The children we reconnected with on the headlines gathered in the WeChat group and talked about Chairman Mao's memorial service in 1976.
Cao Hairong said she attended, when her mother took her there, and she had just reached her mother's elbow. She was also 5 years old at the time, standing in the crowd, the adults were crying, and she also cried, only knowing that a great man had died, and she did not know who it was.
I said, I cried too, I was scared to cry.
They laughed and were puzzled, and I explained it to them.
I said, at that time, my mother put me in the teacher's family courtyard next to the rostrum and handed it over to Teacher Li Yufu's mother-in-law to take us, I was 5 years old at the time, Teacher Li Yufu's daughter Lei Lei was 3 years old, and my son Xinxin was only 1 year old.
At that time, the new grandmother was actually a new grandmother, but they called it that way, and I called it that way.
The new grandmother looked at us children, closed the fence door of the family home, and there was a crowd of people outside, and I didn't know what was happening outside.
Before my mother led me into the family home, I saw the huge gray statue of Chairman Mao on the rostrum, and the pimples under the bare mouth were so old. I once followed a teacher into the school's storage room and saw this portrait of Chairman Mao.
There are also human figures in the storage room, and the kind of organs that can be pulled out must be teaching aids for biology classes.
Before this memorial service, I was already in the school office, and I saw many female teachers, using colorful paper of various colors, rolling on chopsticks, gently stroking with their hands, and then carefully unfolding, becoming crumpled small petals, which were quite beautiful.
With these colorful petals, large flowers are formed one by one. I remember those big colorful flowers, which later formed a big wreath.
I remember also making small white flowers, the female teachers of the sewing group also smashed the black yarn on the sewing machine, my mother also participated in the smashing of the black yarn, I was next to follow.
Later, after my mother handed me over to the new grandmother, my mother left, and now that she wants to come, she probably joins the crowd of worshippers.
I was lying on the fence door looking out, and the black pressure outside was full of people. They were all lined up, and I don't know where so many people came from!
When I stepped back, I accidentally knocked Xinxin down, and when Xinxin cried, Xinxin's grandmother picked me up horizontally, ran directly to the window, and said, "You knocked Xinxin down, I threw you out of the window!" ”
I was crying, wow, the crowd outside was crying, and I was crying in the family home.
This is one of the things that I remember most vividly at Chairman Mao's memorial service. As for what was going on outside, I had no idea.
Only now I heard the eldest brother say that there were more than 10,000 people coming at that time, and there were militiamen standing guard on the side of the crowd, and the atmosphere was quite solemn.
I said, it was the people from All Lanling Town who came, right? Quite a few individuals.
The sister-in-law said, I also went.
At that time, the eldest sister-in-law was studying in Xiaozhong Village, and she also went?
The eldest brother said that it should be representatives sent from various places, right? Mainly listening to the radio.
In 1976, did you participate in the commemoration of Chairman Mao's death?
to be continued......