Reborn in the 70s / Reborn in 1978

The style of the window grilles is not as complicated as it was later, just like the Chinese characters for blessing, magpies ascending plum blossoms, five blessings come to the door, good luck and good luck, and they are as big as a six-point disk.

On the [-]th day, the whole family changed into new clothes, and the inside and outside of the house were cleaned up. As soon as the red Spring Festival couplets were pasted up, festive energy came out.

Grandpa took out the red lanterns and threaded them with ropes. At this time, candles were still used. When it was dark, the candles were lit and the lanterns were pulled to the top of the tall lantern poles like raising the national flag.

After four o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of firecrackers in the village started from house to house, and Zhang Xingming and his elder brother also ran to the yard to light the [-] small whips, and watched them blow up ([-] firecrackers, think about the time-consuming How many seconds? That was a lot of fun), and ran into the house screaming.

Zhang Xingming and his brother climbed onto the kang, and grandma and grandpa sat on the edge of the kang, one by one, and the four of them had a reunion dinner.

After eating and washing their feet, the four of them lay on the kang and listened to the radio. At that time, no leader paid New Year greetings to the people of the whole country.

Woke up early in the morning on the first day of the new year, just after eating dumplings, the sound of gongs and drums outside was earth-shattering, and the Yangko team from the village came to visit the yard from house to house to pay New Year's greetings.

Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Big-headed Doll, ran a dry boat, the young daughter-in-law rode a donkey, followed by a team of stilts, the drums were beating so loudly that people's ears were ringing, all of them wore colorful silk costumes, twisting all the way into the yard.

Going around the yard a few times, I started to twist flowers on the spot, and the leader shouted auspicious words loudly.Almost all the children from the village followed, wearing dog fur hats and various cotton-padded jackets, booing around.

Grandma went up and gave one yuan, the leader thanked her, and shouted a few auspicious words, a group of people beat gongs and drums and rushed to the next house, throwing red and green colored paper all over the yard (the real colored paper is ordinary paper of various colors into small pieces), Zhang Xingming was also dragged by his brother to follow behind the Yangko team to watch the fun.

Followed the Yangko team down a circle, and it was noon. The Yangko team went back to the village. My brother wanted to follow, but Zhang Xingming said that he would not go. Isn’t this just asking for guilt? It’s such a cold day, minus [-] or so. It's forty degrees, what's the point of watching this excitement, it's better to lie on the kang and sleep.

Zhang Xingming didn't go, so my elder brother had no choice but to give up. He pulled Zhang Xingming to set a small whip in the yard, blowing up snow, birds, and urinating until it was frozen hard. Zhang Xingming's face twitched.

At night, every household’s lanterns were hung up, and on the white snowy ground under the night, flashing red lights were like twinkling red stars dotted among the mountains, and the red starlight was covered by thick snow. The bloated and heavy thatched cottage that was covered with hands was extremely beautiful at this time.

In this natural beauty, on the hot kang, enjoying the warmth of the brazier, the four of them gathered around the table, eating meat-filled dumplings, feeling the joy of the Spring Festival, looking forward to a better life tomorrow, enjoying themselves happily.

After the New Year, a guest came to the house.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the team leader, Zhong Changhong’s uncle led a tall, thin man wearing glasses into the yard. The tall, thin man was carrying a big bag, and two team members helped him carry some boxes and baskets. Come in suddenly.

"Second Uncle, are you at home?" Zhong Changhong's uncle started to shout as soon as he entered the courtyard.The old people in the castle all call grandpa the second uncle, and I don't know where it came from.

Grandpa opened the door: "Boss, what's the matter? Is there something wrong?"

Captain Zhong turned back and pulled the tall, thin man, and said to his grandfather, "This is Zhiqing Xia. So he lives in the north house of Lao Jin's house. The house was collapsed by the snow yesterday. It is a place where our team can live now." There are already people, so there is no other way, Second Uncle, your West Room is empty, clean it up and let Xia Zhiqing live for a while, do you think it is okay, Second Uncle? It can also be regarded as supporting the revolutionary work in the team."

Zhang Xingming and his elder brother squeezed behind his grandfather and leaned over to look out.

Grandpa reached out and touched Zhang Xingming's little head, and said, "Okay, it's empty anyway, but it's been a while since no one lived there, so it's a bit of a waste."

Captain Zhong waved his hand in a dignified manner, and said, "It's okay, why don't I call a few people over here, and we'll just clean it up together. Your house is thick with mud, and it's warmer than Lao Jin's house. Does it have a stove?"

Grandpa let the person into the house sideways, and said: "There is a stove, and it is always burning for cooking pig food and so on."

Captain Zhong nodded, quite satisfied.You must know that people in the northeastern countryside live on heated kangs. If the stoves are not burned for a long time, the kangs will have problems.

Grandpa asked Zhang Xingming and his elder brother to go back to the house, and he led several people into the west room.

Arrange the messy things, clear out the kang, sweep it clean, boil some hot water and wipe it inside and out.

Grandma made some white flour, boiled water and stirred some pulp, and several of them worked together to paste the wall on the kang with newspapers. Once the luggage was put away, it was clean and looked decent.

In those days, there was no glue, and to stick things, we boiled white flour with some water and stirred it into a slurry.

After a noisy toss for a long time, Captain Zhong left with the team members, and Xia Zhiqing finally settled down at his grandma's house.

There are three earthen stoves in the outhouse of my grandma's house, and letting one cook for Xia Zhiqing will not delay anything.

Xia Zhiqing is from Fengtian, so she doesn't know how she came to Zhangjiabao. She is probably honest, and it made people angry when she arranged to go to the countryside.

The educated youth going to the countryside was a national youth movement that lasted for nearly 50 years from the 1980s to 20.

At the very beginning, the Communist Youth League organized middle school students to go to the countryside to work for a certain period of time.

In 1955, Chairman Mao delivered a speech that "the countryside is a vast world, and there is a lot to do there", so educated youths began to go to the countryside to spread across the country.

In 1962, the Sending to the Countryside Movement was formalized and nationalized.

In 1966, because of the start of the Great Movement, the urban order was impacted, schools were closed, and jobs could not be arranged. A large number of students and young people had nothing to do. The central government decided to let more young people go to the countryside to prevent the situation from getting out of control.

In 1968, the People’s Daily published a feature article “We also have two hands, so we don’t want to be idle in the city.” Chairman Mao issued an instruction that “it is necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants.” The climax, in order to offset the world-shaking Red Guard movement.

In those few years, young people everywhere, full of excitement and dreams, packed their bags and rushed to the vast countryside of the motherland, singing revolutionary songs.

Later, the fatigue, poverty, backwardness, ignorance, lack of materials, and lack of spirit in the countryside, like a basin of cold water, woke up these passionate young people head-on.

By 71, the contradiction between the educated youth and the local people in the countryside became more and more prominent, and various problems began to appear. At that time, the solution was to transfer some outstanding personnel back to the city to work, but millions of people entered the countryside every year, and the contradiction became more and more serious. Concentrate, the more intense.

In 76, Chairman Mao proposed to solve the problem of youth sent to the countryside at the meeting, and instructed that "this problem must not be solved." Unfortunately, the chairman, the prime minister, and Mr. Zhu passed away one after another, and this problem was shelved.

In 78, the country resumed the college entrance examination, and the college entrance examination became the only way for young people who went to the countryside to leave the countryside. A large number of young people who went to the countryside went back to the city by going to college, but relatively still, only a small part of them left.

Until 80, in May, General Secretary Hu proposed to end the movement of educated youths to the countryside. On October 5, the central government decided that educated youths who had gone to the countryside in the past 10 years could return to their hometown cities.

Educated youth has since become a term in history. This movement lasted for nearly 20 years and involved nearly 1800 million people.

From the beginning of the youth movement to the decision of the central government to return the educated youth to the city, the older educated youth are already in their 50s and [-]s, and the children in the countryside are all in junior high school.

But the policy at that time only allowed the educated youth to return to the city, so in the early 80s, countless educated youth abandoned their wives and children and returned to the city, resulting in countless family tragedies.

Interested book lovers can find old movies to watch. I remember that there is a "Waste Time", which is the most impressive to me. There are also "Blood Youth", "Song of Youth", etc., and TV dramas with related themes There are also many.

I remember a song that talks about the problems of the next generation of educated youth returning to the city: Dad has a home, mother has a home, and I am left alone, which seems superfluous...

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Xia Zhiqing stayed at his grandma's house like this.

However, he cooks and eats by himself.Educated youths should actually eat in group cafeterias, but in the Northeast they could have enough to eat at that time, and no one cared about those who were willing to cook by themselves, and the food was exchanged from the team with work points.

It is also a pleasure to watch Xia Zhiqing cook with black hair on his clumsy face every morning and evening.

In those days, the educated youths in the north and the south were the hardest. The south was the south. The biggest problem was not getting enough to eat. The north refers to xj and hlj. The educated youths here are also called the reclamation group. Countless, leaving thousands of hectares of fertile fields.

Of course, grandma's house has a proper order of vegetables, meat, and oil, and it is inevitable that I will give him some from time to time. Humans are emotional animals, and they live under the same roof every day, so they will naturally kiss.

Usually Xia Zhiqing would go to work in the team, and when he was free, he would lie on the kang and read books most of the time, so Zhang Xingming could also read books in an aboveboard manner, pretending to learn from Xia Zhiqing.

Sometimes when I was free, Xia Zhiqing would move a small bench and sit in the yard, telling stories to Zhang Xingming and his brother, about the city, about books, about movies, and also about criticism meetings, cursing bourgeois reactionaries, and talking to them. lackeys.

The college entrance examination resumed in 78, and Xia Zhiqing was admitted to Northeastern University and left.

At that time, the team also held a farewell meeting. Xia Zhiqing, wearing a big red flower, left this remote mountain village in a sudden, chug, on the team's tractor.

Chapter 19 Fully Automatic Fire Alarm System in Rural Areas,

After the fifteenth day, the adults start working again, those who collect firewood, those who hunt, the year is over.