Before 1984, we didn't have a refrigerator! At that time to buy vegetables can only be put one or two days, the winter burning briquettes cooking, boiling water, heating, the rest of the meal served in a bowl covered with a plate, placed in the shade, to the next meal to eat, often eat overnight meals. In the summer, overnight meals are placed outside, and when eaten the next day, they have a rancid odor and have to be eaten in moderation! To the children bought popsicles (harder than the snow lamb) wrapped in cotton, can be put a few hours, when the popsicle vendors push a cart, the car is wrapped in a small quilt popsicles, seven or eight hours does not melt! At the height of summer, people buy ice, it's good!
The moat outside Xuanwumen in Beijing, a winter cellar ice, cut into a meter square of ice, placed in the ice cellar, buried in the earth, a summer for the city's citizens to relieve the summer heat, and made a great contribution! Time has passed more than sixty years, when the moat water frozen ice, even people can eat! I can imagine the cleanliness of the river at that time, is unforgettable.
The well water in the countryside can be pumped up to relieve the heat, and in the summer our leftovers, put in bamboo baskets with a rope hanging in the well, is also a natural quasi-fridge!
Since the refrigerator, people's lives have changed significantly! People in the well-off life, inevitably indispensable household appliances!
When I was a kid, I couldn't use a refrigerator, so I didn't have to hoard food. Children do not have anything to eat, after school are all hungry, the home of the cold rice and cold dishes immediately meet the bottom of the bowl. Nowadays, snacks and pastries are eaten in a variety of ways, so much so that they are anorexic and picky eaters, and they don't even bother to look at them.
I remember when the wild strawberries are our favorite, a long, long time have not eaten, especially nostalgic, there are two kinds of vines and short trees, but all tend to short number of, not only more and full of fruit, more delicious than the strawberries now. Sometimes do not wash to open eat, take a large porcelain cup with ears to pick, vegetable garden on the ridge, dam side everywhere there is their figure, every time it is full to stop, the body is small, but for us to bring infinite sweetness.
A kind of fruit on the ground, the earliest is green, the middle is red, after maturity is black, growing in the tea tree forest, in the fall after the rain, picking tea seeds, we lovely to eat it, picking down to the mouth to plug, the whole mouth and tongue have become black, there care about washing. As the saying goes:not dry, eat no disease.
Or a few partners to find a way to get food, if there is still rice, will come to a soy sauce with rice, a grain are mixed into the black color, when the soy sauce mellow and rich, each person to a few mouths, especially comfortable.
The cupboard of edamame is also a childhood memory, hungry, edamame became a zero matter, soybean fermentation needs to go through a certain period of time, brewed, a grain of soybean has become a small black unsmooth, eaten with a long aftertaste, perhaps these are only children can taste the taste of it.
The refrigerator for us at that time did not think about it, because it was too late to go in, to be eaten in the belly, cabbage and small vegetables are in the garden, eat as you pick. Every meal is taken seriously, dry vegetables and salted vegetables to eat the most, is the best meal. All are full of warm memories.
Previously, I have seen the refrigerator is in the hospital. The cold storage has been, summer work wear cotton clothes. The big northeast winter simply can not use the refrigerator, outside temperature is colder than the refrigerator, natural refrigerator, economical and practical. Households with refrigerators is also the reform and opening up after the matter, living conditions are good, material life is also on the grade.
Refrigerator, into the capital of ordinary people's homes should be the time of the last century in the mid-1980s more common. Today, the full count is only thirty years.
At that time, the refrigerator's two major brands: one is the soybean green majority of "Wanbao", a white majority of "snow".
To be honest, at that time, the first to buy a refrigerator, practical is second, "fashion" is the first. Why do I dare to say so? You look down to know!
Some people of a certain age should remember that in the seventies, the family's "fashionable objects" were "three turns and a slinky", three turns were a bicycle, a watch, a sewing machine, and a slinky was a semiconductor radio. Let's say that the bicycle is for commuting and going out convenient, sewing machine is for the family to make their own clothes to wear, semiconductor listen to the news and listen to a play is also necessary. But this watch? I always feel that time keeping is in the second place. Its main role is like the previous man's hand trigger finger, women's wrist bracelet. 120 dollars a piece of Shanghai brand hand are worn on the wrist, in front of the face of the people have nothing to look at eight back, why? Show off!
Watches like this, buy a refrigerator inside the people are not lacking. Why? At that time, most of the workers' families are not rich, every day to eat what they know best. The refrigerator bought back, inside the ice what? A family gathered around half a pot of food, and even if they didn't eat it all, they couldn't have any serious stuff left. What's the point of putting leftovers in the refrigerator? The cost of electricity to run the refrigerator is more expensive than the leftovers, so it would be better to dump them. Then why do you buy it so urgently? If you have it in your house, I have to have it in mine! Of course, it is not necessarily the case that every family is like this, but it is also true that some people are like this.
So, how did people live without refrigerators?
When there is no refrigerator, although it is inconvenient, but generations of ancestors are not so over! Just cook a little less in the summer and try not to have any leftovers. Buns, pancakes, leftover is okay, rice, if leftover, the night is half a pot of cold water, the pot with leftovers in the cool water to soak. Meat was bought on the spot, and not much was bought each time anyway. At that time, although there is no supermarket, but the streets of the food stores, vegetable company under the small market selling vegetables is also quite a lot. There were many stores, and it was convenient to buy vegetables and side dishes, and it was not too late to buy them for cooking. If you buy a watermelon on the way home from work, you have to soak it in cold water and eat it at night. The first to sell Arctic Ocean soda on the street at that time, not all are pulling a block of artificial ice, with an iron tool in the ice dug out of the groove, the soda bottle yards in the groove, with a hand constantly scratching the side of the turn to sell it.
Later, as people's living standards continue to improve, the value of the use of the refrigerator is also more and more, until today, has become an indispensable part of people's daily lives, one of the necessary appliances. Its role from the beginning to put the leftovers into the people to store the future food ingredients.
After the past, is it worth remembering? I say yes, because it is through remembering the past that we can ponder why people were generally poor in the past, and appreciate the progress of society as a whole today. ......
Chinese people only saw refrigerators in urban areas 30 years ago, and not yet in every household, and not yet in the shantytowns of large cities! In the rural areas of China, there were no refrigerators at all, and no one knew what a refrigerator was yet!
When I was a kid, I didn't even hear the term "refrigerator", not to mention using a refrigerator. In the summer, drinking water from the well, even if it is "chilled" water. The watermelon will be put into the water tank half a day before eating, even if it is "chilled" watermelon.
The second year after the reform and opening up, as the village deputy secretary of my father, the village managed to run a popsicle factory. My brother, who was just ten years old, bought popsicles from the factory and then sold them in the village.
There was no popsicle case, just a cylindrical lunch box that wasn't insulated at all. My mother made a cotton cover and put it over the outside of the drum. When my brother sold popsicles, he would open the lid, quickly take out one or a few popsicles, and then quickly close the lid.
I was married in May 1992, when my in-laws bought an imported color TV, which cost several thousand dollars, and my parents bought the furniture, and the refrigerator was not a necessity at that time, of course, because of the lack of money.
By the end of the year, my husband's unit sent welfare, chicken and fish. The company also sent fish to the unit of the relationship. We gave more than half to my in-laws (my in-laws have a large family and we have to go home for New Year's Eve), and some to my parents.
The rest of the part, in order to preserve the freshness of the snow, when it snowed, we put the yard into a big pile of snow, and then buried the chicken and fish into the snow. However, not many days, the pile of snow is getting smaller and smaller every day.
So, my family stewed fish every day, however, at that time I was pregnant, do not like to eat fish. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it. But see I basically can't eat fish, and the snow pile is only left a small pile of black, had to fish to the in-laws, mother's family, friends home to send. We all share a meal, and then save.
Waiting for the second half of 93, before my son was born, my husband said, have to buy a refrigerator. At that time, after a woman gave birth, friends and family basically did not give red envelopes, usually a pig front leg, plus something else.
So, the husband's purpose is very clear, is to use the refrigerator to store pig legs. I remember picking up about twenty pork shanks and feeling like I could eat them for a long time. In order to fit in the refrigerator, the husband cut the pig legs. Pork legs for me stewed milk, elbows will be stored.
However, when my son was full moon, we needed to have a full moon wine, so I discussed with my husband to take the elbow to the restaurant and ask the masters to process it and top it with a hard dish, so that we could spend less money.
Nowadays, my family has replaced the big double-door refrigerator. The fridge is almost always full and needs to be cleaned out regularly, which really means throwing out expired, or vegetables that have gone bad or whatever.
When I didn't have a refrigerator, I thought that if I had a refrigerator, I would put leftovers in the refrigerator, and then eat them in the next meal or the next meal or the next meal or the next meal. However, now I feel that with a refrigerator, the electricity bill is more expensive than the leftovers.
Of course, how to say or more convenient. For example, usually buy some fish and meat, etc., temporarily want to eat, and do not want to go to the street, take out a melt, you can eat. Anyway, I think, now out of the house not a few steps, is the big and small supermarkets, want to buy what can buy, the refrigerator is not much use.
That year, my eldest daughter was born.
The old home in southwest China, just opened on the electricity not long. What TV, refrigerator ...... is a luxury for an ordinary Zhuang family!
The road between the village and the village is still a dirt road.
All of this can't stop the human beings from being prosperous, happy and sad!
The first child was born after marriage.
The first child was a son, so there was only one more to be had. The government advocated that it was good to have only one! If the first is a girl, two more children are allowed.
According to local custom, boys eat happy noodles twelve days after birth, and girls on the ninth day.
Two days before my eldest daughter's wedding, the family was busy.
My father got the help of his neighbors to lift the table, move the chairs, build the shed, support the stove, invited the cook master, ready to invite friends and relatives.
The good news sent out, green vegetables bought, chicken slaughtered, fish stewed, meat cooked ......
All things are ready, all we need is the east wind. Just wait for the guests to visit.
To say that the guests, mainly daughter-in-law's family! What seven aunts and eight aunts, mailing son, cousin sister-in-law, cousin sister, as long as there are usually human contacts, will come as scheduled.
The weather is not favorable.
On the day of the eldest daughter's wedding, the heavens changed their faces, and rain fell early in the morning.
After breakfast, it didn't take long for all the relatives and friends from the neighboring villages to arrive. The only thing left is the daughter-in-law's family!
The rain, from small to dense, from dense to big.
The army has been slow to move. In those days, the village did not have a telephone, not to mention the cell phone, can not be contacted, can only be sent to the village head back and forth to look.
The first time I saw this, I saw a man in a car, and I saw him in a car, and I saw him in a car, and I saw him in a car, and I saw him in a car, and I saw him in a car!
My father is not happy.
I'm not sure what to do.
I clearly remember that it was the end of August and the beginning of September. The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and the second time I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and the third time I was a student there.
They are the first to be able to use the same technology as they are used in the past!
Look at the pots and pans placed in the house, that full of Tengteng, has been cooked whole chicken whole fish pig elbow ...... father's brow, wrinkled into a big pimple!
So many good things, will go bad. Leave yourself to eat? In those days, who would spare it? Even if you ate it, you still had to buy it. Where did you get the money from in the middle of nowhere?
--Without a refrigerator, it's a sad day!
Coming, coming, coming! The army is coming ......
Finally, the outside watching, topped with plastic sheeting rushed into the yard, shouting.
Xiao Ni her grandma gang, driving three or four tractors, stuck in the mud road. Quickly find someone to help tow trucks!
My father woke up in a dream, and hurriedly found two tractors from the village, honking all the way, and drove towards the army of people eating happy noodles.
We are here, and we have finally met them.
I will never forget that day!
Three or four red tractors were traveling on the muddy road.
In the rain and mud, my mother-in-law, who is over a hundred years old, looked like a female general under the car, directing a group of young women to push the car.
The car is sitting on the old man and a group of children who do not understand the world. One by one, with an umbrella, wearing a plastic sheet, to protect the gift boxes in the car, so as not to be wet by the rain.
That inside, loaded with millet, eggs, brown sugar, noodles and so on, to the pregnant woman to nourish the body of the nutrients, as well as large bags of young children's clothing ......
Because of that day, because of that one thing, because of that move, the four neighbors know, I have a reasonable, understanding mother-in-law
Although, that country road, because of the tractor's crushing, become more rugged, more difficult to walk, but we all see, a mother's mother's burning heart, for people in the world of compassionate heart.
Road, time, people step on the car pressure, will also be a horse. People's hearts, hurt, afraid of a lifetime are difficult to heal.
I always think, if my mother-in-law did not come in the rain that time, my father will not be jealous of her life?
A day without a refrigerator is a day to remember.
Even for children born in the countryside nowadays, not many of them have a refrigerator at home. Not to mention those like me who were born in the countryside more than forty years ago. My experience would be twenty years without a refrigerator, twenty years with a refrigerator.
The days of no refrigerator did not feel how inconvenient, think of that time may not even know the world there is a refrigerator this thing. In addition, the home in the northeast Heilongjiang, the refrigerator is really not very useful. Summer food in the garden, want to do what are now picking. In the days when there are no more potatoes, turnips and cabbages in the cellar, there is a good chance that you will be able to find them in the garden. There were also bean curd shreds, dried potatoes, dried mushrooms, and all kinds of small pickles made by my hardworking mom during the season when there were vegetables. Occasionally buy some meat, where there is no possibility of leftovers. Northeastern kids who weren't too picky eaters didn't see much need for a refrigerator. If the winter is even more needless to say, the whole outside is a big freezer, minus twenty thirty degrees, want to freeze what, whatever. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money from the government.
Married, living in the big city, the refrigerator has become a necessity in the home. It can also be said that life is forced to it, I do not have the conditions to eat now pick, and occasionally encountered want to eat vegetables to buy more, a meal can not be eaten. Besides, I was busy at work and usually had to buy the next week's groceries on weekends. Plus, with popsicles and some frozen foods, it's impossible to store them without a refrigerator.
Overall, the refrigerator is an item that people's standard of living has improved, and it is only when there is a surplus of food that you need a refrigerator. Have a refrigerator or quite happy, want to eat popsicles can be eaten at any time, hot summer can eat a cold watermelon . But the refrigerator must be commonly used often clean, do not give yourself to store zombie meat. A few days ago, Heilongjiang's "sour soup" poisoning 9 deaths is the refrigerator frozen food expired, a bloody lesson to remember.
Have you ever experienced a day without a refrigerator? What was it like?
The refrigerator is a refrigeration equipment to maintain a constant low temperature, but also a kind of food or other items to maintain a constant low-temperature cold state of civilian products. Inside the box there is a compressor, ice machine to ice the cabinet or box, with refrigeration device storage box. The volume of domestic refrigerators is usually 20 500 liters.
In 1910, the world's first compression refrigeration household refrigerator in the United States. 1925 Swedish Lido company developed a household absorption refrigerator. 1927 General Electric Company developed a fully enclosed refrigerator in the United States. 1930, the use of different heating methods of air-cooled continuous diffusion absorption refrigerators on the market. 1931 developed a new type of refrigerant Freon 12. 12. In the second half of the 1950s, the production of domestic thermal refrigerators began, and China began to produce refrigerators in the 1950s. At that time, the "Snowflake" produced by Beijing Medical Instrument Factory was one of the earliest famous brand products in China. But it was not until the late 80s after the reform and opening up that refrigerators gradually entered the homes of ordinary people. The earliest introduction of refrigerator production line is Guangzhou Wanbao, as early as 1985 from Singapore introduced the refrigerator production line, from the refrigerator into the large-scale production, Wanbao also became the largest enterprise of China's refrigerator production and export at that time and some time later.
Later, China's refrigerator production entered the fast lane, including Baoji's Changling Ariston, the country only Ariston's production line on nine, so that the average person can use this "luxury".
Then before that, the ordinary people did not use the refrigerator, and even many old people have not heard of this thing, is the spring breeze of reform and opening up to promote the improvement of the people's lives and improve.
So before that, how did the people live? After all, there are so many days a year of scorching heat, food and vegetables are not easy to store.
I remember when I was a kid, my mom was cooking meat, putting it in a salt shaker, rolling it all over the top, and when it was time to eat it, taking it out and cutting a small piece, then putting the rest back in.
When I write this, I remember a little friend, this guy likes to eat meat, one day talking about eating meat, said that when I grow up and have money, kill a mouthful of pigs on New Year's Day, not for sale, all put in an urn to pickle, want to eat when cut a piece of, how beautiful ah! It has been a long time, have not seen this guy, that day to see, good question, do you still remember the words of the year?
Vegetables in general summer are plucked from the ground ready-made, one time can not eat, put in the water urn under the slot, eat when taken out.
The steamed buns can not be steamed too much at a time, if after two days of time, it is put into the pot to reheat once, you can put a few more days.
Later, I saw the popsicle sellers, all of them used a small quilt to cover the popsicles first, and then put them into the wooden box, so that they can be put some time.
Later in the city, when the cold storage has a workshop dedicated to ice, sometimes the ice is not molded, sold to the people who want to use it, used to put things on the top. Molded ice on their own or sold to hospitals, epidemic prevention stations and other places in need of ice.