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Bamboo Shop Sleeping Mat ■ Pufan Mosquito Net ■ Well water splashing on the floor □ Childhood songs and games when resting ■ Melons, melons, watermelons, fireflies and crickets chirping ■ Milky Way meteors and flowers with dew in the morning, making pots of tea ■ throwing popsicles and sticks □ listening to ghost stories ... It turns out that electric fans and air conditioners make us lose not only summer, but also an extremely rich summer coolness

In the summer of that year, it was a good thing if bamboo shops were necessary for every family. Unfortunately, many people did not have a bamboo shop with four legs and a bed at home. Most people have one or several bamboo boards. The bamboo board must be supported by a bench. In the 198s, more and more people supported the bamboo board with iron grasshopper legs. Compared with bamboo shops, the biggest disadvantage of bamboo boards is that when we were children, we often fell to the ground with bamboo boards when we were fighting on them.

according to the gossip of neighbors, in 195s and 196s, many families didn't even have bamboo boards, so some people propped up their doors and slept outside. The strangest bamboo bed is that someone used two bamboo poles as a bed in those years and slept peacefully into the sky. At that time, my fifth uncle worked in Changsha Chemical Reagent Factory. He said that there was a young worker in their unit who slept on the board car in the factory at night. A colleague was bored at night and dragged this scooter to the Xiangjiang Bridge. He woke up the next day, startled, thinking that he was sleepwalking, and had to drag the scooter back to the factory early in the morning. This is also an interesting thing to cool off in summer.

In the past, people who slept in the open air called their children to go home to sleep after 11 pm. At that time, it was chilly at midnight and early morning in summer in Changsha. I often get up early in the morning and see young and middle-aged men who are still sleeping in bamboo shops on the street, often wrapped in blankets and curled up into a ball.

□ folding fan, palm leaf fan and manpower fan

There are no electric fans, but there are various fans such as folding fan and palm leaf fan. When someone shakes a feather fan, we can't help thinking of Kong Minglai when we are young.

I remember that when summer came, when I was studying in the fourth grade of primary school in Xiwenmiaoping, it was going to be summer vacation. Many students brought fans, and the paper folding fans of "Three English Wars against Lyu3 bu4" were often scrawled with four doggerels on the folding fans:

It was hot in June, so fans were not allowed to borrow.

if you want to borrow it, wait until December.

words are often written on big fans made of rice leaf fans to avoid being lost and confused. According to the old man, some words were smoked by kerosene lamps, so my aunt Hui took pains to smoke the words "Hui I am cool" with kerosene lamps.

when we were sensible, it was in the late 197s. At that time, there were ceiling fans in Changsha. According to adults, before there were ceiling fans, the fans in the barber shop just hung some cloth blankets and invited apprentices or blind people to pull them to create a cool breeze.

Wang Renmei, a movie actress, said in her memoir My Fame and Misfortune: When she was a child, her family lived in Changsha. She said, "I was deeply impressed by one thing ... My father taught them (Wang Renmei's little brother and sister) to make an earthen fan, and tied many strips of cloth to a wooden stick and hung it. The wooden stick was connected with a rope. When the rope was pulled, the cloth swayed back and forth. The meal arrived in the evening. You usually have to sip it to the last bit. Otherwise, it would be a pity to rot the next day.

According to Zhu Yunhong's article "Ten Streets for Industry and Commerce in Changsha", "In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Rao Xiaomei, the eldest daughter of Rao Daosheng Tufang (now Cai E South Road, Jiefang West Road) in Qingshiqiao, Changsha, was not only capable and courageous, but also thoughtful. Summer is very hot, and sometimes pork can't be sold out. She thinks that there is a hanging well behind the house, so she hangs the leftover meat in the well in the shade and sells it the next day. The meat quality is still new. Later, this method was promoted by Changsha colleagues. " Of course, in hot weather, the effect of this air conditioner in the well is actually very limited.

□ Potted tea is very thirst-quenching

In Changsha, people often make tea with "old mother leaves" in big earthen pots or porcelain pots in summer, commonly known as "Potted tea". Almost every family must have a pot, and when it is cool, you can open your belly and drink it. The tea brewed by "old mother leaves" is the most thirst-quenching in summer. This pot of tea often contains crushed old ginger, which is said to dispel the cold. People who are more particular will also make some licorice tea.

Other families, in order to relieve the summer heat, will make some "yellow among people" tea to relieve the summer heat.

In the past, there were herbal teas in front of Changsha Siyitang, China National Medicine Bureau and Changkang Drugstore in summer, so you could drink bitter and sweet tea with less money, and you could buy herbal tea packages.

According to Peng Ruiqiang's article Hunan Commercial and Pharmaceutical Bureau and Guo Houkun, "Hunan Commercial and Pharmaceutical Bureau, which was founded in the early years of the Republic of China, is in urgent need of people, constantly expanding the scope of free services, supplying herbal tea and summer medicine in summer, and giving away the epidemic medicine in summer and autumn ... without taking a penny, there are quite a few rescuers, which is widely praised by the society."

According to the old man, during the Republic of China, the slightly larger pharmacies in Changsha did not charge for herbal tea in summer, and it was often the working class who "sweated in the sun" in summer. It was also one of the social relief measures for them to get free herbal tea.

□ Smoke mosquitoes with wet grass

In the Republic of China, there was mosquito-repellent incense in Changsha, and Liuhe Temple was the most famous.

after the founding of the people's Republic of China, there was a shortage of materials. Mosquitoes were smoked in the city of Changsha in the 196s. According to the memories of old neighborhoods, most people filled a jar with wet grass mixed with a small amount of hay, lit it, and the smoke rolled to smoke mosquitoes.

Of course, there are still mosquitoes harassing you when you are resting next to the bamboo shop. At this time, the young child is made up of an amiable mother, patting the child to hum a lullaby and shaking her fan to drive away mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes usually stay in mosquito nets. At that time, every family still had kerosene lamps because of the unstable power supply. At this time, parents will light a small kerosene lamp, and use the kerosene lamp glass cover to close to mosquitoes and use lights to kill mosquitoes.

□ Watermelons, melons and melons

According to Yang Xinmei Mian, No.32 Zuoju Street, there were not many watermelons in the Changsha market in the 196s. On that day of ups and downs, every household had to queue up to buy watermelons. Although they were exposed to the sun, mothers often left them there. As for whether you bought white melons, red melons, or yellow melons that you can't see today, this watermelon in the dog days is also delicious for the whole family, especially for children. In the late 197s, there were more watermelons. In the 198s, watermelons became a heatstroke prevention benefit for some units. At that time, watermelons were all round, and there were very few long round and oval melons, and they rarely tasted fertilizer.

Melon is not big, but it tastes delicious. Cucumber also makes children eat happily. There are also tomatoes and cucumbers. In those days, children felt that raw food was the best, but adults often cooked it.

It is said that children much older than us tried bean jelly made of bean jelly seeds, and the bean jelly contained the coolness of mint. But adults don't think this kind of bean jelly is clean, and children are not allowed to eat it. Today, people know that most of them are just scraping bean jelly different from bean jelly.

The Chronicle of Changsha records an old custom: "On the first day of July in the ancient calendar, it was not bright, that is, people shouting and selling sesame candy were heard in the streets and lanes, which is a unique summer food in Changsha." When we were sensible, there was no sesame candy in Changsha, only tinkling cocoa candy exchanged with toothpaste skin in autumn and winter.

Sour plum soup is not only available in Hong Mei, but also in Hongxing cold drink shop on Jiefang West Road. Dad has an educated youth friend, Wei Lichun. In that shop, she often refills the sour soup I just finished when people are not looking. Wow, it's cool and cool.

□ prickly heat powder, toilet water and Liuyi powder

In those days, due to the restriction of diet and heatstroke prevention conditions, children were very toxic to fire, and often developed prickly heat and large boils.

Every evening, after bathing, every child's forehead is covered with prickly heat powder, which looks like "powdered wax gourd". Even later, many people looked at the "double spring" of soldier Qizhi, and the appearance on the face of "Ha Fu Oil" still made many people very kind.

Toilet water is spicy, cool and fragrant, and girls feel as happy as they are when they are perfumed. Later, Liushen toilet water sold well all over the city in the late 198s.

liuyi powder can not only refresh the skin, but also be taken with water. But in those days, boys used to fold paper into jet-shaped objects, put them in bulk and spray them into their mouths while squeezing them.

A good popsicle is "passing through"

In those days, the most important quality inspection standard was "passing through". Without melting popsicles, they only have a lasting appeal when sucked. People who sell popsicles with wooden boxes or foam boxes on their backs often shout in the market, "Popsicles, mung bean popsicles that can knock." In the early 198s, I had the impression that there were three kinds of popsicles: 3 cents white sugar popsicles, 5 cents mung bean popsicles and 8 cents or 1 cents cream ice cream. Many large factories in Changsha have ice factories, and employees issue popsicle tickets, which is a kind of welfare that we envy for the children of the commercial sector.

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