Smoke spiraled up from the kitchen chimney.

Cooking smoke, rarely seen by city people, is endowed with too much poetry and emotion. There is also a chimney. Now many children in the city don't know what it is.

Speaking of this topic, I can't help but think of several interesting things that happened in the northeast village when I was a child. Now I can't help laughing.

The neighbor eldest brother in the East Hospital has a happy marriage. I don't remember the exact year, but I remember the exact date. It was the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, and Bala had not frozen his chin in the seventh lunar month. On a new morning, at first light, I saw a family, a couple, parents-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, all running into the yard, panting, especially my mother-in-law, suffering from bronchitis and coughing loudly. Neighbors rushed to help and see how the newlyweds were doing.

It turned out that the new daughter-in-law had just entered the door. In order to behave well, she got up early and lit the stove to boil water for cooking. Because she got up early on the first day of marriage and forgot to pull out the cigarette holder, the room was full of smoke. I caught up with1February, and my family was freezing.

Later, there was a fable in the village camp: the new wife gave birth to a stove-the whole family went out (frozen), and it was her husband who got up and gave birth to the stove later. Some people say that under the guidance of experts, Qin Xiao (new wife) has implemented a modern rural version of the hardship plan. In order not to get up early to light the stove, after years of observation by people in the village camp, it is really not the case, and Qin Xiao is very wronged.

I really can't blame Qin Xiao, because the northeast chimney is very special.

Chimneys are called chimneys in the northeast and smoke holes in the west. The flue is the smoke exhaust part between the kang and the roof, especially in the wall. A chimney is the part of the flue above the roof, which is generally 1 2 feet high. There is also a device on the flue, called smoke plug, which is to install a movable plug in the part of the flue near the roof. When the pot or bag furnace is burned in winter, when there is no open flame and smoke, plug in the smoke plug, and the heat will not be lost, otherwise the roaring northwest wind will quickly absorb the heat, and the kang will be cold in the middle of the night. Therefore, nervous Qin Xiao felt very wronged.

If there is injustice, there is a real hammer that is not wronged.

There is a man named Lock Column in the village camp (there are three girls and a son in the family, and his father calculated with Mr. Pig Gua, gave him a name, locked the lock, and later evolved into a lock column). I didn't go to school until I graduated from primary school, and I didn't do my farm work well. He watches the movie Shaolin Temple, subscribes to Wulin magazine, practices martial arts every day, climbs high and climbs low, and gesticulates with whoever he sees. Walking up and down the palm-sized street (gāi) of the village camp, I dragged away the chickens and dogs of the village camp by the way. Of course, there is no IQ and means for educated youth to steal chickens in the bloody dusk of the old ghost, but it is also easy to succeed. The chickens and dogs in the village camp are as simple as people and have no precautions.

After stealing it, it was burned in the yard of the production team on the hillside in the village. It has also been said that over the years, chickens are more tender than old chickens, and hens are more fragrant than cocks ... My parents can't control it, and people in the village say that my parents can't lock it, so they entrust their family in the village to teach him a lesson.

As a result, the next morning, grandpa's whole family was choked to death. After a long inspection, the chimney was blocked. Later, someone saw the lock post go to grandpa's house when it was polished in the early morning. Finally, the militia company commander brought it to the brigade headquarters, only to admit it, and plausibly: my parents don't care, which garlic is he? Dogs take mice-mind their own business, toads go to the road-and pretend to be green jeeps. I don't like him long ago.

The company commander pointed at him and reprimanded him, "Come on, can you tell me where you got the ladder from the building?" Lock column proudly said: "I have practiced martial arts for so many years, for nothing." ? Although I haven't climbed over the eaves yet, it's still relaxing and enjoyable to go to his broken house. No, I'll take another look. From then on, another two-part allegorical saying was born: lock the column and practice lightness skill-it is specially used to block the chimney.

Some people have concluded that it is impossible to prevent such things as locking pillars and blocking chimneys. Many loopholes are reserved for the bad guys-it is not that the good guys are blind, but that the good guys' hearts are not there to think-where is the so-called heart gain?

Jia Pingwa's Yamamoto also tells the story of the naughty boy earthworm blocking the chimney of the kitchen of the peacekeeping force with straw in Qinling before liberation. In the movie Private Zhang Ga, there is also a scene of a chimney, which is Gazi's anger.

According to the smoke, we can judge the wind direction and wind force in the simplest way. If it is straight and there is no wind, the angle is basically 1-3. The shape of the scratch is scattered. If it is above 4-5, there is no shape, or there is no smoke at all. If it's above 6, it's best not to make a fire. The fire will be drawn out of the chimney.

These approximate methods may not be very accurate according to the current standards, but we have a basic judgment basis, which is taught by Li, a primary school teacher in our village, and the teacher is a private teacher who graduated from high school. At that time, there was no natural science course, and the people in the village admired him deeply.

Chimneys and cooking smoke are like the eyes and scenery of a family's life. They have breath, pulse, connotation and a lot to say. For example, burning soft wool firewood will make the smoke white and light, and the smoke of wood mixer is heavy. If you burn coal, the smoke will be particularly dark, heavy and overbearing. The cooking smoke is not smooth and the thickness is different. It may be that the flue or kang cave is blocked and needs to be opened and cleaned. And intestinal problems, stool is not formed is the same reason. Cooking takes a short time, stewing takes a long time, and you can smell the fragrance all over the street (gāi). People who cook and smoke early in the morning are mostly diligent people. If there is a good family, there will be Qing Yu, and if there are hardworking people, there will be blessings.

One year, the neighbors in the backyard of Tunzili saw the lonely old man in the front yard not smoking in the chimney for a day. It is estimated that the old man may have some difficulties. At that time, he didn't have a phone or a mobile phone. He came to see what had happened soon. It turned out that the old man couldn't move because of a cold, so he helped to find a doctor to cook, and warm family smoke came out of the chimney.

When I was a child, I saw beautiful kitchen smoke every day, especially in the winter morning. On the hill passing by on the way to school, I can overlook the two villages before and after, and watch the upright kitchen smoke. Simple gray-white is beautiful in itself. Simple gray-white is combined into kitchen smoke of various colors and shapes, such as Monet's Air and Light, which has various forms, like ink painting, more flexible and warmer than ink painting. Smoke at sunset, smoke at the beginning of the night, smoke when snowflakes float lightly, smoke in the morning after the whole field and village are covered with snow ... After school at night, I saw the chimney at home rising again, knowing that my mother had cooked simple meals, and my cheerful mood urged me to go into battle lightly and float to the warm harbor with my old black dog bag that came to pick me up halfway. ......

Decades have passed, and those images often appear in front of our eyes and set off in our dreams. I have enjoyed many photos and paintings about cooking smoke. Up to now, I haven't found any photographer or painter's works, which can fully show the beauty, emotion, artistic conception and inseparable feeling of kitchen smoke in my eyes. I think only in this way, pure childlike innocence and flawless eyes can we see the love and beauty that are completely integrated with nature.

I am grateful to nature and the pure land in my memory, but I can't express it. I can't share photos, paintings, movies, music or words with more people. It's a pity that my talent, feelings and artistic writing are shallow.

Buildings before the 1990s also had chimneys. Every family cooks with a coal stove, and the chimney also smokes, but few people say that it is cooking smoke. What's even more funny is that blocking chimneys is also found in small closed villages like our hometown and in such a big city. The leader of the unit next to our unit offended an employee for leadership, and the chimney at home was blocked.

The chimneys of buildings in the city are blocked, and the disadvantages of buildings are greater than those of bungalows. If the top is blocked, it will naturally affect all residents in a flue from the first floor to the top floor. The scope of this bad thing is relatively large, and there are more voices being scolded. If we were in the village, the militia company commander would definitely know what to do. Unfortunately, there is no militia company commander in the city (there is no militia company commander in the countryside now, and the militia company commander in those days has become a healthy and happy rural old man), so it is not cost-effective to find the public security bureau chief.

Some people say that foreign moons are round, but what about foreign chimneys? I have been to Europe, but I have never been to the countryside in Europe. I don't know what chimneys are like. Thoreau has a description of building a chimney by Walden Lake, which is quite laborious. It was built for more than half a year. The chimney is not on the roof, but the fireworks are led to an open space outside through a tunnel, and then a tall and difficult chimney is built from the ground.

In "Living the Meaning of Life", Victor frankl recorded that when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp, whenever smoke came out of the chimney of the concentration camp, it was not smoke from the kitchen, but soul-stirring smoke. His heart trembled violently: so many Jews were killed and burned by the Nazis, and the thick black smoke was a heartless ghost. Can 7.80 years of time and wind and rain dilute the memory of smoke, hatred and humiliation? There is a saying that the past is a lesson for the future: a generation that hates war may stop it, but it will not bring peace, and a generation that really loves peace will bring peace. I remembered it again today. Is this an understanding of the ultimate significance of Victor frankl's feelings about the chimney of Auschwitz concentration camp?

When I was a child, I read a book about Christmas for the first time. It said that Santa Claus gave presents to people from the chimney on Christmas Eve. At that time, I didn't understand, so how thick is the chimney in the west to accommodate a person? Did you climb in from the stove pit or climb the ladder outside to come down from the chimney mouth? Isn't it dirty inside the chimney? When I grow up, if I want to design my own house, I must design the chimney big and clean, so that Santa can go in and out freely.

Now, my son has grown up. What about this dream of mine? Sometimes I am confused, not necessarily because my dreams have not come true, but because I have never worked hard for my dreams. I have lost all my colorful dreams, and my deep dreams are no longer as clean and free as water.

In "Red Flag Fluttering" seen in primary school,/kloc-a 0/7-year-old anti-Union fighter and company commander was dizzy with hunger. They climbed out of the cave, found dried ears of grain in the furrow, chewed raw in the snow, and dared not make a fire. As soon as they smoked, the Japanese found out immediately and surrounded them. At that time, the smoke from the village house at the foot of the mountain was the voice of many soldiers. Their lofty ideal of struggle and sacrifice at least contains a small wish, hoping to see the smoke curling up and rising peacefully. Most of them didn't live to this day, but their desire to die for it came true.

Perhaps, the spiritual chimney in the village, the emotional smoke rising every day, is a yearning and tribute to those lives, I think it must be a lofty yearning and tribute.