"Here comes the house, come up and sit down, I have nothing to clean up, I can't cure (no), I'm old, I can't do it for (can't work)." The centenarian Grandpa Chen Xiyi, seeing our arrival, very politely let us into the house and sat down, he threw down the broom, walked slightly slowly up the steps, and entered the house. Although he is already a hundred-year-old man, his voice is loud and his movements are still steady, and it seems that Grandpa's health is very good.
Centenarian Chen Xiyi
A few days ago, three members of our "Centenarian Search Group" came to Chenjiaguanzhuang Village, Anzhuang Town, Juxian County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, and visited this centenarian, Grandpa Chen Xiyi. Grandpa's daughter-in-law Wei Ximei told us that the old man is now a knee pain, when the pain is severe, take some painkillers, in addition, the old man's right eye can not see things clearly, there is no other problem in the body, compared to other elderly people, such a body is not bad.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi swept the yard
"People are old, they can't be cured, they don't dare to walk." I'm like I'm old, I'm on my own. Since joining the society (new society), just like me (peers), plus I have three people left (there are two other 90-year-olds in the village), nothing else. Grandpa Chen Xiyi is very talkative, and he keeps introducing his past and the stories he has experienced. Daughter-in-law Wei Ximei said that the old man likes to talk, and if you sit with him all morning, he will not stop talking in the morning.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi cleaned up
Chen Xiyi's grandfather, born in 1920, is 101 years old this year. This centenarian has many characteristics, such as smoking, drinking tea, going out to work, free love, etc., but Grandpa's biggest feature is his love of talking. Daughter-in-law Wei Ximei told us that her father-in-law did not go home every day, and when he was full, he went out, and when he was hungry, he went home to eat, and when he ate, he went out again. Grandpa likes new things, and every day he will go out to sit on the streets of the village to see the people and things in the village, and also sit and chat with several old grandfathers and grandmothers in the village.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi stepped up the steps
"I came early (early, decades ago), and I had an uncle who lived to be 93 years old, the oldest at the time. The one in the east of the house, called the big brother, lived to be 96 years old. This will be the stubble, I am the biggest. I can't cure this, this eye (right eye) can't see. Grandpa Chen Xiyi sat in a chair, comparing and talking at the same time. Grandpa said that now I don't feel like eating by myself, A day without eating is such a taste, I can't try to be hungry (hungry), this year, I'm afraid I don't know if I can pass it.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi is telling about his past experiences
"My body, the doctor has examined, said that there is nothing wrong in the heart, can not find out the problem." Talking about the body, talking about the heart, this age is not good for me. Grandpa Chen Xiyi introduced that when he was a child, his health was not good, he suffered a lot of sins, no one could expect him to be an adult, and they all looked at his body. Because his stomach hurt all day long, his body was also skinny and bone-like, and he didn't look like a person. However, I did not expect that later, I found a doctor to cure the problem of stomach pain, and my body slowly improved.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi was reminiscing about the past
"It's time to become a master (about twenty years old), and I'm an adult too. Shangyi Shui took a piece of medicine (Yishui County to find an old Chinese medicine to prescribe medicine), three days a trip, ate for two or three months, and then still the old Chinese medicine, and on the last taste of medicine, just like corn ballast, a cold mouth to eat, whizzing, I said that I could not eat this since the beginning, how is this so? Grandpa Chen Xiyi said that it was right to take this medicine, and at the end of the day, one day at noon, try to feel disgusting, vomit out a big marble, fight for green, hit the stomach just fine.
Chen Xiyi's grandfather's bed
"After a few more years, the stomachache recurred. Maobu (Maobu Village, Qishan Town, Juxian County, once stationed in Maobu Township, later abolished) There was a ginseng shop, came a group of people, I went to the heart socket stitched a needle (acupuncture), the spine pole was stitched twice, after a few days to stitch again Mo (once), this down, (fault) canceled, there is no problem at all. Grandpa Chen Xiyi said that he was thinking about it, from then on, his body was not wrong, and it should have a lot to do with that acupuncture.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi was lighting a cigarette
"I eat two meals a day, two in the morning, and one in the evening (afternoon). The girlfriend also sent, the son's family also sent, and the neighbors and his aunt's wife also sent, I can't eat ah. You see there's still a piece of cooked meat in this bowl, cut by the niece, and fritters, which is not something that can't be eaten again. Grandpa Chen Xiyi said, so many delicious, good Ha, can not eat, this good society to find ah, early in the poor, the New Year can not eat dumplings.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi's white beard and fingers were smoked yellow
"The people in this team (the former production team in the village) are left with myself, and there are two other teams (production teams), and the others are gone, and there are no men and women. When I remember, how many people called uncle and grandfather were now gone, and there was none younger than me. For as long as I can remember, the people in the village have been dead for five generations. Grandpa Chen Xiyi said that the peers who grew up with him, the friends who used to play together, are now gone. When I go out to play, I can't find friends, I don't have a common language with young people (young people), and I can't talk together.
The big vat in Grandpa Chen Xiyi's house
"This old ancestor (father-in-law, the local honorific title for the elderly) has bad eyes, the year before the sun went to cut his eyes (cataract surgery), I went with him, in the car I tried to get motion sickness, he sat in the car did not have anything, but also pulled the car window to look out, looking at the high-rise buildings, heckled." Grandpa's daughter-in-law Wei Ximei introduced that the old man suffered a lot when he was young, and now that he is older, let him eat well and drink well, don't be embarrassed (suffer, eat badly), enjoy the blessings, as long as the body is uncomfortable, go to see him a doctor.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi ate peach crisp
"When he was young, his wife was gone, his three children were all raised by himself, he had suffered a lifetime of sin, and now that he has caught up with a good society, he must serve well, and he must be blessed." Grandpa's daughter-in-law Wei Ximei said that the old man married relatively late, which belongs to late marriage and late childbearing. At that time, it was because the family was poor, and there was no money to build a house to marry a daughter-in-law, plus the old man was not in good health when he was a child, and he could not say that he was a daughter-in-law at home, and then the old man went to a factory in Qingdao to work, where he fell in love freely and made a Daughter-in-law in Qingdao.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi drank jasmine tea
"I stayed in Qingdao for four years, went in five or eight years, returned in june 1961, and brought the ladies (daughters-in-law, wives) from Qingdao." Chen Xiyi's grandfather introduced that at that time, the land was not cured, the family was poor, there was no place to live, and he could not say that he was a daughter-in-law, so he went to work in an iron-making factory in Qingdao. At that time, the people of the whole country made steel, and he was a furnace foreman in the factory, and his technology was good, which was deeply liked by the leaders of the factory. When I learned that he was almost 40 years old and had no daughter-in-law, and there was a girl in Qingdao who looked at others well, the two people fell in love freely, married in five or nine years, and returned to their hometown from the factory in june one.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi's tea set
Grandpa Chen Xiyi had three children, two sons, and a daughter. The eldest son is 59 years old this year, the second son is 56 years old, and he "married" out of the upside-down door and became a door-to-door son-in-law, and the daughter is 53 years old this year. His wife died of illness before the child was an adult. "My daughter often came to see him, my family came (my husband) to collect the rags in Qingdao, I waited for the old man at home, and I also waited for my grandson, and although his second son plugged the door upside down, he sometimes came to see him." Grandpa's daughter-in-law Wei Ximei introduced that the children are very filial piety, knowing that the old man's life is not easy, and he has not provoked him to be angry. Even relatives and neighbors were very kind to him, and people often came to see him.
Daughter-in-law Wei Ximei bought grapes for her father-in-law to eat
"His brothers, he's the eldest, his brother is long gone, it must be more than thirty years now." Grandpa's daughter-in-law, Wei Ximei, said that her father-in-law's temper was very good, and since she married, she had not found that he had been angry or angry. People are also very diligent, they can't stay idle every day, and when they are eighty or ninety years old, they still go to the fields to do farm work, and pushing wheelbarrows is fine. Now more than 100 years old, I still plant a small vegetable garden at home, raise a lot of flowers, and I don't have anything to go to the market to buy things.
Chen Xiyi's grandfather and daughter-in-law stood in the courtyard
"When I was in Qingdao, I took (caught fish) fish (drank) wine in the sea, and suddenly sipped four tea bowls of white wine, and I had to have two pounds of liquor, and the wine was like ha shui, ha was not drunk, and I never got drunk back." Grandpa Chen Xiyi said that when he was young, he drank, smoked and drank tea, and an old Chinese medicine doctor gave him a pulse a few years ago, saying that he had a fever in his hands and could drink. Later, I felt that drinking was uncomfortable, so I quit the hobby of drinking, but I couldn't quit tea and tobacco.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi likes to watch TV
"I want to watch TV in the evening (every night), just watch the Central Station and Shandong Tv, and I don't want to watch anything else. How good do you think social development has reached this point? How many capable people are there? You see a vigorous effort to carry out large-scale construction, those projects, the construction of bridges, the construction of railways, the heavens (aviation). You see how good it is for us in China to be safe and sound? This good society is really hard to find. Grandpa Chen Xiyi introduced that when he was a child, he personally watched how many people the bandits kidnapped and tore up the tickets, and they didn't even put up a stall!
Grandpa Chen Xiyi chatted in the courtyard
"That Second Brother (second brother) came from the East Garden, led me to play every day, and murmured for the bandits to catch and kill." The uncle on the South Park also let him smash and kill. This is all I have seen with my own eyes, how do you see the past days? At night, I was afraid of living at home, the bandits came to smash the bowls, and the old society was restless every day, and there was no good life. Grandpa Chen Xiyi said that he sometimes told young people about these things, but he didn't believe it, and he doubted how it was so powerful in the past. He had led the bandits to a wrong (wrong) way, and he had been beaten, so that the young ones did not believe.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi stood in the courtyard reminiscing about the past
"When I was a child, I went out of the temple and gave a branch to the grandmother in the East Garden, and her two grandchildren let the bandits cause disaster, hey, I gave her family a child, and built a grave for her, or I would go to the soldiers and take the gun." I don't want to do anything (unambiguous). Grandpa Chen Xiyi recalled his experience when he was a child and was very emotional. He said, or the current society is good, I didn't expect that the society would be like this, you look at the houses in the village, the spacious street, how good, where to find such a good society! If you think about the things of the past, you don't dare to say them, you don't dare to open your eyes when you think about them, and those people in the places where they suffered in the past are gone.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi was watering the flowers
"I get up in the morning and get down a pot of tea, drink it all morning, and then put down a pot of tea at noon and drink it all afternoon." Grandpa Chen Xiyi said that this habit of drinking tea has been for decades, and he has always drunk good tea and never drank tea. He mainly drinks jasmine tea, never drinks pearl orchid tea, he said that drinking pearl orchid tea kills intestines and bones, drinking is not good for people's health. But jasmine tea is helpful to people's bodies, drinking is good for the body, a pound of tea can drink for five or six days, and now many elderly people in the village used to drink pearl orchid tea, and now they have changed to drink jasmine tea with him.
Grandpa Chen Xiyi said that this cabinet has been around for years
"I eat (smoke) cigarettes without a number, rush to the market to buy a pound of dry tobacco, eat it in three or five days, eat it and then buy it." A pound of cigarettes, but also eat (smoke) the number of episodes (a set empty for 5 days). Grandpa Chen Xiyi said that this cigarette and tea cannot be quit, and every day is nothing to smoke and drink tea. There is a physical examination table in grandpa's home, from the data point of view, grandpa's blood pressure is more than 140 mmHg, blood sugar is about 9mmol/L, the doctor suggested that he quit smoking, light diet-based. Usually, although Grandpa can't quit smoking, but in terms of diet, he usually still eats vegetables, eggs, noodles, and steamed buns, and chicken and fish meat, but eats less.
Chen Xiyi's grandfather's cabinet during the Qianlong period
"This cabinet, I don't know which generation of grandmother left it, that came back a collection of old things, he looked at it and said, this cabinet is during the Qianlong period." You see how well it is done, there are two small drawers in it, this cabinet is very heavy (heavy), ah, two people can not lift. Grandpa Chen Xiyi introduced that this cabinet cannot be sold, no matter how much money is given, it cannot be sold, and the things left by the ancestors cannot be sold.
Grandpa Chen stood in the courtyard
"In the past I suffered from that sin, I tried not to get too far away (dialect: almost), now there is nothing wrong with it, and the brain is no problem." 」 Grandpa Chen Xiyi said, now that I am older, everyone is afraid of death, I am not afraid of death, that is, the chrysalis (activity) is not moving, deaf and turned around, and cannot see it.
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