Today's children are so happy, so happy that when they go to school, they never look up to see what is lighting them!
And people in their thirties talk about the lights they used when they were in elementary school, and there are many topics.
Because I cherish it, because I am curious, I can get distracted when I look at the lamp when I am in class.
From the first grade of primary school, all kinds of lamps are either placed on desks or hung on beams, and they bring us a true portrayal of life.
I entered school in the autumn of 1988, the southwest corner of the primary school, two rows of corridor rooms, the front is an open space as a playground, there is a yard in the back, the first grade is in the northeast of the back row, just more than two months of school, the classroom began to be cold, the teacher asked each student to bring a sorghum or corn stalk from home, a total of four windows in the north and south were all sealed, but the weather at that time, the sky was already dark before four o'clock in the afternoon, and the blackboard could not be seen, at this time we began to use the light!
In the countryside at that time, it was a bit of a luxury to use candles, because the candles had a limited burning time, and it was not cost-effective to buy them every time, so we started to make a kind of lamp - kerosene lamp.
The method is very simple, find a glass bottle with medicine, poke the iron lid in the eye, cut and flatten the toothpaste skin that has been squeezed out countless times at home, and then roll out a tube as thick as chopsticks, put cotton thread in it, and then insert it into the hole of the cap of the medicine bottle, and finally pour kerosene into the bottle, and a kerosene lamp is ready.
With kerosene lamps, it is much more convenient to go to class, in my memory, I used kerosene lamps throughout elementary school, first and second grades are used in the afternoon, and in the third grade, I have to study in the morning, kerosene lamps are used more, and the most prone to problems is also in the morning. After arriving at school, the whole class lit a kerosene lamp, and the whole classroom felt a lot warmer, and in the morning it was basically a loud endorsement.
The small kerosene lamp held up the light of our elementary school years, and now that I think about it, the orange and yellow lights are lit, and in the cold winter, shining on each of our frozen red faces, we are reciting and writing in this light, and we are also singing with the sound of the teacher's pedal piano in this light, such a scene is also unforgettable now.
When I was in junior high school, the school was not very far from our village, so we didn't need kerosene lamps at that time, and we used a very magical lamp - gasoline lamps.
I still don't understand what its principle is, but I know that in addition to gasoline, this kind of lamp needs to be constantly inflated, so that we can't figure out whether the origin of this gasoline lamp is to give "gas" first!
I remember that the classroom of junior high school is larger than that of primary school, the beams are much higher, the walls around are made of stone, it is better in summer, it is a little cold in winter, there are two gasoline lamps hung in the classroom at that time, and each group in the class takes turns to take care of it, and in the afternoon in winter or before morning self-study, the management team in the class should prepare the lamp in advance, mainly to install the lamp head, which is a gauze made of asbestos on the lamp mouth, and then keep pouring gas into the lamp, the gasoline lamp after lighting is very bright, and it will emit the same as before boiling water"Buzzing" sound, where gasoline sprays the result of spraying onto the lampshade.
The gasoline lamp is indeed very bright, and the light color is very similar to the current cold fluorescent lamp, but the gasoline lamp also has a little bit of a bad place, the one under it has a shadow, so that many students don't like to sit directly under it, and they have to keep pumping it in the middle, and the timing is when you can feel the light getting darker and darker. The gasoline lamp has been used for less than two years, and we have been smelling the unique aroma of gasoline in the classroom for two years, which is a smell that many students love, and it is also the smell that we can still smell like in middle school!
In elementary school, the village has actually used electricity, but the voltage is too low, the light of the light bulb at seven or eight o'clock in the evening to write a kerosene lamp is not as good, so at that time the primary school is useless, to the second half of the second grade of junior high school, the electricity gradually normalized, but still the brightness can not reach, the third year of junior high school, the school has a diesel generator, from that time, we can feel that the electricity is so bright, although the generator behind the classroom is a bit loud.
Of course, the most impressive thing is the era of kerosene lamps in primary schools, because many stories in childhood take place in the light of kerosene lamps, in addition to school, there are also at home, mothers made thick cotton shoes with mille-feuille bottoms under kerosene lamps, and fathers read "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" under the lamp, etc., constitute the most unforgettable pictures in childhood life.
And what lights have you used?