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Childhood Memories of Old Taizhou - Those Disappearing Professions

time：2023-03-26 13:33:58 source：chloeaktas.com author：A solitary woman

Childhood Memories of Old Taizhou - Those Disappearing Professions

With the progress of society, many occupations have disappeared. Today's young people sound like a fantasy, and even feel inexplicable and incredible, but those things are indeed things we experienced when we were young. Memories also unfold, telling of events from the long past. When I was a child, at the entrance of the post office, there was an old man who supported a dilapidated table. On the table, there was an ink bottle with a water-soaked pen on it, and several stacks of letter paper, doing the business of writing letters. There seemed to be a lot of illiteracy back then. Men make a living abroad, and women want to communicate with them. They can only find a stand for writing letters for a few cents and ask someone to write them on their behalf. When I was a child, I liked to watch the fun, and sometimes I would play next to the stand where the letters were written on behalf of me, and I would listen to women first ramble about trivial matters at home, such as "I have already received the money you sent. Fortunately, you have to take care of your body outside, it's cold, you need to add clothes. Did you receive the clothes that Zhang San brought you?" After the old man who wrote the letter wrote it in half classical and half vernacular, he shook his head and recited it, and the woman next to him kept nodding his head in yes. After the old man had settled his beliefs, he sealed it in an envelope, wrote the recipient's address, name, sender's address and name, affixed a stamp, charged a few cents, and instructed the woman to put it in the mailbox and send it out, and the business was done. . Another business is selling tap water. At that time, instead of running water to every household, it led to the intersection, and the tap was taken care of by one household. This family is responsible for selling tap water. Tap water is a big bucket for one dollar, adults spend two cents to buy two buckets of water, use a pole to pick up two buckets of water to go home, and dump them in their own water tank. When needed, scoop it out in a container by yourself. I remember that sometimes when the adults were not at home and the water ran out, my sister and I spent a penny to buy a bucket of water, and the two of us used a pole to carry the bucket of water home. It was so painful that I could not forget it for a long time. Sometimes when I get busy, people who buy water need to wait in line for people who sell water to release water. People who sell water rely on the meager profits they save from selling tap water to improve their lives. There are many people who sell tap water, and they are located at every intersection of the city. This kind of life lasted for many years when I was a child, until the 1980s. There is also a noodle shop near my alley. The so-called noodle noodles are digging a pit on the ground and placing a concave stone in the pit. Use a long tree stump to tie a large piece of wood at one end of the pool as an impact stake. People hold the wooden pole on the other side and step on the other end of the long tree stump with their feet to make a lever motion to impact the rice placed in the pool until the rice changes. into powder. That's how noodles came to be. The family's business is very good, and they are constantly busy every day. This work is also a heavy manual labor. Although there is a leverage principle, it is very tiring to do it all day. With the development of productivity, it is inevitable that this work will be eliminated. In addition, there is a business, that is, the tea stove, which is to sell hot water, and now there are still in the university. At that time, there were common tea stoves on the streets, that is, some people sold boiling water with small boilers for a few cents a thermos of water, and many people carried two thermos to fill the water. At that time, there was no concept of electric kettle at all, and even if there was one, it could not be used. In the 1980s, the telephone appeared. At that time, except for a few people who had telephones in their homes, the vast majority of ordinary people did not have telephones in their homes. Many commissaries are equipped with telephones, and you have to pay 20 cents to make a call, and report the person and unit you are looking for. answer the phone. Or make a call to another commissary, and the person from this commissary will call the person who answers the phone. It took ninety years for every family to start installing telephones. With the change of time and the progress of society, many occupations will disappear. Perhaps the constant is our culture and memory. We should record these memories so that young people know what we have been through and where we came from.

(Responsible editor：Rich young woman)

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