A pig's skull is a must-have item for New Year's dinner
Among the old photos collected by Yang Yongkang, there are no fewer than 1 old photos about the Spring Festival.
"It is a traditional custom since ancient times to wear new clothes during the Spring Festival." Wei Mingsheng, deputy editor-in-chief of Sichuan Red Memory Expo Park, said that after the founding of New China, Sichuan, like other parts of the country, advocated changing customs and living a "revolutionary" Spring Festival. However, Sichuanese, who are the best at seeking pleasure in suffering, still like to embody fashion in their clothes while being thrifty.
One of the photos shows a female teacher dressed in Lenin's costume. "It is hard for young people to imagine now. At that time, how to dress up was a sign of ideological progress." Wei Mingsheng said that wearing a suit and cheongsam was regarded as retro or bourgeois sentiment at that time, and it was replaced by a Zhongshan suit. Later, on the basis of Zhongshan suit, improved "people's clothes", "youth clothes" and "student clothes" came into being and became new clothes for Sichuanese during the Spring Festival. It has become a "revolutionary fashion" for ladies to wear a double-breasted uniform "Lenin suit" learned from the Soviet Union at that time during the Spring Festival. In order to reflect the prosperous face of socialism, brightly colored Blagi is also a favorite dress for women to wear during the Spring Festival.
However, it didn't take long for anyone to wear Blagi even during the Spring Festival amid the uproar of "opposing repairs and preventing repairs". Wei Mingsheng told reporters that from 1959 to 196, cotton production was greatly reduced, and cotton cloth and cotton should be supplied by ticket. In order to save cloth, even if you add one or two clothes during the Spring Festival, you should save as much as possible. Sichuanese take "wear resistance and dirt resistance" as the principle of fabric selection. Regardless of urban and rural areas, regardless of seasons, regardless of men and women, gray, black and blue have become popular colors.
"Adults look forward to farming, while children look forward to the New Year." This is a long-standing saying in rural areas. Because every Spring Festival, children can not only wear new clothes, but also have delicious food that they can't usually eat.
Due to the lack of materials in 196s and 197s, whether the dining table for the Spring Festival is rich or not depends on whether there are pig skulls. Wei Mingsheng said that the central vegetable market in Yanshikou, Chengdu, used to be the "temple" for housewives in those days, because there were more kinds of non-staple foods than other places, and live ducks, pig heads and pig lungs were often sold without tickets. At this time, every child in every household has become a new force in the family.
Go to the Lantern Festival to help the elderly and bring up the young.
In the Spring Festival of p>1962, the Chengdu Lantern Festival, with a history of more than 1,8 years, was resumed in Qingyang Palace for a month. "Going to the Lantern Festival became the happiest thing for people in the Spring Festival at that time." Wei Mingsheng recalled that during the Lantern Festival, all kinds of lanterns were displayed in a dazzling way. The chandeliers, hanging lanterns, lantern lanterns, carp lanterns, lotus lanterns, wall lanterns, Aoshan lanterns, large flower baskets, etc. are exquisitely made, and most of them use familiar Sichuan opera plays, historical stories, folklore, municipal construction, industrial achievements, etc. They have strong ethnic and local characteristics, which not only reflect Chengdu's long history and culture and major contemporary construction achievements, but also show Chengdu's superb traditional arts such as folk color-tying skills and calligraphy and painting.
at that time, every family helped the old and the young to watch the lanterns. Because in the lantern festival, there are not only watching lights, but also many folk folk art, acrobatics, juggling performances, various local snacks, the burden of being a sugar man, and selling windmills. Wei Mingsheng told reporters that visiting the Lantern Festival has become one of the well-known traditional cultural activities. The number of visitors to each Lantern Festival has grown from hundreds of thousands to more than one million, which is similar to the description of Lu You, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. Advocating that the sky is boiling at noon and the lights are burning at dusk is even worse than the grand occasion. In the Spring Festival of 1964, the third Chengdu Lantern Festival coincided with the Lunar New Year, and the zodiac was a dragon. The theme of this year's Lantern Festival is dragon, which shows the unique dragon culture in China.
Chengdu Lantern Festival was interrupted by the Cultural Revolution, and it was not resumed until 1974. In 1977, the Chengdu Lantern Festival was the most prosperous, with more than 2 million people watching the lanterns and celebrating the downfall of the Gang of Four.
besides going to the lantern festival, it is also the greatest pleasure for Sichuanese to catch up with the show, go to the theatre, visit the garden or pay New Year greetings from door to door.
Seeing the performances, local performances were popular
"At that time, literary evenings were held everywhere, and all kinds of folk art performances were even more colorful. The sound of firecrackers, the sound of gongs and drums on stilts and people's laughter are one. " Wei Mingsheng, for example, before the Spring Festival in 1959, the Sichuan People's Literature and Art Creation Show held in Chengdu People's Park was unprecedented. In the Spring Festival of 1964, Sichuan Province held a folk music and dance performance; Before the Spring Festival in 1965, the Sichuan delegation returned from participating in the amateur art performance of the national minority people, and the report was remitted at the Sichuan Theater from January 2 to 24, which was warmly welcomed by the people of all ethnic groups in the province.
Among the old photos collected by Yang Yongkang, there is a picture of the Chengdu Science Conference held on the eve of the Spring Festival in 1978, and primary school students in Xicheng District performed cultural programs for the delegates. As can be seen from the photos, the program is quite popular, and the audience can be described as three floors inside and three floors outside. There is also a record of young students performing cultural programs in Xicheng District, Chengdu on the eve of the Spring Festival in 1979. In the photo, although the background is simple, it can't hide the children's joy in the New Year.
Yang Yongkang also showed reporters a photo of Sichuan opera actors re-entering the stage during the Spring Festival in 1978. He said that it was a witness that Sichuan opera returned to the masses after years of silence.