Recommended reading ｜ A box of matches

—— "村.” "Series of twenty -five

□ Li Donghong

Yesterday, I ate a noodle noodle with a few friends in a restaurant in Zhengzhou. I asked the waiter for a lighter because of smoking. What I didn't expect was that after a while, the waiter sent a box of matches.

Because I haven't seen the match for a long time, I asked the waiter: "How can you have a match here?"

"Sir, our small restaurant mainly operates home -cooked dishes in rural hometown. In order to allow guests to eat like eating in the rural hometown, we all prepare matching for guests, not lighters." The waiters answered, polite.

After taking the match, I looked closely, and I was so kind that I saw an old friend who had been lost for a long time. After pulling out a match stick, after wiping it "", watching the small flame quietly. In the flame, the old house in the village flashed, and the smoke from the old house ...

I don't know when to start with matches. With curiosity, I found "Du Niang". "Du Niang" said that according to historical records and expert research, the earliest matches in ancient my country were invented in 577 AD. There are war fires everywhere, the back of the north is the enemy, and the supplies are shortages, especially the lack of fire, and cooking is a problem. At that time, the concubine and a group of maids dipped the sulfur on a small wooden stick, and used the fire species or fire knife and firestone to get the fire. This was considered the original match in the current record.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, around 950 AD, a smart person was immersed in sulfur with pine strips. As soon as it was in contact with fire, it would burn and use it at night. Later, it became a fire -inch psycho when it became a commodity. It can be said that this is the early match. Marco Polo introduced the early Chinese matchmaking technology to Europe, and then Europeans continued to improve on this basis. At the beginning of the twentieth century, modern matches were introduced into China and were called "foreign fires".

"Fire", I also used it for many years.

For the first time, "foreign fire" was still a child. That evening, I was playing in the yard, and the mother who was ready to cook the fire suddenly called me: "Dong Hong, there is no foreign fire at home, you can buy a box for the sales point of Mingwen."

Mingyin's agency is at the crossroads of the village. At that time, the supplies were short. Ming Wenjia usually operated some daily life supplies such as oil, salt, vinegar, and other daily necessities.

After buying the match on the sales point of Mingwen Brother, I said to my mother, "Mom, I'll cook the pot, you cook."

"Zhong", mother replied.

I squatted beside the stove, the first time I wiped the matches, ignited, burned firewood, and the mother cut the vegetables on the stove, cooking, and after a while, the room was full of smoke, and the mother kept the two kept the mother kept constantly. Cough.

In elementary school, there was a text "Little Girl Selling Match", which is a fairy tale story created by Danish fairy tale writer Andersen. Published in 1846. It tells the tragic story of a beautiful little girl who sells matches on the streets, a beautiful little girl who sells matches in hunger, cold, and loneliness.

At that time, when I read this text, my heart was so sad. When I returned home, I told this story to my mother. The mother who was on the soles on the small bench said, "Let me read it for me." Standing in front of the mother, I read it one by one. When I read, "The next morning, this little girl was sitting in the corner, her cheeks were red, and her mouth was smiling. She died and was frozen to death in the old years. Shot on her little corpse. The little girl was sitting there, holding a burned match stalk in her hand ... "I couldn't read anymore," Woohoo "cried, the mother hurried Standing up and holding me tightly in my arms.

Father smokes, and often contains a box of matches in his pocket. Once, my father's coat was hung on the wall. I stole my father's match, and to burn sweet potatoes with Si'an and Hong standing. After the father discovered, I didn't know anything. A box.

When I was in high school, my pocket was often contained in a box of matches, because when the first year of high school was high, the school was not electricity. When I was studying last night, each student used kerosene lamps. The kerosene lamp I used was the kind of glass hood, which was bought for me in the town. Under the kerosene lamp, the rural baby lying on the table was lying on the table.

After graduating from college, because of writing materials, I learned to smoke, and I often contain a box of matches in my pocket. My mother often reminds me: "Small less cigarette, it's not good for your body."

I don't know when it started, with a lighter, the match disappeared. This disappearance is many years.

Now, when I see the match in the small restaurant, I am kind to the confidant. I took out a match again, "哧", wiped it in my hand, in the flame, I saw the past time again, so beautiful ...

[About the author: Li Donghong, a native of Fugou County, Henan, graduated from the Department of Journalism of Zhengzhou University. He has successively served as editor and reporter of the Henan Daily, deputy director of the news special release department, and deputy director of the new media department. The editor -in -chief of the Henan Legal System. He has published 5 minister novels and prose collection of "Want to Watch Rain", "Anti -Corruption", "I'm a Police", "Question of Life", "52 Letters Written to Mother". Among them, "Question of Life" won the "Five One Engineering Awards" in Henan Province. .

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