everyone was waiting in line, they were still in a long line according to the usual way, and I placed the bamboo basket at the very end and waited here. At this time, I saw the crowd collecting weeds and dry firewood and burning the fire, while keeping warm, while talking and laughing in the wind. As the morning sun approached, the crowd of people buying meat gradually left, and the sound of the serial horn was getting closer and closer to me. Instantly, No. 66 came inside, I quickly got up to open the ticket, and after a while, the meat handed to me by the shop Xiaoer turned out to be skin hanging meat bones, making me resistant to fire, I asked Boss Jiang, what kind of meat is this? And the shop Xiaoer luckily said that pigs have bones and skin, I shook my head helplessly, and just rushed back. Along the way, thinking all the way, the more I thought about it, the more entangled I became, and I instantly remembered a dish made by my mother when I was a child, "steamed radish", which is the most delicious pairing. Since ancient times, Wuyuan's cuisine has been called "no vegetarian and no paste, no meat and no steaming". Although my first steamed radish method was not enjoyable for the two brothers from the bitter life, it was called delicious, making people have a long aftertaste, and it was a lingering taste of hometown.
(vii)
The most frustrating and decadent years worth my life were the days when my father was suffering from cancer, and in order to treat my father's illness, our whole family saved money on weekdays, had no savings, and lived on debt. My salary is not high, only 36 yuan and 5 jiao a month, my lover is engaged in a small group, and it is still difficult to maintain the family's livelihood. In particular, the high cost of my father's surgery was even more miserable. The house leak coincided with overnight rain, casting another layer of frost on our already poor home. We only have to borrow mutual aid money from factory unions every month to make ends meet. Always borrowed and returned, returned and borrowed, the tide ebbed and flowed, like a snowball, rolling more and more. Falling flowers tearfully complain of sorrow, it is the years that cannot be passed. When we see our father's longing eyes, it makes people even more sad. Wanting my father to recover as soon as possible, we went around seeking medical treatment and medicine from the end, but my father, who had been ill for a long time, still withdrew his hand and walked away quietly, leaving us, and I cried silently. Is it that spring flowers and autumn moons are ruthless, and your love is silent from spring to autumn. Real life is like a dream, like white clouds fluttering, when it floats, no one understands, when tears leave the smile, only to understand that life is more precious.
Even if I am in the haze and have experienced many ups and downs in my life, I will always have to give for my beloved family, which is my responsibility of love. But you can complain about the sky, you can borrow alcohol to relieve your worries, you can smash pots and pans... But all this does not make your prospects brighter and more open, and it is you and your family who will be hurt in the end. So don't complain about how different and unfair fate is, it exercises our will, as the famous saying goes, "God closes one door because of you, and will open another window for you." Please believe that you can see the rainbow after the storm, the road is smooth after adversity, the ruthless years will always turn the pages, and the happy days will always come day by day.
With the development of the times, the 702 factory is referred to as Jiangguang, and in the early nineties of the last century, Jiangguang became more brilliant and became Phoenix Optical Group Company. However, the name of Factory 702 is still deeply rooted in the hearts of generations of Phoenix employees, engraved in the hearts of the people of Huaqiao Ancient Town of Damaoshan Mountain, and engraved in the memories of the people of Shangrao. Text: Han Xuetian