Chapter 91 How is the purple bamboo forest?

Comrades from the editorial department of Tianjin Daily's bimonthly "Literature" came to ask me to write an article, and said that it would be best to talk about Tianjin.As soon as she left, I received a letter in the evening post asking for the names and positions of my father's comrades-in-arms who died on the Weiyuan ship in the Sino-Japanese War.I suddenly remembered that there is a purple bamboo forest in Tianjin, which is a place name I heard when I was very young, although I have never been there since.There used to be a Beiyang Naval Academy there, where my father studied.He once said to me, "When I first came to the north from Fujian, I felt that Tianjin was really cold! I was wearing trousers and a thin cotton gown. Fortunately, I was still young at that time. I remember one New Year's Eve, because I watched in the dormitory , my teacher and head teacher Mr. Yan Youling saw it and punished me to stand on a table in the yard for a whole night, my hands and feet were numb from the cold, but it passed by the same way.” At that time I I felt sorry for my father. I think New Year's Eve should be considered a holiday, and it should not be considered a bad book. His husband should not punish him.

Regarding Zizhulin, I don’t remember what else my father said, but after all, Tianjin was the first northern city he visited, and the time he lived there would not be too short.In the early 1940s, when I was in Geleshan, Sichuan, Mr. Zhang Boling, the principal of Nankai University, met me up the mountain with his friends. He often patted my shoulder and said to his friend with a heavy Tianjin accent, "Her father is in the same class as me. .” This reminded me suddenly that my father’s “Mandarin” accent was also from Tianjin, exactly the same as that of Uncle Zhang! I don't know how many times I have been to the city of Tianjin.When we first came back from Japan in the early fifties, we lived there for a few months.I have also been to Nankai University, visited the water park, visited Santiaoshi, and eaten Goubuli buns... My impression of Tianjin is very good.It also had concessions, and the streets are crooked, a bit like Shanghai in this respect, but the people are from the north.I also have some classmates and friends in Tianjin, because it is close to Beijing, they often come, but in our conversation, I can't remember to ask them where Zizhulin is in Tianjin?Is there still a naval school?

A small incident more than seventy years ago is like the first hotel label affixed on a suitcase.