Chapter 3 National Day photos from 41 years ago

Picture: Family portrait in 1966 The times have stumbled and progressed; the people have become more or less rich; chicken, duck and fish have become numb after eating; It is the envy of many foreign friends to take such a long holiday for National Day.I think that in addition to the commercial intention of stimulating consumption, the government is also showing kindness to the people and showing the grandeur of a big country-we Bank of China, even if we don’t work for 9 days, we still have food and drink!Not to mention 9 days, think back to the early days of the Cultural Revolution, the whole country was in a big series, not only did not work, but also eat, drink, play, live, and ride for nothing. Thousands of young and middle-aged people traveled for free for 90 years. The day is not enough.Think about it, is that what a country that can't eat enough to eat every day can do?

After the three-year difficult period, after "recharging, recharging and withdrawing", agriculture has had a bumper harvest for 13 consecutive years, and industry, transportation, and commerce have reached a new level almost every year.According to the economic statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics, in the 10 years from 1967 to 1976 (1966 was not included because the economic field was not greatly affected by the "Cultural Revolution"), the average annual growth rate of the total industrial and agricultural output value was 7.1 %, the average annual growth rate of total social output value is 6.8%, and the average annual growth rate of national income is 4.9%.Specific to each year, except for the decline in 1967 and 1968 due to the large-scale suspension of production and non-working, the rest of the years showed positive growth.

Regarding stage development indicators, compared with 1966 in 1976, the total industrial and agricultural output value increased by 79%, the total social output value increased by 77.4%, and the total national income (calculated at the current price) increased by 53%. Regarding the production level, between 1976 and 1966 Compared with the output of major products, steel increased by 33.5%, raw coal increased by 917%, crude oil increased by 499%, power generation increased by 146%, agricultural nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers increased by 117.7%, plastics increased by 148.2%, cotton cloth increased by 20.9%, and grain increased 33.8%, oil crops increased by 61.6%...not to mention two bombs and one star, eight oil fields, hybrid rice, Chengdu-Kunming Railway, Yangtze River Bridge, Changsha Mawangdui No. 1, Shaanxi Terracotta Warriors, Rural Cooperative Medical Network, and dozens more World-class metallurgical, chemical, fertilizer, and textile enterprises... These are the solid foundations that our parents laid down for us with passion and sweat, and the solid foundation that allows us to eat, drink, and have fun.Looking back on the hard-working and entrepreneurial history of New China, our benefactors are standing on that road of sunshine and wind and rain!

No matter how my parents beat and scolded me, or wronged me, they are all my benefactors.Today, I am able to become a civilian scholar who is liked by good people and makes bad people and traitors tremble with fear and jealousy day and night. In addition to thanking Peking University and teachers, I have to thank those entrepreneurs in the Republic to a large extent. The most important nutrition from body to spirit. I took an old photo, it was the National Day in 1966. When I was just two years old, my parents took me and took it in an ordinary photo studio in Harbin.Jiang Kun has a famous cross talk "Taking Photos Like This", saying that during the Cultural Revolution, when he went to a photo studio, he would shout Quotations from Chairman Mao, which is too exaggerated.It was a certain period during the Cultural Revolution, a fashion initiative of a small number of fashionable revolutionary youths, not the popular "civic pact" everywhere.When I was two or three years old, it was said that I had an "amazing memory", and I could never forget quotations from Chairman Mao and "Moonlight in front of my bed". For a while, sister Shen Ting, who sells cakes in the Hexing Road Department Store, recited quotations from Chairman Mao whenever they saw anyone. Everyone thought they were "sick".After a few months, they stopped reciting it.As for the photo studio, in essence, it has always been an "elegant cultural place" that vaguely represents Western civilization. If you go in quietly and come out warmly, how can there be so many absurd and funny black humor?

It was rare to take pictures when I was a child. From birth to college, all the photos I took together may not be as many as the one I am secretly photographed when I go out now.At that time, although scientific knowledge was popularized, and they understood that taking pictures would not "hurt their vitality", and they would not let foreign devils take away their souls and eat children at night, but people still "have nothing to do with taking pictures", and they regarded taking pictures as a matter of fact. Very dignified.Now people take pictures casually, "walk away" casually, and go to bed casually, making many interesting things very boring.

At that time, because there were few photos, every time is still fresh in my memory.That day was the first National Day during the Cultural Revolution. Although there was no nine-day holiday, it was very happy to have two days off because it happened to be Saturday.What's even more coincidental is that according to the lunar calendar, the seventeenth day of the eighth month is my two-year-old birthday.So my mother suggested to take pictures.My father was a little reluctant to go because he had opinions on the Cultural Revolution.The organization he joined was to protect veteran cadres, and his stance was relatively conservative. He was criticized by the Red Guards several times, so he always called the Red Guards "little bastards."He said he didn't like to take pictures, but he actually wanted to drink.My father once had a camera, which was a luxury at the time.But he switched to drinking before I was born, and he is far less interested in drinking than taking pictures and the like.But maybe seeing that both my mother and I were in high spirits, he had an idea and asked my mother for two dollars. In addition to the one and two dollars for taking pictures and cleaning, he could embezzle 80 cents, enough to buy four taels of soju and a dollar. There are two dishes, one meat and one vegetarian.

The Red Guard armband on his father's arm and Chairman Mao's badge on his chest are both "props" for taking pictures, and he doesn't usually wear them.But that pen is really something he doesn't wear every day.Both my parents are more beautiful in handwriting than me, and I like to take notes and copy some materials.The carpenters in my father's factory are even better at writing than I am now.When I signed for readers, I often said in my heart: I really can’t get this stinky word out, I’m sorry, my friend! The clothes on the parents' photo are the usual clothes.The mother's small flower lapel was probably the fashionable dress of that year.People in Harbin are very particular about dressing. My parents are not very particular about ordinary workers, but they never wore sloppy tattered clothes.And when I went to Peking University, I still had a few pieces of clothing with patches.I didn't quite understand my parents for a while, and protested that I was the only one in the family living in the old society!But the father scolded: "You are a brat, what food and clothing are you talking about? When I fought in the South and the North, I didn't have to wear shoes. I should enjoy it today. Can you fucking compare me?" Confronting my father's idea of ​​taking credit for himself, I feel that the Red Guards should criticize him.I have developed the habit of analyzing specific issues of things in detail and not denying or affirming them completely. I have developed it since I was a child.

I can't remember whether my parents' hair was newly cut that day.They are very concerned about personal hygiene, especially the father, who has worked in a military hospital for a while, and is simply a hygiene expert.He enjoys haircuts and often complains that the barber's service time is too short.He couldn't get used to long hair - except for the long braids of big girls.When I was in college, influenced by bourgeois nihilism, I had very long hair.When I returned home during the holidays, my father scolded: "College students are like hooligans and long-haired tartars! The Cultural Revolution educated you unfaithful and unfilial bastards!" I was angry and happy, what does this have to do with the Cultural Revolution? ?After being criticized several times, my father vented all his dissatisfaction with life on the Cultural Revolution.From this, I understood why many people who had been wronged during the Cultural Revolution lost their reason in a rage when the Cultural Revolution was mentioned.

As for the flower ball in my hand, it is a toy that my mother bought for me not long ago.There were quite a lot of toys when I was a child, even bought and made by myself.Had it not been for the fact that many high-ranking cadres and intellectuals were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, my friends and I really felt that our childhood was living in paradise.It's a pity that heaven is not peaceful. Most of my toys were stolen by Liu Er and the others. The most distressing thing is a colorful pistol, which burst into flames as soon as I hugged the trigger. It was the most representative of advanced productivity at that time. toys.

Look at this National Day photo from 41 years ago, it is natural, simple, dignified and generous.There is affection for the country and warmth within the family.Every element of the composition is expressing the aspirations of ordinary citizens of that era.A country has just been established 17 years ago, and an ordinary worker's family has such a spiritual outlook.This is something that was not seen among the workers and peasants in old China. Since the reform and opening up, we have more and more money and fat, and our toys and clothing are sold to every corner of the world.We have color photos, we have point-and-shoot cameras, and now we have digital cameras that can take as many pictures as we want. Most of the photo studios have been converted into wedding photography studios or girl photo studios.However, we can no longer take such National Day photos.Just like the Eighth Route Army on the screen, each with a greasy head and noodles, and the Red Guards on the screen, each one is showing their teeth and claws. It is really too difficult to restore the truth of history.

According to the reporter’s information from the ID Number Inquiry Service Center of the Ministry of Public Security, there are 400,000 people named National Day and 960,000 named Jianguo across the country. Among them, people born between 1960 and 1969 have the most named Jianguo, exceeding 290,000.Naming is a free and voluntary act. It can be seen that the 1960s was the era when the people of this country were proud of the new China and consciously loved the motherland to the highest degree.In addition, there are more than 170,000 people with the surname Guo in the whole country, of which 1894 people have the surname Guo Mingqing.There are 1,180 people with the surname Shi in the country, and 9 of them have the surname Shi Yi.These all show that although the people have various opinions about this country, they love this country psychologically and are willing to link their own destiny with the destiny of the country.Teacher Kong also recruited a graduate student surnamed Guo this year—it was a coincidence, not a deliberate hype. Well, at least these friends will keep all kinds of "National Day photos" at home.Occasionally turn it out and take a look. Even if it is yellow or damaged, it still has a fresh and healthy heroic spirit, which can nourish our dry and withered soul today.Because that is the awe-inspiring righteousness of the parents' generation, and it is the majestic confidence of our country.