In the 1970s, there were no televisions or electric fans in the countryside. How do you spend the summer nights?

In the rural areas of the 1970s, many places still collectively ate the same pot. At that time, there was no electricity. I lit a kerosene lamp at night, and there is a flashlight at home, which is probably the most valuable household appliance at home. As for televisions and fans, many people have never seen them.

Rural life in the 1970s was very difficult.

I remember that food and clothing was not well solved at that time, but in summer, because of the high temperature, high energy consumption and long physical stage, the primary concern was to eat enough. We are the main rice producing area here. Double-cropping rice was planted before agricultural contracting, and summer is at the most critical moment of "double grabbing" (grabbing harvest and seeds), and adults work day and night.

Because the temperature is too high during the day, they all wear black in the morning and work in the fields, leaving our children at home, and the older children take care of the younger ones. So there is almost no concept of day and night, the only difference is that it is a little cooler at night. Without the sun, we can run around in groups.

How do you spend the summer nights?

Looking back, it was actually quite interesting. Listen to the cable broadcast. At that time, almost every family had cable broadcasting, that is, using wires to pull a speaker from the village broadcasting line to the home and play it regularly. The content inside was to broadcast CCTV news and newspaper abstracts, local news and some cultural programs.

Listen to the radio. At that time, although there was no TV, there were still many radios (necessities for newlyweds) and programs that were often listened to, such as weather forecast, newspaper abstracts, weekly songs, cross talk, fast books and so on.

Dan Tianfang's storytelling was very popular at that time. Get together and chat. In summer, men, women and children bring stools and straw mats to the production site to chat and listen to old people telling stories and jokes. Students usually study at school or do their homework at home in the evening.

The difference between sunny days and summer.

On a sunny day. After dinner, you guys carry the soft bed made of hemp rope to the threshing floor of Zhuangtou production team, take a thin cup and a reed mat with your own quilt cover, pile up your shoes and put them under the mat as pillows, and you can sleep until dawn. When I woke up, the dew had wet my hair. The advantage of sleeping on the threshing floor is that you can see stars, slowly moving satellites and meteors. Frogs croak from time to time.

When it rains. At that time, there were many mosquitoes in rural areas, especially when it rained, and the whole house door was covered with mosquito-woven curtains, which was also the reason why rural people suffered from malaria at that time. Use an enamel washbasin coated with smelly soap and pick up a mosquito bag, which can be covered with mosquitoes. If there is no mosquito-repellent incense, light the dried cattail sticks and wormwood to smoke mosquitoes.