"Oil Paper Umbrella" Prose in Children's Memory

"Holding an oil-paper umbrella, a person lingers in a long, lonely rain lane, hoping to meet a girl who is as sad as cloves ..." Reading Dai Wangshu's Rain Lane in modern literature class, the heart of youth was immediately infected by beautiful poems, which inexplicably gave birth to "lilac-like melancholy". When people reach middle age, they have no melancholy, but they are full of memories of old things, and the fragrance of oil-paper umbrellas is more and more real.

When I was very young, I used an oil-paper umbrella. The shape and structure of the oil-paper umbrella are the same as those of the current umbrella. However, the handle and skeleton of the umbrella are made of bamboo, and the umbrella surface is an oil-paper umbrella. Maybe that's why it's called an oil-paper umbrella. The oil-paper umbrella I used when I was a child should be improved. In my memory, the umbrella cover is canvas, and the cloth cover is oiled and has a faint fragrance. Some people don't like the smell and say it stinks. The ancient oil-paper umbrella may indeed be made of oiled paper, which has been recorded in Mengqianbitan and Tiangong Wu Kai. The oil-paper umbrella made of bamboo is clumsy, and it is difficult for children to open it. We put the umbrella on the ground and pushed it down with all our strength, hoping that we couldn't push the whole body up before we could open it, then plug in the bolt and it will be used immediately. The oil-paper umbrella is very strong, and the strong wind can't blow it down. The umbrella cover of oil-paper umbrella is generally large, so it is no problem for several children to use it together. In the rainy south, they got off the bus without rain protection. After school with an oil-paper umbrella, several students who didn't have an umbrella got in, and everyone hugged each other and stumbled all the way. Back in the village, students who didn't bring umbrellas secretly ran home with umbrellas and schoolbags on their heads.

If the oil-paper umbrella is not made of oil paper, the oil-paper fan I use is made of oil paper. According to the custom of my hometown, every time my daughter gets married on the Dragon Boat Festival, she will send a holiday to her parents. There must be an oiled paper fan in the gift. The method of oil paper fan is very simple. Reserve a bamboo as a handle, cut it in half, carefully split it into thin strips with a knife, spread it out one by one and fix it into a fan shape with thin lines to make the skeleton of the fan, and paste oil paper on the top to make the oil paper fan. Oil paper is not only available in ordinary families. Sometimes we paste the fan with newspaper, but it will rot after a few fans. The fan made of oil paper is durable and not afraid of getting wet. Oil painting paper has this magical function. Adults say it is painted with tung oil, which is the oil squeezed from tung trees. There are many in the mountains of my hometown. Every year, relatives from the mountains come to the village to sell tung oil. Every household in rural areas should use tung oil. Grandma pumps tung oil into wooden pots and barrels at home every year. First, loosen the hoops of these objects and expose them to the sun until there are all gaps in the joints between the boards. Grandma dipped a small piece of cloth in tung oil from the inside out, carefully rubbed tung oil on every corner to let tung oil penetrate into the wood, and then knocked on the iron ring bit by bit, making the board perfect and harmonious. Wooden boats are also inseparable from tung oil, which was still a very important strategic material during the Republic of China. Tung oil has waterproof function, whether it is an oil-paper umbrella or an oil-paper fan, even if it is made of paper, it can be waterproof and durable when coated with tung oil, and wood furniture is more waterproof and durable when coated with tung oil. There is an old man in the village who has wronged himself all his life and is often laughed at by the villagers for being too frugal. I have seen him wearing a pair of trousers as straight as canvas and shining. The old man said it was painted with tung oil, which saved washing and was durable. But after applying tung oil, it became too hard and often grazed his thigh. This pair of tung oil trousers has become the most commonly used joke of the villagers.

The use of oil-paper umbrellas in new materials has been eliminated, fans are rarely used in the popularization of air conditioners, and portable plastic pots have replaced wooden ones ... Tung oil is useless after all. Old objects such as oil-paper umbrellas and oil-paper fans inevitably quit people's daily lives. After their life course, they will eventually fade out of sight.

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