Memories of Chinese Life 1949 Many things needed to be done Memories of Chinese Life 1950s Clunese tunic suit replaced the western—style clothes and chi—pao Fashionable 'Lenin Coat' Girls keep on bib overa Little swallow wearing color clothes： 'platye' Food coupon starts the coupon era Residence booklet to control influxes into the urban area Free public eaterie s Dusky and greasy 'row houses' Water supply station in Shanghai lanes Walking—based transportation Dangdang Bus renunds pedestrians to keep away from cars with bells Cartoon dance needs a 'big brother' A divorce is hereby granted as mediation failed Rural women have a bath in the bathhouse for the first time Transferring Shanghai haircutters to open Silian in Beijing National steelmaking movement Wronged sparrow Women were bashful when doing radio calisthenics Merit students The first national salary reform Memories of Chinese Life 1960s The food substitute movement： Man—made meat essence and appeasing hunger with chlorella Lying—in women provided with a lump sum subsidy of lkg of eggs Quota supply ofvegetable， shallot， ginger and garlic Umbrella and alarm clocks were also supplied with coupon Three years in new， three years in old and three years in patched No white buttons for white suit in Beijing Red Guard hairstyle State Council cuts sales oflipstick in China Renovating Fangua Lane Nine—storey Anhua Building nicknamed 'lugh—ranking official building' From honeycomb briquette to gas tank Forever， Phoenix and Flying Pigeon First Beijing subway built secretly We don 't accept tips Hundred Thousand Whys Learn from Daqing Oilfield for industrial production and learn from Dazhai for agricultural production Follow the good example of Lei Feng RMB4 as cash gift and 1 kilogram of candies as betrothal present Newly—married couples bowed to the portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong Each family has the Little Red Book Badge bearing Chairman Mao's profile wom on the chest Loyalty dance The Red Guards take public transportation for free across the country to exchange revolutionary ideas Open—door schooling： Learning industrial production， agricultural production and military affairs Educated youth go and work in the countryside and mountainous areas Barefoot doctor helps the local people Eggs as 'cash' Memories of Chinese Life 1970s With Dacron inside Police officers chase young people wearing bell—bottoms Pierre Cardin and 12 models debuts at Beijing Cultural Palace of Nationalities A hubbub of voices in the tube—shaped apartments Earthquake shelter—tents set up by making use ofevery single space The 'Stone Gate' residence， not a 'new horizon' The Bund， the dimly—lit paradise for couples First 3，000 boxes ofbottled Coca—Cola delivered to Beijing Eight model operas entertain 800 million people in eight years Chinese movies are like news summaries Sandakan 8， Proof of the Man and Kimi Yo Funme No Kawa O Watare Popular but not wlgar picture—story books 36 'legs' and 'three betrothal presents with wheels and one with sound' Shanghai products sell well The first TV commercial for ginseng tonic wine broadcasted at the first day of the Lunar Year Resumption ofuniversity entrance examination with an application fee of RMB Overseas Chinnese students make a stirin the United States Villagers of Xiaogang Village fingerprint for all—around contract Watclung CCTV News becomes a habit All Chinese people listen to the Legend of Yue Fei told by Liu Lanfang Fragrance ofpuffed rice on the street …… Memories of Chincse Life 1980s
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In the 1960s, rural areas used straw and firewood as the fuel while urban areas used honeycomb briquettes.In winter there was no heating and stove were used for heating.Before winter, residents needed to buy an iron stovepipe and install the stove themselves.In the 1960s, LPG was available for common people.(Across Beijing, Volume I) It was not easy to ignite a stove.First, one needed to put a piece of scrunched paper into the hearth with a piece of turf for igniting, on which honeycomb briquette was put.Then one needed to ignite the paper which lighted the turf and the coal in order.Step by step, the stove was ignited.In the process, smoke was strong and filled the whole room. It was not that hard to learn how to ignite the stove.What was difficult was to keep the flame and reach the purpose of heating. Many had a similar experience.Every day they started with opening the stove, cleaning coal ash, feeding coal to the stove and then sealing the stove after 15-20 minutes； when they returned from work, they first opened the stove,cleaned coal ash and fed fuel to the stove.It was nearly 8 oclock in night when the flame was roaring.After enjoying heating for about two hours, it would be time to sleep.Therefore the highest room temperature in night was about 10 to 13 degrees Celsius. However, it was common for the stove to be extinguished. The highest worry of using the honeycomb briquette was carbon monoxide poisoning, or gas poisoning". When the coalmen delivered briquettes to door, he was always well received with tea and a cigarette to get more dry briquettes.The newly made briquettes were wet and could hardly be ignited.What's more, wet briquettes could easily produce carbon monoxide.Therefore everybody was nice to coalmen.Of course, neighbors were considerate to coalmen.A cart of briquettes weighed several hundred kilograms and the coalman needed to push the cart and carry the briquettes himself.It was laborious and the coalman could sweat even in the late autumn after delivering a cart of briquettes.Everybody earned money the hard way, so they sent what they could to the coalman.
