My hometown is located on the shore of the Bohai Sea, on the east bank of the Mi River. The hometown annual collection in my memory has a strong nostalgia and is a beautiful imprint engraved by the years.
The annual fair is the most desirable place in childhood.
Every year after the twenty-third year of the lunar month, the unique New Year's flavor of my hometown gradually becomes stronger, and the most impressive thing for me is the annual fair of my hometown.
The collection of the hometown is once every five days, which is agreed upon by the old yellow calendar.
At that time, there was no market in the village where I lived, and if you wanted to catch the market, you had to go to Xingyao Village, which was across the river.
On the first and sixth days, people gathered here from all over the world to buy and sell.
Listen to the old man said that this is an ancient set, in the territory of Shouguang is one of the four ancient sets, usually there are a lot of people who rush to the market, after the twenty-third day of the lunar month, there are a lot of people who rush to the market, the whole market is crowded, shoulder to shoulder.
The annual fair in my memory is very lively.
At that time, from the west gate of my village, there was a dirt road through the mouth of the Mihe River leading directly to Xingyaoji. Most of the people east of the river pass through here.
At dawn, the merchants who were engaged in trading gathered in groups of three or five, either pushing carts, carrying burdens, or driving donkey carts, from different villages to the bumpy dirt road, and the crowds of people slowly moved forward, becoming a beautiful scenery in the countryside.
Especially at the mouth of the Mihe River, people gather here, noisy and noisy. I remember that the weather was very cold in those years, and the Mihe River had already formed a thick layer of ice, and the boats on the river could no longer cross, so the boatmen just hid in the houseboat to warm up, and the people who passed by stepped on the ice.
Whenever this happens, there are always people who are talking about the thickness of the ice and whether they can step on it. Stepping on the ice to cross the river can be said to be full of tricks.
At that time, there was a saying that "walk fast on the ice, cross the bridge slowly", that is, it is necessary to cross the river quickly by stepping on the ice, and if you are slow, you will fall or may step on the danger of breaking the ice, and you should cross the bridge slowly, once you are in a hurry, you will fall into the river if you are unstable.
You see the young and strong men who are empty-handed, and they turn sideways, and skate on their legs, and at once they slide to the other side of the river, and the people who push the carts and carry the burdens move forward slowly, especially the older ones, and they support each other, and carefully follow the most of the people who cross the river.
Sometimes, if you are not careful, you will come to the sky with your limbs in the sky and fall on the bright river ice, whenever this time, whether you know or not, as long as you are nearby, you will reach out and pull a hand, and ask: "Did you fall?" And the person who fell got up with a red face and said, "It's okay, it's okay." As he spoke, he looked around and continued walking.
When I arrived at the bazaar, I saw a sea of people, and the whole bazaar was full of people crowded around. Men, women and children are busy buying New Year's goods. The women choose clothes, buy threads, and pull fabrics.
For the Chinese New Year, making a decent new dress and a brand new padded jacket for the children at home is the first consideration of mothers.
Make leftover scraps for clothes, and then make new shoe fabrics for children to wear during the New Year. The women of the peasant family are all good at managing their lives, buying a hat, a new pair of socks, and making a new pair of shoes for the old people in the family, which are all things that they have calculated and calculated in their hearts, and they are eager to break a penny into two petals of flowers, and dress up the family in a bright and decent manner; Men buy fish, cut meat, and choose firecrackers.
After bargaining, I finally bought a bundle of green onions, dozens of catties of radishes and cabbage, a few catties of meat by the way, a little candy and gifts for visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, and then bought a few firecrackers.
The children dragged their families towards the steamed bun shop that exuded an attractive fragrance, and the family economic conditions were better, the parents slowly took out five cents from the handkerchief, raised their arms, handed the money over, and shouted: "Buy a bun", the host took the money, and then handed over a steaming triangular bun, at this time, the family turned around and stuffed the bun into the child's hand, pulled the child forward, and said while walking: "Next time I don't take you here, just know how to spend money." ”
The child only eats and does not react to the blame of the family; When the older boys arrived at the fair, they broke free from their families and went to the fireworks sellers alone to listen to the sound of firecrackers.
The sound of firecrackers in the bazaar comes and goes, one after another, from time to time there is the sound of firecrackers, from time to time there is a hanging whip that is set off, especially the two kicks that explode in the air flashing with firelight, blooming a beautiful fireworks, particularly eye-catching, the sound is big and small, the speed is fast and slow, no matter what kind of sound can draw people's attention over, even if the sound of firecrackers is deafening, but most people still like to cover their ears to watch the fireworks and firecrackers.
The Xing Yaoji in my memory is on the north and south streets at the east end of the village, and there are several relatively wide east-west alleys in the middle, which are also occupied by people setting up stalls on both sides.
The main street was full of shelves and stalls, one next to the other, and the rows were full, several miles long. The southernmost end of the market is the wood market, which is divided into fireworks, daily household appliances, clothing, shoes and hats, cloth and clothing, New Year's couplets, melon seeds and sugar cubes, fruits and vegetables, chickens, ducks and fish.
The items on the annual fair are dazzling, there are everything, dazzling, dizzying, you see: from needles and threads to succulents, from daily necessities to all kinds of entertainment, and all kinds of snacks, all over the road.
Some of the stalls are fixed, and each time they rush to the market, they will be in the same place, and some newcomers will find a random place, and they will be lined up on both sides of the street to set up stalls temporarily, and soon the streets will be crowded with New Year's stalls.
Gradually, the sun rose, and the number of people rushing to the market increased, and when the market opened, the people who set up the stalls shouted at the top of their voices.
The shouting and selling of different accents, the sound of bargaining, the sound of cold laughter, and the local dialect are intertwined and collided, converging into a lively ocean, playing a cheerful song and performing a big drama of the New Year.
The New Year's fair is not only a material enjoyment, but also a spiritual enjoyment. Time flies so fast, before you know it's past noon, the people who rush to the market are returning one after another, the people in the market are gradually decreasing, and those who set up stalls until the sun is in the west, slowly closing the stalls like the tide ebb.
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle. After leaving his hometown for more than 30 years in a blink of an eye, the lively and extraordinary scene of the hometown New Year Fair in my memory is still vivid, with deep memories and endless aftertastes, which is unforgettable.
Hometown is always a place where people working outside the home are haunted by their dreams, hometown is the cradle of my growth, no matter how far I go, I can never forget my hometown, hometown has left a deep imprint in my mind.
There are my childhood friends, my parents' advice, my familiar old house, and my parents and villagers who cared for my growth.
When I think of my hometown, everyone who is adrift will not be able to calm down for a long time. After a few years, I retired and returned to my hometown, but what remained unchanged was my hometown. In particular, the New Year's Fair in my hometown makes me love the changes in my hometown's market.
Today's hometown parents and villagers not only live in a high-standard farmhouse courtyard, eat and drink without worry, but also have a great change in the concept of consumption, not as embarrassed as before, but according to the needs of their respective families to buy items. The biggest change is the development trend of the hometown annual fair.
In order to prevent the potential safety hazards caused by the river, the whole village established a new village east of the river dam, and at the same time, in order to develop the economy, facilitate the life of the villagers, and bring more economic wealth to the hometown, the village set up a month.
2. The market on the 7th. You see, after the twenty-third year of the lunar month, the market in my hometown becomes very lively, and there are all kinds of stalls on both sides of the market, which is dizzying.
The market in my hometown is centered on the "crossroads" in the village, and extends in four directions: east, south, west, and north.
On the east street is the seafood market, on the south side is the cloth, clothes, shoes and hats stalls, on the west street is the haberdashery concentration point, and on the north side of the road is the vegetable market. The vegetable market is the place with the highest concentration of personnel, with many stalls, large quantities, and relatively large sales volumes.
The vegetable market has a complete variety of vegetables, whether it is that season, all kinds of vegetables are available, the rise of local vegetable greenhouses, so that vegetables break the shackles of the season, in the cold winter wax moon, vegetable stalls appear particularly fresh. The tender and prickly cucumbers, pink tomatoes, and tender leeks. All over the wet market.
Someone once said: There are no vegetables that can't be sold in Shouguang, and there are no vegetables that can't be bought in Shouguang. That's a high-level summary of my hometown vegetable market.
Walking through the bazaar in my hometown and witnessing the lively bazaar in my hometown, there is a strong festive atmosphere, and the current market is largely a change in people's consumption consciousness compared to the market of my childhood.
In the past, parents generally did not agree to requests made by their children. Now, parents are asking their children if they need that kind of item.
From this point of view, people's economy is still relatively spacious now. In particular, children's toys are the most sold, and those toys such as "Transformers", "Robots", "Tangrams" and "Puzzles" attract children at different stages to buy.
I remember my childhood when there were no toys to buy, and most of the toys were made from local materials.
Sometimes, occasionally some parents will buy a dime a "little mud dog" for their children from outsiders before the Spring Festival, this "little mud dog" toy is made of mud at both ends, and then painted with color, connected with leather paper in the middle, there is a bamboo whistle inside, hold it in your hand, and the two hands are facing a pair in the middle, and the bamboo whistle in the leather paper will make a "quack, quack" sound.
In terms of life, when I was a child, my parents could buy their children a meat bun sold at a stall in the market to eat, and the child would be very happy, but most children don't like this kind of food today, and some children don't eat it at all.
In terms of clothing, the clothes worn by today's children are not to mention that they have patches, and they don't wear them when they are old, but in my memory, the clothes they wear are big ones, two clothes are worn, sewing and repairing are three wears, and one piece of clothing can be worn by three sisters. It's a joy to be able to wear a new dress every year.
With the approach of the Spring Festival, the bazaar in my hometown is more lively, I slowly move forward along the **, and you can see everywhere that people are no longer just buying a few catties of green onions and more than a dozen catties of radishes as before, but buying more distinctive vegetables, such as garlic moss, leeks, garlic yellow, cucumbers, as well as bananas, pineapples, Xinjiang jujubes and so on shipped from the south.
In this brand new hometown market, I saw a strong hometown market atmosphere, I feel honored and proud, the hometown has changed so much, from the changes in the items purchased by consumers in the market, you can guess that people are full of harvest.
Through the changes in people's consumption in the hometown market, it can be confirmed that society is developing, the times are progressing, and people's living standards are constantly improving.