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A home letter

Oriental Petrochemical (Taiwan) (Shanghai) / Sun Tao

          Recently, when I was in the bookcase of reorganize's home, I saw a box full of books written to me by my father more than 20 years ago. I picked up a thick kraft envelope and a slightly yellowed letter paper and held it in my hand as if it had just been sent yesterday.


        My father worked as a middle school Chinese teacher all his life. He wrote very well in pen and handwriting. He was said to have learned it from the Qing Dynasty palace girls in his childhood and langtang. Spread out a letter near the Spring Festival in 1990, sprinkle more than a dozen pages, bring me into that long time.
        
         It was my first Spring Festival in Shanghai. As the first group of educated young children returning from Xinjiang to Shanghai in 1989, I was admitted to Shanghai's schools. The school covers a large area and is full of greenery, which makes my Tuba Zi, who came back from Xinjiang, very strange. However, it is not very suitable for winter in Shanghai, especially near the Spring Festival, which is very cold. There are cold wind gusts everywhere, and there is light rain from time to time. The indoor and outdoor temperatures are the same.
        
         The first time you leave home for the Spring Festival, the closer you get to the festival, the more homesick you are, the happiest time of the week is when you receive a letter from your family. In the daytime, I can't bear to watch it. In the evening, I sneak into the bedclothes to watch it with a flashlight. Sometimes I read letters and wipe my tears at the same time. According to the letter, the family burned coal for heating early this winter, and the pork allotted for the Spring Festival and the cabbage and potatoes in the vegetable cellar were well prepared. They are all right. They also told me to pay attention to the warmth and cold, study hard and meet the final exam. If you have time, go back to see Grandpa and Grandma and do something within your power. Between the lines, I realized their strong love and reluctance, and my eyes could not help moistening.
        
         With the change of the times, the communication between people has been changed into instant messaging tools such as telephone, voice chat, etc. The ancient means such as letters, which can only arrive in a few days or even a week, has gradually withdrawn from the historical stage. However, in the letters written by hand, the strong feelings can not be expressed by any means of communication. In our time, "Dear Mom and Dad" would only appear in the letters and seldom be able to say it. This may be a common problem of the traditional age, shy and not good at expressing. Although there were long-distance calls at that time, there were few telephones and the charges were very expensive. There was only one telephone in the small shop in the whole school. Generally, there was something urgent to communicate with. After rushing to finish, we had to hang up. Compared with family letters, we always lacked the kind of cordial flavor with the fragrance of books. Wherever you want to contact, you can contact whenever you want.
        
         In the past 30 years, China has witnessed the fastest growth in science, technology and culture, which has left our generation in the limelight. In order to keep pace with the changes of the times, we have to redouble our efforts to adapt to the faster and faster pace of life, so we have no time to take into account many important things - for example, parents are slowly getting older, the quality of life is declining, especially their frugal habits, children rarely go back, the old people's food is becoming more and more simple, like the father is obviously thin a lot. 。 Since his last coma and shock in the park, it forced me to rethink my busy life.
        
         Why do you work hard every day? Is it just for the sake of a better life for relatives? However, we are lost in the work, but neglect the relatives around us, and even go home with all kinds of bad moods at work. So I discussed with my second brother that every week someone would come home to see them and accompany their parents through their old age. As the descendants of Yan and Huang Dynasty, the inheritance of blood and fine cultural tradition can not be discarded because of the changes of the times. The so-called "all kindness and filial piety first" should be shouldered by our generation and passed on to the next generation.
        
         The singing of "often go home and see" on TV made me lose my mind for a while, and tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
        
        

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