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Preface
Evenings are the most active time for people, and people who have worked hard all day always want to use the evening time to relax, and the word "nightlife" appears in people's lives.
Some people choose to indulge themselves in the bright lights, some people choose to go out to dinner with friends, sing in KTV, and some choose to stay at home to watch TV, play with mobile phones, and so on, everyone has their own way of entertainment.
This makes people want to know how the people who lived in the era of scarcity spent their "nightlife".
For example, people living in the countryside in the 70s, when they didn't have the flamboyance of the city at night and didn't have so many entertainment facilities for their entertainment, what did they do at night?
Chat with your neighbors
At that time, the relationship between the villagers was very friendly, they went to work together during the day, and at night they liked to get together and chat, sit on the open grass or on the rocks under the trees, or squat directly at the door of the house with their rice bowls, or visit each other, and spend time in the most simple way.
In the summer evenings, there is no air conditioning and fans to dispel the heat, and the villagers will cool off in the yard, in front of the house or at the entrance of the village, during which chatting becomes a casual and free way to socialize, and in the winter, people like to hang out with each other in the evening, chat around the fire, huddle together, and have a good time.
At that time, the villagers were relatively simple, there were not so many flowers and intestines in their hearts, they really had nothing to say to each other, they got together to chat, always the east and the west were short, no theme was to talk about where they thought, and they would talk to each other if they had any happy or troubled things, until they should go to bed late at night, and they would go home separately.
The otherwise peaceful nights are broken by laughter from time to time, and chatting not only brings people a lot of fun, but also enhances their relationship with each other, and also satisfies some of the villagers' little hobby of gossip.
Watch a movie
Watching movies was one of the favorite and most anticipated forms of entertainment for rural residents in the 70s, when television was not yet widespread in the countryside, making the occasional open-air movie organized in the village the highest level of cultural entertainment in that era.
Whenever there is a movie screening, after hearing the news, the men, women and children of the whole village will always put down what they are doing, move to a small bench and consciously gather at the screening place, for fear of missing this "rare event".
Since there is no fixed time and place for the movie screening, even some villagers do not hesitate to walk for two or three hours to watch the movie when they hear that the movie is shown in other villages, and they will not hesitate to go there to watch the movie.
At that time, as soon as I heard about where the movie was played, I was happy that it was the same as the New Year's holiday, and I could see that the people who came to watch it were all in the place where the movie was screened, and it was full of memories.
Most of the movies released at that time were domestic films, such as "Tunnel Warfare", "Mine Warfare", "Shining Red Star", etc., of course, there were also some excellent foreign films, and there was such a slip of the tongue back then: "Vietnamese movies are airplane cannons, North Korean movies cry and laugh, Albanian movies are inexplicable, and Romanian movies hug and hug." ”
Stay at home and do your work
In the countryside in the 70s, staying at home was one of the main activities of many families at night, when there was basically no electricity in many places, and they relied on kerosene lamps to live.
Since they all work in the fields during the day, and only have some leisure time in the evening, after eating, the mother will always use the faint light of the kerosene lamp to sew the family's clothes or make new clothes.
The children would do their homework on kerosene lamps, read books, or listen to their father's stories, which, in addition to supervising the children's Xi, often told the children, the four famous books are the stories they often mention.
Sometimes, in order to save money on kerosene, the father would take the children to climb on the roof and look up at the sky, when the sky was not so polluted, and the stars in the sky were faintly visible, and the sky was really full of small stars, which was very beautiful.
In addition, the couple did not forget to use this leisure evening to complete the big things that contributed to the country - to make a villain, no electricity, and reluctant to waste kerosene, after eating, they chose to get into the bed early, and if they couldn't sleep, they would make a child without saying a word.
In that era when people relied on the land to make a living, there were more children and more laborers, and people at that time had no more children than anyone who had money, and it is no wonder that the average rural family had five or six children, and some even more.
Recreational activities
At that time, the activities of young intellectuals going to the mountains and going to the countryside were also carried out, and their arrival brought excitement to the countryside, and there were some multi-talented people among them, and the county brigade formed a literary and artistic team in order to give full play to their talents and better help them integrate into the local villagers.
These members of the literary and artistic team normally work in the fields during the day, gather at night to train and arrange programs, often hold literary and artistic performances and other activities in the village, they sing and dance, and also appear in dramas and revolutionary model plays, "Red Lantern Story", "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", "Shajiabang" and other programs are often performed by them.
These programs are highly sought after by the villagers, and they also make the theatrical performances the most popular and anticipated entertainment activities by the villagers in addition to movie screenings.
In addition, the production team often invites some old storytellers to come to the village to tell stories on the spot, which has also become an important activity in the evening life of the villagers, and will also cause a large group of villagers who like to listen to stories to come to cheer, and there will often be applause.
Compared with the adults, the children have more entertainment, such as jumping rubber bands and kicking shuttlecocks, and the boys also like to play simple and rough "war" games, as well as running around the village, playing hide and seek, and playing wooden man games, they know how to create happiness.
In the summer, they will also run to the river to bathe, play in the water, and catch fish, carefree and happy, leaving unforgettable childhood memories.
Xi at night
Due to factors such as poverty and lack of resources, the vast majority of rural people are illiterate and illiterate.
In order to respond to the state's activities to eradicate illiteracy and to enhance the cultural quality and ideological consciousness of the villagers, the production brigade organizes literacy Xi classes in the village from time to time; because the villagers need to work in the fields during the day, the Xi classes generally choose to start at night, and after eating, regardless of gender, old and young, as long as they cannot read, must participate.
However, most of the Xi people who enter the literacy Xi class are young people, such as the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law, and there are also young and strong young men Xi.
In private, the young man took the girl's hand, and it was common for the girl to secretly stuff the eggs that the young man was reluctant to eat, and the two were more daring, and the two secretly dated on the dark side of the road, and when they heard the footsteps of others, they would be so frightened that they ran to hide under the embankment......
In short, the school Xi at that time was also part of the night life of the peasants, and I heard from the elders that the literacy Xi at that time also fulfilled several pairs of lovers.
Listen to the brigade radio
In order to facilitate the management of the villagers, the production brigade will set up a radio station in each village, and install broadcast loudspeakers in the village, and each radio station will be equipped with a special announcer.
At first, it was just to inform the villagers of the work and the production tasks accepted by the brigade during the day, but later they began to use the evening radio to broadcast some meaningful things, which would be broadcast on time every night, starting at 7 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m., and the broadcast would end for an hour and a half.
At first, the villagers were very uncomfortable, they thought it was too noisy, and every day they were muttering a lot of things, and they wanted to go straight to the radio station and smash it.
However, over time, listening to the radio has become a must-do for the villagers every night, because they have come to understand that many important decisions of the state can be learned through the radio, just like the current news broadcast.
In addition, the radio station also has a special column of good people and good deeds, in which the announcer reads the good people and good deeds that have emerged from all over the country to the villagers, and the villagers listen to them as if they were listening to stories, and at the same time, these stories have also become the talk of their leisure chat.
There are also some songs on the radio that are often inserted for the villagers to enjoy, among which the most listened to is the well-known song "Dongfang Hong".
The emergence of the brigade radio also gave the villagers the opportunity to know the world's affairs without leaving home, and it became a beautiful memory of that era, until now, there are still many villages that continue this activity, and the villagers also retain the Xi of listening to the radio.
A great event in the countryside
In that era, the marriage of the villagers was a major event for the whole village, and if anyone had a happy event, the villagers would take the initiative to help, and by the way, they would touch the Xi of his family.
Since everyone has to work in the fields during the day, many people will choose to hold a banquet in the evening, or even hold a wedding directly in the evening, which has become one of the most anticipated activities of the villagers in the evening.
At that time, the wedding ceremony was very simple, after worshipping heaven and earth, saying the vows, it was over, and then the banquet could be held, during which the bride would toast everyone from table to table, and beckon the bride to recognize relatives and people from the village.
After the banquet, there will be a link of "haunting the cave room", and the process of haunting the house at that time is civilized and simple, mainly to play the bride, and make trouble with the bride.
Wenhao is to come up with a few riddles and slip of the tongue, let the bride answer, if you can't answer, you have to drink, or kiss the groom in public, or talk about your love history;
If you can't hold it, you will punish the bride for drinking, or the groom will hold the bride around the wine table three times.
The whole process of making a room, there are talking and laughing, happy, lively, deepening the friendship between relatives and friends, and also removing a bit of shyness and reserve when the bride was a girl.
When the newlyweds go back to the room to rest, some people still refuse to leave, and carry out a unique entertainment activity of "listening to the room", the newlyweds and couples talk and laugh in the house, while the people around them hide outside the room and lie in the corner of the wall to eavesdrop, as if they are doing a secret adventure.