Seventy years of photography

Sitting on the train of the times, everyone is flying at high speed.

For 70 years, for ordinary people, many things passed by the window, which was once fresh and fleeting. Dacron clothes, food stamps when materials are in short supply, 28-bar bicycles, ultra-fashionable mobile phones, old-fashioned abacus, and tapes that are popular all over the country. ...

Many old objects have left the stage and become memories. The constantly emerging new objects meet people's needs for renewal.

In the 1970s and 1980s, when it came to fashion, the word "polyester" was absolutely indispensable. This kind of chemical fiber fabric, which now looks quite rustic and uncomfortable, led the bright and crisp clothing trend at that time.

At the beginning of the founding of New China, the industrial and agricultural foundation was weak, and it was difficult to meet people's needs in all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Families need to buy cloth, ready-made clothes or bedding by ticket. Ordinary families, clothes are often "new three years, old three years, sewing and mending again and again."

How to solve the problem of dressing for ordinary people?

Polyester was popular abroad in 1950s, and imported from China in 1960s, which caused a great sensation in the society. According to media reports at that time, the window glass of a shop selling dacron clothes in Shanghai was smashed because too many people came to buy it.

Compared with traditional cotton cloth, polyester is wear-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, and crisp, leading the trend at that time.

In the 1970s, the state proposed to speed up the production of domestic chemical fiber, and a number of chemical fiber enterprises were born in China. Since then, the country has produced a large number of chemical fibers for ordinary people to wear and use.

In the past 70 years, ordinary people's clothes have changed from monotonous black and gray to rich and varied colors, from simple and practical to fashion and practical.

Food stamp is a kind of food purchase voucher issued by China in the specific economic period from 1950s to 1980s. The earliest types of tickets implemented in China are food stamps, edible oil stamps and cloth tickets.

In the era of lack of materials, people want to buy rice flour oil and must show food stamps. As far as food stamps are concerned, there are many kinds, such as meat stamps, egg stamps and vegetable stamps. And there are sugar coupons specially for buying sugar.

Food stamps cannot be exchanged at will, and everyone has a quota, which is a "limited edition" in the current words. Later, some people described food stamps as "passports for eating".

The essay The Story of Food Stamps reflects a generation's deep memory of food stamps.

With the reform and opening up, China's grain and other daily necessities have gradually increased. As long as there is money in hand, everyone can buy what they need. Today, the emergence of online shopping makes consumption more convenient. Payment methods such as face payment and electronic payment have also become more diverse.

As a practical securities, food stamps have been used in China for 40 years. Today, it has withdrawn from the historical stage and become a collection.

28 In a bicycle, 28 means that the diameter of the wheel is 28 inches. In 1970s and 1980s, bicycles became the most important and popular means of transportation. As a bicycle country, China people have unique memories of bicycles.

At that time, the torrent of bicycles during commuting every day was spectacular. Statistics show that in the late 1980s, Beijing, with a population of10 million, had 8 million bicycles. Excluding the elderly and children is almost a saturated state of "one person, one car".

Photographer Wang Wenlan once published the book Days of Bicycles, which included hundreds of old photos about bicycles.

In the 1990 s, the dream of owning a private car for ordinary people may come. At the same time, with the development of public transportation, the proportion of bicycle trips began to decline.

Nowadays, bicycles are no longer simple and practical means of transportation, but gradually have new orientations such as fashion, sports and leisure.

Bicycle sharing meets people's demand for short-distance green travel, high-speed rail meets people's demand for long-distance fast travel, and the emergence of various bicycles such as mountain bikes and racing cars meets people's needs for entertainment and competition.

1987, Guangdong province opened the first mobile communication network in China, with the first batch of 700 users. Their mobile phones are also called mobile phones, just like half a narrow brick.

When it comes to mobile phones, people often think of expensive mobile phones. Before the popularity of home fixed telephone, the public price of a mobile phone was as high as 20 thousand yuan, and the price on the black market was as high as more than 30 thousand. At that time, the per capita disposable income of cities and towns was only 1000 yuan.

Having a mobile phone is a symbol of wealth and status. Shout "Hello!" Holding a mobile phone in the crowd! Hey! I can't hear you clearly. Say it again, it will attract countless envious eyes.

Mobile phones have not existed for a long time in history. With the rapid update iteration of electronic products, more and more thin and cheap mobile phones appear.

With the arrival of 3G, mobile phones can surf the Internet and look at pictures. In the 4G era, watching pictures is not enough, and mobile phones can watch videos directly. Nowadays, major mobile phone operators and manufacturers in China are competing in the 5G market.

Mobile phones are constantly evolving, which are more suitable for people's needs and become a necessity of life.

Abacus, rectangular, wooden frame, with a beam in the middle, two beads on the beam, five for each bead, five for the lower beam, and one for each bead. Twenty-one plus five, three times five divided by two, nine equals one. These proverbs are related to abacus.

At one time, the abacus was almost a necessary computing "artifact" for every family. Being able to make a good abacus was the envy of everyone at that time.

In 20 13, China abacus was listed in the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage, which indicated that "the oldest computer in the world" was recognized by the world.

Nowadays, this "fashionable" object has gradually "retired" and has been replaced by various advanced electronic computing devices.

In the list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, China has 2 19 supercomputers, ranking first in the number of supercomputers on the list. China has surpassed the "Taihu Shenwei Light" and "Tianhe-2" in computing power, and is already in the forefront of the world.

Today, most families don't have a carrier to play tapes, but the memories carried by tapes still exist.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Internet was underdeveloped, and magnetic tape was an important carrier of music communication. He had a tape in his hand and inserted it into the tape recorder. At that time, the tape recorder was higher and wider than ordinary bricks, and then the song came from the tape recorder.

That's how songs by Teresa Teng, Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung became popular. At that time, whether it was family entertainment or business activities, the sound from tapes could be heard in the streets of China.

Later, with the emergence of audio and video storage and playback devices such as MP3 and MP4, tapes were slowly put on hold.

Today, all kinds of playing software are downloaded to mobile phones, and songs from all over the world can be heard. People's entertainment methods are also more diversified. Watching a movie, listening to a concert, participating in a talent show, I have more entertainment options in my spare time.

These once popular old objects are gradually fading out of people's sight and being replaced by new products that are more advanced and more suitable for people's needs.

In 70 years, the consumption power of ordinary people has been greatly improved. In 20 18, the per capita disposable income ratio of residents increased by 59.2 times, and the per capita consumption expenditure ratio of residents increased by 28.5 times. The consumption power formed in China not only drives the growth of its own economy, but also becomes an important driving force of the world economy.

From: China is a through train.

Author: Zhang Wenjiao