Text: Zheng Xueliang.
In the era of the production team, rural children went to school, in addition to the poor school buildings, when it comes to the Xi stationery that was indispensable for going to school in that era, it is also worth remembering that generation.
01. School bag.
When you go to school, having and carrying a small school bag is a prerequisite. Now children's schoolbags, there are two characteristics, one is beautiful, colorful, varied, the other is heavy, the schoolbag is full of textbooks and books, primary school students are struggling to carry, you see when picking up children to school, are grandparents for the children to carry or carry.
In the seventies of the last century, the schoolbags of rural children going to school were not so particular. At that time, the most advanced thing was to have a grass green backpack as a school bag, mostly made of canvas, durable and applicable, especially loved by rural children. However, the average family in the countryside cannot afford to use such a schoolbag, unless a family member or relative has a soldier or a family member who works outside, and the backpack brought back is directly used as a schoolbag, which has become the favorite of children.
Many ordinary rural members of the children's schoolbag are from the mother's hand, just find a few pieces of cloth that are not used, and simply sew a schoolbag by themselves, the biggest disadvantage of the sewn schoolbag is not that the appearance is not beautiful, but this kind of schoolbag has neither a zipper nor a button, it is not tight, and the schoolbag is carried to school and goes to school, if you are greedy for play or something, the pencils, erasers and other small items in the schoolbag are easy to fall to the ground.
At that time, although the schoolbag was simple and simple, but fortunately, the academic burden was light at that time, and there were only two or three books, textbooks and necessary stationery in the schoolbag, which was light and lightweight.
02. Pencil and pencil sharpener.
In my memory, the first time I used a pencil to write, it was still very exciting, which meant that I had changed from an ignorant child to a knowledge-seeking primary school student.
Unlike school bags, there seems to be no big difference between pencils in the past and the present, and the difference is nothing more than varieties and colors. Moreover, now children want to use pencils, buy one if they want to buy it, and replace it at any time, and at that time, they were all bought one by one, and the pencils of the seventies should be two cents a piece.
One of the more troublesome things about writing with a pencil is to sharpen the pencil often and expose the lead before writing. Therefore, when using a pencil, you must also have a pencil sharpener. At first, the simplest was the kind of folding knife, which was opened and sharpened with a blade, which was clumsy and a test of patience, and a little less meticulous, cutting off a large section of the exposed pencil lead, and having to start again.
At that time, there was a more advanced pencil sharpener, called a pencil sharpener, which put the pencil tip into it and turned the pencil to sharpen it, saving worry and effort. However, pencil sharpeners can only be afforded by people from better family conditions, and the students who have pencil sharpeners seem to have become the most energetic in the class, and many students consciously or unintentionally get closer to him (her) to borrow his (her) pencil sharpener when they need to sharpen pencils.
03. Eraser.
When I was in elementary school, stationery was of course inseparable from an eraser. Because I just learned to write, I often make mistakes, so in order to keep it tidy and develop a good handwriting habit, the teacher'Xi s request is to erase and rewrite and start over.
Generally speaking, the tip of the pencil is equipped with an eraser tip, either white or red, once you make a mistake or calculate the wrong answer, turn the pencil upside down and erase it with the eraser head. However, the eraser head on the top of the pencil is often not enough, and after learning to write with a fountain pen, the eraser head on the aluminum pen is obviously not enough, and a special eraser must be used.
When I was in elementary school, I liked the eraser the most, it was boxy, the color was mainly milky white and pink, the color was lovely, and more importantly, the eraser had a sweet aroma of fruit, which smelled very good, although it could not be eaten, but it could smell this sweetness every day, and I felt particularly satisfied.
04. Fountain pen and ink.
It should be the second grade of primary school, and I began to use a fountain pen, although they are both pens, but the symbolism of the two is completely different, using a pencil, indicating that I said goodbye to children and started school, and with a fountain pen, I feel that I have improved to a higher level. In the sixties and seventies, there weren't many adults who used fountain pens, and a pen in their pockets was a symbol of knowledge, so when I started using fountain pens in elementary school, the spirit and pride were a little overwhelming.
In those days, fountain pens were far more expensive than pencils. Therefore, the students love the fountain pen very much, and if they accidentally lose the fountain pen, they will not only be scolded by their parents when they go home, but they will also feel distressed. When I was in the 5th grade of primary school, it was the late seventies, the social control was loosened, the school came to a person who carved the pen words, you can engrave the student's name on the pen, one is to think it is amazing, the other is not easy to make mistakes after the name is engraved, and the fee is not expensive, five cents, the friends are flocking to it, are engraved on the pen with their names, but it is a pity, after many years of study, the engraved pen has long been missing, otherwise, if you take it out today, it can be regarded as a "cultural relic" Finish.
If you have a fountain pen, you have to have ink, remember that the brand of ink at that time was the "hero" brand, there are many children in rural areas, they all share a bottle of ink, several bottles are used up a year, in order to reduce costs and reduce the burden, when the sales point of the times also sells a kind of ink powder, it is a kind of powder, as long as five cents a pack, the ink powder is poured into the empty bottle, mixed with water and mixed evenly to become ink, which is very suitable for those rural children with poor family conditions.
Once, the singer Lao Wolf had a popular campus song "You at the Same Table", which has a lyric "You used to be always very careful, ask me to borrow half an eraser", as a person from that era, I have no experience of borrowing erasers, but it is normal to borrow ink.
Because ink is relatively expensive, I didn't bring an inkwell to school at that time, and before going to school, I used a pen straw at home to suck enough ink to go to school. Some students occasionally forget before going to school, and they run out of ink when they write their homework halfway through, what should I do?borrowed from his classmates, begged his classmates to use a pen straw to aim at his pen needle, squeeze a few drops of ink, and continue writing. The next day when I went to school, I had to squeeze a few drops of ink from the straw of my pen and straw to return it to my classmates. Years later, when I think about borrowing ink from a fountain pen to repay ink when I was in elementary school, I can't help but laugh. Of course, you and I today also miss that poor but innocent time very much.