Skating memories of those born in the 1980s
Winters in Iginholo are getting warmer.
On the weekend, a good friend I haven’t seen for a long time said that I would go skating with my husband and my 2 and a half year old son. Skating really happened many years ago. I said: "That's great, I'll go and have a look too, I can just be a spectator~" Maybe there will be a handsome and sporty figure on the skating rink, haha.
This winter, the artificial lake in front of the National Fitness Center has been watered over and over again, and the artificial ice rink has been built. Looking from a distance, it looks like a silver-white mirror. On the silver-white ice, groups of cheerful figures danced. Now the equipment has been upgraded. There are roller skates for 2 or 3 people that can be turned. Hold the skate sticks in both hands and slide forward to slide out. It is several meters long, and there is also a colorful three-wheel skate that is just suitable for 5 or 6-year-old children. It can rotate and glide 360 degrees without blind spots. My friend's little one had so much fun seeing this scene that he turned red from the cold. Don't want to go home.
Since the beginning of winter, I have seen friends posting pictures of skating and skiing with their children on WeChat Moments. article. Long-lost memories, long-lost activities, skiing are something I have never experienced before. The memories of skating in those years are deeply imprinted in people’s hearts.
When I was young, my family lived in a rural area. There was a long ravine in the whole village. Our house was at the front of the village. There were two canals in front of our door, one was the Yuanyang Canal, and the other was the Yuanyang Canal. There are very tall reeds inside. It is named after the mandarin ducks and other birds that live in the cave. I have always felt that this canal has spirituality. One is the elm canal, which is named after a large sacred elm tree. Grandpa said: "Then The seedling elm trees have grown for hundreds of years and have been enclosed for protection." The elm canal has a more mysterious feel. The winding stream flows through the grass. If Yuanyang Canal is said to be a down-to-earth girl next door , then Yushu Canal is a tall goddess. Two canals with extraordinary temperament merge together and become a relatively spacious river. In summer, I like to listen to the sound of gurgling water and sit under my own fruit tree and eat apples. In my memory, In winter, the temperature can reach more than 30 degrees below zero, and every winter, the rivers will freeze. The greatest pleasure is skating. The frozen snow and bare trees make the plateau look unusually deserted and solemn, and everything is quiet. But children do not hibernate. Children of that era seemed to have a special affection for ice when they entered winter. They were obsessed with ice, playing with ice water, and melting ice and snow with passion. I think children who grow up in the north have some wild genes in their nature, and even ice, snow and cold wind can't stop their inner restlessness.
In fact, making a skateboard is very simple. Dad is very clever and can make it in just a few steps. Find a few square thick wooden boards, fix two parallel thick steel wires with steel nails on both sides of the bottom surface of the board, and a simple ice cart is made. Of course, two ice vertebrae are indispensable for inserting into the ice surface. , pushing the ice truck forward. Usually you kneel on the skate or sit cross-legged. I sit in the box and poke the ice with an awl with both hands. My father pushes me hard from behind, and the skate starts slowly, and then accelerates to poke the ice. The frequency of the surface, the greater the force used, the faster the ice car will go. Once the ice car starts running, the force used will not be that great. The smoothness of the ice makes the friction much smaller. In this way, this is a happy time for our father and daughter.
After going to school, you can skate most of the way from school to home. Unfortunately, there is no ice car to skate on. At most, you can skate back with your feet, but there is no way to stop it. A group of children spread unmelted snow on the ice. You pushed me and I hurried home. Sometimes you will encounter ice that has not yet frozen solidly, and you will slip into the river if you are not careful. Your cotton jacket, cotton trousers, and cotton shoes will often get wet. This is a common thing when you are a child, but happiness overwhelms everything.
Ice is free, and the mirror-smooth ice surface allows you to glide freely. The ice car is like a war horse. You can glide slowly, enjoy yourself, and The horse can run freely on the ice like a wild horse, which is why children like skateboards. They are free and have no restraints.
Later, when I went to college, the physical education class had a compulsory ice class, which was like meeting ice in another place. They use sharp ice skates, which can be used to skate forward, backward, backward, sideways, or figure skating. A group of people can also line up in a line. The person at the front of the line violently moves to the left and right, and the people behind follow, swaying like a snake, with different movements. The place continues everyone's happiness, but the difference is that it is no longer the ice truck made by myself in the 1980s.
The skating memories of those born in the 1980s belong exclusively to our generation.