One of the most outrageous I have ever heard of was the birth of a son after giving birth to twelve daughters.
Having been in the countryside for more than 40 years, I found that there were very few families without sons. For these families without sons, there are generally two situations:
One is that it cannot be born; One is that after giving birth to two daughters, family planning is too strict and there is no way to have another child. This kind of family is what we call a "two-woman household". In the past, there were preferential policies for the high school entrance examination and poverty alleviation.
In order to solve the problem of heirs, there are generally two solutions:
One is adoptive. From a family with many sons, he adopted a boy, changed his surname to his own surname, and became his own son.
The second is to recruit a son-in-law. If you recruit a son-in-law, you don't have to have all the children with your mother's surname, but the first boy must have your mother's surname. This baby boy, his grandparents can't be called grandparents, they have to be called grandparents.
I once accidentally made a mistake with a baby boy, and the aunt quickly corrected me and said that it was not my grandmother but my grandmother.
This is the obsession of rural people, there must be a son, and if there is no son, there must be a grandson.
* In the 10s, family planning was quite strict.
I have seen with my own eyes the scene of a neighbor's uncle, in order to avoid family planning, his home was "raided".
The locks on the doors were picked, the boxes were split, the clothes were turned around, and even the cattle were taken away. When it came, a township cadre was still angry, so he picked up the penny and went to lift the tiles on the uncle's roof. The villagers really couldn't see it, so they went up to dissuade it, and that person gave up.
In this way, everyone would still rather be poor than have a son.
In 1990, Song Dandan and Huang Hong performed a sketch on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala called "Superborn Guerrilla".
Really, that sketch is not an exaggeration at all. At that time, superborn guerrillas were really staged in the countryside. One of the most outrageous I have ever heard of was when I gave birth to twelve daughters, and at the thirteenth time, I finally gave birth to a son.
When his son was born, it was estimated that his grandchildren and granddaughters would be able to help bring their uncle.
In addition to having sons, rural people are also very obsessed with building houses.
In the past, the standard for rural people to build houses was to be larger.
I have a neighbor and two sons, the middle hall is shared, and another person built two buildings on one side, and the total area should be more than 300 square meters.
In recent years, self-built houses have begun to limit the area. Everyone can no longer build a house to be big, and they begin to seek pride.
Roman columns, large floor-to-ceiling windows throughout the walls, ......These can be found everywhere in self-built villas in the countryside.
Rural people who are developing outside the country, returning to their hometowns to build houses and mansions, is the best way to tell others that I have made money.
I don't have one or two new houses at home, and of course others won't say anything to my face, but I'm always upset.
It doesn't matter if you can't live in it, but you have to build it. It is not the house that is built, but the face in the village.
Giving birth to a son and building a house should be the two biggest obsessions of rural people, and they are also the biggest goals of rural people's lives.