Walking out of their respective courtyards, all kinds of hutongs (some courtyards facing the street) are long and short, and some hutongs meander with the terrain. Thousands of children from families are chasing around in this environment. In the eyes of naive children, everything in the alley is fresh and interesting.
Each hutong has its own name and meaning, such as Zhugan Lane, Jiudaowan, Yangjia Hutong, Yaowangmiao West Hutong and so on. The streets are full of hutongs, so it is not easy to remember their names correctly.
If you want to go to a place, you can go in this alley, and you may have to go through one alley after another to get there. Or if you go shopping in a department store, there will be many hutongs for you to choose from. In order to relieve boredom, you can take different hutongs, and there will be different scenery waiting for you along the way, such as stationery stores selling paper and pencils, grocery stores selling oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, and private stores selling sugar and popcorn.
At that time, some hutongs were dead ends. That is to say, there is no exit at the other end of the alley, and people who are not familiar with the situation have to turn back when they walk in. In those large and small hutongs, children are left to play naughty and go to school with schoolbags on their backs.
Because * * * lives in a big yard, and the people in the yard are like a big family. Everyone knows each other very well, such as the name, occupation, native place, native place, education level and so on of each member of each family. People know everything and even know more information. Children can visit their neighbors at will, or invite friends to play hide-and-seek in hutongs and streets, push iron rings, play glass balls, jump rope and kick shuttlecock.
Whoever cooks delicious food in the yard will be shared by the children who catch up with the door. At that time, many children would think that others cooked better than themselves, and others cooked much more fragrant than themselves. Today, I tasted yours. You can try mine one day. If someone comes from their hometown, they will bring "Dried Sweet Potato with Drunken Jujube" and so on, and the children in the same hospital will also have the opportunity to satisfy their desire.
Sometimes, busy adults suddenly feel that their children have been out for a long time. When parents say hello, the children will agree: "Hey, here and there!" " "Only then will we know who the child is going to. More often, the children who are looking at the house are chained to other hutongs.
Because of the door-to-door, the children in the yard will not be lonely. If you don't have books at home, you will read them at your neighbor's house. Four or five children will huddle together to read picture books and children. When a family subscribes to a newspaper, the newspaper will go around the neighbor's house and then turn back; After dinner, the aunts in the yard will sit together to drink water and chat, and they will talk about it in all directions. Looking back now, at that time, the neighborhood feelings in the compound and even in the hutongs were still very strong. Of course, it does not rule out that there have been contradictions and unpleasantness between individual neighborhoods.
Every time I think back to the yard full of laughter and stories that happened in the yard, people who grew up and lived there are full of emotion and nostalgia for the disappearing hutongs and quadrangles, because it is an important and indelible experience in their lives!