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When I was a child, I thought that the climate would be the same every year, but when I grew up, I realized that climate change has cycles. For example, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it was meteorologically called the Xiaoice River period, and the winter was extremely cold. When I was a child, Beijing was frozen for three feet in winter, thousands of miles of ice, all rivers would freeze, and cars would drive on it without hindrance.

Winter is very cold, there is no Internet and TV, there is nothing to do at home, and I want to go out to play when it is cold, and the most fun thing to go out is ice skating. Shichahai Ice Rink is the most famous in Beijing, the reason is simple, Shichahai is located in the center of Beijing, near the North Sea, the Middle Sea, the South China Sea, and you can climb the Jingshan Mountain and enter the Forbidden City after walking for a while. The rest of the water surface is also frozen, but people are not allowed to skate in vain, so Shichahai has become the most beautiful scenery in Beijing in winter.

Going to Shichahai Ice Rink is very particular, divided into regions, regular skates go to the main ice rink, and the main ice cubes are also divided into two ways, one way to skate the knife, all the way to skate the pattern. At that time, the ice blades were clearly distinguished, the pattern knife was double-edged, the knife was short, and the running knife was single-edged and the knife was long. One plays tricks, the other plays speed, looks down on each other, and when they can't get right, they start fighting immediately if they don't agree. At that time, you could occasionally see a ball knife, which was used exclusively for ice hockey. There are now a number of improved skates that combine the length of various skates and are suitable for amateur use.

Ice skates were extremely expensive in those days, and few people could afford them, and skating was dominated by borrowing skates. Occasionally, someone brings their own skates and carries them back in front and back, and they are alive and well before they go to the ice rink, and it doesn't matter how well they skate. Shichahai Ice Rink has a special sharpening of skates, the edge of the skate blades is blunt, the ice rink can't kick the ice, easy to fall, the ice rink has a new livelihood - grinding skates, I remember grinding once for two cents, sometimes there is a lack of money, and the master also grinds for a dime.

And the most humane scene of Shichahai ice skating is the blind skating of the common people, their own ice cars, self-made skates, and cotton shoes with plastic soles without anything to play. The culture of Beijing's imperial city has been completely popularized so far, making the aristocratic life of the Qing Dynasty royal ice hip a cultural relic, and making the ice skating of the common people the best memory of a generation.

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