A collection of old photos: incomprehensible at 20, silent at 30, in tears at 40

Do you still remember these faded memories, these lost childhood days? We hurried through them, and what remains are beautiful memories. Kids born in the 90s and 2000s probably no longer know what these objects are, but they have become the collective memory of those born in the 60s, 70s and 80s...

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You all know this one, right? The bellows whooshed and roared - did it leave you drooling? Bang! Popcorn everywhere.

2

Do you still know what this is called? Bellows - the equivalent of today's air blower.

3

Did your family drink water like this?

4

The only home appliance, as Uncle Benshan said. As a kid, did anyone ever take it apart?

5

Did you play this during recess? In some places it's called "squeeze the bed-wetter", in others "squeeze-mo-mo" or "squeeze the blind oil" (phonetic).

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Is this the thing you hated most during the holidays? In the two days before school started, did you grovel to borrow it and copy frantically?

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What's this called? Spinning top, crazy wife, whirligig, hanging gaga, spinning bull, whipping the cheap skin... Purely handmade, some even had a steel ball or a polished nail added on top.

8

Smashing square treasures, smashing four corners, flinging yuan packs, playing yuanbao... All sorts of names. Besides needing strength, it took real skill. Kids today don't play it anymore - they've probably never even seen it.

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Knee bumping, knee butting, cockfighting... Little boys, why were you bullying the girls?

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The cloth shoes we wore back then were all stitched by our mothers, stitch by stitch. I still miss those shoes - so comfortable.

11

Clay molds, doll molds - you pressed the clay in and printed them out, some were even fired. I was obsessed with these as a kid.

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Did you ever use this to tell fortunes? We played with it as soon as class was over.

13

Finely crafted, a favorite of military buffs, every boy had one - it was called the "match gun", made by linking bicycle chain sections one by one. So much work, and it had quite a punch.

14

Have you eaten this? Remember those spring evenings - what was it called? Cogongrass sprout? Cogongrass root?

15

Did you use this stuff to stick up cicadas - gluten or chewing gum?

16

We played with mud almost every day - inexhaustible and endlessly fun.

Shape it like this:

Smash it like this, and see whose hole is bigger and whose sound is louder.

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Did you play with this? Even now I still have plenty.

18

As a kid I used this to shoot chickens, then got chased around by the chicken's owner.

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Back then there were no swimsuits - we jumped into the water laughing and giggling, and that laughter still rings in my ears today.

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The firewood stack was a wonderfully cozy place for kids to hang out.

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Sophora flowers are so fragrant and sweet!

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The common insects back then: longhorn beetles, June beetles, dragonflies, mole crickets.

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Don't tell me you never felt for fish in muddy water - what a thrill it was.

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There was no sugarcane, so corn stalks were a great substitute.

25

This was used for rolling the threshing floor - know what it's called? A stone roller.

26

Ever poked a hornet's nest? I did. I smeared mud all over my body, and even when the hornets came flying I wasn't afraid.

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Mulberries, mulberry fruit, mulberry berries - we stuffed handfuls into our mouths.

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You peeled this open to eat the little beans inside - ma suo er. What do you call it?

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Open-air movies - what a magical thing.

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That old house where we were born and raised - does it still live in your memory? In a dream one night, did you return to your hometown, back to your childhood?

Without realizing it, we've all grown old...

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