Eighteen-year-old Lin Jianguo held the hand of a girl in the cheering crowd and said, "New China has been founded, let's start a family." The girl's name was Wang Xiaofang, a sixteen-year-old female worker in a cotton mill. She nodded.
From that day on, a family has gone through seventy-seven years.
In a dormitory of ten square meters, they gave birth to their first child; under the kerosene lamp in the courtyard, the third son secretly read banned books; when the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, the son of an educated youth waited for the admission notice in a cave in northern Shaanxi; in 1980, the second son carried three He traveled south to Shenzhen with a hundred yuan, slept under a bridge, and made his first pot of gold; in the 1990s, after his daughter was laid off, he opened a clothing store, which expanded from ten square meters to one hundred square meters; in the new century, family portraits of four generations living under one roof were taken again and again until the great-grandmother and the great-grandfather passed away one after another.
This is the story of a group of ordinary people. They are workers, farmers, educated youth, professors, vendors, entrepreneurs, policemen, and teachers. They were calculating carefully in the era of issuing food stamps, and they were also rising and falling in the wave of reform and opening up. They did not change history, but history changed them - they went from a dormitory to four generations living together, from two people to a family of dozens.
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