So we came up with various ways to play. At that time, there was a very elegant and fashionable way to have a party. At first it was only held in my own class, then it was jointly held with other classes, and then it was held in the whole school - our school only had three classes at the time, so it was very convenient to organize it - and in the end, it developed to Invite people you know from nearby schools to join the class.
Once, a male classmate from another school performed a flute at our school’s party. I remember the tune he played seemed to be "If the Moon Walks, So Will I." He played very well and smoothly, with no mute or staccato in the middle. We have held several parties in the past, and the performances were nothing more than singing pop songs, dancing disco or break dancing, but no one had ever played an instrument, so the classmate from another school naturally stole the show. Since that time, there has been a trend in our school, and many people have become interested in musical instruments. However, playing musical instruments in school should not be too extravagant, because they are too expensive to buy, and they are too big to carry around. The ideal ones are two, one is the flute, and the other is the harmonica.
It is difficult to play the flute. Those who don’t know how to play the flute will not be able to play the tune, let alone the tune. There is a saying in our country that goes, "The fiddle plays the flute for thousands of days, and the plumes and flowers clatter for three days." The flute is the flute - in our place there is no distinction between the flute and the flute, they are both called the flute - the feather flower is the suona. Although this sentence is an exaggeration, no matter how difficult it is, it will never take twenty or thirty years to learn the flute, but it is enough to prove its difficulty.
I have always been afraid of difficult things, so I didn’t dare to play the flute from the beginning. I thought about playing the harmonica. At least the sound of the harmonica would not be a problem. I originally planned to buy a harmonica myself, but because I was too greedy, I refused to give up the snacks and spend the eight yuan, so I kept putting off buying it and just listened to others whine and whistle after class. Later, a senior student didn't want to play for some reason, so she lent me the harmonica along with several pages of musical notation, and I saved eight yuan.
The ordinary harmonica looks very simple, about half a foot long, like a comb, with two rows of holes on the top and bottom, and is divided into three sound zones: high, middle and low. When playing, put your mouth towards the hole of the piano and hold the piano. While exhaling and inhaling, move your hands left and right according to the musical score, and the changing sounds will come out continuously. Moving the position of the harmonica to align it with the corresponding holes all depends on feeling. There is no strict fingering like other instruments, but this does not mean that there is no mystery in playing the harmonica.
The song I first learned to play was "Love Across Thousands of Waters and Mountains". Almost all the students started learning from this song. It took me about a week to finally be able to play "Love" from beginning to end, but I felt that the music I played was very different from what others played. Other students always hold the piano in their mouths when playing, because they can produce different tones in this way. According to their experience, if you hold multiple piano holes in your mouth at the same time, but only let one hole sound, use your tongue against the other holes, and move your tongue according to a certain rhythm when blowing, the music played in this way will be The accompaniment beat is very nice. But from beginning to end, I could only suck one or two holes with my lips, and the sound I produced was not only monotonous, but also had a "crying tone" if I played it slowly. I also tried it based on the experience of my classmates. As a result, not only could I not play the beat, but the hole in the piano was filled with saliva, and I couldn't even play a single note.
My boss *** has only learned three songs. In addition to "Love is Always Love Across Thousands of Rivers and Mountains", there are two other songs: "Fifteenth Moon" and "Mother's Kiss". I always do things just to be fresh. After learning these three pieces of music, I thought that with my level, it would be impossible to perform on stage no matter how much I practiced, so there was no point in practicing more. Besides, the harmonica didn’t belong to me. Although my senior didn’t come to urge me to return it, it’s not appropriate to occupy someone else’s things for a long time, so I took the time to clean the harmonica carefully and returned it to my senior.
After graduating from school, I almost never played the harmonica again. When writing this article, I wanted to review the three pieces in my mind, but except for "Ten Thousand Rivers and Thousands of Mountains", I could barely hum the music from beginning to end. "Mother's Kiss" only remembered the beginning, and "Fifteen" "Moon" but can't even remember a single note.
The "chess" in "Four Goods" originally refers to Go. I don't know how to play Go at all, and I still don't know what "flying, jumping, rushing, breaking" means, what "Xing Xiaomu, Wrong Xiaomu, Wuyoujiao" means. Among the chess games, I have played military chess, Chinese chess, flying chess, and pinball checkers. These chess games were played in the physical education class in elementary school. Except for Chinese chess, there is no big mystery in any of them.
Chinese chess was originally an elegant entertainment and was very nurturing. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how to play the whole game at that time, so we had to play half-open chess. After confusing the thirty-two chess pieces, arrange them face down on half of the chessboard, then turn them over one by one, and fight with each other in the order of general, soldier, prime minister, rook, horse, cannon, and pawn. The soldier among them is the smallest and is originally useless, but in turn it can kill generals, so its effect is particularly great.
Playing this kind of chess has almost no technical skills at all. It depends entirely on luck, which is really annoying sometimes. For example, for example, you finally found a general, but right next to him was a small soldier of the other side. The general was destroyed by the small soldier without making any achievements. Would you say it is annoying or not? So most of the time, we would rather play flying chess and pinball checkers than half-headed chess.
Later, a classmate learned to play backgammon with chess from somewhere. This was much more interesting than flipping chess, because playing backgammon always requires some thinking, so we used chess to play Play backgammon. Another classmate who had seen Go played on TV said that this is actually how Go is played, but with a few fewer pieces. We didn't know the whole story at all, so we took his words seriously. We always thought that Gobang was the way to play Go.
In fact, there are many special terms for Go, which are called terminology professionally, such as the above-mentioned "flying, jumping, rushing, breaking", "star small eye, wrong small eye, worry-free corner" etc. The reason why I can name such nouns is actually from searching on the Internet. I only know the names but don’t understand their meanings. But among the many nouns, I know that there is one called "Tian Yuan", which is the star position in the center of the Go board. This name was taught to me by a teacher in my technical school, and there was an embarrassing joke about it.
When we were in the second grade of high school, the physics teacher was new. He had just graduated from college and was a few years older than us. He likes to play Go. One time after lunch, he asked me if I could play Go. I always thought that Go was backgammon, so I said, "Go? I can play it." So he called me to his room to play chess. There is a small square table in his room. There is a nylon chess cloth spread on the table, and two boxes of chess pieces are pressed on the chess cloth. After I entered, I grabbed a box and sat on a stool outside. The teacher also sat down, looked at my chess box, and said: "You hold black, you go first."
I didn't think too much, just go first, and just follow the usual way of playing backgammon. , place the first particle on the star position in the center of the chessboard. Unexpectedly, when I made this move, the teacher was shocked. He gasped and shouted in surprise: "What? You actually clicked Tianyuan with your first move! Are you trying to get me?"
I glanced at him with some confusion and replied lightly: "I didn't ask you to, I have always done this before.
I write this couplet by myself every year, and there is no structure in the style of writing. It can only allow people to recognize the handwriting and understand the meaning. Such a couplet is written in the same way every year. Based on this very "practical scheming", it is not difficult to imagine that the person who writes the couplet cannot write any good words anyway.
Actually, I was really and consciously interested in drawing pictures. It was when I was in junior high school, and I was a little obsessed with it for a while. But the pictures I drew are not the Chinese paintings in the "Four Goods". I can't tell what kind of paintings they are. Maybe I can call them "doodles" because the contents of the paintings can be described as diverse. In my memory, I have painted birthday stars offering peaches, Nezha playing in the sea, willow swallows, dragonflies on lotus leaves, magpies climbing plum blossoms, cranes and ancient pine trees, dragons and phoenixes showing auspiciousness, tigers roaring in the forest, sunsets on green mountains, and chaos. Stone orchid... The method of drawing is always to use a pencil to trace the shadow on a piece of sixteen-karat white paper against the sample picture, and then add various colors. The color is powder-like watercolor, which is available in stationery stores and is not expensive.
When I painted, I just imitated the original drawing. No matter what type of painting, the painting method was the same. There was no essential point at all. After the painting was completed, it was just a model. In fact, it cannot be called a painting. of. But I did draw them very seriously and carefully at that time, and even pretended to inscribe the title, but in reality it was very funny. It was often a Western-style year and a Chinese-style month. However, we also learned about the different names of the three months in a season. Among them, the months in spring, autumn and winter are Meng, Zhong and Ji in order. Only the first month of summer is called early summer or first summer. In addition, the seal is a big problem and cannot be obtained, so I am smart and use a red ballpoint pen to draw a seal under the inscription to pretend it is.
In order to preserve these paintings, I also bought a handout folder. After each painting was painted, after the watercolor dried, I carefully stored it in the folder. After a few years, I have It's quite a small booklet. When I have nothing to do, I often open the book to "self-appreciate" it, and sometimes I take it out to show off to others. I have also received some praise for it, so I feel a little proud in my heart.
I have kept this picture album for many years. Later, because my house was being renovated, I was working outside while moving things and was not at home. The folder was probably mixed in with a pile of worn-out books and papers and was sold as scrap.