For our children, we don't know what a hard life is, just like "teenagers don't know the taste of sadness."
Always find a lot of fun. Play mud, play games, play house and so on. One thing that every child especially likes is that the commune film team comes to the village to show movies.
It is not common for the commune film team to show movies in the village. You have to wait a month or two before you can come again. The children are waiting for the film to be shown in the village, looking forward to it every day.
There is no entertainment in the countryside. Adults face the loess with their backs to the sky during the day, and sleep after a tired day. Nobody had a TV at home. At that time, TV was a luxury.
Children are playful by nature. If they wait until the village informs them that there will be a movie one day, they will be too excited to sleep for a few days.
The children in the village, a bunch here and a group there, are all talking about showing movies and chattering endlessly.
Talking about the fun of showing movies to each other, some children went to other villages to invite their cousins and cousins to watch movies together.
Film teams come to the village to show movies, more in summer. There are not many movies when it is cold in winter.
On the day of watching the movie, the Spring Festival that friends were looking forward to finally arrived. They were so happy that they kept smiling all day.
The days are particularly long in summer. At seven o'clock, the sun is still hanging on the western hills.
The children have been waiting for the night to come early. After waiting for so many days, I am happy for so many days. I finally have a movie to watch, and I don't even want to mention how happy I am.
There is a large area of cement in the village, which is usually used to bake millet. This is the place where all the films are shown.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the children in the village took out their stools and wanted to occupy the best position in the middle.
When the temperature is high in summer, the temperature of the cement floor is higher. It's easy to get heatstroke in the past so early, children, and adults won't listen to anything anyway.
Sometimes the concrete floor is covered with millet, so I just put a stool on it.
Often fight for a position, children will quarrel. Brothers, brothers, sisters and sisters mix together to play. It depends on who has more brothers and sisters, who wins and who occupies the best position.
Evening finally came, and there were lights on the western hills. The film team pulled in the projector and was already slowly preparing for the screening, and two people were hanging the film curtain.
The villagers in the village also came one after another. There are adults and children; Some people sit on stools, while others don't; Greeting each other, talking and laughing, especially the children are noisy.
There are people selling popsicles and melon seeds, shouting. At that time, popsicles were fifty cents each, and melon seeds were put in tapered paper, which was also fifty cents a pack.
This is one of the reasons why children like to show movies. They can ask their parents for some money, eat a popsicle or a pack of melon seeds.
Showing a movie is like a holiday. Adults and children are happy, especially children.
The film began to show. The film is called Tunnel Warfare. The children are quiet and earnest, their eyes are wide open, and every detail can't be missed.
There are many interesting memories of childhood. At that time, rural children were monotonous and painful, but they had different happiness and interest from children in today's era.