Unforgettable my country tailor complex

During the weekend house cleaning, my daughter pointed to a colored yard machine in the corner of the large bedroom and said to me, "Daddy, sell it!" Now who wants this thing, the tailors on the street have changed their professions, what is the use of keeping it? "I stroked the yard edge machine that has followed me for 26 years, and I felt a thousand emotions, time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like shuttles, and in the blink of an eye, I have participated in the coal mine work for 24 spring and autumn.

It was the summer of 1986, and when I returned to the village after graduating from high school, I saw that the villagers had also obtained the ThirteenTh Mine in the north of the village or the Ninth Mine in the east of the village to make a dress, and the transportation was inconvenient. At that time, although there were a few middle-aged women in the village who did some tailoring work for the villagers, with the increase of small coal mines around the village and the continuous improvement of the living standards of the villagers, the clothes made by those women were often unsatisfactory... I saw it in my eyes and was anxious in my heart. This is because our family of four boys, at that time the three younger brothers were still young, every lunar month, the mother for our New Year clothes sad, then only the father alone to work, three younger brothers are in school, the family is often financially poor, if you buy ready-to-wear, our New Year clothes money will have to be a month's salary of the father, so, every year into the Waxing Moon, the mother will pull the cloth early, Take us to the nearby mines on Sunday to make clothes, but at that time, the tailors in the mine are busy, Because in those years, the villagers were used to making a new dress for the New Year! But in order to find a better tailor, after coming to the mine, it is often the east to inquire, the west to inquire, and when looking for the tailor, people always push with both hands and say: You are late, live a lot, you have not received, go to the side to ask! On the way back, the villagers talked about it: "Our village will have a good tailor!......" At that time, there were nearly a thousand people in our village, plus outsiders working in small coal mines around the village.

After two days of consideration and with my parents' consent. I resolutely decided to go to Taiyuan to learn tailoring and completely change the worries of the villagers in making clothes. One day in the early autumn of 1986, I stepped on a train to the provincial capital. After three months of hard study and practice, I made myself a wool blue zhongshan suit on the graduation practice exam, which was affirmed by the director and principal of the school's garment factory. The principal asked me to stay in the school as a practical guide, and I refused the principal's kind words. Returning to his heart, he stepped on the train back to Datong. I returned to my hometown of a small mountain village after three months of separation, and then used my father's two months' salary to go to the city to buy a very advanced Jiajia brand coding edge machine, and bought a semi-new sewing machine, which killed my rural tailoring career!

At that time, although there were several coal mines in our village, most of the young and middle-aged people in the village went to the nearby small coal mines to work, but the old, weak, sick, disabled and widowed elderly in the village could not go to the coal mines to work, and their lives were not rich, and they only relied on cultivating a few acres of mountainous land to maintain their lives. I can't collect a few bucks a year! Whenever these villagers came to make clothes, they were exempted from processing fees, and sometimes they were given free linen linings and pocket cloths. Because I was still working as a tile inspector in the village joint coal mine, I earned 360 yuan a month. It was more than a hundred dollars more than my father's salary at the time. For this reason, it is often praised by the elderly. Because the clothes I made were low-cost, and I treated the cadres and the masses equally, the clothes I made were compared to several tailors in the village, and the villagers in the surrounding villages also came to let me make clothes. I went to work in the coal mines every morning, made clothes in the afternoons and evenings, and was busy and tired every day. But the heart is still happy! Near the Spring Festival, I have to make more than a dozen pairs of pants in one night, and my eyes are still red. But seeing that the villagers can put on new clothes for the Spring Festival, I am very happy in my heart.

In early 1989, my father retired to the village honorably, and I replaced my father as a coal miner. But the complex of working as a village tailor is still vivid and will never be forgotten!

Shanxi Tongmei Group JinhuaGong Mine Party Maolin