1980 My literary era

The students at the Institute of Literary Studies are not just nerds. Occasionally, they will organize a basketball game at night. There is a mini basketball court in D school. The conditions are simple, but it does not prevent everyone from sweating.

As a rare young man in the class, Lin Weimin is not very interested in this stuff, so he should let the elders play.

On the weekend, a rare break, everyone in the class agreed in advance to go to the Summer Palace together.

Early on Sunday morning, as soon as the No. 18 bus arrived, more than 20 people swarmed onto the bus, shocking the driver.

After getting in the car, everyone was chatting and laughing, and the atmosphere was relaxed and happy.

The Summer Palace was a royal garden during the Qing Dynasty. It was formerly known as Qingyi Garden. It is located in the western suburbs of Yanjing. It is almost 20 kilometers away from the eastern suburbs where D School is located. In today's era when there are no private cars, it can be regarded as a long journey. It’s been a long journey.

The group of people spent nearly two hours just on the road.

To put it into perspective, the Summer Palace has been officially open to the public since 1928, but at that time the tickets for visiting the Garden were extremely expensive.

Wu Yu, who once taught at Yenching University, once took his family to visit the Summer Palace. He recorded in his diary that day:

May 15th, Thursday, cloudy and sunny. Together with three girls and four girls, we took a car tour to the Summer Palace. The round-trip fare is ten yuan, and the wine bill is one yuan. Tickets are one dollar and two. I bought tickets to Paiyun Palace for 5 cents per person, and to the Garden of Harmonious Interests for 2 cents per person. Western food costs ten yuan, and tea costs seventy-six cents. Motor park parking fee triangle. I bought a picture of the Summer Palace, a corner of the ocean. The four girls bought me a jujube wood cane for five cents. All the furnishings in the garden were gone, only the wooden seats were left with the vases on the table, a few inches of dust had settled on them, and a seal was posted on the door, showing the grandeur of the building... There was a boat in the lake, and a trip to the lake cost three to five yuan.

The Wu family's father and daughter spent more than 20 yuan on a trip to the Summer Palace, which is equivalent to the money they spent to buy 10 bags of flour back then. It weighed about 400 kilograms, enough for one person to eat for more than a year.

Such expensive fares were naturally beyond the reach of ordinary people, so only the rich and powerful were able to visit the Summer Palace at that time.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, each ticket to the Summer Palace was set at 2 jiao, which was later changed to 1 jiao. There was a period of time when the price was changed to 5 cents. When Lin Weimin and his friends came to visit this time, the fare was changed back to 1 dime.

After buying the tickets, the group entered the Summer Palace. Lin Weimin's first impression was that there was a lot of water. A rough look showed that the water covered most of the park area.

Qu Xiaowei is from Yanjing, and he temporarily played a guest role as a tour guide.

"Next to us is the Old Summer Palace, the Summer Palace. It is a large-scale landscape garden built on the basis of Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, and absorbing the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved one today. A royal palace and garden..."

The particularly large water surface that Lin Weimin noticed was Kunming Lake, one of the most important attractions in the Summer Palace. The entire Summer Palace is basically built around Kunming Lake.

It was already mid-April, and spring had already begun to bloom in Yanjing, which is located in the northern country. The branches of the weeping willows by the lake were showing bright yellow vitality. The sunshine was just right, and the spring breeze was blowing on our faces. Everything was refreshing.

Today's Summer Palace is not as new as the ones renovated in later generations, but it is better because there is not so much commercial operation. It is natural and simple to enjoy it with one ticket.

Walking around Kunming Lake, there are several palaces along the way, including Renshou Hall, Dehe Garden, and Magnolia Hall. Passing through the building complex is Wanshou Mountain.

Wanshou Mountain is the remnant of Yanshan Mountain. The buildings on it are built on the mountain. When you go up to the mountain, you can see the huge main building complex with Foxiang Pavilion as the center. From the Yunhui Jade Archway at the foot of the mountain, through Paiyun Gate, Ergong Gate, Paiyun Hall, Dehui Hall, Foxiang Pavilion, to the Sea of ​​Wisdom at the top of the mountain, a central axis is formed that rises layer by layer.

On the east side are the Zhuanlunzang and the Kunming Lake stone tablets of Wanshou Mountain. On the west side are the Wufang Pavilion and the bronze Baoyun Pavilion. There are XZ Buddhist buildings and multi-colored glazed pagodas in the back mountain.

There are pavilions and pavilions on the mountain such as Jingfu Pavilion, Chongcui Pavilion, Shu Qiuxuan and Hua Zhongyou.

A group of large and image-rich central buildings is built in the middle. This large group of buildings includes the main buildings in the park, the Paiyun Hall where emperors and empresses held ceremonies and the Buddhist Temple and Foxiang Pavilion.

Echoing the longitudinal axis of the central building complex is a long corridor that meanders east and west across the foothills and along the northern shore of the lake.

There are many scenic spots and the place is large. Just visiting Wanshou Mountain makes everyone’s legs weak, and it’s noon before they know it.

Tired, thirsty and hungry, everyone descended from Wanshou Mountain and came to Kunming Lake in search of food and drink. There is not as much food and drink as in later scenic spots, but there is food and drink in the garden.

Lin Weimin sat by the lake like everyone else, drinking tea, eating a bite of donkey meat and looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him.

While he was eating lunch slowly, he saw Cheng Shixu in the class taking out a pen and paper after finishing his food.

Huang Zonghan joked: "Shi Xu is really hardworking."

Cheng Shixu smiled and said nothing. Huang Zonghan turned around and said, "Look at me!"

The tone was similar to that of lecturing a son.

Lin Weimin was speechless. I was shot even while sitting!

Lao Huang, are you a little distracted?

Lin Weimin gave Huang Zonghan a look. After weighing the pros and cons, Huang Zonghan decided to take advantage and run away, turning to whisper to Guo Yudao.

Lin Weimin finished chewing what was in his hand, clapped his hands, stood up, faced the spring garden scenery, and was thinking about whether to compose an impromptu poem when another voice came from beside him.

"This scenery is so beautiful. Xiao Weimin, why don't you find a female classmate to go boating on the lake with such a great opportunity?"

Lin Weimin half-turned his head and said, "Sister Tang, don't forget the old and the young for the people, the young for the people, you seem to have seen this before."

"I'm going to kill you!" Lin Weimin started driving as soon as he disagreed with her. Tang Kangmei rolled her eyes at him and spat, "I really don't know what's so good about this piece of shit like you that An Yi can take a liking to."

Lin Weimin was startled. He first looked for Huang Anyi with his eyes to make sure she was not around, and then said: "I don't want to talk nonsense. It's just ruining my innocence!"

"You still know?"

"I mean my innocence."

"you……"

Tang Kangmei was furious and glared at Lin Weimin fiercely.

There were indeed a few people boating on the lake during the lunch break, but it was not Lin Weimin and Huang Anyi, but a few seniors among the classmates who "talked about being crazy".

Lin Weimin saw Huang Zonghan and Guo Yudao get on the boat together. When they got on the boat, the boat was unstable and the two of them helped each other. At this moment, Lin Weimin felt that his eyes were dirty.

When a few people were swimming in the lake, everyone rested aside. When they finished swimming in the lake, everyone got up and wandered until the afternoon.

Come in joy and return in joy.

It was already after six o'clock in the evening when we returned to School D. Missing dinner did not dampen everyone's interest at all.