Today, my mother rummaged through the cabinets at home, and turned out a stationery box in a corner of her wardrobe, and when she opened the stationery box, the whole person stood on the spot, and what appeared in front of her was that she was struggling to find a marriage certificate that had not been successful for several years.
In an instant, my mother began to sob, tears streaming down her face, and the feeling of being lost and found was so exciting.
This marriage certificate was obtained by my mother and my father when they got married in their twenties, it has a history of 55 years, with a full sense of age, it is a witness and participant in the love of my parents, and it has a special meaning for my parents.
This marriage certificate is as full of twists and turns as its surface, it has been lost several times, and it has been found several times, it can be described as ill-fated.
The last time I looked for it was a year ago, when the family's old house had been uninhabited for many years, fell into disrepair, and collapsed on a rainy day.
When I came back to ask for my parents' marriage certificate, my parents were also stunned, their marriage certificate had been lost for at least ten years, and they had been looking for it all these years, but it was like the world had evaporated.
There was no way, I could only go to the relevant departments to say all the good things and tell them that my parents belonged to an arranged marriage, and at that time, my parents nodded and agreed, and both parents and family members nodded and agreed, even if they got the certificate, and there was no actual marriage certificate, so I successfully passed this pass.
The earliest search, my parents mentioned to me, was five years after they got married, and the time was calculated, about 1974, 50 years from now.
At that time, the marriage certificate was needed because my father wanted to separate from my uncle, and the relevant departments also wanted to use the marriage certificate of my father and uncle, but the uncle had it, but my parents' marriage certificate could not be obtained.
At that time, I was also rummaging through boxes and cabinets at home, looking everywhere and every corner, but I never found it, it was like suddenly evaporating from the world, and there was no trace of it.
My father also tried to ask my grandparents, and they said they didn't see it either.
Later, the family was separated, and the parents said all the good things to the relevant departments, and finally succeeded in separating the family.
So how did it suddenly and mysteriously disappear, and how did it "reappear"?
It turned out that when it appeared when my grandfather passed away, when my grandfather passed away, my parents were in my grandfather's room to sort out my grandfather's relics, from an ancient box to see, grandfather passed away vaguely remembered that it was around 2001, calculated, this ill-fated marriage certificate, was pressed by this box for 27 years, and also slept at the bottom of this ancient box for 27 years, but this marriage certificate is incomplete, broken into three sections.
At that time, my parents saw that their marriage certificate had been missing for decades and had rediscovered the light of day, and they cried with emotion, and they disposed of all the relics in my grandfather's room and left their own marriage certificate.
The parents carefully wrapped the marriage certificate and kept it in a safe place.
It's just that in the following decades, the family started a house, moved from their hometown to a new home, during which the room they lived in also changed several times, and the parents' marriage certificate also kept moving, and before I knew it, the marriage certificate mysteriously disappeared.
Until last year, when the family approved the division of the house, I used all the "power of the wilderness" and never found it again, but today my mother inadvertently found it again.
It is really intentional to plant flowers that do not bloom, and unintentionally to plant willows and willows into the shade.
Now that I have seen it, I will share it with you to see, what is it like? Let modern friends see the true face of Lushan in the 70s.
First of all, let's take a look at the four corners of the marriage certificate, each of the four corners has a rose, meaning romantic love, the middle of the rose and the rose is the wheat ear and the sunflower, meaning hard work, and in the middle there is Tiananmen Square and the bright red five-star red flag, under which are written three big characters "Marriage Certificate".
Below the marriage certificate is the name, gender, age, and the words that the marriage is voluntarily married and meets the provisions of the Marriage Law.
Here is the registration office: Lingui County, Office of the Revolutionary Committee of Sitang Commune.
Then here is the marriage registration date: March 30, 1969.
At the bottom is a picture of a man and a woman studying together, and there is a small red character in the middle of it.
After reading it, what do you think? I think there is, that is, there is a strong sense of the times, with a very distinct mark of that era.
1969 was the time when the Cultural Revolution was in full swing, and literacy was being eradicated, so advertisements for reading and reading were also incorporated into the marriage certificate.
There is also the registration authority, which is registered and issued by the office of the Revolutionary Committee of the commune, and is not the civil affairs department as it is now called.
We all know that at that time, the offices of the Revolutionary Committee of the communes were very powerful, and their functions could be controlled by anything, even the issuance of marriage certificates.
In another 50 years, this marriage certificate will become a precious cultural relic, and for now, it has a great collection value.