At that time, the conditions were poor, there were not many fans in the house, most of them relied on manual fans to cool down, it was too hot during the day, and the cool breeze in the evening naturally became the first choice for cooling.
When the day gradually darkened down, families will pull on the cooler and pillow on the roof to sleep, the first is lit on the leaves to drive mosquitoes, and then mention a bucket of cool water splashed on the roof, instantly "ZiZi" sound will come, you can imagine how high the temperature of the roof, after a while the watermarks under the cooler, this is the summer night of the The first time I saw this, it was a very good time for me to go back to the house.
At that time, there is no cell phone, no computer, even the TV is mostly black and white, the children's biggest entertainment project is to run from the roof of the East to the roof of the West, due to the age of the families are mostly one-storey bungalows, so the height of the building is not bad, so the string of roofs is not a very difficult activity, but very suitable for children to play the project.
Occasionally, a few families with better conditions would pull a wire to the roof and move the TV to the roof to watch, which would attract a lot of children to come to watch, and the children of several families would sit around excitedly, gazing at the small TV screen, as if they were watching a movie.
As for the TV programs, besides "Returning Pearl" is "Journey to the West", of which "Returning Pearl" is the most popular, most of the summer nights are spent watching "Returning Pearl", which is popular among young and old, and "Journey to the West" is mostly watched during the day.
In those days, even watermelon is a rare delicacy on earth, if the summer night around the TV and then a few pieces of watermelon, it is simply cool on the sky.
When I was a kid, I had very few worries and a lot of happiness, because it was too hot during the day, and I rarely went out, but in the evening it was the most exciting time for the kids, and sometimes I would even ride the evening breeze and catch the cicada pupae on the ground with the grown-ups. When I was young and fearless, I saw a hole in the ground and reached in to dig, not feeling the slightest bit scared, and not thinking at all about whether it would be a hole for other bugs.
Adults are usually in groups of three or five, holding a flashlight back and forth, first of all, the trunk of the tree, because the trunk of the cicada nymphs will generally be more, most of them are from the ground hole climbed out of the trunk of the tree, and there are some slower still in the ground hole did not climb out.
The children are taking a plastic bag behind the adults, and the adults will open the bag to welcome the cicada nymphs every time they catch one, which is usually not long before the harvest is full, catching a bag.
In addition, the children will follow the adults to catch scorpions in the summer evening wind, catch scorpions is not an easy job, often accidentally will be stung, but because the scorpion is expensive, good money, or a lot of people will tirelessly catch.
Sometimes in a trance a few hours on the past, a look at the table is already more than twelve o'clock at night, the wind in the second half of the night is a little cool, and even a little cold, although some tired but the evening wind is not dry, the temperature is just right, it is a good time to catch a scorpion, accompanied by bright moonlight, blowing a little cool wind, and occasionally see not far away from the flashlight light, know that at this time to catch scorpion competitors! There is more than one, and all of a sudden, the energy came back.
In those days, people were very simple, there are not too many electronic products, there are not too many entertainment programs, the evening breeze in summer is the best gift that nature gives people, and sometimes even at noon will be eager to hurry up and come to the night, because the night of fun is really more.
Time like a white horse, a blink of an eye more than twenty years past, people have air conditioning, computers and cell phones, rarely go out and take the initiative to look for entertainment projects, the summer breeze is no longer as in the past as the expectations of the spoiled, and occasionally want to get up to go to the park to walk a circle, a square dance, and that's it, that kind of simple and happy childhood entertainment rich in a sense of the times can not be found back.