For example, education and study at that time was to teach quotations from Chairman Mao. Students will not have math textbooks, which are extremely scarce resources, and it is very difficult to transfer and acquire knowledge. The main purpose of children is not to study, but to look at cows, pick up excrement, catch loaches and eels in exchange for meager income to subsidize their families. 2.8 yuan's tuition fee for one semester was only paid to 0.8 yuan because poor households applied for 2 yuan relief. In this way, the brigade leader did his psychological homework and promised to study that day. Early the next morning, his father also went back on his word. Since then, heaven has been isolated, and at the age when you can absorb knowledge well, you have no chance to study hard. This is the past that my father often mentioned. From my father's tone, I was full of anger and regret. I call this recalling a painful experience, and the real scene is hard to understand.
For example, it takes half a day or a day to walk from one village to another. A small body of 10 years old has to carry 10 kg of coal for dozens of kilometers. Even better, it is common to wear sandals and straw ropes to dig out big bubbles on the instep; Even poorer, barefoot, the land at that time was not as flat as the cement floor now. What helps them overcome difficulties is: calluses on the soles of their feet.
There is another story that impressed me deeply. In order to support my family, I always go out at night and catch toads in the fields when it gets dark. Toad at night, with a flashlight, can't move. Moreover, once caught, it is all night. Go home after dawn the next day, sleep for a few hours, and then take the toad caught the day before to the street for sale in the afternoon. Such hard work every day, in those years of economic conditions, a day can not be exchanged for a family's rice money. This kind of time always lasts 2-3 months before it stops. Such a bitter day is really unimaginable for our generation. Myself, it's past 12 midnight, I can't hold it any longer, and I can't open my eyes.
People born in the 1960 s, if there is any childhood, it is the childhood on the back of cattle. Don't think about the shepherd boy piccolo, talk short and sing long. In parents' memory, the real scene is actually: when the cattle are grazing or resting in the hillside or paddy field, the shepherd boy wants to close his eyes for a while, and his body will be covered with flies, which will disturb the people. This is the spring and summer when the grass grows and the warbler flies. After autumn, winter came and the grass was yellow. This is dried cereal grass when feeding cattle after harvesting rice in autumn. Straw pile, I had the honor to see it when I was a child. Straw will release a lot of fine hairs, which will make me itch all over, and it will always itch.
I slowly heard that there was no happy childhood, or even no childhood. The confession of a stranger in the 1960s was a hymn, which sang the brand of that era. Compared with the present life, it was bitter at that time, sweet at this time, and sweet no matter how tired. After all, we know that hard work will pay off; The total world material production has increased, while the per capita material consumption has decreased, but the per capita possession of things and categories has increased. We are sensitive enough to this.
When facing the future, let's reminisce first. To experience contemporary happiness, it is nothing to spend more time.