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Chapter 83 "Flower Cave" Lifestyle

A few days ago, I went to the flower team of the Huangtugang People's Commune in the suburbs of Beijing.The impression of this visit is very fresh and deep for me. Huangtugang People's Commune has five flower teams—three flower teams and two nursery teams.The first one I visited was the Flower Team of Fanjia Village. As soon as I entered the office door of the team headquarters, I was pleasantly surprised.On the short roof beam facing you, hung a flower basket filled with roses, chrysanthemums and dahlias.There are also potted flowers on the ground in the room, and there are also flowers on the desk, which is simply extremely elegant!

Walking from the team office to the cafeteria not far away, the cafeteria is also full of flowers.Along the wall are pots of dahlias, chrysanthemums, ten sisters and roses, which are so red and purple. Even on the top of each short round table, there are small pots of crane lilies. Place upside-down flower pots as chairs. When I stepped up the "steps" from the house, opened the bamboo curtain and walked out, I suddenly realized that the office and the canteen were all renovated by Huadongzi! Standing outside the door and taking a closer look: the short eaves, the wide "windows" pasted with cotton paper, and the flat roof sloping backwards are really the original two flower holes.This kind of house with flower holes is shallow on the outside and deep on the inside, tall at the front and short at the back, warm in winter and cool in summer.At this time, the bright sunlight penetrated through the window, and the fragrance of flowers and heating were floating in the room.There are electric lights on the head, and a telephone on the desk... Let me say it again, the offices of ordinary government schools are nothing more than this, and besides, how can they have so many flowers!

The Caoqiao flower team is the same, except that the cafeteria has been expanded, and a small auditorium-like room has been extended from the original flower cave building.The Huangtugang flower team specializes in raising jasmine, and its team office is simply at the smokehouse—that is, at the end of the flower cave.The Zhengwangfen flower team is a nursery team, and the office there is like a bungalow.The flower team at Zhangjialu Crossing is a mix of nurseries and flowers. The office there is leaning against the courtyard wall of a family. Two gable walls are erected to cover three small rooms.There are many specimens of papaya and fruit displayed inside the door, and there are large pots of plump chrysanthemums waiting to be transported to the city outside the door and windows, which looks like a "chrysanthemum exhibition" from a distance.

Generally speaking, except for the two nurseries of these flower teams, which originally had no flower holes to change, most of the offices and canteens in the other three places were "rebuilt" from flower holes. How good, how ingenious, and how appropriate the improvement is, this is really "adapting measures to current conditions" and "adapting measures to local conditions".One year after the establishment of the people's commune, when everyone was running the commune diligently and frugally, doing so was completely in line with the principle of saving as much as possible.I only see their plain, elegant and wild side where they place flowers everywhere, and use flowerpots as chairs, etc. My vision is really one-sided and superficial!

Spike Xiaozha". )
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