We walked, and the moon in the sky seemed to follow us. The muddy roads in the village are narrow, rugged and winding. After a while, I walked to the southeast corner of the production team. There are a large number of miscellaneous forests here, with locust trees, neem trees, mulberry trees and other trees growing together, one after another, lush and full of vitality. When the wind blows, the Woods creak. South of the forest is the pig farm of the production team, with the pigsty door facing south and two rows of * * *. I saw a man standing in front of the pigsty, leaning back and staring blankly at the moon. Father said he was the caretaker of this forest and pig farm. Although he is younger than my father, in fact, he has physical defects. He is a disabled person with bad legs and feet, and walks with a limp. Because of his disability, he is still a bachelor in his forties. He came here to protect the forest, look after pigs and be taken care of by the health team. I don't know why my father took me out for a walk and went to the pig farm in front of this forest. Uncle lame saw us coming, and a smile appeared on his dark face. "Dai Shuji, your father and son are not at home for the Mid-Autumn Festival. What are you doing here? " Father took his hand and said, "You stay here alone and come to see you." My father is the party branch secretary of the brigade and has always been very concerned about uncle lame. Pass him two cold pot cakes and five dollars with him. The lame uncle took the cold pot cake and money with both hands, and he was moved and didn't know what to say. The round moon hangs on the treetops in the east of the village, and the moonlight shines on my father and lame uncle through the Woods, giving me a vague and warm feeling. ...
Later, I learned that my father was concerned about the lives of ordinary people when he walked on the moon. Nowadays, in our village, there is another form of Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, men, women and children enjoy the moon together, singing and dancing on the threshing floor in the moonlight or in the square of residential areas. The villagers' "moonwalk" is somewhat similar to the "moonwalk" I read in books. There is such a description in Ting Anne Road Walking on the Moon in the Qing Dynasty: "When a woman goes out with heavy makeup, she goes to her own place, or follows the nunnery, chickens crow and the moon still dances, which is called walking on the moon." The poem "Walking on the Moon", a genre painting in the Qing Dynasty, wrote: "In the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sisters walked on the moon together. When the night is cool, Lu Yuan only hates embroidered skirts. " It can be seen that in ancient times, women were the protagonists of the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the 1970s, nuns and temples in my hometown no longer existed. However, the moon still exists in the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, and the custom of "walking on the moon" continues and makes some innovations.
1974, graduated from high school and went back to his hometown to work. On the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, I walked in the moonlight and saw the girls in the village "walking on the moon" in droves. It was really lively. My cousin, who doesn't go out much, also came out to "walk on the moon"