I took the tea and wondered if anyone downstairs was holding an oiled paper umbrella. Speaking of oil-paper umbrellas, I think of Rain Lane written by Dai Wangshu, and I think of Goldfish Lane written in my childhood.
What is Goldfish Lane? Since the Tang Dynasty, officials with more than five grades have a tradition of wearing fish bags. In the Song Dynasty, Fu Jian transshipped Xie, a senior official with three products, into a golden purple robe and a goldfish bag on his back. Xie returned to his hometown and built a house in this alley. At first, people called this alley "Xieya". Later, the house was in disrepair for a long time, and Xie's descendants converted the original house into an ancestral hall, built a plaque and inscribed "Goldfish on Earth". Goldfish Lane got its name from this.
There are several old buildings on both sides of the alley, which are the former residences of literati. In addition to the transporters in the Song Dynasty, there were modern architects, poets in the Qing Dynasty, patriotic overseas Chinese in modern times, and the president of Qingyuan Academy in the late Qing Dynasty. These ancient architectural styles are called "five rooms to view the temple" in Minnan dialect, that is, sitting in the hall and looking up, the sky is full of clouds and shadows, and it is extremely leisurely. The hall is surrounded by several rooms and guardrails. There is usually a well in the front yard or backyard. The garden in front of the courtyard is more beautiful, with Hà Thu in spring, Yingying in Yan language and Guifu in Lan Xin. The window sash in the pavilion is exquisite and the stone carving is exquisite. Wall, brick into stone, pointing with clear water mud. The roof is a dovetail ridge in Fujian style, with carved beams and painted buildings, and the eaves between the beams are beautiful, with red lanterns hanging high on the eaves. Gu Men is extremely low-key, just like ordinary people. There are many mottled time marks and obscure names.
Alleys are more houses of ordinary people, but ordinary people also have origins, or "Tianshui Liu Fang", "Jinxiu Fang Chuan" and "ziyun smoke Brand" and so on. Most of the external walls are red brick and earth walls, and some corners are covered with bougainvillea, which is very poetic. The fence occasionally has windowsills, and some windowsills are very high, and red bricks make rich shapes. Some of them are short and have irregular window patterns, which usually prevent naughty children from climbing in. The light inside doesn't work. The door plaque has symmetrical cornices, and the wooden door has a round copper button, which is dull and dull, as if it were a button for a long time. The doorknob may have a bronze lion with a big mouth, which is a dignified gatekeeper, and a Shuang Mu fence is usually added behind the door.
An alley is 270 meters, and there are also poor households. The houses of poor people are built with sawdust and tiles. Wood chip walls generally have no windows, and they are black and short, which seems to filter out the years and leave lingering stains. The wood door doesn't open all the year round. Occasionally I heard that a child had typhoid fever and left. Or a child suddenly rushed out of the door, followed by a woman holding a broom and rushing out to curse the "demon show." Only then did I know that there was still a madman living there. You can see a little bit at this time, and it's very shabby inside.
The houses in the whole street are scattered, rich and thrifty, dignified, gentle and kind or silent. Small telephone poles are cylindrical cement and gray, standing. Interlaced wires, pulling across the roof. Occasionally, swallows stop perching on it and tick.
When I was a child, I learned to play near Goldfish Lane. At the beginning of school, my mother would carefully put a five-yuan bill in my coat pocket and told me to protect this "huge sum", but I jumped with joy. A good friend crossed a narrow lane only two or three meters wide and went straight to Pan Palace. He came to the primary school rebuilt by Confucius Temple and carefully paid the tuition. After school, holding children's literature, walking and watching, walking slowly on the ancient stone road, when a 24-inch bicycle passed by, the bell rang crisply sideways.
There is a people's cinema at the corner of goldfish lane, which is three stories high and has about 700 seats. This was quite huge in those days. There is a huge five-pointed star on the roof. The cinema square is the widest place in the alley, about ten meters wide, and it is also the most crowded place. The cries of selling lettuce and melon seeds are one after another, and people gather from all directions, and the admission is even more crowded. The movies here are always the most classic. They are people's talk after dinner and the last romance of the ancient city. I like walking there and watching movie posters. Every time there is a new movie, it will soon become a household name, and the big one will bring down the small one. The happy atmosphere is no less than the New Year. Xu Mao and his thirteen daughters, three drops of blood, gypsy women and so on. "Painting Ghost" can be called a horror film of that year, especially "maw". There are rumors of fear, and some children are very scared after reading it. In this biography, everyone who takes children to see it should be careful, but I'm not afraid, so my sisters will take me with them. I often watch movies at the back door of the cinema and lie prone on the door. Once I watched it late, fearing that my family would blame me, I learned the movie dialogue and what my family usually said to me: "It was that bad guy who touched his head and went with him in a daze." Walking, he suddenly woke up and ran home. " How do adults feel after hearing this unfounded lie?
When the cake loader walks around with a shoulder pole in one hand and a rattle in the other, the children in the alley outside the courtyard will run out one by one. Put down the baggage and take out a small table with two floors, which is tall and narrow and has holes in it. You can insert bamboo sticks and show the cake people. The bench made by hand is very wide. The small bench is placed on the edge of the alley, which is only three meters wide. I let it go, and I didn't even dare to look. The alley is too crowded. It's time for the cake packer. Cake people are best at holding ancient costume figures. When they met him, they had prepared all kinds of dough embryos, placed them in groups and rubbed them with some gadgets and props. Fingertips are very flexible, and occasionally the teeth of the comb are pressed twice ... Before long, a lifelike monkey king came out of the play, with two long young feathers swaying on his head and looking like an elf. Someone bought the Monkey King for ten cents and left happily. Old Aber is particularly good at pinching ancient costume figures, such as the Liangshan hero in the Water Margin, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Di Qing's The Iliad, and Wu Sangui, the king of the day. I just stood and watched curiously, and the afternoon passed like this.
When the cake packer appeared, it meant that the festival of seven mothers had arrived. The seventh month of the lunar calendar is the happiest time for children every year. In southern Fujian, July belongs to the worship of ghosts and gods, and the streets of urban and rural areas take turns to worship "Pudu Gong". After worshipping, you have to eat "Purdue", that is, a banquet, often after eating one family and another, and its excitement pushes "Purdue" to a climax.
The seventh mother is "China Valentine's Day", and Queqiao meets on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Or ordinary women beg from the weaver girl, hoping to have a pair of skillful hands to weave colorful clouds like the weaver girl, so it is also called "Begging for Cleverness Festival". One is the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and the other is the hundred-day relationship between the Seven Fairys and Yong Dong. Folk put the two stories together, saying that Qi Niang is a pair of children, worried about staying in the world and protecting them in the dark. It is also said that seven mothers are seven The fairy lady to protect their children together. Therefore, Minnan people have the custom of "worshipping the sun" on Tanabata. That is, on the first Tanabata after the birth of a child, the "seven mothers" should be newly worshipped as "qi mothers". By the time I was sixteen, I had to "wash my deeds" on Tanabata, which meant that I grew up and accepted the baptism of Tanabata. Every year, the students of Qiniang and those who have children at home should worship Qiniang, hoping to get the continuous protection of Qiniang and grow up intelligently and healthily! I like the fact that seven mothers were born. Fruits in summer are especially thirst-quenching, sweet and delicious. On this day, mother will prepare seven kinds of fruits and other sacrifices in the early morning. Fruits and vegetables are divided into seven plates, rouge, clear pollen, white purple flowers, red bun ropes, scissors, preserved salty rice, seven bowls, seven incense sticks, seven wine lamps, seven pairs of chopsticks and seven riding on Qiniang Bridge. At home, I set up a square table to worship the "seven mothers" and asked me to worship devoutly in the face of the patio air. Then, my mother tied rouge, clear pollen, raw flowers and cooked flowers with a red bun rope, and let me throw them on the roof, saying that it was a punishment for magpies to report their mistakes and happiness, and let them be sent to the overpass to dress up the weaver girl.
In addition to The Cake Packer and The Seven Mothers, "Noodles" is also impressive. Mrs. Lin, a neighbor, especially likes "dough twists", a box of lotus powder and a cotton thread. First, sprinkle a thick layer of lotus powder on your face, fold the thread in half, bite one end with your teeth, fold the thread twice with your right finger, and hold one end with your left hand, like a pair of scissors with a splayed opening. Thin cotton thread is wrapped around her face, and occasionally a slight taut sound is heard, and the tension of the thread is used to gently pull and pull on her face. Suddenly, wherever she went, "swish, swish, swish", and soon her face became whiter and more tender. It's a pity that the beautiful Mrs. Lin has a man who is addicted to drinking and swearing all day. It doesn't matter to Mrs. Lin. You scold you, I do mine. When I'm free, I'll twist my face. Pink face with pink green coat is another kind of beauty.
Occasionally, early in the morning, when I heard the cry of "selling milk", all the adults and children in the alley came out with white enamel cups, and the cattle breeder tied up the cows on the spot to milk them. Nice cow, legs in a bucket, looks very useful. He closed his eyes and wagged his tail. Everyone lined up to watch and wait. The milkman is skilled, with the morning sunshine calm and quiet, and the air is filled with the smell of milk.
At dusk, the children in the alley will get together to run, jump rope, hopscotch and play the game 123. And in the evening, I will be reluctant to part with TV programs such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Smart Rest and Astro Boy. Ling Heping was my good partner when I was a child. Ling and I were born on the same day in the same year. Emei has almond eyes, fair skin, tall figure and a beauty mole between her eyebrows. Since childhood, she has been hailed as a star. Later, Ling's father, who worked in the municipal government, was assigned to the house and moved away. Flat, high nose, white skin, mixed-race face. Her grandfather is an officer and her father has been in Hong Kong for many years. She lives in Goldfish Lane with her mother and two younger brothers. When we talk, we always say that she will go to Hong Kong in the future, but in fact she doesn't want to go. I bravely told her that if I didn't, I would live with me and we would live together. To this end, I also shed blood and became sworn, and worshipped the sky carefully. But then, she left. I went to Ling He to see her off that night. She told me softly while packing that my brother had been left in goldfish lane. They immigrated to Australia and kept it a secret, otherwise my brother would cry. In this way, in the child's heart, the oath is no longer important. It didn't take long for our family to move to my father's new arcade. Later, I left the ancient city for work reasons, and I was even more lost.
And Goldfish Lane, with a long history of ancestral temples, houses where Confucian celebrities stayed, and well-known cinema sites, was gloriously renovated by China Academy of Fine Arts this year because of its profound humanistic connotation. Repairing the old with the old has become a famous name of "network celebrities". I hope to see Goldfish Lane again. My childhood memory is still not over. I also hope that goldfish lane will be warmed and enriched by time.