Chapter 4 History of Sanlitun

History of Sanlitun Feng Tang Feng Tang @ 2008-2-10 12:55:13 1 From 1984 to 1990, I spent six years forming my outlook on life and the world at Beijing No. 80 Middle School on Zhongfang Street in Baijiazhuang.Less than three miles northwest of Zhongfang Street is the later famous Sanlitun. At that time, Sanlitun was just a bunch of six-story red brick buildings with no faces or butts. Apart from being very close to the embassies where various foreigners lived, it was similar to other places in Beijing and the neighborhoods built after liberation in other Chinese cities. There is a flower bed, a high-spirited sculpture, a few poplars or willows, and nothing else stands out.

At that time, my middle school was the only municipal key middle school in Chaoyang District, known as Beijing No. 4 Middle School in Chaoyang District.From a biological point of view, it was a great middle school with diverse species, producing all kinds of unreliable talents, badminton champion, pure and intellectual actress, football commentator who did not take drugs and made outstanding contributions to Chinese, famous CCTV five Taichung-level cadres and so on.When I was in middle school, they were not very old. They were preferential sports students, winners of the school district in the big character competition, amateur broadcasters of the school, and deputy secretary of the school youth league committee.Later, I was awarded the top scorer in the Beijing college entrance examination for several consecutive times. At that time, I had graduated for many years, and the famous middle-level cadre of CCTV Five was about to become more famous because of his family affairs and state affairs.

2 From 1984 to 1990, in Beijing, Zhongfang Street and Sanlitun were between the first and second embassy districts. Although there were no bars, it was already a very western-style place.I used to think about the relationship between Sanlitun and Sanyuanli.One answer is that these two places are related to foreigners. We fought against the British in Sanyuanli in the past, and we may fight against the U.S. military in Sanlitun in the future.When students learn history in the future, these two place names are similar and easy to remember. One-third of my classmates are from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and one-third are from the Ministry of Textiles.These students are all scattered in the area of ​​Zhongfang Street and Sanlitun.

The children of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs often bring things that I have never seen in China, such as erasers that can erase ink marks, variable-speed bicycles between 28 and 26, and Casio calculators that can draw graphs.I asked them what their parents usually do abroad. The typical answer is, "My dad is a military attache in a Nordic country, and his basic job is skiing and reading local newspapers." These children live alone in a huge Sanlitun all year round In the house, there is at most a blind and deaf grandparent watching over them, as if they were descendants left on Earth by aliens.The Ministry of Textiles had not been abolished at that time, and textiles was China's largest export industry at that time.The children of the Textile Department can tell from their clothes that the Nike shoes and Puma shoes on their feet are imported with original packaging, and the styles are not available in Wangfujing Lisheng Sports Store.At that time, a pair of genuine Nike shoes cost at least 100 yuan. At that time, I ate lunch in the school cafeteria, 8 yuan and 5 packs a month, with meat and vegetables, rice porridge or vegetable soup.They also have rainproof jackets, lightweight cashmere coats, and Big Ben's meaty underwear catalog.Looking back now, when they go to and from school, they are not like drowned chickens in rainy days, and unlike bears in winter. They understand human affairs in their hearts, and they are like immortals in brocade clothes.

I belong to the third of the remaining non-MFA non-textiles.I was ignorant at that time, and I didn’t know that there was a distinction between high and low tape recorders. It’s good to be able to make a sound, and it’s good to be able to listen to New Concept English recordings. It’s like I didn’t know that there was a distinction between high and low people, such as long legs, long breasts, hairy just fine.The influence of my childhood is deeply rooted. I still can't tell the difference between B&W and Edifier speakers, and I still don't know that there is a distinction between high and low.

Our generation has a spiritual wealth that no one else has.When we were young, there was no Sanlitun in the present meaning. We suffered from poverty but did not feel poverty. When we grew up, we did not have hatred for society in our hearts, and we had the responsibility for a simple life or even a simple life. "We were poor, we were not afraid." 3 At that time, there were no game halls, no chess and card games, and no imported blockbuster movies. Apart from studying, I often wandered alone. Turn left at the school gate, go west along Zhongfang Street, and the first thing you will meet is the caramel factory.You don't need to look to know that the smell is strong.It was an indescribable and unbearable sweet smell. When I first smelled it, it still felt sweet, but soon it became nauseating and greasy, like Qianlong's imperial inscription everywhere.Compared with it, I prefer the smell of poorly managed toilets, which are fierce, real and kind, like a field where everything grows.I have loved all kinds of translucent things since I was a child: lotus root powder, paste, popsicles, jelly, words, the hands and faces of fair-skinned girls, and sorghum glutinous rice.But ever since I found out that the caramel factory can emit such a stench, I never eat sorghum yoghurt again.

Fifty meters north of the caramel factory is the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Beijing Union University.We called it the Computer Academy for short, and the headmaster at the time often hinted viciously that if we didn’t study hard, we would most likely end up in the opposite Computer Academy. Next to the caramel factory is the China Acrobatic Troupe, an inconspicuous building. I have never seen actors rehearsing on the playground outside the building. Maybe the actors are also afraid of the smell of the caramel factory.I always feel that acrobatic rehearsals should be full of risks. From time to time, one or two actors should fall out of the building of the acrobatic troupe, break the window, scream, pool of blood, and cry, and then we can run down the road. The teaching building went to join in the fun, and then the ambulance came roaring.However, in the six years of middle school, this kind of thing did not happen once.

To the north of the acrobatic troupe is a prosthetic factory, which makes arms and legs, both plastic and silicone.I once climbed over the wall and entered the warehouse of the prosthesis factory at night, and stole several arms and thighs, which have not been used until now. To the north of the Acrobatic Troupe is the Sanlitun Auto Parts Street. I heard that all stolen cars on Beijing Street were turned into parts here and sold one by one.Later, after Sanlitun North Street became popular, it went to an auto parts store and added things like Fanku and Fayu, and it became Sanlitun South Street.

4 To the north of Auto Parts Street is Sanlitun North Street, which is Sanlitun in the strict sense. Our middle school physical education teacher, a military fan, intensively studied the history of the Sino-Japanese war. He always said that "in the 21st century, there must be a war between China and Japan." He felt that he had the responsibility to prepare for the war for the Chinese nation. Whether it is strong or not is the key."In twelve months of the year, except for the four months of June, July, August, and September, he forced us to run long distances. We ran out of the school gate, to Chaoyang Hospital, to the city hotel, to the intersection of Sanlitun South Street and Sanlitun North Street, to Zhaolong Hotel, and back to the school gate.

Every time I ran to the intersection of Sanlitun South Street and Sanlitun North Street, I was close to the so-called "extreme" by the physical education teacher, and my lung lobes were spit out when I tried hard.Every time I persisted, I looked around with my tongue drooping, watching Sanlitun grow up.There is a small shop in the southeast corner of the existing intersection, and then there is a temporary building on Sanlitun North Street, and then the temporary building starts selling wine, and then the small shop is paved in the shape of beer glasses. The barbaric physical education teacher got hemorrhoids later, and the hemorrhoids got worse later on, and the control on us became more and more loose.After class, we will be thrown out for a run, and when we come back, we will play football by ourselves, and we will not gather before get out of class is over.The physical education teacher sat on a broken hard swimming ring by himself, basking in the sun, hemorrhoids hung in the middle of the swimming ring, no weight or pressure, his expression was joyful and happy.

When we are not in a hurry to go back to school to play football, before the pole arrives, we will not run away. We will buy a bottle of Beijing White Beer each at the small shop on the corner of Sanlitun, open the bottle with our teeth, and hide in the flower bed on Sanlitun North Street. Damn it, just beer. Someone said that he often saw black people around here, with outstretched hands, red palms, like orangutans. Some people say that the north window of his house is facing a certain embassy. When the sun is good, the people inside come out to bask in the sun. They only cover their breasts and lower body, leaving the rest naked. Looking through the window, they are whiter than a fish maw.As he spoke, his eyes protruded, his pupils dilated, his nostrils opened and closed.The military attache's son said that he had the binoculars brought back by his father, so instead of class in the afternoon, we went to the north window to watch together.We said, "Go together, go together." Some people say, it's boring to watch, it's better to be able to touch, it's better to be able to hug. "It's early winter, I just got the heating, hugging someone in bed, it's beautiful." It is estimated that in the crude environment, the development of comprehension was also late. At that time, I really couldn't understand the benefits of putting another person under the bed, just like I couldn't understand the pain of hemorrhoids of the physical education teacher.I just listened quietly, drank beer, and felt that the years were beautiful and time was stagnant.