Childhood Memories (1)- Playground

We may have really entered the early age, and we always like to tell our children about the things, places and people when we were young. In fact, it seems totally irrelevant to our children, but we are more and more excited about ourselves. I think we are just moving ourselves, especially with our husbands.

Niangjia Village is very small, with only one or two hundred families, but there is a "big playground" in the village. The concrete floor has been poured as early as I can remember, and it is relatively advanced in the surrounding villages. We may say "big", because we were still young at that time and we didn't see more of the world at that time. Besides, there was no car parked there at that time. Except for occasional debris, the whole venue is a world where children play wildly, so we don't have to worry about danger.

On the east side of the playground is the main road with a slope of 20 degrees. At that time, this playground was the end. On the east side of the playground is a loading dock, which was an important dock for loading and unloading flowers and trees in the era when there was no crane. Laying a board can save time and effort and easily send heavy flowers and trees to the truck. Along this loading dock, there is a stone wall pile to the north, and the playground is only 1 meter high, while the other side extends from the loading dock, at least three meters high. It is an amusement park that everyone used to climb when they were children. When I was a child, I encouraged my son to climb, but obviously, urban children who have no such experience are very cautious when climbing, completely losing the fun we had as children.

Connected to the stone wall is a theater in the south of the playground. Yes, in the 1980s, a small village actually had a standard modern theater. The theater has three floors, and most of the first floor plays the role of a rural auditorium, where weddings, funerals and weddings can be held. The entrance to the first floor is a railing, which is an important sports place for us. It has become a tool for us to play the horizontal bar. When we turn back and forth, any posture is casually chosen. The second floor is the real entrance to the theater. There are hundreds of folding chairs in the venue, which are log-colored, with odd and even entrances, which are very formal. Red curtains are stacked on the upper stage, which is a good place for children to hide and seek. The stage is about one or two meters high. For the audience in the back row, it is no problem to see the actors clearly. On both sides of the stage are the most mysterious backstage areas I yearned for when I was a child. At that time, if I could sneak backstage and watch the makeup process of the actors, I would be really excited for many days. Now it seems that the so-called backstage is actually just two dressing rooms. The place that used to be very big has become smaller now. The third floor is a very important screening room. The theater can not only stage plays, but also show movies. It's killing two birds with one stone.

What impressed the children most about this theater is definitely not the performance, but all the wonderful things before and during the performance. It is most important for children to join in the fun, but it is not important what they perform. The most impressive thing is to grab the position. There is only Yue Opera in the performance impression here. Every time you come to perform, you will be notified in advance. Every village has such a performance, and every family will invite relatives and friends from neighboring villages to watch the performance. With such good hardware conditions in our village, it is natural that people are crowded every time. This is a way to watch performances and a way for relatives and friends to walk around each other. At this time, the problem came. There are so many people that there are only a few hundred places. What did we do? At that time, there was no ticketing mechanism and there was no charge, so there were all kinds of strange ways to grab seats. Every family will wait at the gate of the theater early with all kinds of things. Because it is just dinner time, some adults in the family have to prepare dinner and often arrange for children to grab seats.

As soon as the theater door opened, everyone swarmed in, and there was absolutely no respect for the elderly and love for the young. Here, this is the level of speed and struggle. The front seats are the most sought after, and the fast-running adults begin to move their things to their positions. Children naturally can't outrun adults, so in my impression, I'd better grab the last few rows. In this foreplay, various contradictions are inevitable. You said you robbed it first, I said I robbed it first. Some people take other people's things down and put them on themselves. What is more exaggerated is that they directly grabbed a row of positions with bamboo poles. It's fun to think about it now. Of course, for me, it is estimated that most of them didn't get it, but it was just a sad moment for the children. Anyway, the children don't need seats during the whole performance. Running around is our pleasure. The only people who didn't grab the seats were the adults standing in the aisle watching the excitement. A good performance will crowd people into the entrance. During the performance, it is also important to go backstage to block the actors. It is also very happy for children if they can see the actors coming out at close range. If you can let the actors with clothes touch their heads, it is estimated that you can let the children go to the top than seeing the emperor.

Compared with the current high-end cinema, this cinema in the village is much worse, but in the 1980s, such a remote village was also a great building, which brought too many wonderful memories to our generation. The pleasure of enjoying art in the modern theater is probably not as good as the pleasure of listening to the performances of those unknown Shaoxing opera actors in this small cinema.

On the west side of the playground is a stone wall about five or six meters high. The buildings in the village are all built on the mountain, so the houses used to be flat. The southwest corner of the playground is the step road leading to the village and the cement road leading to the mountain. Of course, this used to be land, and the cement road was only built in the past ten years. In the south of the playground, there is a parking garage and a cultural activity room. There are three garages on the first floor, which can park big cars. The parking garage used to park Jiefang brand cars, so the location was particularly high. The garage door also doubles as a bulletin board in the village, with various notices posted. I have no memory of the second floor when I was a child, but it has been developed into a library, a table tennis room and a square dance speaker room in recent years. The most ineffective thing is the library, which is purely cosmetic. At the east and south junction of the playground, there is a waiting room and a small shop. I remember when I was 7 years old, I went to the preschool class in the town, and I always waited for the bus in this waiting room.

There is a regular playground in the middle of the surrounding area. We ran around and played in this playground all day, and we didn't go home until our parents told us to eat. Compared with today's children, our little homework at that time was really pitiful, and we spent a lot of time chasing children to play.

Small playground, accompanied me, where I learned to ride a bike, using my father's men's permanent brand bike. I remember that I learned to ride a bike in the third grade. What impressed me the most was that the first time I went up the rung was not long enough, I couldn't control it at all, and I went straight to a mound. The result can be imagined. I learned it with my friends. I don't remember how long. Anyway, everyone learned it at almost the same time. Since then, the five-mile road to school has been replaced by a bicycle. Coincidentally, a group of uncles and I were learning driver's license in this playground, and my father insisted that I learn it. At that time, I thought it was useless to learn this. I can't afford a car at home, and I don't want to be a driver as a girl. It turns out that my father's vision is much higher than ours, and the changing speed of the times far exceeds our expectations.