1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 27 New Year, School

Xia Tian was a little confused when holding the "Yanjing Daily" - how come it was on the news?

There is a small black and white photo on the third page, which shows the snowman that Xia Tian and his gang made at the crossroads. The snow sculpture of the steelworker in Xia Tian stands in the center.

The newspapers even boasted:

According to our reporter, these are some young people who followed LF's example of doing good deeds, helping to clear the snow on the road and making snowmen at the same time.

...It is excellent both in concept and form, facilitating residents' travel and enriching their spiritual life.

Especially this snowman made based on the steelworker on the five-yuan RMB note, it is very lifelike...

When Xia's father saw the newspaper during breakfast, he immediately felt something was wrong and asked, "Xia Tian, ​​this snow sculpture..."

Xia Tian held a bowl of porridge in his hand and said, "I don't know!"

……

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and because the atmosphere is more open now, everyone is more active.

It's a bit joyous.

In the morning, my friends and I went out for a stroll and planned to go ice skating in Houhai.

It’s a pity that no one has these ice skates!

After looking there for half an hour, I was as cold as a grandson, so I left~
If I see others drawing a line, it is equivalent to me drawing it.

At this time, Xia Tian had already made up his mind to save some money this summer and buy him at least four pairs of skates.

However, the glasses said, there is no need to prepare my pair, I don’t skate - this sport is too dangerous and not suitable for me.

On the way back, Dachun took out a handkerchief from his pocket and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

When summer comes, I blanch frozen bean curd!
Is bean curd a specialty of Northeast China?
Use yellow glutinous rice, sticky rice or the like to make something similar to rice cake, but it has fillings, usually red bean paste or something like that.

Nowadays, it is a blessing to have some sweets. Red bean paste is sweet, and bean buns are filling. How great!

But that was steamed bean curd!
This stick is so hard, how can I eat it?!

I saw Dachun chewing the hard bean bun with his front teeth like a groundhog, with a very happy look on his face.

Xia Tian: Dachun, you are so kind~
Passing by a small state-owned restaurant, I bought a few steamed buns in the summer and shared them with everyone. Because the buns were steamed in the kitchen, there were many big icicles on the eaves in the winter.
"Woo woo woo~~" Everyone heard Dachun making a strange noise that didn't sound like a human voice. After a closer look, they said: "Silly Chuner~ why are you licking that thing? !

When they were in the alley in the summer, Dachun asked Xiaodong not to leave yet and ran back home. He came out soon and took out a small round box the size of a 5-cent coin.

"This is clam oil. I see your hands are cracked due to the cold. Just apply this. We always use it when we are in the Northeast!"

Xiaodong was so touched that he wiped his hands, which were greasy. He handed the clam oil to Dachun, who shook his head and said, "Take it!"

Xia Tian smiled and asked, "What do you say when Aunt Li asks you?"

Dachun smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll tell Xia Tian that you took it, and my mom won't ask any more questions!"

Xia Tian stared at him with eyes wide open: How many things have I been blamed for that I don't even know about? !

……

January 1st is the Little New Year, and everyone has to have a good meal on this day.

The next day, it was February, and "Children's Literature" published Xia Tian's "Little White Rabbit and Little Gray Rabbit".

It's the story about two rabbits helping Uncle Goat grow cabbages, but they don't want the cabbages, they want the seeds.

Dachun’s realization is: I want both seeds and cabbage. I plant the seeds and then eat the cabbage. After I eat the cabbage, the seeds will also grow into cabbage!
Xia Tian: You have a pretty good idea of ​​sustainable development!
If Dachun were asked this question again thirty years later, Uncle Goat would probably have to give him the USB drive - it would be full of high-quality seeds from Japan!
The Spring Festival is just a few days away, and I can already hear kids from somewhere in the alley starting to set off firecrackers - they take the firecrackers off the hanging sticks, light them with incense, and can have fun with them for a long time.

There are people selling firecrackers?

Of course, this thing burns very fast, and you may not be able to throw it out in time~
Chun Ma also bought red paper and started cutting window flowers.

You know what, Aunt Li has a lot of skills! The paper-cuts she made are really pretty!
In their yard and at home in summer, they use paste to stick window decorations on the glass, which looks very festive.

I originally thought I could just eat good food for a few days and wait for the New Year.

I never expected that Dachun would get beaten up at the end of the year. It was his father who beat him up!
Dachun exchanged two frozen bean buns for some disassembled firecrackers, but he ended up throwing them into the public toilet.

The old man, the neighborhood committee director, was so scared that he ran out without even pulling up his pants.

Dachun didn’t deserve the beating!
Setting off firecrackers in a public toilet - aren't you arousing public outrage (shit)?
Chun Dad gave Black Tiger a heart-wrenching meal~
When Chun's father educates his children, he always beats them with a loud bang.

The old man from the neighborhood committee couldn’t stand it anymore and hurriedly tried to stop them - don’t beat him to death on New Year’s Day!

No wonder Dachun has such a good figure, he has been doing pressure training since he was a child~
Chun's father: This is how your grandfather beat me!

That's right, Chun's father has some skills, although not much. It is said that his ancestors used to be bandits, but later they became fortune tellers.

Xia Tian: Their grandfathers left behind some family skills, but my family didn’t leave behind anything? Like a mysterious little box or something?!
……

February 2th, Chinese New Year.

During the Chinese New Year, the food has indeed improved. There is meat and chicken, and although we can't have enough, it satisfies our cravings.

Mother Xia also bought canned food, sugar cubes, and a small jar of fermented bean curd.

Dad Xia bought a big bag of Kangle fruit and popcorn for Xia Tian...

But apart from eating dumplings and receiving a lucky money, there is not much feeling of Chinese New Year in summer. There is no TV, no Spring Festival Gala or anything like that.

And not many people set off firecrackers, let alone fireworks.

There are not even many people who put up couplets!
During that prosperous period, people paid attention to changing customs and habits to celebrate the Spring Festival.

In mid-February, Xia heard a piece of news on the radio: Yenching University resumed admissions to primary and secondary schools.

The Ministry of Education issued the "Draft Trial Implementation Plan for the Ten-Year Full-time Primary and Secondary School Teaching Plan", which stipulates that the full-time primary and secondary school system is ten years, including five years for primary school and five years for secondary school (three years for junior high school and two years for senior high school). The system starts in the autumn.

Regions with conditions can gradually implement school enrollment at the age of six and a half or six years old...

The middle school system was changed from the previous "two-two system" to three years of junior high school and two years of high school.

At the same time...restore the principal responsibility system.

This marks that primary and secondary education is back on track.

This means they have school in the summer!
Although it was delayed for a year, it’s not a big problem.

When Xia's father learned the news, he also actively inquired about the policy.

Soon, Xia Tian and Dachun took part in the entrance examination for a middle school in Dongcheng.

You still have to take the exam. There was no nine-year compulsory education back then and teaching resources were limited.

But because they had been free for a year, the exam was relaxed. Even Dachun passed!
Chun's mother was quite excited: "You were able to get into junior high school, this is the blessing of your Yang family ancestors!"

Dachun was dissatisfied: "Mom, I passed the exam based on my own ability!"

Chun Ma: "Don't you know your own strength?"

Dachun: "Mom, am I your biological child? Was I picked up?"

Dachun's mother: "You are the one who doubts. I have been wondering since the first time you ranked last in the exam, whether you were taken care of in the hospital? Otherwise, how could I, who is so smart, give birth to a thing like you!"

Dachun was insensitive and didn't care at all, or rather, he was heartless and was still joking: "Then you didn't check it out?"

Dachun's mother curled her lips and said, "Do you think I don't want to check? I'm just leaving myself a little hope. If I find out that he is really my biological child, then I will have no hope at all!"

Sure enough, old ginger is still spicy~
Most people in Northeast China speak like this and are good at making jokes.

In fact, Dachun was quite worried before taking the exam: "Tian'er, do you think I can do it?"

Xia Tian: "You just need to try your best and leave the rest to God." If you really can't do it, can't you just copy mine?
Dachun was lucky because Xia Tian had just talked to him about those questions two days ago.

Dachun: The rest are my guesses! They are purely my own strength!

……

On March 3, his summer biological clock woke him up.

No morning exercises today. I will pack my bag and get ready for school.

Chongwen Junior High School is a temporary junior high school with 3 years of junior high school and 2 years of senior high school.

Xia Tian and Da Chun go to the same school. Let’s go together after dinner.

When I got to the school, there wasn't much to say. It was not far from home and I was still surrounded by the same group of people my age.

There were thirty or fifty people who greeted Xia Tian on the way to school.

With Xia Tian's good memory, he recognized them all.

This is not much different from when I was in elementary school!

Divided into classes, handed over books, went to class... Xia Tian and Da Chun were in the same class, and Xiao Dong and Yan Jing were in the same class. Nothing much to say.

The next day, Xia Tian saw a small report in the newspaper saying that the first opening ceremony of the Junior Class of USTC was held yesterday.

China K University opened a junior class, and 20 young people were selected by exception to enter USTC.

The oldest teenager who was admitted to Zhong K University on an exceptional basis was 16 years old, and the youngest was only 11 years old.

In January of this year, in order to organize the junior class, China K University began to recruit students from all over the country, and news about it appeared in newspapers from time to time.

There has never been a shortage of "child prodigies" in our history.

Luo Binwang wrote an ode to a goose at the age of 7, Cao Chong weighed an elephant at the age of 8, and Gan Luo became prime minister at the age of 12...

It can be said that child prodigies are the obsession of the Chinese people.

There is also the example of Zhongyong's injury~
Fairy tale king Zheng Yuanjie has a famous saying: If the children of a country speak adult words and do adult things, the adults of this country will definitely speak childish words and do childish things.

This is exactly what the education of child prodigies is like: on one side, the children are becoming more and more precocious, while on the other side, the adults are becoming more and more absurd.

Genius can grow naturally, but cannot be created artificially.

Education that promotes precocious development will not only fail to produce a child prodigy, but will instead result in the loss of a child.

Of course, Mr. Zheng hated the exam-oriented education system. He did not allow his eldest son to go to school and educated him at home, but the results were not ideal, so he sent his younger daughter to school obediently.

I have given up practicing the big trumpet, so I am concentrating on practicing the small trumpet.
(End of this chapter)