Mengcheng, a disappearing city. ...

Two days ago, I wrote an article about the origin of my hometown-Mengcheng, and there were many supportive voices. I want to thank my hometown folks and distant relatives and neighbors, your for his support and encouragement, and your for his interaction, which makes us close to each other although we are far apart. Of course, noisy humiliation and abuse also exist. Since you choose to release yourself on this platform, it is impossible to please everyone. Of course, if you want to (fa) fly (xie) yourself here, this platform can tolerate your existence, because your existence sets off the harmony of this society, and it is precisely because of your existence that I see my own shortcomings ... In short, thank you, thank you all present!

There is a place where we can open our mouths to humiliate her and complain about her, but we can never tolerate others saying that she has something bad. This place is called hometown. My hometown, the beautiful dream city, is developing with each passing day and at a high speed, attracting countless investors to help out, but the changes in my hometown also make the post-90 s generation, who will soon become the mainstay of society, miss it infinitely.

Urban construction is in full swing. When high-rise buildings rise, high-speed rail is paved, and Mengcheng becomes familiar and unfamiliar! Some things are rising, but some things are disappearing. ...

Today, I will take you to recall the "Damengcheng" in our memory. I used to be used to the images in the street, the familiar places and the smell of missing, now ...

Popcorn, maltose, syrup, cotton candy ... Unconsciously, those snacks that were once loved by gourmets have only existed in everyone's mind.

popcorn

The black gourd-shaped "gun barrel" stove turned on the firewood, and soon I heard a bang, and glistening rice bubbles emerged, which was terrible! It's rare now ...

maltose

"dang! Bang! Bang! ...... "When I was a child, I knew it was selling sesame candy as long as I heard the rhythmic sound of hammers and tin plates. I am happy to ask my parents for money, but I can't bear to eat it for a long time. How many children can I meet now?

maltose

Caramel-colored syrup pulls long silk between two bamboo sticks, and the thick malt flavor slowly dissipates. The tip of the tongue tastes silky and moist, and the fun of eating brushed sugar lies in this: the taste is fragrant and sweet, with endless aftertaste.

Cotton candy

The bamboo stick turned and turned, and actually turned out white clouds. Sweet and soft, like happiness. Buying one after school will make you feel very sweet. Now there are more shapes and colors for sale, but there is no feeling of childhood!

In those years, the cigarettes in the teahouse were sold according to the theory. When the pot at home was broken, the master was called to repair it. When the knife was dull, there was a sharpener. When the house leaked, someone looked for tiles, and sometimes they took pictures at your door. ...

Outdoor barber

The coal stove burns a pot of boiling water and a bench, scraping a dollar and never charging more. The master's craft is good, and the flat cutting is called straight cutting. Now it has been replaced by various high-consumption barber shops.

Sugar blower

Walking down the street with candy on his shoulder and knocking on the gong with his hand attracted children to watch. It's nice to blow the sugar man.

In the early 1980 s, a few cents or a few toothpaste tubes could be exchanged for a sugar man. Nowadays, there are many toys for children, and sugar people are no longer children's playthings, but have been regarded as folk art.

dough

I used to see some dough-kneading craftsmen carrying a small wooden box and carrying a burden, and now they sell it. All kinds of dough mud, scrapers, bamboo sticks, combs and scissors are the possessions of old artists and chefs. Nowadays, people walking up and down the street rarely carry burdens. ...

Nail scale

Making scales is a delicate job. In this kind of "haggle over every ounce", the nail weigher paid his youth and sweat. Seiko, careful investigation, only for the craftsman's commitment.

cobbler

Repairing shoes is the most common thing in people's lives. Leather shoes appeared very early in China, and the written records can be traced back to the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, even women had to wear leather shoes.

Shoe repair shops on the roadside are so different from the bustling modern city and the rapid mechanization era. Their existence is the homesickness of a city and the echo of the values of the previous era.

Defeat the blacksmith

"Half a rickety room, a grumpy person" is a true portrayal of the old society while the iron is hot. However, with the passage of time, it seems that the blacksmith and the blacksmith's melting pot will eventually end in silence and indifference and leave sadly.

Wool cotton

When I was a child, every family would go to a craftsman who played cotton to make bedding. With the sound of strings and the dancing of flowers, a pile of cotton was pressed into a neat quilt. It is also very happy to have a new quilt cover when I was a child!

Modaojiang

"Sharpen scissors, kitchen knife ~ ~ ~" Long shouts always seem to ring near or far away. The old man is carrying a bench with a grindstone and gears on it. Seeing him grinding back and forth on the grindstone with a kitchen knife, soon the kitchen knife was as good as new?

Watch repairman

Magnifier, alcohol lamp, tweezers and dexterous hands are their weapons. In the small workshop, their life pictures were solidified, and they witnessed the passage of time.

Repair pen

People in the old society advocated thrift. Repair the broken pen if you can. A broken pen will be "reborn" in a few minutes of work and a few minutes of spending. Nowadays, with the popularization of computers and the development of pen-making industry, pens are gradually replaced, and pen repair is naturally eliminated by society.

Repair pot

In the past, if someone's wok burned out and didn't want to throw it away, they would take it out and mend it for the master. Many people's pots have been repaired and repaired for several years. Now that everyone's living conditions are good, the pot will be replaced when it is broken, and the skill of mending the pot will gradually disappear.

The shouts of Laomengcheng can best reflect people's life at that time, and the shouts of buyers and sellers shuttling through alleys have become the memory of a generation.

Popsicles ~ bean paste popsicles ~ five cents each

In the early years, such shouts were often heard in the streets of Mengcheng. When I was a child, there was a loud cry in the streets and lanes, accompanied by the "snapping" sound of wooden blocks hitting the wooden popsicle box.

"Broken bottles for sale!"

At that time, it was not riding a tricycle or pushing a scooter, but carrying a pair of laundry baskets to sell along the street, also called "high roller"

"Sharpen scissors and knives."

Grinding scissors, alas, the shouts of grinding kitchen knives dragged on for a long time, one after another coming from the alley, just like nursery rhymes, accompanied by the growth of generations.

If time can be frozen, I hope to live in Mengcheng 20 years ago. Carefree and happy! At that time, there were no private cars, and travel was basically based on 28-bar bicycles. 28-bar bicycle was the most important means of transportation at that time. My father used to take me shopping and riding!

Now there are only wider and wider roads, more and more expensive cars, and the roadside scenery is also the same building. At that time, every household had such printed old coarse linen sheets. On a sunny day, two trees were tied by a rope, and bask in the quilt began!

At that time, the most anticipated thing was to go shopping with my parents, and then pester them to buy candied haws and snacks. Following behind my ass, I feel the world is so novel. Later, I learned that the world is very big, but the best time is when I am behind my parents!

At that time, we had very few snacks, but it was precisely because of this that we had the opportunity to taste the best food in life. In the past, there were old people at home, and the younger generation came to pay New Year greetings during the Spring Festival. Fruit, steamed bread and big steamed bread are the best snacks to eat in my life!

At that time, there were no coke, sprite and rock candy Sydney. However, I have an ice cream and orange soda for a few cents. In summer, I eat a cold ice cream and drink fresh soda. You bite me. That kind of inner satisfaction has never been seen since then!

At that time, everything at home at that time was antique now. A black and white TV set, half the people in the village come to watch it, talk about the news together and talk about their parents' shortcomings.

At that time, it was a supreme honor for primary school students to become young pioneers, and they always felt that the red scarf on their chests was particularly bright.

At that time, marriage was not about family, but about the character of the young man! At that time, all the girls were willing to work with you and fight for the future! At that time, there was no video, no ceremony and no rehearsal for getting married!

Even in red dresses and wedding dresses, the bride and groom only have happy smiles on their faces. At that time, there were endless memories and endless memories. .....

Now, we can only recall!

The more it develops, the more it disappears!

The wheel of history is advancing, the times are changing rapidly, many novel things come out, and many familiar things gradually abdicate and disappear!

Mengcheng, a rising city!

Mengcheng, a disappearing city!