Suddenly I found I'm more than 30 years old despite I'm a little unwilling to accept the truth.All seems happened yesterday,but it will never come back again. On a sudden impulse I decide to write some serial essays about my past days ,to commemorate the passed days as 1970s generation, and to share it with all friends in the internet, I'm also wiling to share any stories procided by other friends.
First. My childhood I was born in a big family with four brothers in a remote and poor village,my mother was always hoping to get a daughter but failed,so my parents had to quit after my youngest brother's coming to the world(perhaps it is one of my mother's pity:-)),as you know,family plan was not pused and in fact more children were always encouraged those days. I can remembered clearly we cannot got enough food when I was young,but even so,I had to confess that my childhood life was happy compared urban children nowadays.We didn't have to bear too much study pressures,what we need to do in our childhood is to play and play as we wanted,we had so many little fellows,so we can go swimming in the river together in groups,but what we feared most was our parents' scolding for the danger, there was one time our clothes were confiscated by our parents when swimming so we had to stay naked in the river and bear the hot sunshine for several hours,it was really a heavy punishment. Besides swimming,we also often went to climb hill, so many hills surrounded our village,so it's very easy to find one,when we reached the top,what we could see is still the hills,we were so eager to see the outer world behind the hills,but we couldn't,and it became one of out great dreams. Actually only when I was in Grade 4 in primary school did I get a chance to see a red huge object in our town,I was scared so much till someone told me it was only a bus,haha,it's really a shame to tell it. And we still had many other activities,example to catch firebug and put it into a bottle in the evening,and walked home by the light of firebugs;we also ever caught lots of dragonflies through the spiders web,unfortunately their final lives were often terminated by the chickens,now I think we were really cruel to the animals at that time.Sometimes we went to the river to catch fish,we could watch many groups different colorful fishes swarming up and down the streams,once we drove behind them,they would hiden themself under the little stones,so we could catch them easily,I had forgot how many times we had ever tasted the delicious and wondferful fish and fish soup. Go fishing was also very easy, what we need wass only a stick and some worthworms,and I can guarantee you would have a good harvest, and all these was completely free,even not catch a fish,it is also enjoyable to appreciate the beautiful village landscape.It's really a pity we cannot find such scenes any more for the serious pollution even in rural areas. But good days always couldn't last long,some years later,I found my happy life was ended. (continued)
