In fact, at that time I should be older than my daughter and go to primary school. My friends and I were obsessed with one of the most popular books at that time-comic books, commonly known as picture books, also called picture books here. This is a 64-format booklet with black and white pictures and text notes. Although the picture book in memory is only the size of a palm, its contents are all-encompassing, including folklore, modern stories, science fiction, Chinese and foreign masterpieces, movies and dramas ... In the late 1970s and early 1980s, almost every art form can be found in the picture book.
At that time, I read many picture books, most of which were about war. Stories such as Chicken Hair Letter, Shajiabang and Die Hard Rowen. We have nurtured a pure heroic dream in our young hearts and regarded them as our idols. At that time, I also read some comic books of four classic novels. When I was a teenager, I knew Baoyu and Daiyu, and I knew Tang Priest and his disciples. I can also tell some stories about the Three Kingdoms and the heroes of the Water Margin. At that time, I also read some cartoons of foreign famous books, the most famous of which are How Steel was Tempered and The Gadfly.
When I first fell in love with comics, I went to my uncle's house almost every day and hung around my cousin. My cousin who is two years older than me has a picture book in a wooden box. My cousin made me a condition that I would read a picture book in exchange for a candy. In order to read my dream picture book, I had to swallow my saliva and give my cousin the fruit candy my father brought me from the city. When I basically finished reading the picture books in my cousin's wooden box, I also took aim at the stall renting picture books in the city.
At that time, my home was only four kilometers away from the county seat. Every Sunday, I will spend a few cents chatting with my mother, invite several good partners, walk to the county for more than an hour, and get to these stalls to rent comic books. Often my friends and I will sit in the corner far away from the stall owner and finish reading a book. When the stall owner is not paying attention, we will exchange the books he read from our partners with lightning speed. In this way, we can read several books at the rental price of a picture book. Over time, the stall owner discovered our little trick, and when we go again, he will specially sit next to us to prevent us from playing tricks. After the plot was exposed, we changed the battlefield and continued our shady business.
What I wanted most at that time was the comic book just published by Xinhua Bookstore. Due to the limited pocket money given by parents at that time, several of our partners will discuss buying some picture books for later reading. At that time, because TV was not popular, the picture book also photocopied the popular TV series at that time. I remember the popular Hong Kong martial arts series Huo Yuanjia, Legend of the Condor Heroes, Japanese Blood Suspicion, Volleyball Girl and so on. They are all fixed by real shots, which makes us want to stop.
Picture books give us the most beautiful memories and wash away our young and ignorant souls. With the passage of time, childhood followed us. We are no longer young, and picture books are gradually retired. We haven't seen them for about twenty years, and now they have become cultural relics in the collection, which are of great value. Picture books have been eliminated, and our childlike innocence has also precipitated. The modern people whose picture books have passed away are also the innocent ages that we will never return. I quite agree with Cui Yongyuan, the host of CCTV: "Picture books have created such a generation: they are carrying fragmented instructions, looking forward to a bright future, filled with an inextricable heroic complex, and moving in a general direction."
Yes, we are always on the road. In our hearts, there will always be picture books. ...