Chapter 271 Read "Miscellaneous Memories of Beijing City"

After reading Xiao Qian's "Miscellaneous Memories of Beijing City", his fluent and witty Beijing white made the color, smell and taste of Beijing seventy years ago immediately linger and fill my senses, causing me to be fascinated for a long time. Tearful smile! Xiao Qian is my little brother Xie Weiji's primary school classmate.He used to come to my house to play when he was a teenager.When I came back from studying in the United States in 1926, he was a small employee of Beixin Bookstore, and he often came to send me manuscript fees.While taking out money from the handkerchief tied to his wrist, he told me quietly that the actual printing run of this edition was more than 3,000 copies... After that, he also studied at Yenching University and published in "Ta Kung Pao" Worked as a reporter.Over the past few decades, no matter whether we are at home or abroad, we have never stopped communicating.He is my oldest friend.

In "Miscellaneous Memories of Beijing City", he talked about the food, drink, play, and entertainment in Beijing seventy years ago, and he wrote with nostalgia about everything that ordinary children in old Beijing could enjoy. Arrived.But children are different from children.At that time, "girls" and "boys" did not have the same rights!He and my younger brother have been in the "Ding * cup car" - tram, I * rabbit wave shape, smooth ⑹ far away,    N B is volatile and volatile,  milling complaints,   Ao N to remonstrate saliva  Feixia blowing steps, stunned eyes, scenery resources, swallows, shallow ankles, cherry blossoms, colorful cuts, scorpions, shovels, fingers, page margins, * When it comes to "yelling", what still tempts me is the sound of Beijing!The sound of fortune-telling gongs in the middle of the night often makes me uneasy.And "hard noodles", "pig's head meat" and "Sai Li's radish" also often arouse my appetite, and I only eat "Sai Li's radish", and I didn't go out to buy it myself.

When it comes to "layout and street names", I'm very interested.The Middle Scissors Alley where I lived in childhood, I think it must have been a big scissors workshop, because before and after this alley, there are "North Scissors Alley" and "South Scissors Alley"; Dengshikou", "Tongfu Jiadao" and "Armor Factory" when I was in college, these are all names related to the social status or occupation of the residents.At this time, I suddenly remembered that there are "Dongchang Hutong" and "Naizi Mansion" next to each other in Dongcheng, which must be the residences of Ming eunuch Wei Zhongxian and the emperor's nanny Hakka.

When it comes to "amusement", I haven't even been to Tianqiao and Changdian!I only went to the Longfu Temple Fair, because it was the closest to our house, and my uncle took me there.Squeezing around in the crowd, I didn't see anything clearly. I just lingered for a while beside the copper plate selling brown men. It was very interesting to watch those generals in costumes spinning like flying on the plate, with knives and guns flying. Generally speaking, my impression of old Beijing is not as good as that of Xiaoqian, because it can't compare with the vast sea and sky in Yantai and Fuzhou with beautiful mountains and rivers where I lived in my childhood.I wrote in the 20th article of the "Send to Young Readers" newsletter:

Beijing is just dusty streets, muddy alleys, gray walls, and the rush of sweaty rickshaws.My hometown, my Beijing, is nothing! Of course I also wrote that I still love Beijing!Because in this city lives my loved ones.Today, the streets and alleys are paved with asphalt, the dust and mud are gone, the gray city walls are gone, and the sweaty rickshaws are diverted.So I say, my love for Beijing is growing day by day. There is only one thing that Xiao Qian and I have a deep sympathy for, that is, in terms of politeness and language, the level of "civilization" of Beijingers today is much lower than that of Beijingers seventy years ago!

Also, in terms of attracting tourists, I also think that letting foreign guests live in courtyard houses and eat Chinese food is more attractive than letting them live in "lifelike" Western-style restaurants and eat Western food.Don't you see, people who travel to Mongolia like to live in yurts, drink milk tea, and eat mutton?To Brother Ba Jin Ba Jin: This is my fifth time writing!I got your letter, and Wu Taichang came back from Guangzhou and brought me the bananas that Xiaolin gave me. I think they have returned to Shanghai?I always want to write a thank you letter, but it is also interrupted by the doorbell ringing, or a phone call, etc.I don't have so many guests like you, but every day it seems that someone has something to interrupt what I have to do.I remember my mother once said to me that "things are as long as life".

People live for a day, and there will always be a day. Don't sleep badly because of this, and don't catch a cold. A cold is very uncomfortable.I have the same good, but I don't have a lot of colds, of course it has something to do with not going out.You asked Wu Qing to write a letter, but she was much busier than me, and she was away from home all day.Take care of things that she should take care of; take care of things that she shouldn't take care of, it's not a family matter! This letter is to thank you for your long letter, I know how difficult it is for you!Beijing is not cold, neither rain nor snow, it is too dry.I wish you health and hope to read your articles, but I don't want you to be tired. It's very contradictory!Sha Ting asked someone to deliver his books yesterday, but Mr. Ye is still in the hospital.Happy New Year!Big Sister Twelve, Twenty Nine