On the whole, the 80s were still a pure era, especially in the early and middle periods, and of course the word pure has nothing to do with Hong Tao, and he must be cut out. At this time, everyone has just recovered from trembling, and they are still optimistic and cautious in the face of more and more people who have not seen and don't know. Because the hard life is used to, the common people do not need publicity and education for the words waste, pomp, and extravagance, and everyone is resisting from the heart, so whether it is a second marriage like 6 Yunpeng or those young people who are married for the first time, the wedding is generally very simple, and there can be more exquisiteness, but there are not many things that cost the people and money.

Let's take the three major events of marriage as an example, the house, furniture, and dowry, compared with later generations, it is simply too simple to be simple, and compared with the previous sixties and seventies, it has a more humane and festive flavor.

The new house, the house where Hong Tao slept all night, is white on the ground, with a special paper Xinhu ceiling and windows, still snow-white. on windows, doors, beams, furniture, mirrors...... Wherever there is space, the word "happy" cut from red paper is pasted. If you look carefully, the cutting style of these happy characters is not the same, which is a must, because these happy words are not bought at all, and relatives, friends, and neighbors cut them, and there is a pair of skillful hands at that time, which is also a very popular thing.

Furniture, from this time on, became a bit more elaborate, called thirty-six legs! What are these thirty-six legs? a bed, a large cabinet, a half-section, a writing desk, a folding round table, four chairs...... You count, exactly thirty-six legs. These are preferably new furniture. I really haven't used it, and I don't necessarily have to buy it, and the price of furniture in this era is compared with everyone's salary. It's still very expensive. A large wardrobe is more than 200 yuan, and the salary of a college graduate who has just joined the work is only more than 6o yuan.

What can the little two people do if they can't afford to buy so many legs? It doesn't matter, we can do it if we can't afford it, and making furniture by ourselves is something that many young men were forced to learn in that era. If you don't want to learn, you have to learn, or you can't marry a daughter-in-law! At that time, your parents would always whisper in your ear, you learn to learn from the xxx next door. Look at other people's craftsmanship, whose girl will take a fancy to you like you!

If you really don't know, it doesn't matter, you can ask someone who can help you fight. It's all about a cigarette and a few meals. You said you didn't even know anyone who could make furniture. It doesn't matter, you spend 100 yuan and ask those carpenters on the side of the road who go into the city to find work, and you will produce wood at home, and they will help you do it. You said that not only do you not know the people who make furniture, but you don't even have wood at home, so you should find a place to go and don't even need to bring toiletries. You don't have to carry a bag, just check in!

And then there is the dowry. Generally speaking, these things are for girls to prepare by themselves, what are they? First, there are eight quilts, from one and a half catties to eight catties, which is the weight of cotton in the quilt, which means that there are from thin quilts to thick quilts, and they can be covered by the little two for a lifetime. At that time, people didn't expect that these quilts had not been covered, and all kinds of quilts came out, and most of the dowries they prepared were not used.

These quilts must be satin, red and green, in addition to the mandarin duck is the dragon and phoenix, it is best to embroider it by hand, people in the city generally go to the mall to buy, let a city girl embroider from elementary school, a little time is not enough. If a wealthy family can also add two blankets, this grade is already very high, and you have to have a ticket to buy cotton in this era, let alone blankets.

Of course, it's a bit too harsh to let a girl in the city sew these things by herself, so what can you do? You have to find someone to help you do this, first of all, the girl's mother, and every mother must be willing to make a dowry for her daughter. However, it's not that you can do it if you want to, you have to be a Quanfuer person, and the Beijing dialect is called a Quanhuo person.

What is a living person, in fact, it is very simple, that is, there are parents and in-laws, children and children, the husband must be the original match, and it is best to have brothers and sisters. There were many such people in the seventies and eighties, but with the development of family planning, in the 21st century, they will become giant pandas. Those who are qualified to sew a dowry for the bride must be this kind of living person, probably to borrow the blessings of others.

These covers alone are not a complete dowry, there are many things to prepare, such as sand covers, TV covers, sewing machine covers, tablecloths, curtains, etc., which are generally hooked with cotton threads, and crochet is second only to sweaters among girls in that era.

Prepare these dowries, then put them into two large wooden boxes, stack them on top of them, paste them with big red wedding letters, and it's OK.

One more sentence here, many book friends say that the author has too many gold fingers for the protagonist, and he can save bicycles, radios, cut clothes, cut hair, and play professional audio...... If you let him learn from his mother's womb, he won't learn so many things!

How to say this question, this is called the difference in living environment. People born in the seventies and eighties, from the time they go to nursery, have to exercise their hands-on ability, do they want to play with paper guns, do they want to play with origami toys? do they want to make their own, they have nowhere to buy them! After school, do they want to play with sandbags? Do they want to play with chain guns? Do they want to catch dragonflies? Do they want to push hoops? Do they want to jump rubber bands? Do they want to crutches? Do they want to shoot cigarette cases? Similarly, do they do it themselves, boys and girls are the same, but there is still nowhere to buy them!

In the same way, this situation will continue until you graduate from junior high school, and then there will be more things sold in the store, but you don't have that much money in your pocket, so what can you do?

By the time you finally get through to high school or college, do you think you'll be able to live a safe life by learning a skill or a major? The answer will have to disappoint you! You can't catch up with the welfare room, you can't catch up with the class that takes over your parents, and you can catch up with the college package allocation a little earlier, but you can't catch up with it later. New things are based on the sky, constantly jumping in front of your eyes, disturbing your little heart that is already a little overwhelmed, you can add several majors in a semester, and you can't guarantee that you will have a bowl of rice to eat after graduation.

As a result, everyone stared at the red eyes, and learned whatever they caught, and said that it would be said after it didn't work, and the TV university, night school, radio correspondence course, and television correspondence course all arose from this era, and as long as you want to learn, you will have something you can't learn.

The author himself is also a very curious person, I have been like this since I was a child, I have learned countless skills, certificates, but lack perseverance, I have learned everything, but I have not learned well, so I know a little more. This is not the author's patent, you can go home and ask your parents, what they will do when they are young, I believe there are many more people than me, the slogan of the male compatriots at that time is: except to have children, we must know everything!

After saying this paragraph, there may be readers who want to say, we don't have welfare housing, we don't take over parents' classes, and we don't have distribution after graduating from college, why are you so miserable at that time, aren't we the same?

The problem may seem the same on the surface, but it is not the same at all. From the day you went to school, from your parents, to the society and the government, you have been prepared for nothing, from the level of wages to the social welfare system, all of which have been set in accordance with this goal, and the most important thing is that you have been mentally prepared. And our generation or two generations, without this mental preparation, new things come too quickly and too often, and what is even more is that there is no one who can show everyone the way forward, because no one has walked this road, and they don't know what lies ahead, so everyone has to explore by themselves.

Therefore, in this situation where the front is unknown, everyone has to arm themselves desperately, learn as much as they can, as the old saying goes, use it when you are busy, and don't pressure yourself when you are busy, this word sounds good, but in fact, it is a manifestation of a weak heart, because everyone doesn't know what they can use in the future. And then you don't have to bother so much, the road is clear, what is in front of you is in front of everyone, you just need to pick a few things you like or need to learn well, learn well, it's OK, so don't be jealous of how many people we were back then, that's not a skill worth boasting about, but a kind of helplessness, is sad!

The new house, furniture, and dowry are all there, and the pre-marriage preparations are basically completed, as for the gold and silver ornaments, there is no such requirement in this era, and some old people who have inventory in their hands will give their gold rings and necklaces when they got married to their daughters-in-law, but after so many years of tossing, there are not many people with these capitalist tails, especially in the city, everyone would rather throw all those expensive ornaments into the moat, and dare not keep them, in case they are sued by their neighbors, then the family will be ruined.

Then it should be the wedding day, whether it is the dowry or the bride, it has to be picked up from the mother's house, which has to be said to be the convoy of relatives. Mercedes-Benz doesn't have it, Audi doesn't have it, Crown doesn't have it, Shanghai doesn't have it, and whoever can find a 13O truck to pull the dowry away is already very good. If the unit has the conditions, you can borrow a car to pick up the bride, but most people don't have this condition, and they can't afford to hire the car of those taxi companies as a limousine, so there are also people who use tricycles to send their relatives, or simply get a bicycle team, which is also normal.

Now Hong Tao is doing this errand, his car was temporarily requisitioned, used as a wedding car, he himself was promoted, as a wedding car driver, for this as a temporary mother's family, grandma also stuffed him with a pack of cigarettes and a pack of candy, this is the rule, of course, grandma just left, grandpa came to confiscate the box of big front door, Hong Tao left a pack of candy. (To be continued......)

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